Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Lanie J
Chorus Member Joined: 11/27/19
#1Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/17/20 at 10:11pm
I think Katherine Steele referred to these as "songs that feel like eating soup on a rainy day" and that's probably the best way to describe these songs. They're the songs you listen to when you need comfort or when you need the musical theatre equivalent of a hug. Here are some of mine.
A Soft Place To Land (Waitress)
Take It From An Old Man (Waitress)
What Baking Can Do (Waitress) Waitress is probably my comfort show.
Something Wonderful (The King and I)
Beauty And The Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Some Things Are Meant To Be (Little Women)
At The Ballet (A Chorus Line)
Hymn For A Sunday Evening (Bye Bye Birdie)
Ol' Man River (Show Boat)
Wonderful Guy (South Pacific)
Your turn!
"See a picture of a woman wearing four years of confusion like a scar."
Sampatches
Understudy Joined: 8/2/19
#2Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/18/20 at 12:41pmAida, Little Shop of Horrors and Spring Awakening (the albums collectively). They were the first shows I really got into back in college and are good pick me ups
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#3Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/18/20 at 1:55pm
Sunday- Sunday in the Park with George.
The lasting endurance of art expressed though instruments and a glorious chorus of human voices.
fosterfan2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/11
#4Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/18/20 at 5:16pm
"Omar Sharif--The Band's Visit
Morning Glow"--Pippin
"Company"-Company
"Defying Gravity"--Wicked
#5Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/18/20 at 5:43pm
No One is Alone - Into The Woods
Our Time - Merrily We Roll Along
For Good - Wicked
People Will Say We're in Love - Oklahoma
Johanna (Quartet) - Sweeney Todd
Down Home - Purlie
Once in a Lifetime - Stop the World I want to Get Off (Sammy Davis Jr. Revival recording)
Just give the world Love.
#6Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/18/20 at 6:40pm
This, for many reasons.
Non sibi sed patriae
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#7Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/18/20 at 6:56pm
Ive been into Groundhog Day, &Juliet, and A New Brain lately.
#8Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/20/20 at 4:41am
Lambert Wilson's recording of "Silly People" from his MUSICALS album with John McGlinn.
Robert McFerrin and Adele Addison's recording of "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" from the PORGY AND BESS soundtrack.
Jan Clayton's recording of "Nobody Else But Me" from the 1946 SHOW BOAT.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#9Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/20/20 at 6:25am
Move on - Sunday
For Now - Avenue Q
No More - Into the Woods
With So Little To Be Sure Of - Whistle
Light - next to normal
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#10Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/20/20 at 1:58pm
Pretty much all of The Band's Visit (especially Answer Me though)
Pretty much all of Come From Away
The Field - Octet
most of Anastasia (especially Journey to the Past, In My Dreams, Stay, I Pray You, Once Upon A December, etc)
A Soft Place to Land - Waitress
My House - Matilda
No One Else - The Great Comet
Stars and the Moon - Songs For A New World
All That Matters - Finding Neverland
a lot of others though...
you found your heart but left a part of you behind <3
kaykordeath
Stand-by Joined: 4/14/17
#11Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/20/20 at 6:11pm
One of my favorite things to do (in the before times) after having a long day, is commuting home on a crowded train with HASA DIGA EEBOWAI ringing in my ears.
#12Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/21/20 at 11:36am
IN MY OWN LITTLE CORNER...Cinderella
I MISS THE MOUNTAINS...Next To Normal
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE...Anyone Can Whistle
NOT A DAY GOES BY...Merrily We Roll Along
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#13Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?
Posted: 8/21/20 at 11:56am
i Have Dreamed -- The King and I
Move On -- Sunday on the Park With George
Once Upon a Time -- All American
Gigi -- Gigi
Embraceable You -- Girl Crazy
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