Songs kids like

[Janean]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 4:55pm

Any suggestions of theater songs for adults to perform to kids?

Next spring, I'm directing a free concert for kids, focusing on Broadway/musical theater songs. (We do these monthly concerts, and usually the focus is on classical or folk. FINALLY a Broadway concert!!!)

Our plan is four adults: two men, two women, each having at least one solo and several duets, trios, quartets. Much will depend on which songs the performers already have, but we have time to work on new or unfamiliar material.

The audience is kids of all ages. We market it towards 8-year-olds, but we have lots of toddlers, parents, grandparents... I hope this will pull in a few theater-minded teens, too.

My initial suggestions:
- Give My Regards to Broadway (the title of the show)
- I Feel Pretty (for the two women)
- Jet Song (for the two guys)
- Giants in the Sky, Steps of the Palace, and Hello Little Girl
- Happily Ever After
- Popular
- Anything You Can Do
- I Won't Grow Up
- You Gotta Have Heart

[dramaparoxysm23]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 5:02pm

Nothing from Avenue Q! LOL

"Roxie" from Chicago? The kids I babysit for (6-11) really like that one. :) Also, "Good Morning Baltimore" from Hairspray or almost anything from the Disney shows.

Updated On: 11/29/05 at 05:02 PM

[boatsintheghetto]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 5:05pm

um stuff from annie? singing in the rain? er follow your heart from urinetown?
lionking/beauty and the beast stuff?

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:01pm

'The Wizard and I' from Wicked?

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:08pm

you can't stop the beat from hairspray

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:13pm

Happy Talk from South Pacific

Freedom from Shenandoah

You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile from Annie

[ashley0139]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:45pm

I was the director of a kid's (ages 5-13) camp this summer. They couldn't get enough of Fame (title song), Hairspray (mostly YCSTB, Welcome to 60s, Mama I'm a big girl now), and Wicked. They also like The Sound of Music, Annie, and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:51pm

I don't remember the name, but it's from Singin' in the Rain, and it goes "Good mornin', good mornin', it's great to stay up late, good mornin', good mornin' to you..."
Happiness - YAGMCB
T-E-A-M (The baseball game) - YAGMCB
Pretty much anything from BatB, especially "Belle"
Hakuna Matata- The Lion King
You can't Stop the Beat - Hairspray

[wishinguweresomehow]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:54pm

I'd say anything from ANNIE...

~Meg~

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 7:04pm

I'd say...

Little People or Castle on a Cloud from Les Miz
Magic Foot from Spelling Bee (You can take out the cuss words)
76 Trombones from The Music Man
The Other Generation from Flower Drum Song
Let Me Entertain You from Gypsy
Who Will Buy from Oliver!
The Girl I Mean To Be from The Secret Garden
I Won't Grow Up from Peter Pan
Food, Glorious Food from Oliver!

Maybe something from Chitty?

[lfae]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 7:13pm

When I was little, my favourite song was It's a Fine Life from Oliver. And pretty much everything else from Oliver! And Getting to Know You from The King and I was another.

[kate2]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 9:05pm

songs from The Sound of Music would be good

[jv92]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 9:20pm

Why not expand their Wicked and Annie infested brains and introduce them to more obscure work. Upbeat songs really work for kids.

[greeneyed_one]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 10:26pm

Something from Sweet Charity? (I've never heard the music)
I Wanna Be A Producer (Producers)
My Strongest Suit (Aida)
Think of Me (Phantom of the Opera)
Will I? (RENT- I would cut the solo here and go into the part where everyone is singing at once)
Here I Am (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
What Was A Women To Do (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Something from:
The Light in Piazza
Peter Pan
King and I (Getting to Know You)

[Aigoo]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 10:29pm

I don't know if "kids" would like Piazza very much. Possibly Funny Girl stuff? Don't Rain....? Ahh...maybe Adelaide's Lament.


ETA: Just read about it being a concert. Then maybe not Don't Rain on my Parade...Adelaide's Lament might be a cute solo though.

Updated On: 11/29/05 at 10:29 PM

[hannahshule]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 10:40pm

What about something from R&H Cinderella?

When I was 8, I LOVED "In my Own little corner"

Updated On: 11/29/05 at 10:40 PM

[moowithme111105]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 10:43pm

Haha, I guess i'm a kid, i'm 12, and I love Rent, Wicked is kinda getting old now, but I love my Rent, I was 9 and I knew every song from it, but I don't know, Hairspary is probally one of the best.

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 10:46pm

"My New Philosophy"- You're A Good Man Charlie Brown (girl and guy duet)

[gumbo2]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 10:48pm

Yeah, pretty much anything from Charlie Brown I would imagine, especially My New Philosophy, but really any of them.


EDIT: I did NOT see that last post, sorry.
Updated On: 11/29/05 at 10:48 PM

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 10:52pm

Think of Me would be hard on the person "playing" Christine if she doesn't have an operatic voice...

...and I don't think little kids would understand What Was a Woman to Do?...

[musicalsaregreat]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 11:08pm

Sidewalk Tree from Raisen
Bigger Isn't Better from Barnum
If Mama Was Married from Gypsy
You Gotta Have Heart from Damn Yankees

The best selection would be songs that kids can relate to.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 11:11pm

How about Many Moons Ago, or maybe Normandy or Happily Ever After from Once Upon a Mattress?

[Eliza0114]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 11:15pm

some things from Songs for a New World would work, like "Christmas Lullaby." it's actually not just about Christmas. it will work year-round.