Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
linnys
Swing Joined: 11/12/11
#1Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/7/13 at 9:54pmOr just not liking someone in general. I'm not getting anywhere and would love some help coming up with some ideas...Thanks!
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#2Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/7/13 at 10:20pm
In "The Army of the Just" in Tenderloin, sin is the enemy:
"To the pure shall the victory be given
From this earth shall iniquity be driven..."
There are football cheers aginst the foe in A Family Affair and All American.
Carnival! and Destry Rides Again have songs entitled "I Hate Him." Kiss Me, Kate has "I Hate Men." La Strada has "I Don't Like You."
Then, there's the very funny "Cherry Pies Ought to Be You" in Out of This World in which Charlotte Greenwood and David Burns exchange insults.
Updated On: 1/7/13 at 10:20 PM
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/7/13 at 10:24pmYou're No Good - What Makes Sammy Run
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sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#3Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/7/13 at 10:43pm"Loathing"- unadulterated loathing...
#4Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/7/13 at 10:45pm
"Or just not liking someone in general."
"What Is This Feeling", from Wicked.
#5Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/7/13 at 11:10pm
--"There's Always a Woman" from *Anyone Can Whistle*
--"Could I Leave You" from *Follies*
--sections from "At the Ballet" from *A Chorus Line*
--"No More" from *See What I Wanna See*
Those are just off the top of my head. Any of them fit what you're looking for? If not, I'll search my music collection a little more deeply. :)
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#6Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/7/13 at 11:17pmParts of The Ballad of Booth in Assassins.
RENT_is_Wicked2
Stand-by Joined: 4/4/11
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#8Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:33am
"Revenge," a funny revenge (what else?) song from IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S SUPERMAN
"You're Nothing Without Me" from CITY OF ANGELS
Updated On: 1/8/13 at 12:33 AM
#9Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:58amFranklin Shepard Inc from Merrily We Roll Along
Nancy Reagan, meanest and thinnest of the first ladies moves into the white house. Yabba dabba! It's the eighties.
#10Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:36am
"My Rules" from The Goodbye Girl
"Nobody Steps on Kafritz" from Henry, Sweet Henry
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
``oscar wilde``
#11Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:49am"Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
#12Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:50pm
"The Gentleman Is A Dope" - Allegro
"No One'll Ever Love You" - Goldilocks
"Who Needs Her?" - Breakfast At Tiffany's
"What Did I Ever See In Him?" - Bye Bye Birdie
"Easy For You" - Rags
"Grand Knowing You" - She Loves Me
"You Wanna Be My Friend?" - Closer Than Ever
"It Would Have Been Wonderful" - A Little Night Music
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#13Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 2:47pm
Another song called "Revenge" from A FAMILY AFFAIR (John Kander, before he met Fred Ebb)
"Just You Wait" from MY FAIR LADY
"Never!" from ON THE 20TH CENTURY
#14Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 2:57pmFalcon in the Dive from The Scarlet Pimpernel
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#15Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 3:33pm
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better - Annie Get Your Gun
So Long Dearie - Hello Dolly
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#16Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 4:00pmNow that I've Seen Her - Miss Saigon
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#17Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 4:54pm
I have been looking at the word 'Cinderella' all day.
"Stepsister's Lament"; take the duet and make it a solo.
Play it for real and for keeps. The realer it is, the flat-out funnier it is. Think if Nell Carter had ever played these roles. She didn't but imagine what she might have done.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
pinoyidol2006
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
#18Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 8:01pm
"There's Always a Woman" from Anyone Can Whistle
"Cooties" from Hairspray
"You Must Meet My Wife" from A Little Night Music (Maybe?)
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
#19Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 8:30pm
"Pretty Pretty Princess" from Snow White: A New Musical.
"Guys Like Potter" from A Very Potter Musical
#20Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 9:15pm
You Can't Cheat An Honest Man - BAJOUR
The Jet Song - WEST SIDE STORY
Everything I've Got - BY JUPITER
Lonely Room - OKLAHOMA!
Take Him - PAL JOEY
You're Not Fooling Me - 110 IN THE SHADE
Winter And Summer - CELEBRATION
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
Updated On: 1/8/13 at 09:15 PM
#21Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 9:26pm
Two of my suggestions have already been mentioned: "Anything You Can Do" (Annie Get Your Gun) and "Just You Wait" (My Fair Lady").
Other suggestions: "Show Me," "Without You," and "Why Can't a Woman" (all from "My Fair Lady," in which the two main characters spend most of the show furious with each other ... until they realize they're in love, which is why I think Higgins has to be reasonably young and sexy, but that's for another thread). 
Still others: "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria" (The Sound of Music); "Aldonza" (her soliloquy, from "Man of La Mancha"); Anna's song, whose name I've forgotten, about her fury with the way the King treats his family and servants (The King and I); "He had it Coming" (Chicago).
I've noticed that many "dislike" songs are sung by female voices, so I hope that's what you're looking for.
You alone can make my song take flight.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#22Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 9:36pm
Also, "Humming" in Carnival!
And the very cute "I'm in Love With Miss Logan," (the second part of it) from New Faces of '52.
#23Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 9:41pmThe song from THE KING AND I is "Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You?".
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#24Bway songs about an enemy or nemesis
Posted: 1/8/13 at 10:26pm
You're all forgetting the best song.
When lovers turn to enemies: "Anything But Lonely" from Aspects of Love.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-