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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)

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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"

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

Rose's Turn

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

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

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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.

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

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

Tell Me On A Sunday from Song and Dance

Anytime from Elegies

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

Being Alive from Company

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

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

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.

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

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