Poll: Best "Title" Songs?
Poll: Best "Title" Songs?
LA Guy
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#0Poll: Best "Title" Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 3:37pmWhat do you think is the best "title" song from a musical (i.e. the song has the same name as the show in which it appears)? Examples include "The Phantom of the Opera," "Kiss of the SpiderWoman," "Jesus Christ Superstar"... And which ones are just plain bad "Title" songs? Updated On: 2/27/04 at 03:37 PM
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#2re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 4:27pm
Best: Anyone Can Whistle
and as a sub-topic
Worst: Dear World
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 4:35pm
Best: Lost In The Stars
Worst: Sunset Boulevard
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#4re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 5:14pmthis is a tough one.. either Phantom of the Opera or Cabaret
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#5re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 6:42pm
Best: RENT or JCS or Cabaret
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BroadwayGal
Stand-by Joined: 10/6/03
#6re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 6:46pm
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Little Shop of Horrors
42nd Street
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#7re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 7:03pm
1. Hello Dolly
2. Mame
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Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#8re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 7:15pm
Thoroughly Modern Millie
42nd Street
Cabaret
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#9re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 7:48pm
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Sound of Music
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Posted: 2/27/04 at 8:25pm
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Into the Woods
Sunday in the Park With George
Phantom of the Opera
broadwaysweetheart
Featured Actor Joined: 2/3/04
#11re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 9:44pmLITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS!!!!
#12re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 9:46pm
RENT
Little Shop of Horrors
Thouroughly Modern Millie
Into The Woods
Mamma Mia!
MusicMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#13re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 9:55pm
Sweeney Todd.
StateOfJade
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/03
#14re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/27/04 at 10:28pm
RENT
Thouroughly Modern Millie
LSOH
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Posted: 2/28/04 at 12:40amRENT by far.
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Posted: 2/28/04 at 1:35amI would add RAGTIME to the list.
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#17re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/28/04 at 2:04am
The Phantom of the Opera
Jesus Christ Superstar
Tendres Baisers,
Juliette Capulet
Type_A_Tiff
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#18re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/28/04 at 2:06amI agree with that ^ !
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Posted: 2/28/04 at 6:21am
I agree with RENT and PHANTOM
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A_Boy_From_Oz
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#20re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/28/04 at 11:28am"Mame" It's just so catchy
#21re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/28/04 at 12:04pm
Ragtime
Phantom of the Opera
42nd Street
Into the Woods
Mame
Cabaret
Worst: Hairspray
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Posted: 2/28/04 at 12:53pm
Best: Ragtime
Worst: Sunset Boulevard
Most conspicuously missing from the cast recording: A New Brain
#23re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Poll: Best 'Title' Songs?
Posted: 2/28/04 at 4:36pmI agree with broadway86 about Hairspray...I love the music from that show but that song is downright annoying.
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Posted: 2/28/04 at 4:53pm
Two title songs I've seen performed on Broadway completely stand out for me:
Charlie and Algernon -- PJ Benjamin's angry song and dance with a live mouse was both entertaining and chilling.
Dance a Little Closer -- A beautiful song performed by Len Cariou as a lounge singer at a ski resort. It's the brink of World War III and as he sing the couples on the dance floor begin slow dancing, then gradually they just start clinging to each other in fear for their lives.
