"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
You Won't be an Orphan For Long, ANNIE Jeanie's Packing Up - BRIGADOON A Man Doesn't Know - DAMN YANKEES The Rumor/Topsy Turvey - FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Henry Street - FUNNY GIRL Hippie Life - HAIR Knight of the Woeful Countenance - MAN OF LA MANCHA My Name - OLIVER I'll Never Be Jealous Again - THE PAJAMA GAME Bloody Mary - SOUTH PACIFIC I Love to Cry at Weddings - SWEET CHARITY
Good songs in bad shows:
The Journey Home - BOMBAY DREAMS Anthem - CHESS Everybody's Girl/Final Dance - STEEL PIER Most of TABOO Gimme Gimme/Only In New York - THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
Munky- i agree with most of what you said except for Night of the Woeful...
i love it
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Terrible Song in a Wonderful Show: "Autumn" from TITANIC
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead." -Tony Kushner's Angels in America
I really like Dancing All The Time from that awful Big. I also think Someone Like You and Bring on the Men are pretty good songs but the musical they come from is pretty weak.
My Name is a bad song? I always kind of liked it - well, I guess it depends on how it's donet. If the guy playing Bill Sykes is mean enough,and the orchestrator doesn't soften up the "clanging" sounds (forgive me for not knowing the musical term) the song definitely can work.
I'm also surprised you'd say A Man Doesn't Know -- not the best lyrics, but the melody is nice -- it's certainly not a "terrible" song.
I would have to go with: Clambake (I know, but it IS a terrible song) Something Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad ('nuff said) That damn song in Evita that I can't think of the name of on the concept recording (and I think the movie soundtrack) about the bug spray...the name'll come to me.... One More Kiss from Follies (not because it's so bad, but because the rest of the score is so great that the song just drags it down for me)
Good songs in bad shows: Memory in Cats
About four songs each in Sunset Boulevard and Aspects of Love
Mama A Rainbow in Minnie's Boys (Man was I disappointed when I heard the rest of that score! There were maybe two other songs that were decent, the rest were pretty blah - but Mama a Rainbow is just WOW).
I'm going to reiterate a lot of other people's comments, but...
Good songs, bad shows -Dancing All the Time (Big) -Memory (Cats) -A lot of Taboo
Bad songs, good shows -Lullaby (Scarlet Pimpernel...OK, I think it's a good show) -I Love to Cry at Weddings (Sweet Charity) -Something Bad, Wonderful and A Sentimental Man (Wicked)
Extremely unoriginal, I know. Maybe I'll be back :)
The Overture / Hushabye Mountain/ Anything Jan Maxwell in Chitty Chitty Bang Me.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
um... excuse me, but Throughly Modern Millie and Sunset Blvd are NOT bad shows. They both won the Tony for Best Musical and they were greatly deserved. I just noticed that someone mentioned those shows under their "good songs, bad shows" category.
GOOD SONGS/BAD SHOWS "Way Too Far"~THRILL ME "Only in New York"~THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE "On the Farm"~NEW GIRL IN TOWN "You Won't Succeed On Broadway"~SPAMALOT "MY Little World" and "Tug Boat"~THOU SHALT NOT "I Don't Want It"~THE IMMIGRANT "It's Only Love"~THE SCARLET PIMPERNAL
BAD SONGS/GOOD SHOWS "Rare Songbirds on Display"~SIDE SHOW "Second Chance"~STEEL PIER "The Lady's Paying"~SUNSET BOULEVARD "Why We Like Spelling"~THE 25TH...BEE (even if it's only on the cast album) "The More We Dance"~DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS "Bird Inside the House"~MARIE CHRISTINE (probably the only song LaChiusa's ever written that I dislike) Updated On: 11/5/05 at 04:48 PM
"Where Was I When They Passed Out Luck?" is a great song from "Minnie's Boys." A lot of the score of the misbegotten Lucille Ball vehicle "Wildcat" is terrific, including the standard "Hey, Look Me Over," "Give a Little Whistle," and "Tall Hope." The Harold Rome score for "Destry Rides Again" (which is not exactly a bad show but is certainly less than wonderful) is magnificent.
Bad Songs/Good Shows -'Wonderful' and 'A Sentimental Man' in Wicked (Although, Joel Grey made 'Wonderful' work live out of sheer personality) -'Rent' in Rent -'Dog Eats Dog' in Les Mis -'Last Night of the World' Miss Saigon
Good Songs/Bad Shows -'Memory' in Cats -'Only in New York' in Thoroughly Modern Millie -'Anthem' in Chess -'Seeing is Beliveing' in Aspects of Love
Sorry, but I like "Wonderful" from WICKED. I like it a hell of a lot more than just about everything in the second act of that show, except "For Good" and "No Good Deed."
"That's How Young I Feel" is the only clunker in MAME. "Sarah Brown Eyes" from RAGTIME--it's dull and stops the show dead. "The Motherhood Song" from HELLO, DOLLY "Maison des Lunes" from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."