Unknown Broadway Songs...

[broadwayalto01]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 10:44am

Hey everyone.. I need some help with finding some unknown songs from musicals. Any suggestions? I am a mezzo-soprano (lower). ANYONE?

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 10:46am

I don't exactly have unknown songs but I have uncommon songs.

Poor Sweet Baby-Snoopy
Come to Your Senses-Tick Tick Boom
I Ain't Got Time-Zanna Don't!
Follow Your Heart-Urinetown
I Want to Go to Hollywood-Grand Hotel
This Place is Mine-Phantom

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 10:47am

I love Poor Sweet Baby.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 10:48am

I do too! I love Snoopy!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 10:50am

I was in SNOOPY! many years ago in community theater and was cast as Sally, which is a really fun role, but I wanted to be Peppermint Patty because she had that great song. *sigh*

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 10:51am

My camp does 7 musicals every summer, and there's a chance they might do Snoopy! If I'm in it, I'm definitely going to audition for Peppermint Patty. Yay!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 10:51am

Yay!!

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 11:58am

Stars and the Moon- Songs for a New World

[DestinyBeckoned]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 12:02pm

I love Stars and the Moon!

And I also like the picture in your icon...where is it from?

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 12:06pm

How can you not love Johnny T
PM me if you'd like a copy

[Elphie Pingleton]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 12:16pm

How about "Disneyland" from Smile it's an awesome song

[jjdude2000]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 2:58pm

MyFairLady, "This Place is Mine"? From PhantoM?

[TheaterGeek91]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 3:10pm

Rathnait62, I too was cast as Sally in a community theatre production of Snoopy, but the director felt it was unfair that PP had 2 solo songs and Sally had none, so he rewrote that part of the script so I could sing Poor Sweet Baby to Linus! It was the best of both worlds, because I think Sally's part is more fun than PP's.

Sorry about the thread-jack, broadwayalto01!

[broadwayalto01]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 3:54pm

This Place is mine is from Yeltson (sp?) and Koppit.. I always call it the "other" Phantom...

[VeuveClicquot]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 1:05am

Depends on what you need the song for, broadwayalto.

One of my favorites that may fit your bill is "Chanson" from THE BAKER'S WIFE. You can find a copy in the Steven Schwartz Songbook, and even though Teri Ralston (who sang it originally) is a high soprano, for some reason the arrangement of "Chanson" in that particular book is transposed into an extremely low key.

[gertiecummings]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:00am

Don't know if these count as unknown, but I don't here these recommended a lot

Children of Eden from Children of Eden
How are Things in Glocca Morra? from Finian's Rainbow
Holding to the Ground from The Falsettos

[paradox_error]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 9:43am

"Can that boy foxtrot" - cut from Follies.
"There's always a woman" - cut from Anyone Can Whistle

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 9:53am

I'm not afraid of anything - Songs for a new world

Sorry, its the best I can come up with..

[wildcat]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 10:13am

Investigate the Ben Bagley "Revisited" series of albums which feature obscure or cut songs from Broadway shows by everyone from Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter and Noel Coward to Kander and Ebb, Leonard Bernstein and Kenward Elmslie. They should be available on CD and are performed by a glittering array of stars such as Barbara Cook, Chita Rivera, Elaine Stritch, Kaye Ballard...even Katherine Hepburn and Gloria Swanson! You are bound to find some real treasures.

[whimsical]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 10:47am

Thank you, wildcat. Those look wonderful. I did some searching and found out that that seies is a part of Painted Smiles Records at http://www.showmusic.com/PaintedSmiles if anyone else is interested.

[Dare2DefyGravity]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 11:55am

"Anthem" from Chess... recording of Linda Eder performing it..AMAZING!

[thibodeaux]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 12:02pm

aw, I played Snoopy in SNOOPY! in high school...it's such a cute show :)

Lay Down Your Head - VIOLET

a beautiful song... with a good range.