Songs from a mom to a daughter
Songs from a mom to a daughter
delaney725
Swing Joined: 11/12/14
#1Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:19pm
Been listening to "Falsettos" on repeat and thinking about how many wonderful songs there are out there in the musical theatre canon sung from fathers to their sons and mothers to their sons and even fathers to their daughters, but am struggling to find one from a mother to her daughter. I know there has to be something perfect out there. Help?
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#2Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:23pm
I mean, it's not a necessarily happy one, but "Days and Days," right?
Updated On: 1/4/17 at 09:23 PM
Mike66
Leading Actor Joined: 12/17/15
#3Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:30pm
excellent choice BC -- better advice was never given
DefyMe
Swing Joined: 10/31/16
#4Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:32pm
The daughter also sings a little in it, but Maybe (Next to Normal) from Next to Normal works.
Updated On: 1/4/17 at 09:32 PM
#7Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:44pm
"16 Going on 17 (Reprise)" from THE SOUND OF MUSIC?
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
#8Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/4/17 at 9:44pm
"Stay With Me" from Into The Woods would technically count.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#10Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/4/17 at 10:00pm
not mom to daughter but more just mom to child...So big/So small from dear evan hansen
eponine88
Broadway Star Joined: 12/8/03
#11Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/4/17 at 10:08pm
First thing that comes to mind is "Married" from A Catered Affair
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#12Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/4/17 at 11:35pm
Slipping through my fingers by Abba is used as a mother to daughter song in Mamma Mia. (Although I suppose it could be a father to daughter song too). But like Stay with me, it's a poignant song about growing up from the parent's point of view.
gallerygirl
Chorus Member Joined: 11/13/14
rebeccmam31
Featured Actor Joined: 10/21/15
#14Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/5/17 at 7:52am
"Everything Changes" from Waitress--particularly the version on the Sara Barailles album.
#15Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/5/17 at 9:18am
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Fable from The Light in the Piazza yet. Here are some others:
Anytime (I Am There) from Elegies: A Song Cycle
The Story Goes on from Baby
And Eve Was Weak & I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance from Carrie (definitely a different kind of mother/daughter song, but still)
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#16Songs from a mom to a daughter
Posted: 1/5/17 at 9:23am
More of a duet, but "The Apple Doesn't Fall Very Far" from THE RINK.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards