Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

#1

Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 9/30/06 at 9:47pm

List, in order (1 being the best), your all-time favorite showtunes and the show from which they come. This may take some hard thought, but it should be interesting to see how many of the same song show up and how many of one composer shows up.

My Picks:

5. The Beauty Is (THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA)
4. Suddenly Seymour (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS)
3. One Day More (LES MISERABLES)
2. All That Jazz (CHICAGO)
1. Cabaret (CABARET)

Wow! That was very hard!

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Updated On: 9/30/06 at 09:47 PM

#2

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 9/30/06 at 9:51pm

1. Defying Gravity (Wicked)
2. Once Upon A Time (Brooklyn)
3. Seasons of Love (Rent)
4. I'm Here (The Color Purple)
5. Sail Me Away (Lestat)

There. I said it.

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#3

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 9/30/06 at 9:55pm

1. Not While I'm Around (Sweeney)
2. Pity the Child (Chess)
3. This Nearly Was Mine (South Pacific)
4. Too Many Mornings (Follies)
5. Mama, A Rainbow (Minnie's Boys)

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#4

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 9/30/06 at 9:55pm

5. All That Jazz (Chicago)
4. Tonight / Balcony Scene (West Side Story)
3. Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)
2. Cabaret
1. Unusual Way (Nine)

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#5

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:15pm

(bump)

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#6

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:34pm

In no order:

1. "The Worst Pies In London" Sweeney Todd
2. "The Internet Is For Porn" Avenue Q
3. "When You Got It, Flaunt It" The Producers
4. "Diva's Lament" Spamalot
5. "Agony" Into the Woods

Ouch.

#7

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:47pm

1. The Sound of Music - THE SOUND OF MUSIC
2. New Music - RAGTIME
3. If He Walked Into My Life - MAME
4. Loverly - MY FAIR LADY
4. How Are Things in Glocca Mora?

#8

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 9/30/06 at 11:48pm

1. Wheels of a Dream from Ragtime
2. Johanna (quartet) from Sweeney Todd
3. No One is Alone from Into the Woods
4. I Dreamed a Dream from Les Mis
5. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from The Phantom of the Opera

They change from time to time, but usually Wheels of a Dream remains #1

#9

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 12:01am

in no order

All That Jazz
Cabaret
A Little Priest
Everything's Coming Up Roses
I'm Still Here

This list could probally change for me every day.

#10

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 12:02am

1. He Can Do It - Purlie
2. The Ladies Who Lunch - Company
3. Our Time - Merrily We Roll Along
4. A Great Night For A Murder - Stop! You're Killing Me!
5. (Tie)Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love - A Chorus Line
I Hate The Bus - Caroline or Change

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#11

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 12:07am

Some People Gypsy
Rose's Turn Gypsy
Your Fault/Last Midnight Into the Woods
No One is Alone -Into the Woods
Show Off-The Drowsy Chaperone

#12

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 12:11am

This is constantly changing, but as of now:

1. Defying Gravity (Wicked)
2. This is the Moment (Jekyll and Hyde)
3. I'm Here (The Color Purple)
4. Make Them Hear You (Ragtime)
5. The Impossible Dream (Man of La Mancha)

#13

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 12:18am

5) Sunday - Sunday in the Park with George
4) The Ballad of Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd
3) Being Alive - Company
2) Thuy's Death/This is the Hour - Miss Saigon
1) [3-way tie]
Back to Before - Ragtime
Wheels of a Dream - Ragtime
Your Daddy's Son - Ragtime

3 Sondheim, 1 Schonberg/Boubil, and 3 Flaherty/Ahrens

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#14

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 12:30am

That is an impossible question, I need like a top ten.

#15

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 12:35am

5. Back to Before- Ragtime
4. Sunday- Sunday in the Park with George
3. Good Thing Going- Merrily We Roll Along/ Bells of Saint Sebastian- Nine
2. Elaborate Lives- Aida
1. Anytime- Elegies: A Song Cycle

Cheers,

Christopher

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#16

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 12:56am

It changes constantly, but right now it's...

Montage - A Chorus Line
Barcelona - Company
One Moorish Girl / The Smallest Stream - Bernarda Alba
This is What it Is - The Wild Party
How Glory Goes - Floyd Collins

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Updated On: 10/1/06 at 12:56 AM

#17

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:04am

Something from Caroline or Change
Something else from Caroline or Change
SOmething from Sweeney Todd
Something else from Sweeney Todd
something from some other musical that never got the chance it deserved.

#18

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 9:22am

For this particular hour and in no order:

Someone Else's Story (Chess)
Make Me Happy (Lippa's Wild Party)
If I Didn't Believe in You (The Last 5 Years)
One Day More (Les Mis)
There Will Be A Miracle (SWIWS)

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#19

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 9:27am

There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This (SWEET CHARITY)
Saturday Night in the City (THE WEDDING SINGER)
You Can't Stop the Beat (HAIRSPRAY)
The Winner Takes It All (MAMMA-MIA!)
As We Stumble Along (THE DROWSY CHAPERONE)

*these are in no particular order, and this list is constantly changing!

#20

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 9:44am

1. The Sound of Music (THE SOUND OF MUSIC)
2. Sixteen Going on Seventeen (THE SOUND OF MUSIC)
3. Do-Re-Mi (THE SOUND OF MUSIC)
4. Dance of the Robe (AIDA)
5. No Good Deed (WICKED)

#21

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 10:02am

Buenos Aires - Evita
Another Hundred People - Company
Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Kiss Me Kate
Timeless To Me - Hairspray
What You Own - Rent

That's in no particular order.

#22

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 10:10am

tough...but in no particular oder

Seasons of Love-RENT
I Am What I Am-LA CAGE
In His Eyes-J&H
As Long As He Needs Me-OLIVER
Not While I'm Around-SWEENEY

update-honorable mentions: Without You-RENT; As If We Never Said Goodbye-SUNSET BOULEVARD; You are My Home-SCARLETT PIMPERNEL; Song on the Sand-LA CAGE

Updated On: 10/1/06 at 10:10 AM

#23

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 10:11am

"If I Told You" (THE WEDDING SINGER)
"For Good" (WICKED)
"Life Support" (RENT)
"Not That Kind Of Thing" (THE WEDDING SINGER)
"Dancing Through Life" (WICKED)

#24

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 10:57am

5) Glitter And Be Gay (Candide)
4) Rose's Turn (Gypsy)
3) Finishing The Hat (Sunday In The Park)
2) A Little Priest (Sweeney Todd)
1) Hello, Dolly! (Hello, Dolly!)

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#25

re: Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes

Posted: 10/1/06 at 11:03am

Another Hundred People; Company
All That Jazz; Chicago
I Am What I Am; La Cage aux Folles
One; A Chorus Line
I Got Life; Hair