Songs and musicals about letters
Songs and musicals about letters
Songs and musicals about letters#1
Posted: 7/12/16 at 6:20am
Hello,
Excuse me, I came here for your help - I look for songs and musicals where are LETTERS (1st September is International day of writing letters)
I have this:
"Three Letters + Dear Friend" from SHE LOVES ME
"First Letter Home" from TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
"Letter" from BILLY ELLIOT
"What Is This Feeling" from WICKED
"Things I Didn't Know" from DADDY LONG LEGS
"Fifth Letter" from PASSION
Any next tips please? I need 1 or 2 other songs...
Thank you :)
Songs and musicals about letters#2
Posted: 7/12/16 at 6:24am
Burn from Hamilton centers around letters
Songs and musicals about letters#3
Posted: 7/12/16 at 6:25am
Does "African Homeland" from The Color Purple count?
Songs and musicals about letters#4
Posted: 7/12/16 at 6:28am
Damn, looking at my Playbills writing letters/notes is kind of a cliché... Beaches, Mamma Mia, Gypsy, Dear Evan Hansen.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Songs and musicals about letters#5
Posted: 7/12/16 at 6:35am
Letters (Baker Street)
Letter to the Children (A Doll's Life)
And if you wish to use a song from a movie, there's I've Written a Letter to Daddy from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Songs and musicals about letters#6
Posted: 7/12/16 at 6:37am
Letters from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.
Songs and musicals about letters#8
Posted: 7/12/16 at 7:22am
There are so many. These are the ones I could think of off the top of my head:
Pretty much the entire musical Daddy Long Legs.
Desiree's sections of "The Glamorous Life" from A Little Night Music
"Dear One" from Kiss of the Spider Woman
"Here Alone" from Little Women
"At the Glen" from Dessa Rose
"Eleanor's Letter" from First Lady Suite
"Letter to the Governor" from Parade
"She Used to Be Mine" from Waitress starts out as Jenna writing a letter to her baby.
"Edges of the World" from Fun Home
"A Summer in Ohio" from The Last Five Years
"And Then There Were None" from Spring Awakening...kind of (the song is framed around Frau Gabor writing Moritz a letter, to which Moritz responds in song)
"The Proposal/The Night Was Alive" from Titanic is set around sending a telegram
Songs and musicals about letters#9
Posted: 7/12/16 at 7:34am
Thank you so much for your messages and tips, super cooperation!
Have a nice summer!!
Songs and musicals about letters#10
Posted: 7/12/16 at 7:59am
Daddy Long Legs. It's a sweet, intimate musical (mostly) about the correspondence between a girl from an orphanage and the man who provides her financial support for college and eventually falls for her.
Songs and musicals about letters#11
Posted: 7/12/16 at 8:05am
"What is This Feeling" from Wicked starts with the two witches writing letters home.
Stand-by Joined: 11/7/11
Songs and musicals about letters#12
Posted: 7/12/16 at 9:41am
"'Till Then" from 1776
Spitfire Grill
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
Songs and musicals about letters#13
Posted: 7/12/16 at 9:47am
You probably don't need anymore examples, but what about "The Letter Song" from The Secret Garden?
Songs and musicals about letters#14
Posted: 7/12/16 at 9:50am
"Things I Never Said" from First Date. The whole song is a letter from his mom.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/08
Songs and musicals about letters#16
Posted: 7/12/16 at 12:37pm
"Sincerely Me" from Dear Evan Hansen, a bunch from Passion and She Loves Me
Songs and musicals about letters#17
Posted: 7/12/16 at 12:37pm
A large portion of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is also centered around letters
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Songs and musicals about letters#18
Posted: 7/12/16 at 12:42pm
Dear Friend SHE LOVES ME (and, of course, the show itself)
You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) THE HONEYMOON EXPRESS and, most famously and with new lyrics in the film BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938
The Letter SWEENEY TODD
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
Songs and musicals about letters#20
Posted: 7/12/16 at 1:11pm
A song called "Letter From The Refuge" was added to the national tour of Newsies, and it centers around Crutchie writing a letter to the other newsboys. It is not on the OBCR, however, since it was written for the tour.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
Songs and musicals about letters#21
Posted: 7/12/16 at 1:41pm
One of Frank Wildhorn's best songs - "Sarah," from The Civil War (which is featured on Leslie Odom Jr's self titled album). It is a letter from a dying soldier to his wife based on a true letter:
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/sullivan-ballou-letter.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
Songs and musicals about letters#22
Posted: 7/12/16 at 2:46pm
"Notes" from Phantom of the Opera has various cast members reading letters that the Phantom has written to them.
Songs and musicals about letters#23
Posted: 7/12/16 at 3:08pm
"The school song" from Matilda....
Songs and musicals about letters#24
Posted: 7/12/16 at 3:43pm
From one of the biggest successes in Broadway history...
The Letter- A Year with Frog and Toad
Songs and musicals about letters#25
Posted: 7/12/16 at 3:43pm
This isn't a musical per se, but "A Letter from Cecile" from Smash!
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Songs and musicals about letters#26
Posted: 7/12/16 at 4:07pm
TFMH18 said: "This isn't a musical per se, but "A Letter from Cecile" from Smash!
Good one. Especially since that's from the LIAISON'S musical in Smash, and Les Laisons Dangereueses (the novel) is all letters (or as we say in lit. an epistolary novel).
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