Posted on 02/14/2007 2:12:28 PM PST by TBP
I sang along with the Funny Girl soundtrack so much I knew exactly every nuance Streisand gave to each song.
To this day, if I hear one of those songs, I still know the exact phrasing she uses and can sing it exactly as she does.
(Unfortunately, my voice isn't *quite* as good as hers....LOL....not by a LONG SHOT!)
All of mine are already on there, I do believe.
My #1 is "True Love" but it wasn't in a Broadway show, just a movie.
My #1 of everything is "I'll Be Seeing You" (Right This Way)
After that, in no special order:
.Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)
.If I Loved You (Carousel)
.Till There Was You (Music Man)
.People Will Say We're in Love (Oklahoma)
.One Alone (The Desert Song)
.The one from Sound of Music ... "here you are, standing there, loving me ... so, somewhere in my wicked miserable past, I must have done some .. thing .. goood."
.Tonight (West Side Story)
.Dulcinea (Man of La Mancha)
The line I always remember first is " ... isn't this the heighth of nonchalance ... furnishing a bed in restaurants? ... Well, a bit of dinner never hurt ... but guess who is gonna be dessert? ... " LOL
The one from Sound of Music ... "here you are, standing there, loving me ... so, somewhere in my wicked miserable past, I must have done some .. thing .. goood."
I believe the title is "Somethign Good." A couple of Broadway World's panelists picked it.
However, it might not have been in the Broadway version, just the movie version.
I just pulled out the "Funny Girl" cast album and it's not on there.
"With You" from PIPPIN. Played for laughs in the context of the show, but on its own a beautiful song that I'd have liked to have used in my wedding.
"They Were You" from THE FANTASTICKS
By Stephen Schwarz, who also wroite "Godspell." "Pippin" is the show that gave us "Corner of the Sky."
You know, "Pippin" changed the way Broaday musicals market themselves. Prior to Pippin, they'd advertise using a couple of quotes from critics and the name and number of the theatre wehre theshow was. "Pippin" GAVE AWAY 60 seconds of the show, shwing Ben Vereen dancing, and sold a lot of tickets. After that, everybody used a snippet of the show for ads.
Although it had a very successful run of over 40 years in New York, "The Fantasticks" is technically not a Broadway show. Believe it or not, it ran all that time in an Off-Broadway house.
Both excellent choices. "All I Ask of You" is one of my favorite songs. I catch myself humming it a lot.
Oh, yes! I got stumped when wanting to choose one from My Fair Lady -
* .. then oh, the towering feeling ... just to know somehow you are near ...* (On the Street Where You Live)
or * ... I could have spread my wings and done a 1000 things ... I'd never done before ... ... when all at once, my heart stood still ... * (I Could Have Danced All Night)
or * sittin' absobloominlutely still ... someone's head resting on my knee ... warm and tender as he could be ... who takes good care of me ... oh, wouldn't it be loverly? ...* (Wouldn't It Be Loverly?)
I like them all!
Yes, three or four good choices in that great score. You could throw "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" in there as well, and a couple of folks picked it.
"I've grown accustomed to her face.
She almost makes the day begin...
Her smiles, her frowns,
Her ups, her downs
Are second nature to me now,
Like breathing out and breathing in."
Oh, definitely - I was kind of leaving that one as a "given".
"All I Ask of You" is a beautiful song, altho I find myself singing the Phantom's part to myself more than the two lovers' parts. *Christine, Christine ... you did not do ... all the Phantom asked of you ...*
And I don't always remember the words, lol. One thing is that often I hear the score before I see the show and some of the songs are in medleys in the overture - and I remember them that way.
That song just melds into Music of the Night in my mind. And *that* song, while not exactly romantic in the lovers' sense, simply for music - is one of the most ethereal I know - can just transport me into nirvana when listening to it - ignoring everything else. Love it.
The entire words can be found at:
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Phantom-Of-The-Opera/All-I-Ask-Of-You.html
Here is a sample:
Then say you'll share
with me one love, one lifetime;
let me lead you from your
solitude.
Say you need me with you, here beside you,
anywhere you go, let me go too,
that's all I ask of you.
When I was a kid I was taken to see Camelot during its first run on Broadway - Burton, Goulet, Julie Andrews, Robert Coote. The greatest.
I think we went to the automat for lunch. I'll be sure to hit Sardi's the next time.
And I am a reasonably cultured individual, who HAS, on occasion, enjoyed a good Broadway show (loved Damn Yankees). When I lived in NYC, I had season tickets to a few concert series at Carnegie Hall (I like Bach and Beet5hoven). Opera and ballett, are, however, not on my radar.
And women don't seem to get treated on these boards worse than men, unless I'm missing something.
Oh, geesh, there's a thread today bitching about women.
As usual.
"I just pulled out the "Funny Girl" cast album and it's not on there."
Thanks, I wasn't sure. I had the movie soundtrack album too, and I knew it was on that one. Was the ending to the movie, very dramatic, greatly sung by Streisand.
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