Songs and musicals about letters
Songs and musicals about letters
kudelicek
Chorus Member Joined: 10/18/11
#1Songs and musicals about letters
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 :)
Kbaum15
Swing Joined: 6/5/16
#2Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 6:24am
Burn from Hamilton centers around letters
#3Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 6:25am
Does "African Homeland" from The Color Purple count?
#4Songs and musicals about letters
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.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#5Songs and musicals about letters
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?
#6Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 6:37am
Letters from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#8Songs and musicals about letters
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
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
kudelicek
Chorus Member Joined: 10/18/11
#9Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 7:34am
Thank you so much for your messages and tips, super cooperation!
Have a nice summer!!
#10Songs and musicals about letters
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.
#11Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 8:05am
"What is This Feeling" from Wicked starts with the two witches writing letters home.
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
kristinj1
Stand-by Joined: 11/7/11
#12Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 9:41am
"'Till Then" from 1776
Spitfire Grill
ProducersFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
#13Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 9:47am
You probably don't need anymore examples, but what about "The Letter Song" from The Secret Garden?
"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure."
~Roger Bart
mpkie
Broadway Star Joined: 6/21/15
#14Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 9:50am
"Things I Never Said" from First Date. The whole song is a letter from his mom.
degrassifan
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/08
godlessondheimite
Understudy Joined: 7/30/15
#16Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 12:37pm
"Sincerely Me" from Dear Evan Hansen, a bunch from Passion and She Loves Me
#17Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 12:37pm
A large portion of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is also centered around letters
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#18Songs and musicals about letters
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
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#20Songs and musicals about letters
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.
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#21Songs and musicals about letters
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/
pg1287
Chorus Member Joined: 5/23/16
#22Songs and musicals about letters
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.
#23Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 3:08pm
"The school song" from Matilda....
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#24Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 3:43pm
From one of the biggest successes in Broadway history...
The Letter- A Year with Frog and Toad
#25Songs and musicals about letters
Posted: 7/12/16 at 3:43pm
This isn't a musical per se, but "A Letter from Cecile" from Smash!
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#26Songs and musicals about letters
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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