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calming broadway songs#1
Posted: 11/4/18 at 5:07pm

What are some calming/chill broadway songs? hoping to add all the suggestions to a playlist!! just looking for mellow, easy songs to listen to!

“6 AM. The sky glows. Somewhere a bird chirps. I want to shoot it.” ~ Jonathan Larson, Tick...Tick..BOOM
Updated On: 11/4/18 at 05:07 PM
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calming broadway songs#2
Posted: 11/4/18 at 5:27pm

Answer Me from The Band's Visit has literally brought me down from an anxiety attack before. I'm sure there are infinite more, but this was my first thought.

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calming broadway songs#3
Posted: 11/4/18 at 6:26pm

 

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calming broadway songs#4
Posted: 11/4/18 at 7:01pm
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calming broadway songs#5
Posted: 11/4/18 at 7:34pm
“That Would Be Enough” from Hamilton
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calming broadway songs#6
Posted: 11/4/18 at 8:49pm
Waving Through A Window from Dear Evan Hansen
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calming broadway songs#7
Posted: 11/4/18 at 9:14pm

BwayLB said: "Waving Through A Window from Dear Evan Hansen"

i'm not trying to be a jerk but isn't that song about the symptoms of extreme anxiety? 

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calming broadway songs#8
Posted: 11/4/18 at 9:14pm

Kristoff's Lullaby from Frozen, and Hold On from The Secret Garden (but Jessica Vosk's version is incredible)

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calming broadway songs#9
Posted: 11/4/18 at 9:28pm

Sondheimite said: "BwayLB said: "Waving Through A Window from Dear Evan Hansen"

i'm not trying to be a jerk but isn't that song about the symptoms of extreme anxiety?
"

I listen sometimes when i am fustrated

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calming broadway songs#10
Posted: 11/4/18 at 10:26pm

"You Walk With Me" from The Full Monty
"Sleepy Man" from Robber Bridegroom
"By My Side" or "On the Willows" from Godspell
"They Were You" from The Fantasticks
"Lazy Afternoon" from The Golden Apple

...and so many more, but I don't want to completely hijack this thread :) 

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calming broadway songs#11
Posted: 11/4/18 at 10:29pm

 

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calming broadway songs#12
Posted: 11/4/18 at 10:29pm

There is no Other Way and Poems from Pacific Overtures

 

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calming broadway songs#13
Posted: 11/4/18 at 11:01pm
I always found a lot of songs from Cinderella calming. Ten Minutes Ago, There is Music in You, Prologue, etc.
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calming broadway songs#14
Posted: 11/4/18 at 11:05pm

I always find "Our Time" calming. Just because it;s so optimistic and such a gentle melody. One of Sondheim's best. 

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calming broadway songs#15
Posted: 11/4/18 at 11:26pm

I'll add another "Band's Visit" song. I find the beautiful melody of "Omar Sharif" very calming.

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calming broadway songs#16
Posted: 11/4/18 at 11:47pm

"Moonshine Lullaby," from "Any Get Your Gun"

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calming broadway songs#17
Posted: 11/5/18 at 12:43am

"Seeing You" from Groundhog Day is the first thing that popped into my head. Also the finale of "Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812" is quite beautiful and peaceful.

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calming broadway songs#18
Posted: 11/5/18 at 12:55am

My first thought was Answer Me (The Band’s Visit), but I see someone else was first with their first thought!

 

Love To Me (The Light in the Piazza)

Shadowland (The Lion King)

Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You (The Music Man)

Un Mejor Dia Vendra (Working)

Little Bird (Man of LaMancha)

Momma Look Sharp (1776)

Autumn (Starting Here, Starting Now)

Selective Memory (The People in the Picture)

The Pagan Ave Maria (Notre Dame de Paris)

La Gare (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg)

I Got Lost in His Arms (Annie Get Your Gun)

Mary Me/A Quiet Thing (and the World Goes ‘Round)

Chanson (The Baker’s Wife)

Before and After You (The Bridges of Madison County)

From This Day On (Brigadoon) also, Come to Me, Bend to Me

It’s Only Love/Bring On the Night (Metropolis)

The Rescue, Daybreak (Floyd Collins) also, Heart an’ Hand

Time Stands Still (Lunch, A Modern Myth)

Someone Else Is Waiting (Weird Romance)

Whistle Down the Wind (Whistle Down the Wind)

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calming broadway songs#19
Posted: 11/5/18 at 5:46am
“Everything’s Alright,” Jesus Christ Superstar
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calming broadway songs#20
Posted: 11/5/18 at 5:54am
"Not While I'm Around" - Sweeney Todd
"No One Is Alone" - Into the Woods
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calming broadway songs#21
Posted: 11/5/18 at 8:24am

"Time Stops" from Big Fish

"There Will Be a Miracle" from See What I Wanna See

"I Cannot Hear the City" from Sweet Smell of Success

not quite Broadway, but close:

"Think of the Moon", sung by Brian d'Arcy James on Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Album

"All Things in Time" by Jason Robert Brown

 

 

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calming broadway songs#22
Posted: 11/5/18 at 9:07am

"A Soft Place to Land" from Waitress

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calming broadway songs#23
Posted: 11/5/18 at 9:44am

"Lay Down Your Head" Violet

"Home for You" Bat Boy

"Solla Sollew" Seussical

"Son is Gonna Shine" Bright Star

"Welcome to the World" A Man of No Importance

The last two are less "I can sleep to this!" calming and more "It's going to be okay...and if it isn't, I'm going to be okay!"

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calming broadway songs#24
Posted: 11/5/18 at 10:18am
It's off-Broadway but the first song that came to mind for me is William Finn's I'd Rather Be Sailing from A New Brain.

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calming broadway songs#25
Posted: 11/5/18 at 12:10pm

"In Whatever Time We Have" from Children of Eden