Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#1
Posted: 4/3/19 at 5:27pm

For some reason, I was thinking about this last night and giggling. What are some of the great bawdy numbers in musicals? Examples:

"Bang!" (Cut from A Little Night Music)

"He Plays the Violin" (1776)

You Can Be As Loud as the Hell You Want (Ave Q)

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#2
Posted: 4/3/19 at 5:28pm

"Contact" from Rent 

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#3
Posted: 4/3/19 at 5:33pm

"Dead Girl Walking", Heathers. I don't think the lyrics are that bad, but man those stage directions don't hide much. Plus I've heard some productions really push the moaning for the last bit of the song.

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#4
Posted: 4/3/19 at 5:37pm
Joseph Smith American Moses?

Also, “Dallas...I’m Coming!” From Debbie Does Dallas The Musical. Actually, pretty much all of Debbie Does Dallas The Musical, lol.
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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#5
Posted: 4/3/19 at 5:51pm

Sodomy - Hair
Paris Makes Me Horny - Victor/Victoria
Good-Time Girl - Over Here!
Call Me - Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
The Tennis Song and Lost and Found - City of Angels
A Call From the Vatican - Nine
Special - Avenue Q
The Internet is for ... - Avenue Q

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#6
Posted: 4/3/19 at 6:44pm

Thurio's Samba TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

 

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#7
Posted: 4/3/19 at 6:55pm

"I Never Do Anything Twice". (Technically from a film but heard in SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM.)

It might be the only successful comedy song SS ever wrote about sex (okay, maybe the second after "Bang" re the OP.)

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#8
Posted: 4/3/19 at 7:16pm
Everybody’s Girl from Steel Pier

Men and me are like pianos: when they get upright, I feel grand!
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco. Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#9
Posted: 4/3/19 at 7:41pm
My Girlfriend, Who Lives in Canada
I'm sending pictures of the most amazing trees/You'll be obsessed with all my forest expertise
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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#10
Posted: 4/3/19 at 7:46pm

YvanEhtNioj said: ""Contact" from Rent"

Id argue that contact is very sexual, but not raunchy - similar to touch me from spring awakening.

However, the b***h of living from spring awakening would fit the bill

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#11
Posted: 4/3/19 at 7:53pm

"Ruprect" from "Dirty Rotten."

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Posted: 4/3/19 at 8:05pm

Rainah said: "YvanEhtNioj said: ""Contact" from Rent"

Id argue that contact is very sexual, but not raunchy - similar to touch me from spring awakening.”


 

This isn’t raunchy?

[GROUP A]
-Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet
-Wet-wet-wet-red-heat
-Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet
-Wet-wet-wet-red-heat
Please don't stop please
Please don't stop stop
Stop stop stop don't
Please please please please
-Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet
-Wet-wet-wet-red-heat
-Sticky-licky-trickle-tickle
-Steamy-creamy-stroking-soaking

[GROUP B]
-Hot-hot-hot-sweat-sweet
-Wet-wet-wet-red-heat

[COLLINS]
Touch

[MAUREEN]
Taste

[MIMI]
Deep!

[COLLINS]
Dark!

[MAUREEN]
Kiss!

[COLLINS]
Beg!

[MIMI]
Slap!

[MIMI, MAUREEN AND COLLINS]
Fear!

[COLLINS]
Thick!

[MIMI, MAUREEN AND COLLINS]
Red, red
Red, red
Red, red - please

[MAUREEN]
Harder

 

[ANGEL]
Faster

[MAUREEN]
Wetter

[MIMI]
Bastard!

[ROGER]
You whore!

[MAUREEN]
You cannibal!

[MIMI AND ANGEL]
More!

[MAUREEN]
You animal!

[MIMI, COLLINS AND MAUREEN]
Fluid no fluid no contact yes
No contact

[ALL]
Fire fire burn-burn yes!
No latex rubber rubber
Fire latex rubber latex bummer
Lover bummer

 

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#13
Posted: 4/3/19 at 9:21pm

The title is Raunchy from 110 in the Shade, but it's not really

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#14
Posted: 4/3/19 at 9:36pm

I think "I Can't Say No" from Oklahoma! is pretty raunchy. 

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#15
Posted: 4/3/19 at 10:33pm
Please Don’t Touch Me from Young Frankenstein
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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#16
Posted: 4/3/19 at 11:23pm

The Heat is On in Saigon from Miss Saigon has some pretty raunchy lines.

 

 

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#17
Posted: 4/4/19 at 2:51am

Here are the lyrics for "But In The Morning, No" by Cole Porter Du Barry Was  Lady (1939)  Notice the line, "Do you do double entry, dear?"

https://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/b/butinthemorningno.html

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#18
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:38am
Good call on Cole Porter. Kiss Me Kate has a few winners, not straight up raunch but very edgy innuendo for its time.
Brush Up Your Shakespeare: “If your baby is pleading for pleasure, let her sample your measure for measure; if she says she won’t buy it or TIKE it, let her ‘tike’ it, what’s more, As You Like It!”(that wasn’t in the current revival, though.) “If she says your behavior is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus!”
Where is the Life That Late I Led: “And lovely Lisa, where are you, Lisa? You gave a new meaning to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.”
“Grease” isn’t terribly raunchy but has a few lines that should make anyone think twice before letting middle schoolers perform the songs. (My summer camp ran into this problem when I was 12 or so.) “Greased Lightning”, anyone?
Also, “Garlic” from “Dance of the Vampires” needs some kind of award for awkward raunch.
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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#19
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:46am

Off the top of my head...My Unfortunate Erection from Spelling Bee?

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Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:56am

Someone in a Tree2 said: ""I Never Do Anything Twice". (Technically from a film but heard in SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM.)

It might be the only successful comedy song SS ever wrote about sex (okay, maybe the second after "Bang" re the OP.)
"

I suggest that "The Miller's Son" from ALNM is about as raunchy as it gets: Excerpts:

It's a wink and a wiggle and a giggle in the grass
And I'll trip the light fandango,
A pinch and a diddle in the middle of what passes by.
It's a very short road
From the pinch and the punch
To the paunch and the pouch
And the pension.

It's a push and a fumble and a tumble in the sheets
And I'll foot the highland fancy,

There are mouths to be kissed
Before mouths to be fed,
And there's many a tryst
And there's many a bed
To be sampled and seen
In the meanwhile.And a girl has to celebrate what passes by.

It's a rip in the bustle and a rustle in the hay
And I'll pitch the quick fantastic,
With flings of confetti and my petticoats away up high.
It's a very short way
From the fling that's for fun
To the thigh pressing un-
Der the table.
It's a very short day
Till you're stuck with just one
Or it has to be done
On the sly.

 

 

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#21
Posted: 4/4/19 at 1:10pm

Bring on the Men from Jekyll and Hyde

Anything for Oh!  Calcutta!

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#22
Posted: 4/4/19 at 1:13pm

More strong innuendo than raunchy, but I'd add "Push Da Button" from The Color Purple to this list.

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#23
Posted: 4/4/19 at 1:39pm

Hasa Diga from Book of Mormon

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#24
Posted: 4/4/19 at 2:00pm

"Tom, Dick, and Harry"  from Kiss Me Kate,  especially when they repeat the word, "dick" over and over that becomes a bit risque to all the dirty minds out there."  A diga dick, a diga dick, etc.

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Raunchiest Songs in Musical Theatre#25
Posted: 4/4/19 at 2:41pm
“Changing my Major” from Fun Home.