Teen Agnst Musical Theatre Songs

[Adescalzo14]

Hello. So I got chosen to be apart of my theatres cabaret and the theme is Teen Angst. I can only think of Mama Who Bore Me-Spring Awakening Whispering-Spring Awakening Still Hurting-The Last Five Years and Carrie-Carrie the musical. I need more ideas. If you know any-i sing alto mezzo-soprano and soprano. MUST BE SANG BY A FEMALE! Thank you so much for the help!

[BwayLB]

Waving Through A Window from Dear Evan Hansen

[BalconyClub]

Any song from Spongebob. Teen angst can be summed up in the DELIVERY of a number. Be ticked off and aloof when warbling Bikini Bottom Day.

[Alex Kulak2]

Meant to Be Yours from Heathers is pretty good

[poisonivy2]

Mean Girls has several teen angst songs. 

[freewilma]

Several great choices from Be More Chill and The Prom.  I know that Be More Chill also released a karaoke version of their accompaniment tracks which would be easy to use at a Cabaret.  You could definitely consider all of Natalie's songs in Next To Normal.  American Idiot might work too; as well as Dogfight (even though we don't know Rose's exact age).

ps - Last 5 years isn't really teen.  It's more 20s angst.  

 

[OlBlueEyes]

Teenage angst was much simpler 100 years ago.

Definition of angst

: a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity --- teenage angst

Liesl:
I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe

I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those

Totally unprepared am I
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken

[thirtythirtyninety]

Superboy and the Invisible Girl from Next To Normal

 

[Dave28282]

There is a song from a musical that I have had for years as an mp3, but I have no idea what musical it is from. It sounds like Kerry Butler singing it.

The lyrics are: "Being 17 isn't easy. It takes work for you to find yourself. It takes work to make yourself feel like an intellect. But I'm fine being alone, 'cause I've got time, lots of time. I have this beauty, I can't explain it, you either have it or you don't...and obviously I have it."

Or something like that,. And then she sings about her mother and complains about her. The she sings something like "There's my mother, my darling mother, my...."why don't you throw your father out of our lives so you have no one to walk you into home coming court"- mother......Or "why don't you eat that entire butterfinger to make sure no boy ever wants you-mother" or something in that style.

[Susanswerphone]

There are several in We Are the Tigers.
http://tigersmusical.com
My fave is "Skype Tomorrow".

[MrsSallyAdams]

If you want something obscure look up 1967's Henry, Sweet Henry. It's about two teens who stalk a musician, only to fall apart when the musician has an affair with one of their mothers. The leads get angsty ballads (Here I Am, Dance with a boy, Do you ever go to Boston?) while the mean girl antagonist gets a belty comic song (Nobody Steps on Kafritz).

[OlBlueEyes]

"Everybody's Got a Home But Me"   from Pipe Dream by Rodgers and Hammerstein

This is a pretty song that is little known from an R&H flop.

Last heard in the Encore's production a few year ago.

Sung by Laura Osnes and preserved in an available recording 

I rode by a house, with the windows lighted up
Looking pretty as a Christmas tree
And I said to myself,
As I rode by myself
Everybody's got a home but me.

I rode by a house, where the moon was on the porch
And the girl was on her fellas knee
And I said to myself
As I rode by myself
Everybody's got a home but me.

I'm free and I'm happy to be free.
To be free in the way I wanna be.

But once in a while, when I'm talkin' to myself
And theres no one there to disagree
I look up and I cry
To a big empty sky
Wont there ever be a home for me?

 

"Say a Prayer for Me Tonight"    GIGI

"I Won't Grow Up"                     Peter Pan

 

[BwayGeek2]

"See I'm Smiling" from The Last Five Years

"Everything Else" from Next to Normal

"All Grown Up" from Bare: A Pop Opera

Those are just the first three off the top of my head.