favorite broadway songs for a cd

A friend of mine recently asked me to make her a cd with all of my favorite broadway songs on it but I have so many that I have no idea where to start. There are a few songs such as Not A Day Goes By and And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going that I know I want on there for sure but besides for that I can use all the help I can get- preferably nothing too recent though (ie hairspray, wicked, etc)

If you guys had to come up with 10-15 of your favorites what would they be?

in no particular order...(i limited it to one song per show because otherwise Id have whole lists of songs from every show)

Lost in the Wilderness (Children of Eden)
King of the World (Songs for a New World)
Where Do I Go? (Hair)
Ballad of Booth (Assassins)
I Wish I Could Go Back to College (Avenue Q)
Drink With Me -or- Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Miserables)
If I Can't Love Her (Beauty and the Beast)
Dividing Day (The Light in the Piazza)
Why God Why? (Miss Saigon)
By the Sword/Sons of Dixie (The Civil War)
Petrified (Taboo)
Tell Her I Love Her (Urinetown)
Aldonza (Man of LaMancha)
Woe is Me (Spelling Bee)
Goodbye Until Tomorrow (The Last 5 Years)

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All the Wasted Time--Parade
How Many Devils?--The Civil War
Godspeed Titanic--Titanic the Musical

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A few of mine:

A Little Priest (Sweeney Todd)
Being Alive (Company, but I prefer the Patti Lupone version)
Anything Goes (Anything Goes)
La Vie Boheme (Rent)
I'm Still Here (Follies)
Fable (Light in the Piazza)
Rose's Turn (Gypsy)
Putting it Together (Sunday in the Park with George)
Unusual Way (Nine)
I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady)
Cabaret (Cabaret)
All that Jazz (Chicago)
Losing My Mind (Follies)
Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music)

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Updated On: 12/8/05 at 02:59 PM

In no order:
"Being Alive" (Company)
"The Ladies Who Lunch" (Company)
"Momma Look Sharp" (1776)
"Cool, Cool, Considerate Men" (1776)
"Finale/Children Will Listen" (Into the Woods)
"Agony" (Into the Woods)
"Not While I'm Around" (Sweeney Todd)
"Something's Coming" (West Side Story)
"Try to Remember" (The Fantasticks)
"Wheels of a Dream" (Ragtime)
"Aldonza" (Man of La Mancha)
"I'm Still Here" (Follies)
"Come to Me" (Les Miserables)
"Love Changes Everything" (Aspects of Love)
"Bosom Buddies" (Mame)

"i do miracles" from kiss of the spider woman
"wedding qawwalli" from bombay dreams
"cabaret" from cabaret
"with one look" from sunset blvd.
"anything goes" from anything goes
"the worst pies in london" from sweeney todd
"children will listen" from into the woods
"finale" from wonderful town
"gimme love" from kiss of the spider woman
"say it somehow" from light in the piazza
"what you own" from rent
"no good deed" from wicked
"the lady's paying" from sunset blvd.
"color lights" from the rink
"overture" from amour
"how do you choose" from dracula
"closer than ever" from bombay dreams
"i hope you'll like it here" from woman in white
18 songs...if they fit the cd...lol

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For the most part I tried to avoid the "signature songs" from shows

In no order:
They Both Reached For the Gun - Chicago
Open a New Window - Mame
Light My Candle - Rent
They Live in You - The Lion King
Rainbow High - Evita
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd
Johanna (Act II) - Sweeney Todd
Popular - Wicked
There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This - Sweet Charity
Mr. Monotony - Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Another National Anthem - Assassins
Are You There? - Bare
Role of a Lifetime - Bare
Remarkable - Floyd Collins
The Entire Opening Sequences of Grand Hotel and Titanic
How to Succeed - H2$
There You Are - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
We Dance - Once on This Island
The Little Things You Do Together - Company
Life Is - Zorba

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