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#1

What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

Hi, I am looking for some Broadway songs about forbidden relationships and or overcoming obstacles in a relationship. Metaphorical or Literal
This is my list so far.
No Matter What-Whistle Down The Wind
The Last Night of The World-Miss Saigon
Written In The Stars-Aida
#3

re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

um Kiss me from Sweeney Todd? that's pretty much i can think of.
Oh! i just thought of a good one. Happiness from Passion, it's at the beginning of the story so you don't know that clara is married yet but still it's a good one.
maybe also Loving You from passion.
#6

re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

You could probably also get away with Elaborate Lives or Enchantment Passing Through from Aida. They're not perfect as stand-alone songs, but they would probably work.
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#7

re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

off the top of my head...mostly situational in the show itself

Love Who You Love - A Man of No Importance
Inside Your Heart - Bat Boy
In Whatever Time We Have/Stranger to the Rain - Children of Eden
Johanna - Sweeney Todd
Title Song - The Light in the Piazza
Somewhere - West Side Story



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#10

re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

The duets from Parade could possibly be stretched to be considered "forbidden love," since Leo's in jail while Lucille is not...

The Bells of St. Sebastian from Nine is about a little boy asking a prostitute about love...

Where in the World/How Could I Ever Know from Secret Garden is a duet between a man and his dead wife...

those are all a bit of a stretch, but they're ideas! re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?
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#11

re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

You and I (Bare)

lots of West Side Story

Please Let's Not Even Say Hello (December Songs)

Nobody Needs To Know (L5Y)

Almost Paradise from Footloose (kind of)

Don't Know Where You Leave Off/ What If (Sweet Smell of Success)

Love, Look Away from Flower Drum Song?

What You Need (Grand Hotel)

People Like Us (Wild Party)

You Were My First Love (Wuthering Heights, and much of the show, obvi)

Tunnel of Love (Side Show)... in a way

much of Hello Again, especially Story of My Life, Tom, Mistress of the Senator

If I Can't Love Her (Beauty and the Beast)

Okay (Little By Little)

Her or Me (Miss Saigon)

Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Zanna, Don't!)

LOTS of Once on This Island

thank you for that welcome distraction from homework


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#14

re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

The already-mentioned "We Kiss In A Shadow" from The King and I is probably the ultimate forbidden love song, but I would add "I Have Dreamed" from the same score.
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#16

re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

"Forbidden love" from THE APPLE TREE!
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#18

re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

"A boy like that who'd kill your brother, Forget that boy and find another, One of your own kind, Stick to your own kind!"

A BOY LIKE THAT/I HAVE A LOVE from West Side Story.
#19

re: What are some good songs about Forbidden Relationships?

Errm well Bare is full of them, so Role of a Lifetime, Best Kept Secret, Ever After, etc.

On My Own from Les Mis, isn't exactly about forbidden love, but unrequited definitely.

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