Adding songs?
Adding songs?
wiggum2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/03
#0Adding songs?
Posted: 2/16/06 at 6:09pm
What shows have added a new song after their opening? I heard on Seth Rudetsky's radio show that Dreamgirls added a song about a year into it's run.
I did a search didn't find anything.
Thanks
Updated On: 2/16/06 at 06:09 PM
AuditioningWaitress
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/05
#1re: Adding songs?
Posted: 2/16/06 at 6:31pmTim Rice and Alan Menken wrote "A Change In Me" for Toni Braxton during her run in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
#2re: Adding songs?
Posted: 2/16/06 at 6:35pm"The World Around Us" was added to The Pajama Game a few weeks after opening.
AuditioningWaitress
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/05
#3re: Adding songs?
Posted: 2/16/06 at 6:40pmAlso, Stephen Schwartz re-wrote "Wonderful" from WICKED for George Hearn.
#4re: Adding songs?
Posted: 2/16/06 at 6:45pmNot really. It seemed the same for me. The arangment was just different.
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#5re: Adding songs?
Posted: 2/16/06 at 9:47pmThe "Wonderful" change was mostly at the end, since George wasn't capable of the dance sequence.
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#7re: Adding songs?
Posted: 2/18/06 at 6:17pm
Did he go:
"When you are wonderful
It would be wonderful
When you're the wonderful... ONE!!!!"
Because that's what it is in the sheet music.
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#8re: Adding songs?
Posted: 2/18/06 at 6:26pm
Two songs were added for Ethel Merman when she did "Hello Dolly" late in its run.
The revival of "Cabaret" has a few songs that weren't in the original (ie "Money Makes the World Go Around," "Mein Heir," "Maybe This Time")
The Waltz in "Nine" was changed to a tango for the revival with Antonio Bandaras and Chita Rivera and then back to a tango when Chita was replaced by Eartha Kitt.
"Hippie Life" was added for the Actor's Fund of America Benifit of "Hair" last year.
I could go on and on...there are tons more.
slimandslam
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/05
#9re: Adding songs?
Posted: 2/18/06 at 8:46pm
I guess we should distinguish between:
(a) a show adding a song for a new production (revival, tour, etc.)
and
(b) a show adding a song during its original Broadway (or off-Broadway) run.
If we wanted to add (c), a show adding songs during out-of-town previews, we'd be here until about July of 2008 listing them all.
