Broadway songs about being powerless?
Broadway songs about being powerless?
Samantha.Clarke
Swing Joined: 6/17/15
#1Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 1:52pm
Hey guys! I was wondering if you could think of any more songs that follow the theme of "powerless"?
So far I've thought of...
When Hope Goes - Spitfire Grill
Still Hurting - L5Y
With You - Ghost
What I Did For Love - Chorus Line
I Dreamed A Dream - Les Mis
Anatevka - Fiddler On The Roof
If you know something that would follow the theme, please let me know, it would mean the world to me!!
Thank you in advance :)
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#2Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 1:53pm
In The Heights: Blackout - has the line "we are powerless"
And "Revenge" from Superman is about a multiple time nobel loser.
Updated On: 6/17/15 at 01:53 PM
ChiTheaterFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#2Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 1:59pm
Will I?- Rent
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Phantom
You Don't Know - Next to Normal
#3Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 4:11pm
"It Sucks to be Me" from Avenue Q
"21 Guns" from American Idiot
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:22pm
"What I Did For Love - Chorus Line"
I don't think this is about being powerless. It's about the choices you make and where they take you.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:27pm
You Gotta Die Sometime - Falsettos
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:39pm
Some Days Everything Goes Wrong - What Makes Sammy Run
Poster Emeritus
#7Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:49pm
You'll Never Walk Alone - Carousel
#8Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:53pm
"Where Am I Going?" - SWEET CHARITY
"No Way To Stop It" -THE SOUND OF MUSIC
#9Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:55pm
Soul of a Man from Kinky Boots fits into that category.
Perhaps No Good Deed from Wicked does as well?
#10Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:07pm
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - POTO
Learn to Live Without - If/Then
Nichts, nichts, gar nichts - Elisabeth
Confessions of a Vampire - Dance of the Vampires (Yes, the show was stupid, but the lyrics to that song kept pretty true to the German one.)
Days and Days - Fun Home
Edges of the World - Fun Home
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#11Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:10pm
""What I Did For Love - Chorus Line"
I don't think this is about being powerless. It's about the choices you make and where they take you."
But also from Chorus Line, the song "Nothing" is about being powerless - as a student at the mercy of a terrible teaher. And then rising above it.
Also, "I'm not my Father's Son" from Kinky Boots....and to some degree "When I grow up" from Matilda.
Updated On: 6/17/15 at 06:10 PM
Ranger Tom
Leading Actor Joined: 7/6/14
#12Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:15pm
Yes, "Nothing" from A Chorus Line. Also, "On the Willows" from Godspell - beautiful song. Also, for comedy's sake - "I'm an Ordinary Man" from My Fair Lady...but it may not be the powerlessness you are looking for.
Updated On: 6/17/15 at 06:15 PM
#13Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:23pm
You'll Never Walk Alone - Carousel
Except it's about the complete oppostite of being powerless, but whatever.
Beyoncé is not an ally. Actions speak louder than words, Mrs. Carter. #Dubai #$$$
Ranger Tom
Leading Actor Joined: 7/6/14
#14Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:29pm
"You'll Never Walk Alone - Carousel
Except it's about the complete oppostite of being powerless, but whatever."
Ditto. Thank you.
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#15Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:34pm
What Would You Do? -- Cabaret
Lucy and Jessie -- Follies
This Nearly Was Mine -- South Pacific
I'll Never Fall in Love Again -- Promises Promises
team elphie
Chorus Member Joined: 4/23/15
#16Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 7:09pm
Perhaps No Good Deed from Wicked does as well?
"Maybe I'm Not that Girl?
romain2
Featured Actor Joined: 12/16/10
bluetuna
Leading Actor Joined: 11/15/07
#18Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 9:00pm"God, I Hate Shakespeare (Reprise)" - "Something Rotten!"
verdigris
Stand-by Joined: 7/20/14
#20Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 10:25pm
"Mr. Cellophane" - CHICAGO
"Javert's Suicide" - LES MIS
"Halloween" - RENT
"Man Say" and "You Done Right" - RAISIN
Comically winning the hearts of the audience through powerlessness, "Never the Luck" - THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
And, comically subverting the trope, "I'm All Alone" from SPAMALOT
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.
#21Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/17/15 at 11:37pm
Gesthemane--Jesus Christ Superstar
#22Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/18/15 at 12:51am
If I Cant Love Her- Beauty and the Beast
Actriz2
Stand-by Joined: 3/5/15
#23Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/18/15 at 12:54am
"Hey There (Reprise)/If You Win You Lose" from The Pajama Game.
Parts of "Almost Real" from the Bridges of Madison County, but not the entire song.
"The Moment Explodes" from If/Then.
In a more comical way, "The Diva's Lament" from Spamalot fits this category.
singalongsong2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/11/08
#24Broadway songs about being powerless?
Posted: 6/18/15 at 1:00am
Hard Knock Life from Annie
Legally Blonde from Legally Blonde
