Songs from a mom to a daughter

[delaney725]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#1

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:19pm

Been listening to "Falsettos" on repeat and thinking about how many wonderful songs there are out there in the musical theatre canon sung from fathers to their sons and mothers to their sons and even fathers to their daughters, but am struggling to find one from a mother to her daughter. I know there has to be something perfect out there. Help?

[BroadwayConcierge]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#2

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:23pm

I mean, it's not a necessarily happy one, but "Days and Days," right?

Updated On: 1/4/17 at 09:23 PM

[Mike66]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#3

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:30pm

excellent choice BC -- better advice was never given

[DefyMe]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#4

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:32pm

The daughter also sings a little in it, but Maybe (Next to Normal) from Next to Normal works.

Updated On: 1/4/17 at 09:32 PM

[icecreambenjamin]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#5

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:35pm

"Hang the Moon" from Bombshell.

[Jordan Catalano]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#6

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:42pm

"Don't 'Ah Ma' Me" - THE RINK

[Mr. Nowack]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#7

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:44pm

"16 Going on 17 (Reprise)" from THE SOUND OF MUSIC?

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[ljay889]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#8

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:44pm

"Stay With Me" from Into The Woods would technically count. 

[ggersten]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#9

Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:55pm

Everything's Coming Up Roses" from Gypsy

[ethan231h]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#10

Posted: 1/4/17 at 10:00pm

not mom to daughter but more just mom to child...So big/So small from dear evan hansen

[eponine88]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#11

Posted: 1/4/17 at 10:08pm

First thing that comes to mind is "Married" from A Catered Affair 

[Queen of the Night]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#12

Posted: 1/4/17 at 11:35pm

Slipping through my fingers by Abba is used as a mother to daughter song in Mamma Mia.  (Although I suppose it could be a father to daughter song too). But like Stay with me, it's a poignant song about growing up from the parent's point of view.

[gallerygirl]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#13

Posted: 1/5/17 at 3:20am

Jenny Rebecca by Carol Hall

[rebeccmam31]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#14

Posted: 1/5/17 at 7:52am

"Everything Changes" from Waitress--particularly the version on the Sara Barailles album. 

[AC126748]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#15

Posted: 1/5/17 at 9:18am

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Fable from The Light in the Piazza yet. Here are some others:

Anytime (I Am There) from Elegies: A Song Cycle

The Story Goes on from Baby

And Eve Was Weak & I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance from Carrie (definitely a different kind of mother/daughter song, but still)

 

"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

[IdinaBellFoster]

Songs from a mom to a daughter#16

Posted: 1/5/17 at 9:23am

More of a duet, but "The Apple Doesn't Fall Very Far" from THE RINK.

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards