What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

#1

What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:32pm

1. Don't Rain On My Parade (Funny Girl)
2. White Boy's (Hair Benefit)
3. I'm Not That Girl (Wicked)
4. Magic Foot (Bee)
5. Rock 'N' Roll Party Queen (Grease)

And you?

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#2

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:40pm

If you're talking about showtunes I got sick to death of hearing during the years, the only one I can safely say is "Tomorrow" from ANNIE, Probably the most overused showtune of the late 70s and early 80s.

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#3

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:47pm

Seasons of Love (and no thats not my trying to start problems, I honestly think its ridiculously overplayed)
The Phantom of the Opera/Music of the Night

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#4

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:49pm

Seasons of Love IS overplayed. And it gets really irritating when you have people yell at you that the numbers song is the best song in Rent. Yes that has happened to me quite a few times lately.

And I'm getting a little sick of Defying Gravity also.

#5

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:54pm

What I Did For Love - ACL

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#6

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:24pm

Defying Gravity

Tomorrow

Memory

Seasons of Love

On my Own

Updated On: 1/22/06 at 03:24 PM

#7

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:27pm

Defying Gravity
What I did for Love
Someone to Watch Over Me
Memory
On My Own

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#8

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:27pm

Defying Gravity
Popular
Defying Gravity
Popular
Defying Gravity

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#9

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:29pm

1. Popular- Wicked
2. Somewhere There's A Place for us- West Side Story
3. My Favorite Things- Sound of Music
4. Tomorrow- Annie
5. Don't Cry For Me Argentina- Evita

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#10

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:38pm

Tommorrow (Annie)

Defying Gravity (Wicked)

Seasons of Love (RENT)

Everything from "The Sound of Music".

I can't think of a 5th.

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#11

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:40pm

Tomorrow - Annie
Defying Gravity- Wicked
Popular- Wicked
Seasons of Love- RENT
One- A Chorus Line

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#12

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:41pm

For Good (Wicked)
Defying Gravity (Wicked)
Seasons of Love (Rent)
The Phantom Of The Opera (Title Song)
Popular (Wicked)

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#13

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:43pm

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Anything Goes
Astonishing- The ladies at my university have had some serious fights over this song...
All That Jazz
Someone Like You- Another song that the ladies always fight over...
Tomorrow
On My Own

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#14

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:49pm

1.Bring Him Home
2.Anything from CHICAGO
3.ANYTHING sung by Barbara Streisand
4.Music Of The Night
5.On My Own

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#15

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:50pm

Seasons of Love (Rent)
Defying Gravity (Wicked)
Tomorrow (Annie) [I much prefer Forbidden Broadway's rendition of it]
Memory (Cats)
Think of Me (Phantom of the Opera)

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#16

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:04pm

The entire score to Wicked - so over rated.

#17

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:19pm

Memory- Cats (gag me)
Music of the Night- Phantom (aaargh)

#18

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:23pm

Fiddler on the Roof Score--its SOOO outdone
Tomorrow-Annie
Popular-Wicked
Seasons of Love-Rent

#19

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:24pm

1. Seasons of Love from Rent
2. Love Changes Everything from Aspects of Love
3. Any Dream Will Do from Joseph...
4. On My Own from Les Mis
5. Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera

Wow, ALW wrote 3 of those 5 songs. Go figure!

#20

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:55pm

Memory

#21

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:03pm

You know, there was a period in the early 90s when every cabaret singer was singing "Why, God, Why?" from MISS SAIGON and "Love Can Happen" from Grand Hotel.

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#22

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:14pm

As a director who does a lot of musical theater, I suppose I have more chance than most people do to get tired of showtunes.

But, if I could pick the five songs I would never have to hear in an audtion again, they would be...

1. Mr. Cellophane
2. The Life of The Party (especially if you are, say 16 years old)
3. Seasons of Love
4. Stars
5. Take Back Your Mink (again, especially if you are 16 years old)

#23

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:16pm

Think of Me/ All I Ask of You/Phantom of the Opera

Seasons of Love (There are so many other better songs in RENT)

Memory (though its so f***ing catchy!)

#24

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:47pm

Everything from PHANTOM except for "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"

EVERYTHING from WICKED and LES MIS.

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#25

re: What 5 showtunes have you had more than enough of?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:50pm

As much as I love Rent, I'm getting a little sick of Seasons of love. It's overplayed way too much. I'm also getting a little sick of any song from Wicked

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