What's the Best Broadway Song Ever?- Page 4

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 3/19/16 at 9:11pm

OlBlueEyes said: "Also surprised to see her as a thin and pretty young woman in the film of Anything Goes."

[Steve C.]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 2:24am

It's pretty hard to argue with "Show Business" as the best. I had never come across the film of "Call Me Madam" until finding it on FXM Retro. What a show; Ethel Merman is a real tour de force! It ran for about 700 performances in the 50's. (with the great Tommy Rall too) Great Irving Berlin bouncy cute score, including this gem, "You're Just In Love" with Donald O'Connor.

I think it was at Encores in the 90's with maybe Tyne Daly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGU2n95jXdk

[Speed]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 3:34am

This is easy.  I have a degree in musical theater, I see everything, and the best song is "The Last Real Record Store On Earth" from High Fidelity.

[BakerWilliams]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 4:33am

If having a degree in musical theatre allows you say definitively what the best musical song is, just talk to any of the homeless people on the streets of New York. 

[hello3]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 9:35am

I agree with "Some enchanted evening."

Updated On: 3/20/16 at 09:35 AM

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 2:21pm

have to also submit "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" as a worthy candidate for this title, given the immeasurable impact of Oklahoma, and the melodic delight and infectious positivity of this song opening  the listener to the possibilities that lay ahead....

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 4:20pm

Little Lamb

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 5:22pm

BEING ALIVE from Company...what a catharsis song that explains so much about the lead character Bobby, that no one in the show does any better!

[MISH2]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 5:45pm

What I Did For Love.  Perfect for singing in the shower.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 8:19pm

Steve C. said: "It's pretty hard to argue with "Show Business" as the best. I had never come across the film of "Call Me Madam" until finding it on FXM Retro. What a show; Ethel Merman is a real tour de force! It ran for about 700 performances in the 50's. (with the great Tommy Rall too) Great Irving Berlin bouncy cute score, including this gem, "You're Just In Love" with Donald O'Connor.

"You're Just in Love" is probably the greatest counterpoint duet written for the theater. Some might choose "Lida Rose" from The Music Man. I wonder why more composers didn't write any. They are fun.

Here is MGM's anthem to show business, written by Schwartz and Dietz for the 1953 film The Band Wagon. In November, 2015, City Center produced a Kathleen Marshall musical version. Some clever lyrics, here performed by Judy Garland (short):

It might be a fight like you see on the screen
A swain getting slain for the love of a queen
Some great Shakespearean scene
Where a ghost and a prince meet, and everyone ends in mincemeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSwgWj6JiY

[funhamilton_rent]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 8:52pm

Seasons of Love from Rent(?)

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 9:25pm

Speed said: "This is easy.  I have a degree in musical theater, I see everything, and the best song is "The Last Real Record Store On Earth" from High Fidelity.

love love love this song by the way.....

 

[dwperkins]

Posted: 3/23/16 at 12:22am

This Nearly Was Mine from South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein

Updated On: 3/23/16 at 12:22 AM