Favourite Songs from Musicals!

[Reyoru]

A thread dedicated to sharing your favourite songs from musical theatre or film!

 

I'll get us started:

 

 

 

[Reyoru]

Looks like I'm the only musicals fan here.

 

[Jeannaisais]

Or perhaps others haven't seen it yet give it time :) I would post mine but I have to think about it first lol

[Tyzack]

Off the top of my head:

 

Mr. Mistofolies (or whatever) from Cats.

 

That might/probably will change as I think more about it.

[Talya]

I have too many...I wouldn't know where to start! Although I love Joseph and this is one of my favourites from the show

 

[The Bard Babe]

OGUBVEWODUBVNO@RUhN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

 

 

SO glad this thread exists!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

You are not alone Rey, I love musicals too. A lot. A lot.

 

 

Ok, as short a list as I can manage:

 

Sorry Grateful from Company

Make 'Em Laugh from Singin In the Rain

Moses Supposes from Singin In the Rain

Do You Hear The People Sing from Les Mis

Empty Chairs At Empty Tables from Les Mis

Opening Doors from Merrily We Roll Along

We Hate To Leave from Anchors Away

Everything from White Christmas

Macavity from CATS

Notes/Prima Donna from Phantom

 

 

Argh!!!

 

Too many...and I know I've not even considered so many of them...expect this thread to be added to...copiously.

[Nyanna al'Meara]

Ooo good thread idea! =D

 

EVERYTHING from Phantom of the Opera. I am absolutely in love with that musical :P

Although gotta say...Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, and Think Of Me prolly are the top ones on my list... and The Mirror!

 

Hair!! :D ...erm:

Aquarius

Manchester England England

Black Boys/White Boys

Hair

Easy To Be Hard (AMAAAAZING, favouritest from this movie) <3

and of course Let The Sunshine In

 

Cats - Memory

 

Disney musical songs , Lion King's We Are One probably highest-ranking, though they're all epic.

 

I don't really like Rocky Horror, but gotta say... Let's Do The Timewarp Again is a great tune XD

 

SWEENEY flippin' TODD!!!!!
All of them really...best are
The Worst Pies in London

My Friends

Green Finch And Linnet Bird

Johanna

Not While I'm Around

 

Do these count as musicals?

- My latest craze is listening to the songs from Dirty Dancing over and over and over and OVERRR

She's Like The Wind... *inawe*
Hungry Eyes

Time Of My Life :P

 

- FOOTLOOSE
Footloose
Let's Hear It For The Boy

Never

 

trying to think of others I know but my nose and head are blocked :P

[cosmicpanda]

I like 'One Day More', Rey; it's one of the most complicated songs you'll find in a musical in some ways. 

 

I particularly like Cabaret (the song, not the entire show - schmexy dissonances in the version sung in the show). There are lots of good songs in Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Heaven on their Minds' (edgy ostinato) and 'Everything's Alright' (5/4 time baby!) being my particular favourites. I like the overtures to Cats and the Phantom of the Opera, but things go a bit downhill from there in both musicals. 

 

A very good one is 'Reviewing the Situation' from Oliver!, as well. 

 

[Talya]

Bard, I love those two from Singin' in the rain, also one of my fav musicals...I love good morning as well. 

[Reyoru]

You are not alone Rey, I love musicals too. A lot. A lot.

 

Great to hear :D

 

I like 'One Day More', Rey; it's one of the most complicated songs you'll find in a musical in some ways. 

 

I particularly like Cabaret (the song, not the entire show - schmexy dissonances in the version sung in the show). There are lots of good songs in Jesus Christ Superstar: 'Heaven on their Minds' (edgy ostinato) and 'Everything's Alright' (5/4 time baby!) being my particular favourites. I like the overtures to Cats and the Phantom of the Opera, but things go a bit downhill from there in both musicals. 

 

A very good one is 'Reviewing the Situation' from Oliver!, as well. 

 

 

Break it down for me maestro!

 

Jesus Christ Superstar, haven't heard some of those songs in years!

[The Bard Babe]

Sweeney Todd!!! Yes!!

 

I love My Friends and Pirelli's ooh, and A Little Priest   and I also love the Ballad of Sweeney Todd which didn't make it into the film.

 

I am sadly addicted to CATS, it was one of my childhood things, I know all of them by name and have several theories on all of their relationships. I agree the music isn't spectacular, but you can't get past the concept, the costuming and the choreography. Also, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer is awesome.   :) And anything that Munkustrap sings because he's my favourite character.  (The silver and black tabby that is the male leader that isn't the big fluffy dude: The Awesome Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles is his song)

 

Ooh, Cabaret, haven't seen it yet, but I know virtually all of the songs. I like Cabaret as well, I also like I Don't Care Much. And various others, but those are my favourites.

 

Jesus Christ Superstar...yeah, I love that one as well. Went to see it one and a half times.  XD  Got bought tickets for me and a friend for my birthday last year, so we went to see it, but in the Blood Money scene where Judas is getting beaten up, the actor actually broke his leg, so they stopped the performance and we all got free tickets to see an extra performance they put on to make up for it. 

I also missed out on seeing Jesus Christ Superstar earlier (with two of my favourite amateur actors playing Judas and Jesus) because of the QLD floods.   :/

 

Anyway, songwise, I love Everything's Alright (damn right 5/4!!   XD) and Heaven On My Mind also, rather a lot, but my favourites have to be Gethsemane and Last Supper. What's the Buzz is also pretty cool.

 

Ok, my older tastes:

 

Anchors Aweigh: The Worry Song (Gene Kelly dancing with a cartoon), I Fall In Love Too Easily (really young Frank Sinatra being all croony and adorable) and We Hate To Leave. I Begged Her is cool too.

 

On The Town: On The Town. I will re-enact that song when I get on top of the Empire State. New York New York, Modern Man, Come Back To My Place and You're Awful.   Out of all of them, You're Awful has to be my favourite. It's a love song between Frank Sinatra and Betty Garrett. Clever lyricists.  :)

 

Take Me Out To The Ballgame: O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg. Hands down. Boys and Girls Like You And Me and She's The Right Girl For Me. Also worth a listen.

 

Guys and Dolls: Oldest Established, Adelaide's Lament, Luck Be A Lady, Sue Me. Not really a fan of the Marlon Brando plot songs, but I do love hearing Marlon Brando sing and grinning.

 

 

Too many songs BB!! Shut up!

[Talya]

My guilty pleasures as far as musicals are:

 

Singin' in the rain (as said before

 

I love Calamity Jane, I could watch that one forever.

 

Evita is also a top favourite of mine I say it years back in Southampton, and thought it was brilliant.

 

I'm a big fan of Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly ( I used to dance when I was young so Gene Kelly was my hero), So I'm with Bard on On the Town, but I do enjoy Young at Heart (Frank and Doris).

[cosmicpanda]

Ah! The Producers is also good. 'I Wanna Be a Producer' and 'Springtime for Hitler' are classics.

 

 

'76 Trombones' from The Music Man is catchy too: 

 

[Nyanna al'Meara]

>.>

 

=D

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjobdArtiA

[dicetosser1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZ6PVK6mVo

 

AWESOME song and these two are the best at it!

[dicetosser1]

 and from the BESTEST musical EVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7aUAHOW6Ss

 

and my fav

 

[dicetosser1]

the Bear neccessaties

 

[dicetosser1]

and are we gonna count elvis movies?

[Talya]

I can just see you sat down with a beer and watching Mary Poppins, Dice :-D

[dicetosser1]

Bourbon but yeah I LOVE LOVE LOVE that movie!  know every word of every song!

[The Bard Babe]

XD

 

That's amazing Dice, I really was not expecting you to be a Mary Poppins fan. 

[Talya]

I have to agree..though I have watched it many times myself... >.>

[The Bard Babe]

I haven't seen it for a long while, but I do love it.   :)

[Talya]

It's usually on TV at least once a year over here...haha. Of course I don't have to watch it but it just comes on >.>

[dicetosser1]

I have it on DVD  the musical production however   or at least the CD that i got was truly horrible

 

 

 

i like bedknobs and broomsticks too

 

 

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