As the title states, I am wondering what songs are out there in Musical Theatre land (Broadway, Off Broadway, Musical Songwriters) that are duets between mothers and sons. The only one I can think of on the top of my head is "See Me" from BARE. Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
* Next To You from Bounce * Mother's Gonna Make Things Fine from A New Brain * Brand New World from Rags * You'll Be In My Heart (Reprise) from Tarzan * Hold Your Head Up High from Honk! * A Home For You from Batboy
Not a duet, but a lovely song sung by mother to son: * Whose Little Angry Man from RaisinUpdated On: 4/23/13 at 08:21 AM
Not really a duet so much as two sides of a short song, but "All I Ever Wanted/Queen's Reprise" from THE PRINCE OF EGYPT.
"The Letter" from BILLY ELLIOT? So long as we're accepting Ghost Mothers... also Funmilayo's songs from FELA! but I doubt those are what we're looking for.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
"I Whistle A Happy Tune" King and I "Chrysanthemum Tea" Pacific Overtures
The mothers sing, respectively, to calm her son's fears and to explain why she is about to murder him.
In the first the son whistles and briefly joins his mother's optimistic anthem. In the second he grunts and yells loudly in quickfire hyper-enunciated Japanese.
Thanks all. The reason I started this thread is because I am looking for something for a Cabaret I am putting on, but it really is hard to find a legit mother/son song instead of two seperate plots....ideas.....whatever converging in one song. But, some of these are good. Thanks again =)
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2