What's your least favorite song in your favorite show?- Page 2

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 8/13/08 at 5:56pm

"Sorry-Grateful" from Company
"Wait" from Sweeney Todd

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 8/13/08 at 6:34pm

I agree with "Sorry-Grateful" from Company. I still like that song, it just isn't as good as the rest of the score.

[PianoMann]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 12:33am

Follies : "Loveland" and "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow / Love Will See Us Through"

As much as I love the entire Loveland concept of Follies, and the four main folly numbers, I only like the beginning tune of "Loveland" and absolutely hate "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow / Love Will See Us Through" - it's a chore to sit through.

Sunday in the Park WIth George : "The Day Off"

It's just so long and monotonous... I appreciate the creativity and playfulness of the different perspectives but I just have a hard time with it.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 12:50am

Prima Donna - Phantom
The Microphone - Women on the Verge
Born to Boggie - Billy Elliot
Bullying By Numbers and D.I.Y World - Spider-Man

While far from one of my favorite shows, I think that Advice from a Caterpillar, Go With the Flow, and The Queen of Hearts from Wonderland are absolutely abysmal pieces of music.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 1:05am

Carousel-Highest Judge of All. Completely stops the show in its tracks and doesn't have any arch in it. It's a song that could be covered in one line. There are other songs that others don't like, and I understand it but most of the songs are there for a reason ("Clambake" sets us up for Act 2 in a very lovely fashion and if played well, drunk and horny, the song can be pretty rousing), but Highest Judge of All is 100% unnecessary and Nicholas Hytner wisely cut it for the revival.

Gypsy-Mr. Goldstone. It's a catchy song and clever, but again, the premise could be covered in one line. It's a moment that should be sung, but that song just isn't the right one.

Follies-One More Kiss. I know it's important. I know it has meaning. But in terms of personal taste, it's just my least favorite.

Evita- Santa Evita. Children trying to act cute. Enough said.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 1:20am

I agree. I detest One More Kiss.
I wish they would cut it. Forever.
I never got it. Dull Dull Dull.

and without one More Kiss.. there'd be one less song.

And while we are at it.. let's also cut

[ReggieonBway]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 1:23am

In The Heights - Carnaval Del Barrio
next to normal - I Miss the Mountains
Updated On: 12/1/11 at 01:23 AM

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 1:23am

A Sentimental Man and Something Bad from Wicked

Song of Forgetting and Didn't I See This Movie from Next to Normal

Little Lamb and Mr. Goldstone from Gypsy

Miracle of Miracles from Fiddler on the Roof (but i like that song, just less than all the others)

The Arbiter and Merano from Chess

Stay With Me from City of Angels

Castle on a Cloud from Les Miserables

Masquerade from Phantom of the Opera


and finally, though nowhere near my favourite musical - This Was a Real Nice Clambake from Carousel may be the worst song I have ever heard in the theatre.

Updated On: 12/1/11 at 01:23 AM

[brettarnett]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 1:36am

Re: One More Kiss, I use to always appreciate it but I never replayed it while going though the albulm but with the new cast recording, things have clearly changed. I don't know if it is the clearer sound or that I can focus more on the lyrics, or just age but now it is one of my absolute favorites

[egghumor]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 1:52am

Like many others here, I could provide a long list. Keeping it to three:

"Family" from Dreamgirls
"Please, Hello!" from Pacific Overtures
and
"Little Lamb" from Gypsy.

Mad crazy for these scores, but wouldn't miss those songs.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 2:19am

Ha, looking back on these lists, so many songs listed are up there with my faves in the show. I even really like Clambake though I know many, MANY don't (I also love Highest Judge but I get why it's often cut).

Not necesarily favorite shows but I agree with Sentimental Man from Wicked--just there to give the Wizard something more to do, but useless and stps the action dead.

Western People Funny from King and I is an obvious point--a weak, weak song that I have little doubt was written last minute when they realized they had a scene change (it was originally performed "in one" with a drop hiding the major scene change). Similar to Oklahoma's It's a Scandal It's an Outrage which I admit I find kinda catchy in an awful way.

Aspects of Love is musically perhaps my fave ALW score--at the very least it's one of my top slightly guilty pleasures, but I could happily never hear Love Changes Everything--even though it's used like 5 times in the show--ever again.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 2:26am

adam-If "Clambake" is the worst song you've ever heard in the theatre, then I'm assuming that you never heard "Waiting" from The Addams Family.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 2:28am

Evita- Santa Evita. Children trying to act cute. Enough said.

I really like Santa Evita, but I think because it ties back to Requiem for Evita and really plays up the idea of Marianismo that I think is very prevalent in the show.

[lizzieshername]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 2:37am

"Merano" from Chess. I have to skip over it every time.

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 2:54am

Wickedfan, I just saw Addams Family a week and a half ago and don't remember Waiting at all, so i can't say that i found it memorable. On the other hand, i heard Clambake one time, 30 years ago, and it is still seared in my memory as the most inane thing i had ever heard at the time and i cannot at the moment remember anything worse that i have heard since. I will leave open the possibility that i have forgotten something, but even that would mean that it wasn't so horrible that i couldn't forget, so i still have to give the prize to Clambake for now. If you are giving the prize to Waiting, i won't stand in your way, though. :)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 2:58am

I guess I don't really get why so many do dislike Clambake--it's not all that unusual for musicals, particularly older ones to have groups sing and establish the moment like that. Is it the fact that they're singing about a clambake that's so off putting (something which I think Hammerstein meant to be humour)--or is it something in the music?

Morano is a cute pastiche up to a point, but I do think, at least on the concept album of Chess, it kinda goes on and on and on. I can't imagien it ever working at that length on stage.

[After Eight]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:39am

A Hymn to Him (My Fair Lady)
Entrance of the Courtesans (The Happiest Girl in the World)

[light_in_the_dark2]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 7:38am

From Next to Normal I'm not a huge fan of "I'm Alive". Still a good song but the rest of the score I enjoy much more

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 7:49am

The title song from SitPwG

"No One Waitin'" from CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (<---- that's tough in a show where the edges of one "song" often blur into another)

"Find Out What They Like" from AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'

"Save the Whale" from MOBY DICK

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 8:35am

"I guess I don't really get why so many do dislike Clambake--it's not all that unusual for musicals, particularly older ones to have groups sing and establish the moment like that. Is it the fact that they're singing about a clambake that's so off putting (something which I think Hammerstein meant to be humour)--or is it something in the music?"

For me it was not so much that the subject was a clambake as that the actual lyrics themselves were so uninspired and low-content. 'This was a real nice clambake' sung repeatedly annoyed me enough that 30 years later it still irks me if something causes me to think of it as during this thread. Doesn't irk me enough that i go around thinking about it otherwise, fortunately.

[Rabekriegerin]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 9:52am

When I was younger, "Prima Donna" from PHANTOM was always my least favorite. Not that I don't see its purpose or appreciate the complexity of the intertwining lines... it didn't stop me from skipping it on a listen-through.

From RUDOLF, my least favorite 'song' is "So Viel Mehr" (So Much More). However I will say that the Vienna staging worked wonders with it and it was a joy to see live. Just... the song itself. Eh.

And, in closing, I may be crucified for this, but: "Master of the House" from Les Mis. I still can't quite grasp why this is always such a crowd-pleaser. Well, intellectually, yes, I can reason out why, but it just does not snag me at all. It has to happen for the story, but as far as enjoyment, I'd be just as happy if it didn't.

[AMH]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 10:00am

- FOLLIES: "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues"
- INTO THE WOODS: "No More"
- SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE: "Putting It Together"

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 1:56pm

Twelve Days 'Til Christmas - SHE LOVES ME

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 3:35pm

I can understand wanting to cut "Mr. Goldston" from GYPSY, but I'm surprised at the hatred for "All I Need Is the Girl." Granted, on its own, it's merely a slightly better version of any lounge-act number, but in the show, it's one of the few numbers with honest sentiment (PLUS the dramatic irony that Louise doesn't know Tulsa is singing about her sister).

I wouldn't miss the harpsichord numbers in SWEENEY, but I know the Beadle has to do something while waiting for Sweeney Todd to come home.

I'd be thrilled to see "What I Did for Love" cut from CHORUS LINE. Yikes!

[michellek45]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 3:57pm

I agree with all the people who have said "Happy Talk." I loathe that song. "Good Morning Starshine" from Hair is another weird one, especially because of its placement in the show. The Last 5 Years is nowhere close to my favorite show, but when I do listen to the recording, I have to skip that entire "When You Come Home To Me" sequence. "Cry the Beloved Country" from Lost in the Stars annoys me since it feels like Weill was just trying to force the name of the book into a song. "One Hand One Heart" makes me want to cry when I hear it, and not in a good way.