Show Songs for Thanksgiving

[After Eight]

Posted: 11/21/12 at 8:48am

Some people watch football games on Thanksgiving Day. I don't, but one tradition I've established is to play "The Big Clown Balloons" right beore the parade. That always puts me in the happiest mood, and revives so many wonderful memories of our beloved theatre.

I thought it might be nice to think of some other show songs that can help get us into the spirit of the occasion.

We Sail the Seas (Ben Franklin in Paris)
Turkey Lurkey Time (Promises, Promises)
The Thank You Song (Maggie Flynn)
Plenty of Pennsylvania (Plain and Fancy)
Bless This Land (Tenderloin)
This Cornucopian Land (Cry for Us All)
Here's to Us (Little Me)

And from the last-named,

"Here's to us, for all that we have
And the road that we've traveled so far."

Hoping everyone has a happy Thanksgiving Day.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 11/21/12 at 9:44am

Happy Thanksgiving!


All Good Gifts from Godspell could fit with some people's religious inclination come Thanksgiving Updated On: 11/21/12 at 09:44 AM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/21/12 at 9:50am

Strictly speaking, Turkey Lurkey is celebrating Christmas.

Posted: 11/21/12 at 10:02am

We Need A Little Christmas takes place during the week after Thanksgiving.

[notabb]

Posted: 11/21/12 at 7:24pm

How about " Thanksgivingn Day " from THE GOOD OLD BAD OLD DAYS

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/21/12 at 8:12pm

There's also a rock opera called "Plymouth Rock" that deals a bit with the Pilgrims arriving in Plymouth, though it doesn't really touch on thanksgiving all that much. It might be because that whole aspect of the story is debatable. It's on itunes.


Updated On: 11/21/12 at 08:12 PM

[christhefish]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 9:20am

I've always been partial to "I'm Here" from The Color Purple. Maybe it does not technically meet the definition of a Thanksgiving Song but the lyric...

...I'm thankful for every day that I'm given, both the easy and hard ones I'm living...

The perfect lyric to convey the very Thanksgiving concept of Thankfulness.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 10:48am

caveat: some of these are only subjectively Thanksgivingy

"So Many People" SATURDAY NIGHT
"A Hundred Million Miracles" FLOWER DRUM SONG
"So Far" ALLEGRO
"My Favorite Things" and "Something Good" THE SOUND OF MUSIC
"Chanson" THE BAKER'S WIFE
"I Belong Here" THE GRAND TOUR
"My Heart is So Full of You," "Happy to Make Your Acquaintance," and "Warm All Over" THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
"No Cure Like Travel" ANYTHING GOES
"All Good Gifts" GODSPELL
"I've Got Plenty of Nuttin'" PORGY AND BESS
"I Got Rhythm" GIRL CRAZY
"I've Got the Sun in the Mornin' and the Moon at Night" ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
"Here I'll Stay" LOVE LIFE
"Sleepy Man" THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
"Things Are Looking Up" A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
"I Miss You Old Friend" DREAMGIRLS

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 11:47am

What's more Thanksgiving-y than cornucopias? So I nominate:
"I too have a cornu-
Copia of imperfections..." from LOVE WILL SEE US THROUGH, from FOLLIES.

[nmlhats]

Posted: 11/30/17 at 5:32pm

I randomly came across this post while doing a Google search but I had to add mine....it's not a show song per se but more of an opera. "The Promise of Living" is from Aaron Copland's "The Tender Land" and I cannot think of anything more perfect for Thanksgiving. It's so quintessentially American in sound and its words are just right for the spirit of the holiday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDAbNaF6EYQ

[darquegk]

Posted: 11/30/17 at 6:12pm

“Country Comfort” from Elton John’s rock opera Tumbleweed Connection.

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 11/30/17 at 8:13pm

Might seem like a stretch, but in regards to giving thanks, I’d go with: For Good (Wicked), Seasons of Love (Rent)

[David10086]

Posted: 11/30/17 at 8:19pm

"Before The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Passes By" 

"Don't Rain On My Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade"

 

I mean we all know that's what Dolly and Fanny REALLY wanted to sing....