Any Favorite Tunes from Broadway musicals?

[+ FreshFluff]

Or from movie renditions thereof. I just stumbled across this one. Some may find the arrangement syrupy, but its theme strikes a chord with this chiquita..

 

 

I had seen Leonard Frey in the Boys in the Band, but I never would have recognized him here.

[gallahadesquire]

Or from movie renditions thereof. I just stumbled across this one. Some may find the arrangement syrupy, but its theme strikes a chord with this chiquita..

 

 

I had seen Leonard Frey in the Boys in the Band, but I never would have recognized him here.

 

HONEY! You're asking a bunch of Gay Guys what their favourite showtunes are? Yousa!

For me: Music Man: The quartet [top tenor]; Good Night, My Someone / Lyda Rose

Charlie's Aunt: The New Ashmolian Marching Society and Student's Conservatory Band

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: I play it the company way

ALL of Cabaret, but especially "Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!"

 

I've had a sheltered life

[+ Oliver]

"Wicked"

 

Anything from Wicked, but especially Defying Gravity!

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

From Jekyll & Hyde I like This is the Moment and from Mack & Mabel, Time Heals Anything

[healthguy]

Every song from, "The Sound of Music."

[adriano46]

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[TD]Aside from some of the classics most know, here are some I have always enjoyed, although somwehat eclectic

 

Rosiland Russell in WONDERFUL TOWN trying to sing...

 

Diahann Carroll and Rochard Kiley in "NO STRINGS"

 

Look No Further

 

No Strings

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Richard Kiley in "MAN OF LA MANCHA"

 

The Impossible Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efek-sot1l8

 

 

"OKLAHOMA"

 

Oh what a beautiful mornin'"

 

People will say we're in Love!

 

CAROUSEL

 

Reprise of Mr. Snow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc76Z-DSTdg&feature=related

 

You'll Never Walk Alone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDb7YnRNxug

 

CAMELOT

 

C'est Moi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgnwSpnJxxM

 

If ever I would leave you

 

What do the Simple Flks do? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RZrsHuA6Q

 

FLOWER DRUM SONG

 

A Hundred Million Miracles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSr__1s5KU&feature=related

 

Chop Suey!

 

I could go on all night with this, as I have seen (or bought the soundtrack) for nearly every muscial from 1940-1990 and then some.

[+ FreshFluff]

HONEY! You're asking a bunch of Gay Guys what their favourite showtunes are? Yousa!

 

What could be less gay than Fiddler on the Roof? (I await the clever retorts to this one.)

[LurkerSpeaks]

where to begin...

 

From Funny Girl--Don't rain on my parade

 

From Gypsy--It's Rose's Turn, You gotta have a gimmick

 

From Evita--Don't cry for me, Argentina

 

From La cage Au Folles--I am what I am....

 

From Rent--Seasons of Love

 

From Chicago--And all that Jazz

 

From Hairspray--Good Morning Baltimore

[+ purplekow]

Avenue Q Fine fine Line and It sucks to be me

Dreamgirls And I am Telling you

Jeckyll and Hyde If Someone Like You

Scarlett Pimpernel Miss Guillotine

West Side Story Officer Krupke

 

Just a few that I doubt anyone else will mention.

[dapurplebear]

Also from mack and mabel - I promise you a happy ending... I am an optimist and a beautiful lyric....

[leigh.bess.toad]

Gallahadsquire is absolutely right. You’re asking a bunch of gay boys if they have any favorite tunes from a Broadway show? You might as well ask a pride of ravenous lions if they’d like the all you can eat buffet. This could go on FOREVER.

 

Probably my two favorite shows are Pippin and Company. Almost any song from either, but especially With You, No Time At All, Corner of the Sky, and Extraordinary from Pippin and Not Getting Married Today and Being Alive from Company.

 

So many others, most of which I’ve done at karaoke. And several of which I’m planning on for karaoke in Palm Springs. In alphabetic order, by show:

 

A Little Night Music: Send in the Clowns

Ballroom: Fifty Percent

Cats: Memory

Chorus Line: What I Did For Love

Jekyll and Hyde: Bring on the Men (definitely on the schedule for PS)

Les Miserables: Bring Him Home (the theme song from last year’s PS trip), Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, and Stars

Mack and Mabel: Time Heals Everything

Man of LaMancha: Impossible Dream

Merrily We Roll Along: Not a Day Goes By

Song And Dance: Unexpected Song

Wicked: Defying Gravity and For Good -

 

And actually, a new one. Not from Broadway. Not yet anyway. From SMASH -- Let Me Be Your Star.

 

One of my best memories from last year’s Palm Springs event was our trip to Spurline, a gay bar devoted to videos of Broadway and movie show tunes (where we will be returning Friday night this year). I think I was the only one to witness this. Everyone else had left or was on the patio talking. I walked into the bar area where they had Olivia Newton-John doing Xanadu. Every guy in the place (and it was packed) was waving their white cocktail napkins in the air, singing along at the top of their lungs. As it got to the end of the song, everyone in the room threw their napkin in the air, so it was raining white cocktail napkins. That may have been the single gayest thing I have ever seen. And watching the video, I can see why.

 

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Great thread, Freshfluff. Thanks!

[J-Man]

Follies: "Losing My Mind", "Broadway Baby," "I'm Still Here"

Company: "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," "Getting Married Today"

Hair: "Where Do I Go?"

Rent: "Seasons of Love", "Santa Fe"

South Pacific: "This Nearly Was Mine"

Merrily We Roll Along: "Opening Doors", "Old Friends"

West Side Story: "Gee Officer Krupke," "Tonight"

Gypsy: "Mr. Goldstone," "Together"

The Full Monty: "Breeze Off the River," "You Walk With Me"

Little Shop of Horrors: "Suddenly Seymour", "Somewhere That's Green", "Dentist"

 

too many more to think of right now ...

[Samai139]

Man of La Mancha: The Impossible Dream

West Side Story: Tonight

The Sound of Music: Climb Every Mountain, and most of the others, except The Lonely Goatherd

My Fair Lady: Ascot Opening Day, I'm Getting Married in the Morning, On the Street Where you Live, oh s--t All the songs

Guys and Dolls: Luck Be a Lady Tonight

The Music Man: Sweet Dreams, Seventy Six Trombones,

Oklahoma: The Surrey With the Fringe on Top, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy( not sure if that's the real title?)

 

So many others, thanks for starting this thread--brought back lots of memories---some good, some not so much.

[J-Man]

I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy( not sure if that's the real title?)

From "South Pacific," not "Oklahoma."

[J-Man]

Charlie's Aunt: The New Ashmolian Marching Society and Student's Conservatory Band

The "straight" (you should pardon the expression) play is "Charley's Aunt;" the musical is called "Where's Charley?"

[+ FreshFluff]

In this area, my taste is pretty mainstream:

 

Chorus Line: Dance 10, Looks 3

Rent: Seasons of Love

Producers: Springtime for Hitler

My Fair Lady in general

 

BTW, I had a chance to see the mid-90s revival of Fiddler on the Roof in London, starring the original Tevye, Chaim Topol. Maybe that's why I still enjoy it.

[gallahadesquire]

Help!

 

The "straight" (you should pardon the expression) play is "Charley's Aunt;" the musical is called "Where's Charley?"

 

I knew that. Insufficient coffee.

 

One of my best memories from last year’s Palm Springs event was our trip to Spurline, a gay bar devoted to videos of Broadway and movie show tunes (where we will be returning Friday night this year). I think I was the only one to witness this. Everyone else had left or was on the patio talking. I walked into the bar area where they had Olivia Newton-John doing Xanadu. Every guy in the place (and it was packed) was waving their white cocktail napkins in the air, singing along at the top of their lungs. As it got to the end of the song, everyone in the room threw their napkin in the air, so it was raining white cocktail napkins. That may have been the single gayest thing I have ever seen. And watching the video, I can see why.

 

Would SOMEONE explain this video to me?

[dannyboynyc]

Hairspray - You Can't Stop the Beat

Mame - It's Today, Open a New Window, Mame, Bosom Buddies (the **BEST** bitch slap song ever!!)

La Cage Au Folles - I Am What I Am

Chorus Line - Dance 10 Looks 3

West Side Story - America

[bostonman]

I had a chance to see the mid-90s revival of Fiddler on the Roof in London, starring the original Tevye, Chaim Topol. Maybe that's why I still enjoy it.

 

Topol was not the original Tevye. That was Zero Mostel. (Topol did the film.)

[bostonman]

I work in the biz (musical director/pianist/vocal coach/arranger), and I have a hard time playing favorites, so i thought I'd suggest a few "dark horse" faves of mine that I can be pretty sure no one else will mention, lol

 

"Lonely Room" from Oklahoma (Jud's song, much darker than anything else in the show)

 

"The Gentleman Is A Dope" from Allegro (another rather atypically edgy Rodgers and Hammerstein song from one of their less successful shows)

 

"I'm Only Thinking Of Him" from Man Of La Mancha (a wonderful trio sung by 3 of the supporting characters)

 

"Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True" from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (a beautiful, jazz-standard type ballad in the middle of David Yazbek's rollicking, inventive score)

 

"With So Little To Be Sure Of" from Anyone Can Whistle (an achingly beautiful duet about an unresolved romance, in Sondheim's early flop)

 

"Sounds While Selling" from She Loves Me (this show, by Harnick and Bock of Fiddler On The Roof fame, is a hidden gem known to theatre lovers but not really to the mainstream - it has a huge number of incredible songs, including the title number. The song I mentioned is one of those very funny "coup de theatre" pieces, where three conversations, between 3 parfumerie clerks and their customers, are heard in piecemeal bits linked together, resulting in such fun nonsense as "I would like an eyebrow / under my / chin")

 

"Monica And Mark" from Elegies - this show is a song cycle by William Finn, all the songs dealing with death in some way, from surprisingly funny songs to cathartic ballads. This song tells the story of two of Finn's friends, one who died of AIDS and one who died of cancer. The song eventually explains how he came to write the next song in the cycle, the moving "Anytime," which has become a sort of modern Broadway/cabaret standard in in its own right.

 

"I Wish I Could Forget You" from Passion - this dark song about an unrequited obsession is the centerpiece of the show.

 

"The Boy From..." from The Mad Show - lyrics by Sondheim, music by Mary Rodgers - a wickedly funny sort-of parody of "The Girl From Ipanema," complete with long, almost-unpronounceable foreign place names (the Spanish one is made up, but the Welsh one is real).

 

"Why Can't I?" by Rodgers and Hart - my favorite song by the Tin-Pan-Alley team - Hart wrote a number of famous melancholy songs, but this one is one of his best, tinged with a sexual longing which can also be heard in Rodgers' aching melody.

 

And that's only a few off the top of my head...;-)

[jjkrkwood]

I wouldnt b GAY if I didnt pick "Memory" from Cats.... Love that song, so haunting....

[Phil_musc]

A few come to mind:

 

Anyone Can Whistle

Meadowlark (from The Baker's Wife)

So In Love (Kiss Me, Kate)

The entire musical score of A Little Night Music (great musical)

Ditto Sweet Charity

Who Ar You Now & The Music That Makes Me Dance & People - all from Funny Girl

Marry Me A Little (added to the revival of Company)

[Guest countryboywny]

Anything from Phantom of the Opera (especially "All I ask of you")

The Sound of Music - Climb every Mountain

[+ WilliamM]

Oklahoma: The Surrey With the Fringe on Top, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy( not sure if that's the real title?)

 

Odd side note: Yes, Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote "I'm in Love with a Wondererful Guy" specifically for Mary Martin in "South Pacific."

 

Just a few years earlier, Martin turned down the female lead in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma"

because of a previous commitment to another musical that never made it to Broadway.

 

But Martin did say yes to Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music," so the story ends well except for that pesky "Lonely Goatherd."

[bootdad]

I can't begin to express my joy/happiness/glee over this bountiful range of excellent favourite tunes from Broadway - hardly an exhaustive list but and exceptional beginning.

BUT NOW the BIG question ???

What was the average age of the respondent to this thread ... I get the feeling that the average gay geek or escort for that matter between 20 and 30 years of age (maybe as high as 35) has very few of these pieces of music on their playlist - and what is your thought on this kids ???