Broadway musicals with country scores?
Broadway musicals with country scores?
#1Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 1:06am
Big River (which I saw tonight)
Bright Star (sort of country -- bluegrass)
What other ones?
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#2Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 1:25am
Robber Bridegroom
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Futurity (off-Broadway)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Bridges of Madison County, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and The Most Happy Fella also have songs with a country influence.
Shows that take place in a Southern and/or rural setting that are arguable (but sound more like musical theatre)... Oklahoma, Giant, Annie Get Your Gun, Paint Your Wagon, Waitress
#3Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 1:32am
My favorite country-themed Broadway song is "I'm Leavin' Texas" from The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public. Dee Hoty is a hoot on the whole album and I prefer the score to the sequel over the original as it gives itself over to pure camp from start to finish.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#5Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 1:45am
Hands on a Hard Body
Urban Cowboy
Ring of Fire
Fan123
Broadway Star Joined: 8/30/08
#6Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 4:08am
Violet, Bonnie and Clyde, The Golden Apple and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers might count, to varying degrees (I'm not certain of the boundaries of country music as a genre). And although I don't know the following ones well/at all, I suppose Destry Rides Again, Calamity Jane (film), and Pump Boys and Dinettes might be relevant.
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#7Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 8:39am
The Last Five Years has some country/folk influence.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#9Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 9:00am
Play Me A Country Song (closed on Bway after 1 performance 1982)
#11Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/10/17 at 9:50am
I'm surprised no one has said BRIGHT STAR yet!
Edit...that's probably because the OP did. Lol
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Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#12Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 5:38pm
Bonnie and Clyde, Bridges of Madison County, and Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#13Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 7:43pm
I Love My Wife was kind of folksy/country.
#14Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/11/17 at 8:57pm
SHENANDOAH
LI'L ABNER (county music parody)
SPITFIRE GRILL (never made it to Broadway, but performed all over the country)
PURLIE (part country, party rhythm and blues)
PRETTYBELLE (Jule Styne, but "countryish"
QUILTERS
THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN
THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES
#15Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/12/17 at 1:15am
This only half counts because it only played off- not on-Bway -- FLOYD COLLINS -- though hardcore bluegrass aficionados would say it is not country music.
Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#16Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/12/17 at 1:32am
10 million miles ( Off- Broadway).
#17Broadway musicals with country scores?
Posted: 2/13/17 at 3:10am
I'm not a purist: I would definitely include FLOYD COLLINS.
Also, PAJAMA GAME ("There Once Was a Man"
THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN
THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
PLAIN AND FANCY
HANDS ON A HARD BODY
ASSASSINS
