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Popular Broadway Songs [Youtbe Clips]

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Can anybody suggest to me some popular broadway songs? I must admit I'm not really a fan from the start but I got to hear some tracks from youtube and now I'm hooked :p I guess music taste changes over time :rofl:

I'm currently listening to Glenn Close's rendition of Send in the Clowns

 

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There is a splendid collection of clips from the BBC London Prom concert in honour of Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday which I think the clip you enjoyed came from.
 

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The Internet is for Porn from Avenue Q



Who says Broadway isn't relevant? ;)
 
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Hey There - Pyjama Game

Beautiful cover by Harry Connick Jnr

 

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You can listen to the following songs

- Phantom of the opera, Music of the night, All I ask of you - Phantom of the opera
- As if we never say goodbye, With one look - Sunset boulevard
- I have dream - The King and I
- Don't cry for me Argentina - Evita
- Memory - Cats

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I second Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera. Also For Good from Wicked with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. And how could I forget Colm Wilkinson's version of Bring Him Home from Les Miserables?
 
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... And how could I forget Colm Wilkinson's version of Bring Him Home from Les Miserables?

I don't think I've ever wept so much in the Theater as when I heard Colm Wilkinson sing that. Currently I love listening to Alfie Boe from the 25th Anniversary recording.

It reminds me of the story of Colm stepping up to the rehearsal piano to sing the song in front of the cast for the first time. Everyone was speechless. Director Trevor Nunn broke the silence saying "I told you we would bring God into this story."

"Yes", said one of the cast members. "But you didn't tell us you had employed Him to sing it!"


 

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I enjoy Stephen Sondheim's wit and structure. I couldn't imagine, though, trying to sing some of his rhymes in those quick cadences! He did lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy; music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and much more. (Wow! I'd really forgotten how much he'd done, the great talents he worked with and how many of his works are now considered "standards.")

One of my favorites by him is the entire score of "Into the Woods" -- billed as the "true" story behind all the fairy tales. How could we go wrong with Bernadette Peters as The Witch and Joanna Gleason as The Baker's Wife? (Joanna is also the daughter of Monty Hall, of TV's "Let's Make a Deal" fame!) Lots of humor in there and some rip-your-heart-out pieces, too.
 

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I enjoy Stephen Sondheim's wit and structure. I couldn't imagine, though, trying to sing some of his rhymes in those quick cadences! ... One of my favorites by him is the entire score of Into the Woods -- billed as the "true" story behind all the fairy tales. ..

Stephen Sondheim just published the second part of his take on his work (focusing on his lyrics), Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany. It includes a commentary on all of his songs from Into The Woods.




And speaking of tounge-twisting lyrics - here is Sondheim at his most sadistic: Getting Married Today from Company. This version is sung by Madeline Kahn.

 
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On Pandora radio you can create different playlists, connecting various Broadway shows. Type in subjects like "Stephen Sondheim", "Rodgers & Hammerstein" or any other combo.

You'll get to hear a wide sample of Broadway at it's best.
 

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Hi bud,

You have to try "West Side Story" of my so loved Leonard "Lenny" Bernstein.
All the numbers from it are pure fun and energy e.g. "America" or "Maria"

This piece is maybe the mother of musical!!

Lenny is magic and I'm sure he will be forever(unfortunately he is no longer with us as he died in 1990 :( )
 
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Hi bud,

You have to try "West Side Story" of my so loved Leonard "Lenny" Bernstein.
All the numbers from it are pure fun and energy e.g. "America" or "Maria"

This piece is maybe the mother of musical!!

Lenny is magic and I'm sure he will be forever(unfortunately he is no longer with us as he died in 1990 :( )

I totally agree with you on this, but please give credit to Stephen Sondheim for the lyrics.
 

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I totally agree with you on this, but please give credit to Stephen Sondheim for the lyrics.


Yeah, sure I will :heart: But please understand me, in case of Lenny I am so deeply moved all the time when I see him conducting or listen to his recordings.

He even made a recording of West Side Story, maybe this is interesting for -Stoic-

The singers there were so marvellous and I think when a composer conducts and records his own works it is always a magic moment isn't it?
 
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He even made a recording of West Side Story, maybe this is interesting for -Stoic-

The singers there were so marvellous and I think when a composer conducts and records his own works it is always a magic moment isn't it?

Are you on about the version he done with Jose Carreras and Kiri te Kanawa?
Very interesting making of documentary.
 

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Broadway Musicals

stoic, you have a huge treasury of music to explore. Don't limit yourself to the last ten or fifteen years. Check out some of these.

*George and Ira Gershwin. Many of the shows they wrote songs for are forgettable but the songs aren't. Songs like "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch over Me."

Their magnum opus was surely "Porgy and Bess" which was written as an opera but is usually performed nowadays as a musical. George also wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" and an "America in Paris." He even wrote a great piano concerto.

Check out the film " Funny Face" with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.

Tragically he died at the age of 38.

*Jerome Kern. Again, many of the shows he contributed to are best forgotten. "Showboat," however, is one of the classics of the American theater. It had not only great music but dealt with interracial marriage long before the civil rights era. This was in1927!

His songs were nominate 7 times for Oscars and won twice.

*Cole Porter. The wittiest man to come from Peru, Indiana. Yet again, many of the shows he wrote for have died. Let them rest in peace. A few, however, are worth noting. "Can Can", "Silk Stockings", "High Society" and, especially "Kiss Me Kate." All of these have been filmed.

There have been two movie biographies. One with Cary Grant which blithely ignored the fact that Porter was gay. "De-Lovely" with Kevin Kline was a dreary film but had a scene with gay overtones where Porter (Kline) teaches John Barrowman to sing "Night and Day." You can find the scene on You Tube.

*Richard Rodgers. Wrote hundreds of songs for over 40 shows, first with Larry Hart and later with Oscar Hammerstein.

Larry Hart was every bit as sophisticated and witty as Cole Porter. Sadly, he was a man tortured by the inability to accept his own gay sexual orientation. He suffered from alcoholism and depression which seems to have lead to his death from pneumonia at the age of 48.

Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote several of the greatest musicals ever, including "Oklahoma" and "South Pacific."

*Leonard Bernstein. Don't stop at "West Side Story." Check out "On the Town" and "Wonderful Town" as well. He also played for our team, whether as gay or bi, who knows?

*Stephen Sondheim. The master. Witty and urbane. Openly gay. Has written lyrics or music and lyrics for a wide variety of musicals, chamber operas, plays and films. He wrote the movie "The Last of Sheila" with Anthony Perkins. His only film appearance, as far as I know, was a cameo as himself in a pleasant little film (with a gay storyline) from 2003 called "Camp"

If you need more pointers, I'm sure I can come up with a few. Sorry if this comes off like the first class in a college course called Musical Theater 101. College is the only place I know where you can be two months behind after the first day of class
 
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Oh wow thanks for all the reco guys! I think I'm getting a broadway overdose now :p but loving it :blushing:

Btw I found this on YT - its from the musical "Billy Elliot", while there isn't really any singing going on, I found the performance quite moving :heart:


And the trailer:

 
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Not While I'm Around - Neil Patrick Harris - Sweeney Todd​
 
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By Julian Ovenden, who some UK members may recognise from Foyle's War
 
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