Songs like "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better"

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Songs like "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better"

Posted: 8/1/06 at 2:58pm

What songs can you think of that are similar in theme to "Anything You Can Do..." where one character is boasting, trying to out-shine another? Or battles of the sexes?

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Posted: 8/1/06 at 3:06pm

Cole Porter's "Cherry Pies."

"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns

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Posted: 8/1/06 at 3:08pm

The only song that I can think of is kind of the opposite and not really like it at all, but What is this feeling from Wicked.

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Posted: 8/1/06 at 3:09pm

I Wish I Were In Love Again

Nobody's Perfect from "I Do I Do"

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

Updated On: 8/1/06 at 03:09 PM

re: Songs like 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better'

Posted: 8/1/06 at 3:10pm

You're Nothing Without Me - City of Angels

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

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Posted: 8/1/06 at 4:23pm

These might be what your looking for:

I'm an Ordinary Man - My Fair Lady
Zero to Hero - Hercules
I Believe in You - How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
A Little Brains, a Little Talent : Damn Yankees

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Posted: 8/1/06 at 4:56pm

The Grass is Always Greener- Kander and Ebb

There's Always a Woman- Anyone Can Whistle

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Posted: 8/1/06 at 9:51pm

In a twisted way, It Sucks to Be Me from Avenue Q kinda fits the criteria

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Posted: 8/2/06 at 12:28am

Really stretching your criteria here, but sort of "There Once Was A Man" from Pajama Game.

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Posted: 8/2/06 at 1:18am

therapy? from tick tick boom

"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)

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Posted: 8/2/06 at 1:37am

"A Little Priest" has a run-go with that a few times, more specifically at Tinker/Pinker

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Posted: 8/2/06 at 1:39am

A great song by Livingston & Evans from the 1954 movie RED GARTERS called "Man and Woman" is a neat summation of teh battle of the sexes. It can be heard on the RED GARTERS movie soundtrack album (avalable on cd)

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

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Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:27am

"Flattery" from WHOOP-UP.

"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"

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Posted: 8/2/06 at 2:20pm

Some great ideas here, thanks! And I'd just gotten Unsung Sondheim with There's Always a Woman too. Thanks everyone!

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Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:01pm

A guy-girl duet where they are almost competing to compliment each other is Cole Porter's "You're the Top" from Anything Goes...very fun.

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