I Want Songs
I Want Songs
Elizabeth Little
Swing Joined: 2/28/17
#1I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 11:43am
Hi all! I'm making a playlist of "I Want" songs and would love suggestions of your favorites! Thanks so much!
Updated On: 6/17/17 at 11:43 AM
CT2NYC
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/17
#2I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 12:01pm
In my opinion, "Part of Your World" from THE LITTLE MERMAID is the ultimate "I Want" song. 2 more of my favorites are "Sal Tlay Ka Siti" from THE BOOK OF MORMON, & its ancestor, "Somewhere That's Green" from LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
Updated On: 6/17/17 at 12:01 PM
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#3I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 12:18pm
"The Wizard and I" and "My Shot" are two of the best "I want" songs ever written.
Sondheimite
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/14
#4I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 12:18pm
Howard Ashman and Alan Menken were the kings of "I want songs." So many to choose from in their repertoire
Broadway World's Fireman.
JennH
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#5I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 12:28pm
^ Yeah basically Menken revived that concept and ran with it so just make a playlist of all the 90's Disney ones you'll be set lolz! 
leighmiserables
Broadway Star Joined: 4/26/17
#6I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 12:36pm
Some other ones...
- "Everything Else" from Next to Normal
- "God I Hate Shakespeare (Reprise)" from Something Rotten!
- "Dust and Ashes" from The Great Comet
- "All That's Known" from Spring Awakening
- "Lady's Maid" from Titanic
#7I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 12:42pm
Journey To The Past from Anastasia is one of my favorites (although it's no longer in the place of an I Want Song in the show, but it still is a great example.
#8I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 12:48pm
Musical theatre structure is one of my favorite things :) So, from older shows, I'd suggest "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" from My Fair Lady, "In My Own Little Corner" from Cinderella, "Simple Joys of Maidenhood" from Camelot, "If I Were A Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof, "Something's Coming" from West Side Story, "Some People" from Gypsy and "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin.
Moving into the Disney canon, you've got "Part of Your World", "Belle (Reprise)", "Proud of Your Boy" from Aladdin, "Just Around The Riverbend" from Pocahontas, "Out There" from Hunchback, "Go The Distance" from Hercules, "Reflection" from Mulan, "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog, and "When Will My Life Begin?" from Tangled. "For the First Time in Forever" from Frozen and "How Far I'll Go" from Moana would also count, as would "Journey to the Past" from Anastasia (not a Disney movie but in the same genre).
Modern Broadway musicals have really embraced this, so a selection might include: "The Wizard and I", "Where I Want To Be" from Chess, "Temporarily Lost" from The Bridges of Madison County, "Foolish to Think" from Gentleman's Guide, "One Song Glory" from Rent, "My Shot", "Waving Through A Window", "Pierre", and "Everything Else" from Next to Normal,
#9I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 1:00pm
When I first read the thread title I definitely thought the OP was just very bluntly asking us to give her songs.
Elizabeth Little
Swing Joined: 2/28/17
Rumpelstiltskin
Broadway Star Joined: 4/22/07
#12I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 8:21pm
My favorites that haven't been mentioned yet (and another shout out to "My Shot," a genius take on the I Want song):
"I Want to Go to Hollywood"-Jane Krakowski, GRAND HOTEL
"Simple Little Things"-Audra McDonald, 110 IN THE SHADE
"I'm the Greatest Star"-Barbra Streisand (OBCR or Movie Soundtrack), FUNNY GIRL
"It Won't Be Long Now"-Karen Olivo, IN THE HEIGHTS
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#13I Want Songs
Posted: 6/17/17 at 8:41pm
If we're going way back I think "Over the Rainbow" is the alpha and omega of "I Want" songs.
mehtotheworld
Swing Joined: 7/9/15
#15I Want Songs
Posted: 4/21/20 at 2:26pm
Playbill has an Instagram challenge where you choose a song from a daily theme. Today, my friends and I landed on "I Want" songs and thought it'd be a fun idea to bring this board back.
My favorite "I Want" song is "Somewhere That's Green," but since I chose that song in last month's challenge. I settled on, "Some People" from Gypsy. My friend chose, "It Won't Be Long Now" from In the Heights, while another chose, "The Wizard and I" from Wicked.
What are your favorite I Want songs?
#16I Want Songs
Posted: 4/21/20 at 2:42pm
Made dinner the other night with "The Beauty Is" from The Light in the Piazza on repeat... it was transcendent
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#17I Want Songs
Posted: 4/21/20 at 7:13pm
CT2NYC said: "In my opinion, "Part of Your World" from THE LITTLE MERMAID is the ultimate "I Want" song. 2 moreof my favorites are "Sal Tlay Ka Siti" from THE BOOK OF MORMON, &itsancestor,"Somewhere That's Green" from LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS."
And yet one of the many mistakes Menken and the rest of the team made with the stage adaptation of The Little Mermaid was giving Ariel a new "I want" song to sing before getting to "Part of Your World." So the first song we hear her sing is a mediocre song that says the exact same thing as "Part of Your World," just not done nearly as well or memorably. It just set up an evening of exasperating mediocrity.
#18I Want Songs
Posted: 4/21/20 at 8:12pm
"The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha.
Non sibi sed patriae
fosterfan2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/11
#19I Want Songs
Posted: 4/21/20 at 8:47pm
"Waiting",from The Band's Visit,although it's sung by more than one person. Does that still count?
