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The best Broadway songs of all time
TimeOut ^ | 3/29/24 | Adam Feldman & David CoteContributors Raven Snook, James Gavin & Rob Weinert-Kendt

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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To: stanne

PBS is premiering a show tonight at 9 PM Eastern on the 80th anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein.


21 posted on 05/31/2024 3:10:39 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: DallasBiff

Blakes 7 - Comedy Tonight - Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
https://youtu.be/WA5OaVFePbU

Harry Potter - One Night in Bangkok - Chess
https://youtu.be/lunoNtBjv_E

Sherlock Holmes - Arbiter - Chess
https://youtu.be/uS1x6kug6qM

Lord of the Rings - I Like Fighting - Shenendoah
https://youtu.be/E3Y05CyjLVY


22 posted on 05/31/2024 3:11:03 PM PDT by mairdie (Trump Impeachment Memes - Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar https://youtu.be/eQG6liOA4wM)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I like Mad Magazine’s parodies in “Manny Get Your Ghoul”


23 posted on 05/31/2024 3:11:03 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: TBP

Ooh. Ok


24 posted on 05/31/2024 3:13:04 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne
You mention Lerner and Loewe. They did hte score for Gigi. Loewe ultimately retired and went back to Germany. Lerner kept writing with other composers, such as Burton Lane, with whom he wrote On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

Eventually, a producer decided to do a stage version of Gigi and wanted a new song. But again, Loewe was retired.

Lerner got on a plane, went to Germany, went to Loewe's house, told him tehy needed a new song.

"I'm retired," said Loewe. But Lerner wouldn't leave until they wrote the song. Then Loewe went back into retirement.

25 posted on 05/31/2024 3:14:23 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“Oklahoma” became their state song, and their license plates quote Hammerstein: “Oklahoma is OK.”


26 posted on 05/31/2024 3:15:28 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: DallasBiff

Egads.

“Summertime” is just two spots ahead of “Memory”?!?

Anything from Sunday in the Park with George is on the list at all, let alone in the top 5?!?

“Ol’ Man River” is bested by “Rose’s Turn”?

Better no list at all than this travesty.


27 posted on 05/31/2024 3:16:08 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: dfwgator

A Rivers Just a River


28 posted on 05/31/2024 3:16:34 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Varsity Flight

Yes, a great song from a great show. Greasepaint has about 6 or 7 great ones. The Beautiful Land, Feeling Good, and others.

I met Newley once outside the Shubert Theatre after a performance of The Roar of the Greasepaint — The Smell of the Crowd, which he co-wrote, directed, and starred in.


29 posted on 05/31/2024 3:17:20 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Buttons12

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...

Sondheim
Rogers an Hammerstein
Loewe
R&H
Merideth Wilson- the music man is so brilliant. They all are
Loewe
Fiddler is Jerry Bock.
R&H
R&H


30 posted on 05/31/2024 3:18:10 PM PDT by stanne
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To: mairdie

Being Alive from Company

(And if you want to hear a dead-on description of marriage, listen to Sorry Grateful from Company.)


31 posted on 05/31/2024 3:18:32 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

Sweet


32 posted on 05/31/2024 3:19:30 PM PDT by stanne
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To: DallasBiff

yes, how’s JCS not on this list?


33 posted on 05/31/2024 3:21:42 PM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s from the movie, but “Love Power” from The Producers with Dick Shawn.


34 posted on 05/31/2024 3:24:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

And The Money Kept Rolling In (And Out) from “Evita”


35 posted on 05/31/2024 3:26:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

We agree. If I Love You from Carousel sung by Gordon McRae is just beautiful. No doubt my favorite musical of all time.


36 posted on 05/31/2024 3:29:57 PM PDT by animal172 (This ain't the country I grew up in.)
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To: DallasBiff
From "Man of La Mancha" ...

I, Don Quixote

The Impossible Dream

The Impossible Dream - Jim Nabors/Gomer Pyle

37 posted on 05/31/2024 3:41:40 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: DallasBiff

“Memory” from Cats isn’t in the top ten?


38 posted on 05/31/2024 3:45:52 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: DallasBiff

My sister and I text each other with ‘The Song of the Day’ and last week one of my picks was ‘Everything’s Coming Up Roses’ from ‘Gypsy,’ - the Ethyl Merman edition. :)

I love ALL the songs from ‘Oklahoma!’ I can sing them all; just ask, LOL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH2X8Q15hZY&list=PL95E432620C1FC872

Faves:

‘People Will Say We’re in Love’
‘Many a New Day’
‘I Cain’t Say No’


39 posted on 05/31/2024 4:13:27 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: animal172

I need to proofread my posts just a little better. It’s “If I Loved You”.


40 posted on 05/31/2024 4:19:18 PM PDT by animal172 (This ain't the country I grew up in.)
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