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kick ass female ballads? :)
#25re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 5:54pm
BAct to Before from Ragtime
There's a Fine Fine Line from Avenue Q
The Human Heart from Once on This Island
Home from the Wiz
Now When the Rain Falls or When I Look at you from the Scarlet Pimpernel
A New Life from J&H
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#26re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 9:50pmHow about Someone to Watch Over Me? Gershwin- Crazy for You
I'm a Thespian, wanna watch?
#27re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:14pmThe only song I like from Scarlett Pimp. is "Don't be afraid it's only love"
#28re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 11:34pm
There are so many good ones...I'm kind of in the same boat as you, except sort of the opposite. I can find ballads no problem it's just the up-tempo that I find difficult.
Here's what I think for ballads... (These are all mostly Mezzo-Soprano....So you have some belting in there too)
I know the truth (Aida)
gimme Gimme (Millie)
Daddy's Son (Ragtime)
Stars and the Moom (Songs for a new World)
and maybe
In My own Little Corner (Cinderella) That one's kind of on the border between ballad and up-tempo i think.
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#29re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 1/23/05 at 1:12amsomeone to watch over me, awesome song, timings hard to get at first (if you've never seen it before) great range in the song 4 a sop! Good luck!
#30re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:12am
i know this thread is a bit old, but i was wondering if anyone had any more ideas for a ballad for a teenage girl? a lot of these suggestions are really good, but many of them are for older women.
any more ideas?
#31re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:14amBewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered...
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#32re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:16amHe's Good For me from SEESAW
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#33re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:19am
"Somewhere Thats Green": Little Shop of Horrors
"Gimmie, Gimmie": Millie
"No Good Deed": Wicked
"If I Were A Bell" or "Adelaide's Lament": Guys and Dolls
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#34re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/5/05 at 12:17pm
Meadowlark!! hands down!
Also The Story Goes On from Baby
Much More from The Fantastiks
God Help the Outcasts
People from Funny Girl
A Piece of Sky from Yentl
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#35re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/5/05 at 2:01pm
cabaret- cabaret
gimme gimme- millie
fine, fine, line- ave q
no good deed- wicked
and i am telling you- dreamgirls
ETA: rose's turn- gypsy
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#36re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/5/05 at 2:10pm
Think of me -Phantom
Don't Cry for Me Argentina -Evita
So In love -Kiss Me kate
Why Can't you behave -Kiss Me kate
Your daddy's son -Ragtime
After the Ball -Show Boat (more up temp though)
Can't Help Lovin Dat man Of mine -Show Boat
Look for the Silver Lining -Sally
But Not for Me -Girl Crazy
I hope this helps! Good Luck!
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#37re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/5/05 at 2:14pm
If you want a good legit piece since "I Know Things Now" isn't very legit you could go with "I'll Know" from Guys and Dolls. That's got a great range and really can showcase your voice. Also look at "My White Knight" from Music Man. Try to stay away from Jason Robert Brown music, not because it's bad (because it's amazing) but a lot of accompanists don't want to sight-read his music and a lot of the stuff from The Last 5 Years is not easy to play. Also, look for stuff that people don't perform often like "Gimme Gimme," anything from "Wicked," "Unexpected Song" etc. 
Good luck!!
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#38re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/5/05 at 5:47pm
There are so many in WICKED (The Wizard and I, Defying Gravity, Popular, No Good Deed, For Good (duet but can be sung solo), and Im Not That Girl).
All That Jazz
When Youve Got It (Flaunt It)
Once Upon A Time (music not available I dont think)
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#39re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 12:21pm
My Husband Makes Movies ~ Nine
Goodbye Until Tomorrow ~ The Last 5 Years
Still Hurting ~ The Last 5 Years
On My Own ~ Les Miserables
Fine, Fine Line ~ Avenue Q
Love Changes Everything ~ Aspects of Love
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
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#40re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 12:27pm
I agree with "Astonishing" from Little Women, I hope the sheet music becomes available for that soon.
"Hold On" from the Secret Garden is soooo beautiful! I heart that song! It's a great woman song or "How Could I Ever Know" is good too.
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
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#41re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 2:56pmEveryone in my area has been singing "Wicked". Don't do it. If you need a piece, look into the old Rodgers and Hart music. Perfect for teens (hello, I am one!)and are simple to sight read. Good luck!
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#42re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 2:58pmOh yes, and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered... but I think someone said that already. I adoooooooore that song!
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#43re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:24pm
IN HIS EYES - Jekyll and Hyde, plus pretty much any other female song from that show.
But Not For Me -Crazy For You/Girl Crazy
Meadowlark - The Baker's Wife
A Change In Me - Beauty and the BEast
I Don't Want To Know - Can't remember the actual show, heard it for the first time of Jerry's Girls soundtrack.
The Music That Makes Me Dance - Funny Girl
The Story Goes On - Baby, The Musical
Time Heals Everything - Mack and Mabel
Come to Your Senses - Tick, Tick, Boom!
No Man Left For Me - The Will Rogers Follies
Poor Little Hollywood Star - Little Me
ok that's enough for now
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#44re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:54pm
"With One Look" from SUNSET BOULEVARD
"How Many Tears" from MARTIN GUERRE
"The Money Tree" from THE ACT
"Bill" from SHOW BOAT
#45re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 5:12pm
I am listening to Gimme gimme right now, but I think it is more of a Torch song then a Ballad.
My fav ballad of all time is Meadowlark.
#46re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 5:21pm
People've said it already, but "Fine Fine Line" from Avenue Q...
They're not kick-ass per sey, but I love "All Grown Up" and "Touch My Soul" and "A Quiet Night At Home" from Bare: A Pop Opera...
"I'm Still Hurting" from TL5Y..but I don't know if that would be considered a ballad..
Actually all my songs, minus FFL, I don't think would be considered ballads..
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#47re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 5:49pm"only he" from the original starlight express is my personal favorite although it's mad hard to find the sheet music
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#48re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 5:53pmA New Life from Jekyll and Hyde... gotta love Lucy!
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#49re: kick ass female ballads? :)
Posted: 3/7/05 at 7:30pmIn college they tell us to never sing songs from LES MISERABLES or PHANTOM OF THE OPERA for auditions. They're overdone and boring.
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