I've been on a villains kick lately. A lot of times they get the best song in the show. Favorites?
Little Girls - Annie Poor Unfortunate Souls - The Little Mermaid The Smell of Rebellion - Matilda Tomorrow Belongs to Me Reprise - Cabaret Loud - Matilda
Velma's Revenge- Hairspray Little Girls - Annie Poor Unfortunate Souls - The Little Mermaid Evil Woman- Xanadu Be Prepared- The Lion King A Freak Like Me Needs Company- Spiderman Spread A Little Sunshine- Pippin Red Shoe Blues and Reprise- The Wizard of OZ
Hellfire- Hunchback of Notre Dame; enough said and done... Mother Knows Best reprise- Tangled Poor Unfortunate Souls- The Little Mermaid Evil Woman- Xanadu
Even though it's a protagonist who sings this but: Epiphany from Sweeney Todd is perfect.
The villain song/performance that can't be beat for me is "Nobody Steps on Kafritz" from Henry, Sweet Henry. No one that I can think comes close to touching Alice Playten's brilliant comic stinker-ette.
Some other good ones: "A Powerful Thing" from Steel Pier "Just The Crust" from Skyscraper "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" from The Wild Party "A Paradox/Away, Away, My Heart's On Fire" from Pirates of Penzance
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
"Molasses to Rum" from 1776, because it implicates the "heroes", if you will, as culprits. Uncomfortable but important to consider, and electrifying to behold when done well. Not to mention stylistically the most daring song in the score.
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.
I know it would never happen, but I would LOVE to have a Disney villains concert on Broadway! In my dream world, it would have:
Poor Unfortunate Souls- The Little Mermaid Be Prepared- The Lion King Shadow Man (or Friends on the Other Side)- Princess and the Frog Mother Knows Best- Tangled Heffalumps and Woozles- Winnie the Pooh Mad Madam Mim- Sword in the Stone Mine, Mine, Mine- Pocahontas My Lullaby- Lion King 2 Cruella De Vil- 101 Dalmatians Are You In or Out?- Aladdin & the King of Thieves Bill of Sale- Pete's Dragon Gaston- Beauty & the Beast The Elegant Captain Hook- Peter Pan Hellfire- Hunchback of Notre Dame Snuff out the Light (cut from) Emperor's New Groove
"We're Despicable" from Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol "Grand Knowing You" from She Loves Me "Lonely Room" and "Poor Jud Is Dead" from Oklahoma! "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" from Kiss Me Kate "My Object All Sublime" from The Mikado "When the Night Wind Howls" from Ruddigore "If You Give Me Your Attention" and "Whene'er I Spoke" from Princess Ida "The Whip" from Golden Dawn
Johanna (Judge's Version) - Sweeney Todd Molasses to Rum - 1776 Epiphany - Sweeney Todd The Ballad of Booth - Assassins Those Were the Good Old Days - Damn Yankees No Bad News - The Wiz Lonely Room - Oklahoma!
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Huge musical fan ever since seeing SHENANDOAH at age 8 on B'way, followed by the '76 the revival of FIDDLER with Zero Mostel.
Working on my own Musical Comedy.
Huge musical fan ever since seeing SHENANDOAH at age 8 on B'way, followed by the '76 the revival of FIDDLER with Zero Mostel.
Working on my own Musical Comedy.
"Stars" from Les Miserables "Where's The Girl" from The Scarlet Pimpernel "Easy Street" from Annie "What's Up Duloc" from Shrek "A Freak Like Me Needs Company" from Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark(my guilty pleasure) "Roxie" and "Nowadays" from Chicago (you could argue Roxie is a villain, given how she dupes her husband and the Illinois legal system) "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" from Phantom of the Opera "This Place is Mine" from Phantom
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ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."