best solo ever written?- Page 2

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:44pm

Male Dramatic- Petrified (Taboo)

Male Comedic- Betrayed (The Producers)

Female Dramatic- Rose's Turn (Gypsy)

Female Comedic- Diva's Lament (Spamalot) or The More You Ruv Someone (Ave Q)

[CurtisTaylorJr2]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 10:38pm

And I Am Telling I'm Not Going
Home (The Wiz)

[stanton]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:31pm

Its hard for me to say one from a play however
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina"
"Rose's Turn"
"Don't rain on my Parade"
"On the street where you live"
Are my tops!

Now for a movie
"Over the Rainbow"

Updated On: 3/22/06 at 11:31 PM

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:39pm

As Long As He Needs Me

Hands down...

I also love You Can Always Count on Me

[rosekwbp]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:43pm

Rose's Turn

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:47pm

Male: "I Was Here"
Female: "Fable"

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:51pm

I know that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I think listing Fable, or any songs for that matter from shows in the last 5 years or so is just silly

[stage_door76]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 1:36am

And how do you figure that exactly?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 3:00am

You'll Never Walk Alone - CAROUSEL
Something Wonderful - THE KING AND I
Climb Ev'ry Mountain - THE SOUND OF MUSIC
The Sound of Music - THE SOUND OF MUSIC
English Teacher - BYE BYE BIRDIE
Cabaret - CABARET
Maybe This Time - CABARET
Soliloquy - CAROUSEL
Some Enchanted Evening - SOUTH PACIFIC
Put on a Happy Face - BYE BYE BIRDIE
Memory - CATS
The Music and the Mirror - A CHORUS LINE
Nothing - A CHORUS LINE
What I Did For Love - A CHORUS LINE
Don't Cry for me Argentina - EVITA
Losing my Mind - FOLLIES
Broadway Baby - FOLLIES
Buddy's Blues - FOLLIES
Coud I Leave You? - FOLLIES
I'm Still Here - FOLLIES
In Buddy's Eyes - FOLLIES
Too Many Mornings - FOLLIES
Tell Me On a Sunday - SONG AND DANCE
Unexpected Song - SONG AND DANCE
Moments in the Woods - INTO THE WOODS
Being Alive - COMPANY
The Ladies Who Lunch - COMPANY
Another Hundred People - COMPANY
Not a Day Goes By - MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Time Heals Everything - MACK AND MABEL
I Am What I Am - LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Everything's Coming Up Roses- GYPSY
Rose's Turn - GYPSY
Don't Rain on my Parade - FUNNY GIRL
Send in the Clowns - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Finishing the Hat - SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE


More recent:

Lot's Wife - CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
I Know Where I've Been - HAIRSPRAY
Petrified - TABOO
Stranger in this World - TABOO
Fable - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Love to ME - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Dividing Day - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

[children&art]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 11:38am

female:
"Losing My Mind" from Follies, no doubt about it!

male:
"Soliloquy" from Carousel

Updated On: 3/22/06 at 11:38 AM

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 11:47am

Because newer shows just can't compare in my mind, for better or for worse. I think the true test of the power of a song is at least 15-20 years after it was written.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 1:28pm

Easy: The Impssible Dream

[justagirl2]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 2:54pm

If I Were a Rich Man
Don't Cry for Me Argentina
And, as much as I detest Cats, Memory

[kover22]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 3:26pm

Impossible Dream and Gethsemane would be my picks.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 3:27pm

male- bring Him Home (Les Mis)
and
female- Once Upon a Time (BKLYN)

[guineamidget87]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 4:19pm

Where is the Warmth from "The Baker's Wife"
Green Finch and Linnet Bird from "Sweeney Todd"
Hold On from "The Secret Garden"
Winter's On the Wing from "The Secret Garden"
Unexpected Song from "Song and Dance"
Love Can't Happen from "Grand Hotel"

[GClef2]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 4:26pm

Tell Me On A Sunday from Song and Dance

Anytime from Elegies

Come to Your Senses for Tick...Tick...BOOM!

Being Alive from Company

[Kass983]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 5:47pm

A few that haven't been mentioned that I love:

Daddy's Hands - Ragtime

Easy As Life - Aida

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - POTO

You Won't Succeed On Broadway (does this qualify?) - Spamalot

One Song Glory - RENT

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 5:52pm

Your Daddy's Son from Ragtime is one of my favorites. It's so haunting!

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 6:13pm

So songs are only the best after they have five years to themselves to practice and get better?

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 7:09pm

I Dreamed A Dream - Les Miserables
On My Own - Les Miserables
Maybe This Time - Cabaret
Cabaret - Cabaret
Gimme Gimme - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
The Fire Within Me - Little Women

[chip08ME]

Posted: 3/22/06 at 10:48pm

"Losing My Mind" Follies
"Being Alive" Company
"The Music & The Mirror" A Chorus Line
"Rose's Turn" Gypsy
"Sunday in the Park with George" Sunday in the Park with George

[Kungaloosh1937]

Posted: 3/23/06 at 2:43am

Oh lord...

You've got people in here who are, in all seriousness, listing a song from Brooklyn as "best solo ever" and then you're going to complain that someone lists "Fable"?

Ugh...

While I agree Piazza hasn't had the luxury of having been around for a while, dismissing it's best song is a little short sightened. As musicals go, it's the best of the last several years, and I think it will still be talked about some time from now.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 3/23/06 at 6:51am

so damn many. but "the impossible dream" and "as long as he needs me" do get me any time. and something rather unknown: "the line" from "grind", very moving indeed.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 3/23/06 at 7:05am

"Duet for One" - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
"The Coconut Girl" - The Girl Who Came to Supper