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best showtune ever
re: best showtune ever#25
Posted: 9/6/05 at 9:41pmmaybe you should see some shows other than Wicked, you'd realize there a songs that are a lot better.
re: best showtune ever#26
Posted: 9/6/05 at 9:52pmGee, and I thought this was an opinion thread. Thanks for telling people what to think, ZONEACE. That was the most ridiculous response I've ever seen in my entire life. Why is it that you don't like it so she mustn't?
re: best showtune ever#27
Posted: 9/6/05 at 10:03pm
My Personal Top Ten (no order)
Still Hurting
Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye
The Light in the Piazza
A Little Priest
Somewhere
I Get a Kick Out of You
Color and Light
On the Steps of the Palace
I Know Things Now
Dividing Day
re: best showtune ever#28
Posted: 9/6/05 at 10:09pm
Honest question to Elphaba610:
Have you ever seen or heard any other musicals? If so, which ones.
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re: best showtune ever#29
Posted: 9/6/05 at 10:10pmI have a special place in my heart for LOOK TO THE RAINBOW.
Understudy Joined: 6/17/03
re: best showtune ever#31
Posted: 9/6/05 at 11:11pm
wow,
My top 10 in no particular order....
The entire balcony scene from West Side Story
Soliloquoy from Carousel
Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd
As Long as He Needs Me from Oliver
One from A Chorus Line
The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha
Bring Him Home Les Miz
New Music from Ragtime
Being Alive from Company
Back to Before from Ragtime
Hand Jive from Grease ( just kidding, trying to see if your paying attention!)
Understudy Joined: 9/3/05
re: best showtune ever#32
Posted: 9/6/05 at 11:13pmI told you before that wicked and brooklyn were the only shows ive seen. But my friend let me borrow into the woods. Ive just started listening to it today.
re: best showtune ever#33
Posted: 9/6/05 at 11:21pm
"Out For Blood" from Carrie
"A Man Worth Fightin' For" from Bring Back Birdie
Updated On: 9/6/05 at 11:21 PM
re: best showtune ever#34
Posted: 9/7/05 at 1:50am
I place 'best' showtunes in the category 'songs a can listen to over and over and over and never get sick of'.
They include:
"A Little Priest" (Sweeney Todd)
"Rose's Turn" (Gypsy)
"And Eve Was Weak" (Carrie: The Musical)
"Wheels of a Dream" (Ragtime)
"What a Game" (Ragtime)
"One" (A Chorus Line)
"Unworthy of Your Love" (Assassins)
"Tonight" (West Side Story)
This is not my Top 8 songs (though alot would appear easily) these are the songs I can listen to over-and-over-and-over again. Heck I admit some of the songs I love the best I wouldn't dare to try and listen to like that in fear of loosing interest in them.
Updated On: 9/7/05 at 01:50 AM
re: best showtune ever#35
Posted: 9/7/05 at 11:21am
The ultimate Musical Theatre for me are:
"There's No Business Like Show Business" from ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
"Applause" from APPLAUSE
"Welcome To The Theatre" from APPLAUSE
"What I Did For Love" from A CHORUS LINE
re: best showtune ever#36
Posted: 9/7/05 at 12:26pm
That is a hard question. For me I'd say my favorites are:
For Good (Wicked)
On My Own (Les Mis)
Take Me or Leave Me (Rent)
Forget About the Boy (TMM)
The Gods Love Nubia and Every Story is a Love Story (Aida)
Anything from the Sound of Music (I'm a SOM freak)
re: best showtune ever#37
Posted: 9/7/05 at 12:34pm
This is really tough, but I think overall, I would have to narrow it down to two:
Tonight Quintet - West Side Story
One Day More - Les Miserables
Of course, there are a zillion others I love, but for composition, structure and writing, these two are at the top of my list.
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re: best showtune ever#38
Posted: 9/7/05 at 12:48pm
Urban, I am going to borrow your definition of best; these are some of the songs I can listen to over and over.
"Agony" - Into the Woods
"Little Priest" - Sweeney Todd
"Being Alive" - Company
"Bring Him Home" - Les Miz
"Wheels of a Dream" - Ragtime
"On the Steps of the Palace" - Into the Woods
"I Am What I Am" - La Cage
"Cool, Cool, Considerate Men" - 1776
"Try to Remember" - The Fantasticks
"Is This What You Call Love?" - Passion
"I'm Still Here" - Follies
re: best showtune ever#39
Posted: 9/7/05 at 12:54pmBeing Alive - each time I hear this song, I discover something more about it, either something more I love or understand a lyric more clearly, it's just beautiful.
re: best showtune ever#40
Posted: 9/7/05 at 1:07pmI vote for "Lullaby Of Broadway" (one of my favorites among many!)
re: best showtune ever#41
Posted: 9/7/05 at 1:35pm
Sadly, "Lullabye of Broadway" was written for a movie and won an Oscar as the best song that year. (Yes, it turned up in 42nd Street, but then you might as well say "Dancing Queen" from Mamma Mia!)
If I had to pick one, I'd say "Rose's Turn." I'm not even sure why... except that it probably sums up everything I love about musical theatre in one big gulp.
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re: best showtune ever#42
Posted: 9/7/05 at 1:50pm
Maybe so, but I would think that Jerry Orbach singing it in Broadway's Lost Treasures gives it credibility!
Or was I imagining things...
re: best showtune ever#43
Posted: 9/7/05 at 2:41pmCredibility? Absolutely! I love the number in that show. I would just classify "Lullabye of Broadway" as a film song rather than a show tune... but that's how I look at it.
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re: best showtune ever#44
Posted: 9/7/05 at 3:22pm
We are all entitled to our own opinion! But thanks for the info---I was more familiar with Orbach's version, having never seen the movie!
re: best showtune ever#45
Posted: 9/7/05 at 3:31pm
You should check out the movie sometime, if you can. It was one of the last "Golddiggers" movies (I think it was Golddigers of 1937). I could probably cheat by looking it up right now (laziness stops me), but I believe it also won a special Academy Award for it's dance direction of that very number.
I have a feeling you would prefer the Orbach version, though. As would most people on this board. It's a terrific number in the show (42nd Street)!
And, yes... To each, his (or her) own!
UPDATE: Okay, I DID cheat and look it up, finally. It was Golddiggers of 1935 (not '37), starring Gloria ("Titanic") Stuart, although she isn't featured in the "Lullaby of Broadway" number. It did win the Oscar that year for Best Song, but lost Best Dance Direction to another film.
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re: best showtune ever#46
Posted: 9/7/05 at 3:56pmIt will show up on TCM at some point---I'll catch it then! Thanks!
re: best showtune ever#47
Posted: 9/7/05 at 4:12pm
Carrie: Something terrible happened at school today!
Margaret: Terrible things are the Lord's way of testing us, Carrie.
I too say "And Eve Was Weak"
Updated On: 9/8/05 at 04:12 PM
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re: best showtune ever#48
Posted: 9/7/05 at 6:03pm
Whoah! WonderBoy! We should be in the same generation . . . No doubt about the "Applause" numbers - but I'd probably include
Gifts of Love - Baker's Wife
Seesaw - Title tune
Yes - 70, Girls, 70
Mame - Title tune
On the 20th Century - Title tune
There's a Kid Inside - Is there Life after High School?
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