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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?

Lanie J
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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#1
Posted: 8/17/20 at 10:11pm

I think Katherine Steele referred to these as "songs that feel like eating soup on a rainy day" and that's probably the best way to describe these songs. They're the songs you listen to when you need comfort or when you need the musical theatre equivalent of a hug. Here are some of mine.

A Soft Place To Land (Waitress)

Take It From An Old Man (Waitress)

What Baking Can Do (Waitress) Waitress is probably my comfort show.

Something Wonderful (The King and I)

Beauty And The Beast (Beauty and the Beast)

Some Things Are Meant To Be (Little Women)

At The Ballet (A Chorus Line)

Hymn For A Sunday Evening (Bye Bye Birdie)

Ol' Man River (Show Boat)

Wonderful Guy (South Pacific)

 

Your turn!

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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#2
Posted: 8/18/20 at 12:41pm
Aida, Little Shop of Horrors and Spring Awakening (the albums collectively). They were the first shows I really got into back in college and are good pick me ups
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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#3
Posted: 8/18/20 at 1:55pm

Sunday- Sunday in the Park with George.

The lasting endurance of art expressed though instruments and a glorious chorus of human voices.

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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#4
Posted: 8/18/20 at 5:16pm
"Omar Sharif--The Band's Visit
Morning Glow"--Pippin
"Company"-Company
"Defying Gravity"--Wicked
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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#5
Posted: 8/18/20 at 5:43pm

No One is Alone - Into The Woods

Our Time - Merrily We Roll Along

For Good - Wicked

People Will Say We're in Love - Oklahoma

Johanna (Quartet) - Sweeney Todd

Down Home - Purlie

Once in a Lifetime - Stop the World I want to Get Off (Sammy Davis Jr. Revival recording)

 

Just give the world Love.
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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#6
Posted: 8/18/20 at 6:40pm

This, for many reasons. 

 

 

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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#7
Posted: 8/18/20 at 6:56pm

Ive been into Groundhog Day, &Juliet, and A New Brain lately. 

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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#8
Posted: 8/20/20 at 4:41am
Lambert Wilson's recording of "Silly People" from his MUSICALS album with John McGlinn.
Robert McFerrin and Adele Addison's recording of "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" from the PORGY AND BESS soundtrack.
Jan Clayton's recording of "Nobody Else But Me" from the 1946 SHOW BOAT.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#9
Posted: 8/20/20 at 6:25am
Move on - Sunday

For Now - Avenue Q

No More - Into the Woods

With So Little To Be Sure Of - Whistle

Light - next to normal


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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#10
Posted: 8/20/20 at 1:58pm

Pretty much all of The Band's Visit (especially Answer Me though)

Pretty much all of Come From Away

The Field - Octet

most of Anastasia (especially Journey to the Past, In My Dreams, Stay, I Pray You, Once Upon A December, etc)

A Soft Place to Land - Waitress

My House - Matilda

No One Else - The Great Comet

Stars and the Moon - Songs For A New World

All That Matters - Finding Neverland

 

a lot of others though...

you found your heart but left a part of you behind <3
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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#11
Posted: 8/20/20 at 6:11pm

One of my favorite things to do (in the before times) after having a long day, is commuting home on a crowded train with HASA DIGA EEBOWAI ringing in my ears.

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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#12
Posted: 8/21/20 at 11:36am

IN MY OWN LITTLE CORNER...Cinderella

I MISS THE MOUNTAINS...Next To Normal

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE...Anyone Can Whistle

NOT A DAY GOES BY...Merrily We Roll Along

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Your Musical Theatre Comfort Songs?#13
Posted: 8/21/20 at 11:56am

i Have Dreamed -- The King and I 

Move On -- Sunday on the Park With George

Once Upon a Time -- All American

Gigi -- Gigi

Embraceable You -- Girl Crazy



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