Standard "makeover" songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

#1

Standard "makeover" songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 1:44pm

First, there's the obvious choice with the modern generation:
"Popular" in WICKED

Some other examples include
"You've Got Possibilities" from IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S SUPERMAN
"Who's That Girl" from APPLAUSE
"A Little More Mascara" from LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
"Dress Big" from THE FROGS '04
"I Put My Hand In" from HELLO DOLLY

Got other ideas?

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#2

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 2:17pm

"Welcome to the 60's" from Hairspray
"Thoroughly Modern Millie."

#3

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 2:21pm

"Rainbow High" from Evita

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#4

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 2:36pm

These aren't makeovers as far as looks, but they definitely fit the bill.

"Cool" from West Side Story
"There Is Life Outside Your Apartment" from Avenue Q
"Single" from Wedding Singer
"His Name Is Lancelot" from Spamalot

and my favorite...

"Closed For Renovation" from Little Shop of Horrors

Literally... they're making over the shop. Literally. Hah.

#5

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 2:37pm

How about RAUNCHY from 110 in the Shade?

#6

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 2:41pm

This may be pushing it a little but maybe "I Feel Pretty" from WSS? Same for "Prima Donna" from Phantom.

#7

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 3:03pm

"My Strongest Suit" - AIDA
"The Lady's Paying" - SUNSET BOULEVARD

#8

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 8:21pm

not a song but how about the Nov. 22, 1963 sequence from Assassins...

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#9

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 8:52pm

"Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee" Reprise from GREASE.

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#10

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 9:00pm

movie musical: Earth Girls Are Easy "Brand New Girl"

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#11

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 9:02pm

I Enjoy Being A Girl from Flower Drum Song

does that count?

#12

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:08pm

"Chimp in a Suit"- DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
"Come Out Of the Dumpster" (Kinda)- THE WEDDING SINGER

#13

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:15pm

Merry Old Land Of Oz- Wizard of Oz
Practically Perfect/A Spoonful Of Sugar- Mary Poppins Broadway/Movie

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#14

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:19pm

It's Possible from Cinderella!

#15

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:22pm

In Busom Buddies Gooch gets made over, does that count?

#16

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:22pm

In Busom Buddies Gooch gets made over, does that count?

#17

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:38pm

"The Lady's Paying" and "Eternal Youth in Worth a Little Suffering" from Sunset Boulevard.

Updated On: 11/19/06 at 10:38 PM

#18

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 11:08pm

"Think Beautiful" from I Had a Ball

"Beautiful" from Starting Here, Starting Now

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[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#19

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/19/06 at 11:16pm

Show you a thing or two- BAT BOY

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#20

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:34am

i think the "Getting Ready Rag" form RAGTIME is one, i mean on stage he got a new shave, haircut, new suit, and a model T...sounds like make over...

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...what?!

#21

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:55am

"All About the Green" - The Wedding Singer

"Gypsy Strip (Let Me Entertain You)" - Gypsy

"Joseph's Coat" and "Finale" - "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat

"Amazing Gertrude" - Seussical

"Hakuna Matata" - The Lion King (Okay, it's a stretch, but he does grow up really really fast and gets an attitude change, and that's about as much of a makeover as you can have when you're a lion)

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#22

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:58am

"Wig in a Box" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch or to a more serious extent, "Angry Inch".

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#23

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/20/06 at 1:12am

is there some song to signify the transformation in Beuty and the Beast or is that just a moment on score?sounds like it would be the ideal make-over song...i mean form a teapot to a living person kind of beats getting a new wig for your overweight mother...

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#24

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/20/06 at 8:01am

"How Lovely to be a Woman" from Bye Bye Birdie

#25

re: Standard 'makeover' songs in Broadway musicals or movie musicals

Posted: 11/20/06 at 10:25am

Little Black Dress from "Shock Treatment"

Sm**chies!

Jacob.