Its hard for me to say one from a play however "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" "Rose's Turn" "Don't rain on my Parade" "On the street where you live" Are my tops!
I know that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I think listing Fable, or any songs for that matter from shows in the last 5 years or so is just silly
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
You'll Never Walk Alone - CAROUSEL Something Wonderful - THE KING AND I Climb Ev'ry Mountain - THE SOUND OF MUSIC The Sound of Music - THE SOUND OF MUSIC English Teacher - BYE BYE BIRDIE Cabaret - CABARET Maybe This Time - CABARET Soliloquy - CAROUSEL Some Enchanted Evening - SOUTH PACIFIC Put on a Happy Face - BYE BYE BIRDIE Memory - CATS The Music and the Mirror - A CHORUS LINE Nothing - A CHORUS LINE What I Did For Love - A CHORUS LINE Don't Cry for me Argentina - EVITA Losing my Mind - FOLLIES Broadway Baby - FOLLIES Buddy's Blues - FOLLIES Coud I Leave You? - FOLLIES I'm Still Here - FOLLIES In Buddy's Eyes - FOLLIES Too Many Mornings - FOLLIES Tell Me On a Sunday - SONG AND DANCE Unexpected Song - SONG AND DANCE Moments in the Woods - INTO THE WOODS Being Alive - COMPANY The Ladies Who Lunch - COMPANY Another Hundred People - COMPANY Not a Day Goes By - MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Time Heals Everything - MACK AND MABEL I Am What I Am - LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Everything's Coming Up Roses- GYPSY Rose's Turn - GYPSY Don't Rain on my Parade - FUNNY GIRL Send in the Clowns - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Finishing the Hat - SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
More recent:
Lot's Wife - CAROLINE, OR CHANGE I Know Where I've Been - HAIRSPRAY Petrified - TABOO Stranger in this World - TABOO Fable - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Love to ME - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Dividing Day - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
Because newer shows just can't compare in my mind, for better or for worse. I think the true test of the power of a song is at least 15-20 years after it was written.
Where is the Warmth from "The Baker's Wife" Green Finch and Linnet Bird from "Sweeney Todd" Hold On from "The Secret Garden" Winter's On the Wing from "The Secret Garden" Unexpected Song from "Song and Dance" Love Can't Happen from "Grand Hotel"
So songs are only the best after they have five years to themselves to practice and get better?
"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
I Dreamed A Dream - Les Miserables On My Own - Les Miserables Maybe This Time - Cabaret Cabaret - Cabaret Gimme Gimme - Thoroughly Modern Millie Rose's Turn - Gypsy The Fire Within Me - Little Women
"Losing My Mind" Follies "Being Alive" Company "The Music & The Mirror" A Chorus Line "Rose's Turn" Gypsy "Sunday in the Park with George" Sunday in the Park with George
"I'm afraid that the children that the two of you would spawn would come out in costume, off book and belting Merman."
You've got people in here who are, in all seriousness, listing a song from Brooklyn as "best solo ever" and then you're going to complain that someone lists "Fable"?
Ugh...
While I agree Piazza hasn't had the luxury of having been around for a while, dismissing it's best song is a little short sightened. As musicals go, it's the best of the last several years, and I think it will still be talked about some time from now.
so damn many. but "the impossible dream" and "as long as he needs me" do get me any time. and something rather unknown: "the line" from "grind", very moving indeed.