fastest song
OhSoWicked
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/04
#50re: fastest song
Posted: 8/28/04 at 9:47am
""Rock Island" and "Ya Got Trouble" from the Music Man"
Oh yes! Rock Island is definitely faster than Trouble. I love Rock Island, lol
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#51re: fastest song
Posted: 8/28/04 at 10:12am
I am the very model of a modern major general.....
that DEFINES patter song.
#52re: fastest song
Posted: 8/28/04 at 11:54amIf You Hadn't But You Did is def tricky as is Peter Rabbit ( @ times) But the KILLER Gilbert & Sullivan is "The Nightmare Song" from Iolanthe. I use it as my definiative "drunk" test. If I can still say it intelligibly- I ain't drunk enuf! (lol)
#53re: fastest song
Posted: 8/28/04 at 8:00pmMuseum Song from Barnum.
marebare
Stand-by Joined: 7/6/04
#54re: fastest song
Posted: 8/29/04 at 2:59amThat diction song (sorry don't know the name) from Singing in the Rain was pretty wordy
#55re: fastest song
Posted: 8/29/04 at 12:46pm
"Closed For Renovation" - Little Shop of Horrors
"You can't stop the Beat!" - Hairspray
AnothaPartofMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#56re: fastest song
Posted: 8/29/04 at 3:01pmUNTIL TOMORROW NIGHT from "Smile"... faster than most of the songs mentioned on the thread.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#58re: fastest song
Posted: 8/29/04 at 3:12pmWhile a lot of these are fast songs, the patter in Getting Married Today and Modern Major General are really on a whole different level, agree? I have to say that most Sondheim and G&S is...
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#59re: fastest song
Posted: 8/29/04 at 3:14pmI can't remember if this was mentioned (I checked, I might have missed it), but "Office Life" from Amour is pretty fast.
#60re: fastest song
Posted: 8/29/04 at 4:06pmpirates of penzance: i am the very model of a modern major general, how beautifully blue the sky, when you left our pirate fold.... and there was another one. a lot of the songs on that recording are wicked fast.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#62re: fastest song
Posted: 8/29/04 at 7:18pm"What have I done..." - The end of the Les Miserables Prologue....on the London Soundtrack
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