And Spaceballs...
Posted on 05/31/2024 2:39:39 PM PDT by DallasBiff
1. “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy (1959)
Throughout Gypsy, Mama Rose has pushed her children to be stars, even if it meant pushing them away from her. But in the show’s shattering climactic number, she finally takes center stage herself, if only in her mind. Built from fragments of prior songs in Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim’s classic score, this musical nervous breakdown—created by Sondheim and director Jerome Robbins in an inspired three-hour improvisation—takes Rose apart and reassembles the pieces into a sad and scary portrait of thwarted drive; the strenuous optimism of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” her first-act finale, twists into the unquenchable need of “everything coming up Rose’s.” It’s a feast for actors; no wonder the top leading ladies of their generations, from Ethel Merman and Angela Lansbury through Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone, have yearned to take their turns at it. As often as it’s been wrung out, the song remains inexhaustible.—Adam Feldma.
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“Annie Get Your Gun- Anything you can do I can do better”
Definitely songs from phantom of the opera.
I vote for “The Music of the Night” from The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Godspell had a few good tunes too...
“Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables, always reduces me to a bawling mess.
Some good ones there, although I might not agree on the order. There were quite a few I havent heard of, because my exposure to Broadway tunes dropped off some time in the twentieth century.
https://youtu.be/BAIlVCStp3c
Singing Frog Hello My Baby, Hello My Honey Looney Tunes One Froggy Evening (1955).
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Lerner
Loewe
Cole Porter
Irving Berlin (Annie Get Your Gun)
The Gershwins
Mercer
And Spaceballs...
Suddenly Seymour should have been higher on the list
,Somewhere, A Place For Us” and “I Want To Live In America” from West Side Story
An impossible question, given West Side Story, South Pacific, Showboat, Camelot, Oklahoma, Music Man, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music, The King and I...
I think I would go for “If I Loved You” in Carousel. Fantastic way to close out Act I.
Runner-up, “Oklahoma!”, which is a great finale that everyone can sing.
Good choices, mostly, but a lot of great ones missing.
Especially “All I Ask of You”
“Who Can I Turn To”
The Roar of the Grease Paint
-—Anthony Newly
What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line
Love Changes Everything from Aspects of Love
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