showtunes about death

[chewy5000]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 3:28am

My friend recently just murdered his wife. Any good showtunes you can suggest to me so I can send to their kids to cheer them up? Thank you so much!

[bluetuna]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 3:38am

Well, "It Sucks to be Me" would be fitting for the children...

Showtunes about death, though...
*"Every Day a Little Death" - "A Little Night Music"
*"Come to Me" and "A Little Fall of Rain" - "Les Miserables"
*"She is a Diamond", "Eva's Final Broadcast", and "Montage - Lament" - "Evita"
*"Alabanza" and "Everything I Know" - "In the Heights"
*"No One is Alone" - "Into the Woods"
*"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" and "Goodbye Love" - "Rent"

Good luck!

Updated On: 10/20/10 at 03:38 AM

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 3:50am

(It's a) Hard Knock Life

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 8:13am

You Walk With Me, from The Full Monty
You'll Never Walk Alone, from Carousel
For Good, from Wicked

[Lady_Fluff]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 9:36am

You Gotta Die Sometime from Falsettos
The entirety of William Finn's Elegies
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

[WestVillage]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 10:14am

an obscure one: Hey Girlie from Two By Two

also Tell Me Its Not True from Blood Brothers
Updated On: 10/20/10 at 10:14 AM

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 10:20am

Death is just around the Corner- Addams Family

[StageManager2]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:18am

"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" -- PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

[Jon]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:36am

"That's Your Funeral" - OLIVER

"Suicide Song" - ARCHY & MEHITABEL

"Elephant Song" - 70 GIRLS 70

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:46am

I am assuming the OP is joking! (I hope!)

"It's Such A Great Night For A Murder" - Stop! You're Killing me!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 4:05pm

Murder, Murder from Jekyll & Hyde

[BroadwayBound115]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 5:10pm

Jacques Brel has a ton of songs about death.

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 5:20pm

Pore Jud Is Daid from Oklahoma!

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 5:22pm

Sorry to threadjack, but "Every Day A Little Death" isn't about death...

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 5:26pm

But it has "death" in the title. It totes counts. And, yes, I said totes.

[darquegk]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 5:42pm

The Spirit Carries On, from the rock opera "Scenes from a Memory."

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 6:40pm

I don't think that having 'death' in the title makes a song ABOUT death.

The song has nothing to do with death whatsoever. Is there death? Yes, but death of the spirit, of the heart, of love.

[notabb]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 7:42pm

The Crow from ZORBA ,...what doesn't die.never was born
Updated On: 10/20/10 at 07:42 PM

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 8:07pm

Piggybacking on what BrodwayBound said, "My Death" by Jacques Brel (featured in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris) is an amazing song, especially as sung by Natacia Diaz on the revival cast recording. David Bowie also did a cool cover of it.

[bluetuna]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 9:32pm

That was the point in including it, theatretrash. The OP never requested that they be about death in literal terms.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 9:38pm

I thought "Everyday a Little Death" was about sex? Aren't they having it in the parlor and the curtains and the bread?

Updated On: 5/7/19 at 09:38 PM

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 9:39pm

Am I the only person reading the title of this thread?

"showtunes ABOUT death"

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 10/20/10 at 10:37pm

'Til We Reach That Day Ragtime

[Bubba2]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 11:30am

Hey Chewy, you should pick better friends first of all. I am very partial to How Glory Goes from Floyd Collins. I don't think it'll cheer anyone up but it's beautiful.

[Jon]

Posted: 10/21/10 at 2:33pm

"The Woman's Dead" - CURTAINS

"You Were Dead, You Know" - CANDIDE