What are you favorite Broadway 'standards'?

[ProducerJeff]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:28am

I'm fairly new here, so forgive me if this has been asked and answered. I am putting together a benefit show and I was wondering what Broadway songs would you most like to hear in an evening of 'Broadway Classics'......your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Elphaba984]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:57am

i don't know if there "standards" but....

defying gravity
someone like you
all i wanted was the dream
wheels of a dream
some people
i hate men
you can't get a man with a gun

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:37am

"I Have Dreamed" -- the King and I -- THAT is the standard to hold all else against....

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:40am

"I have dreamed" is wonderful.
I would add "People" from FUNNY GIRL to the list.

[ChiChi]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:41am

"You'll Never Walk Alone" and "The Impossible Dream"

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:00am

Defying Gravity is definately NOT a standard.

Over the Rainbow
Where or When
I Could Have Danced All Night
On The Street Where You Live
Always True To You (In My Fashion)
The Impossible Dream
A Wonderful Guy

Now THOSE are standards.

[LadyGuenevere]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:04am

"One", "As Long as He Needs Me", "Cabaret", "My Favorite Things", "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever", "People", "Send in the Clowns".
Updated On: 8/13/04 at 10:04 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:18am

It's overdone, but 'What I Did For Love'

'Younger Than Springtime' is a classic, like 'All the Things You Are' and 'I Loved You Once in Silence'. Some newer classics I like would be 'Not A Day Goes By' and 'Unexpected Song', along with many, many others, but those are what I would recommend for a 'Classic Broadway' revue.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:25am

I Have Dreamed
So In Love
Not For Me
No One is Alone

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:32am

What I did for love
I'm still here
The girls upstairs (Think that's the title)
Being Alive

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:40am

Judy
I have one disagreement - while a standard -- OTR is from a film, not bway...but you know I love you...

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:48am

Springtime for....you know who is bound to be a classic.

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:55am

hehe KMF I know that, but technically it has been a stage musical for a very, very long time.
It was #1 on AFI's movie song list, and it's Judy. I'm allowed

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:05am

Music of the Night
If I Were A Rich Man
On The Street Where You Live
Getting To Know You
One
Memory
Trouble/Seventy Six Trombones
My Favorite Things
Maria
America
Roses Turn/Everythings Coming Up Roses/Together, Wherever we Go

There are so many but my #1 would have to be:

TOMORROW from Annie

[StarStageGurl]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:06am

I'd definitely like to hear

On My Own, I Dreamed a Dream, or Stars - Les Miserables
Always True to You (In My Fashion)- Kiss Me Kate
Think of Me or Music of the Night - Phantom of the Opera
I Could've Danced All Night - My Fair Lady

and...I'm not sure if Chicago is a classic:| but I'd enjoy hearing something from that musical:)

[robbiej]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:07am

Favorite standard is, IMEO, also R&H's best song:

Something Wonderful.

[CJR]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:29am

One (Singular Sensation)
At the Ballet
The Music in the Mirror
America
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:50am

Standards are songs that have been around awhile, and appear on almost all of those Broadway compilation CDs, done by other singers and orchestras. Here are some:

"Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from Evita
"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and "Oklahoma!" from Oklahoma!
"The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha
"Everything's Coming Up Roses" from Gypsy
"On My Own" from Les Miserables
"Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera
"Memory" from Cats
"Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:58am

Easy to Love
Anything Goes
If Ever I Would Leave You
Luck Be a Lady
Wouldn't it be Loverly?
I Could Have Danced All Night
Some Enchanted Evening

[Mattio98]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 12:29pm

Maybe This Time
One
What I Did For Love
Being Alive

[ProducerJeff]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 1:57pm

Thanks much for all of your suggestions. I am looking forward to putting this show together (with many of your suggestions included). If you have any other suggestions, please do not hesitate to post or PM me. Thanks again!

[thibodeaux]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 2:13pm

defying gravity (i know, it's new. sue me. it's good.)
(i felt?) nothing
one
circle of life
rose's turn
last midnight
and i am telling you i'm not going
over the rainbow
oh, what a beautiul mornin
age of aquarius
hair

to name a few :)

[Crazy4MattMorrison52]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 2:19pm

seasons of love
matchmaker

[poodleboy]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 2:30pm

Any and every song from 'Babes in Arms".

[wickedfan]

Posted: 8/13/04 at 2:36pm

Mira-not really a standard, but best in CARNIVAL
One
What I did for Love
Babes in Arms (any song from this show)
Rain in SPain
On the Street Where you Live
Try To Remember
Impossible Dream
I Dreamed A dream
People or The Music that Makes Me Dance
Everything's Coming Up Roses
Tonight