most overdone song
most overdone song
#0most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 8:49pm
Okay, I'm taking inspiration from the thread about overdone musicals, so what are the most overdone songs?
The biggest one is:
On my Own (much as I love the song EVERYONE does it)
So what do you think?
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#1re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 8:52pm
On My Own
I Dreamed A Dream
Memory
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#2re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:03pm
I Cain't Say No
My Favorite Things
Part of your World
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:04pmon my own, i dreamed a dream, popular, defying gravity, corner of the sky, gimme gimme
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#5re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:05pm
On My Own. If you walk down the hall of my school, you can hear fifty different people singing it at the same time.
Also all the new stuff from Millie, Aida, Urinetown, and Wicked. And the movie of Chicago sparked the use of All That Jazz again...
I'm curious, what do people here think about women singing I Am What I Am from La Cage? I heard a girl perform it for her senior recital a few weeks ago but didn't know much about the song until I saw it in La Cage the other day. I'm still trying to make up my mind up as to how I feel about it.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#6re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:36pmOn My Own and anything from Wicked. Some of Rent is overdone but not horribly overdone. And where I go, Millie isn't too overdone.
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#7re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:39pmI'm not sure what's horribly overdone, but for my one HS audition, a lot of my chorus friends told me not to do Disney.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
#8re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:40pmON My Own, Part of Your World, and at my school everyone seems to think its the coolest thing to sing Over The rainbow its quite sad because no one but me and Danny are into Bway at my school and yet they think they know aaall about Judy garland haha yeahhh right
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#9re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:49pmWould you consider 'I Believe In You' from H2$ overdone?
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#10re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:51pmSend In The Clowns
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#11re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:52pm
Memory (Cats)
We are doing Les Mis this year, so On My Own... is definitely being overdone
as for the newer musicals (aka Wicked, Aida... which I know is not new, and it is over)... we haven't reached there yet
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#12re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:52pmI think we've all heard our fair share of teenage girl trios butcher 'Matchmaker'
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#13re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:54pm
"I think we've all heard our fair share of teenage girl trios butcher 'Matchmaker' "
oh god yes! the sad thing is the girls in my school cant sing (not to be mean) so they totally destory it even more
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#14re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:55pm"Corner of the Sky"
JOHN LITHGOW
I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
#15re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:56pmWhat I Did For Love. I had a friend who was involved in casting. He told me that as soon as he and his colleagues heard the line, "Kiss today goodbye...," they would sing quietly to each other, "Kiss the role goodbye...."
"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#16re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:02pmI think the idea of girls singing "I Am What I Am" is good, as long as they can do it justice. Linda Eder does an amazing job with it.
#17re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:07pmIf I never hear a singer earnestly pour herself into 'Meadowlark' again be it in concert or on record I'll be a very happy person.
junglered
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
BlueEyedKate
Understudy Joined: 10/26/04
#19re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:52pm
Hmmm...
Definitely agree with 'On My Own' - although the theme of loving someone from afar while he loves someone else is a theme that runs through many, many adolescent girls (at the very least, in their minds).
'Gimme Gimme' - definitely done alot as of late, and done rather poorly
'Popular' - of all the overdone songs, I think this is one that is overdone, and overdone very poorly
'Defying Gravity' - see 'On My Own' - the theme that applies here is the idea of being held down, blah blah blah
'Memory'
'I Dreamed a Dream' - to a lesser extent
'Think of Me'
'Seasons of Love' - overdone by choruses
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#20re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/22/04 at 3:03am
"'Seasons of Love' - overdone by choruses"
Just adding some meaningless info, but whenever I used it to audition, barely anyone knew what the song was or where it was from. Interestingly, our superintendent used it in her speech for commencement (resulting in me, sitting in plain view of everyone, almost falling out of my chair).
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#21re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/22/04 at 3:06am
On My Own. Oh My God. No more. No more.
What do you guys mean by "overdone"? Like overhyped, or overused at auditions?
Oh yeah, like, anything from POTO.
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
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"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#22re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/22/04 at 3:07amTiff, I asked you a question in the 3 greatest songs in broadway...... thread.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#23re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/22/04 at 7:48amOn My Own has to be number one. I haven't heard anyone do Memory or What I Did For Love in over ten years, so maybe it was overdone a long time ago, but I think most people have wised up. What I do hear at nearly every audition is Anthem from Chess, Maria from West Side Story and One Song Glory from Rent. Tenors really need to find some imagination.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#24re: most overdone song
Posted: 11/22/04 at 7:55am
Lea Salonga sang ON MY OWN for her audition song for MISS SAIGON. Little did she know that she would actually be singing that song onstage years later.
Colm Wilkinson was supposed to have sung ANTHEM when he auditioned for LES MISERABLES.
Have many sung THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM too often, too?
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