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!
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.
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.
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).
"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?