Your Top 5 Favorite Showtunes — Page 3

omg! I can't pick favs! My list changes alot!

Daddy's Girl-Grey Gardens
I am Adolpho-The Drowsy Chaperone
Take Me or Leave Me-RENT
No good Deed-Wicked
and basically Spring Awakening

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Present Five Favorites - -- And I stress "present"

1.Witch Rap - - - Into the Woods
2.Here in Eden - - -The Apple Tree
3.So in Love - - - Kiss Me Kate
4.It's a Privilege to Pee - - - Urinetown
5.There once was a man - - - Pajama Game

Good Stuff...

Anthem -- Chess
What I Did for Love -- A Chorus Line
Try to Remember -- The Fantasticks
Comfort and Joy -- Bat Boy
Corner of the Sky -- Pippin

Something from Spring Awakening may bump off one of these, but it's too early....

1.Song Of Purple Summer - Spring Awakening
2.Roses Turn - Gyspy
3.All Er Nothing - Oklahoma!
4.Seasons Of Love - Rent
5.Defying Gravity - Wicked

"You Must Meet My Wife"-A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
"How Could I Ever Know"-THE SECRET GARDEN
"Jilted"-OF THEE I SING
"You Don't Know This Man"-PARADE
"Lowdown Down"-THE WILD PARTY

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1. "Somewhere"--West Side Story
2. "I'll Cover You (Reprise)"--Rent
3. "Lot's Wife"--Caroline, or Change
4. "Cabaret"--Cabaret
5. "Bring Him Home"--Les Miserables

Mine change 24/7, but at the moment...
In no order..
-Written In The Stars(AIDA)
-My Strongest Suit(AIDA)
-Any Dream Will Do(Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
-Opening: I Hope I Get It(A Chorus Line)
-Defying Gravity(Wicked)

My present top 5, always prone to constant change:

Being Alive - Company
30/90 - Tick...tick...BOOM!
One Song Glory - Rent
All That Jazz & Nowadays tie - Chicago
Maybe This Time - Cabaret

1. "Around the World" from "Grey Gardens" (come on, you all knew this was coming from me, right?!)
This is my #1 song. Others are in no particular order. "Will You?," (GG), "What Kind of Woman" (Ragtime-Don't like the show, really, but this song stuck out.), "Defying Gravity," tied with 2 GG songs (I love the score, can you tell yet?!) "Another Winter in a Summer Town" and "Revolutionary Costume".
(That GG score just does it for me!)

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Updated On: 6/17/07 at 08:13 AM

I did this a while ago as part of a LiveJournal meme thing, so I'm just copying and pasting. It was limited to one song per composer.

Top 5 Showtunes:
5. "30/90" - tick, tick...BOOM! (A number of songs written by Larson would've been in the top 10, but this is the song from musical theater that I find more relatable than anything else. It also, kind of inexplicably, never fails to cheer me up. Raúl performs it wonderfully.)
4. "Rainbow High" - Evita (Fantastic in the context of the show, and thrilling when performed by a strong Eva.)
3. "New Music" - Ragtime (This is my favorite musical, and so many of the songs are gorgeous, but this one is one of the most brilliant songs in musical theater, I think. On top of being absolutely beautiful and having lyrics that give me chills, it ties the story threads to one another and to the musical's themes.)
2. "Endgame" - Chess (So difficult to choose one song from Chess! This is one of the most thrillingly-written confrontation songs that I've ever heard.)
1. "Finishing the Hat" - Sunday in the Park with George (My favorite song from a musical without question, as well as being one of my favorite songs ever. I'm not even sure there are words to describe how much I love it.)

1. Being Alive - Company
2. Ragtime - Ragtime
3. Heart & Music - A New Brain
4. Defying Gravity - Wicked
5. Summertime - Porgy & Bess

1. "I Don't Care Much"; Cabaret
2. "Not While I'm around"; Sweeney Todd
3. "Purpose"; Avenue Q
4. "What You Own"; RENT
5. "Suddenly Seymour"; Little Shop Of Horrors

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