Graduation Song?
Graduation Song?
broadwayboy1939
Stand-by Joined: 5/23/05
#0Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:43pmCan anybody help me find a song for graduation? I am singing with two other girls, and we want a song (preferably from a musical) that involves change, life, or anything along the lines of that suitable for graduation. If anyone could, please help! :) Thanks so much!
"Sometimes when you dream, your dreams come true..."
#1re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:44pm
At the graduation last year, the whole choir sang "For Good" from WIcked, but it would be perfect. It is two girls, and is personally my favorite song from the show. You might be able to fit a boy part in there.
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
Updated On: 4/3/06 at 10:44 PM
#2re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:47pm"Our Time" if you work out the gender, or add parts. It is THE perfect song about change and endings and begginnings.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#3re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:51pmMy high school choir did "This is the Moment" from Jekyll and Hyde. We also sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel, but that was a long standing school tradition and is sung every year.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#4re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:52pmYou'll Never Walk ALone is a classic. I'd reccomend Our Time and maybe No One is Alone.
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
#5re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:53pmHaha, we also did "You'll Never Walk Alone"
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
misto625
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/05
#6re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:59pmWhen I saw the thread title, I thought "Bring On Tomorrow" from Fame-The Musical
Dean: Can I tell you something?
Lorraine: That depends on what it is.
Dean: I think you're really really pretty.
Lorraine: (after a pause) Ok, you can tell me that.
pandajen14
Stand-by Joined: 3/22/06
#7re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:16pm
When I first saw the title, I thought "Goodbye For Now", but that's instrumental, so I guess not...
I would say don't do "For Good". It's beginning to get overdone. "Our Time" always works. My chorus did "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide, but the arrangement might be difficult to figure out and I'm not sure that it really fits. If you want something more contemporary, I bet "Seasons of Love" would be easy to put together and would probably get a great reaction from the audience.
"Writing should be easy, like a monkey driving a speedboat..." -[title of show]
"I'm tired of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and meet up with them later." -Mitch Hedberg
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:48pmmy school is doing "you'll never walk alone" this year.
#10re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:50pmA nice simple one could be "Try to Remember" from the Fantasticks.
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
#11re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:50pmYou'll Never Walk Alone is a classic for a reason. It's perfect.
"The tick BOOM tick BOOM is so loud I can't hear the rain on the grass. I can't hear the wind. I'm about to scream. But I realize I'm not alone."
#12re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:51pmI concur greenifeyed
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
#13re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:06am
"In the Beginning" from Children o' Eden. End with "Now we begin"
Change "virgin land" to "foreign land"
"No flood from heaven comes again" to "We will not tread this path again"
"No deluge will destroy and purify" to "But all its twists and turns we will recall"
"I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards."
— Peter Brook
milkengh
Swing Joined: 7/14/04
#14re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:32amNo one ever thinks of this one, cuz it's kinda unconventional, but "You Walk With Me" from The Full Monty. My friend and I sang it last year precisely as it is on the recording, and it went over great, because no one had ever heard it before. It's a great song that can be interpreted to talk about the consistency of a true friend in a completely non-cheesy way. Highly recommended!
Te cubrire.
#16re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:03amHow about "seasons of Love"? The line "Let's celebrate, remember a year in the life of frends" made me think of it. Also, in the reprise they mention report cards. I bet you could tuck the reprise in between the first and second verses and make it a longer song.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#17re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:13amwhistle down the wind, Tina A. has a great arrangement.
#18re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:19am
Do "Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon/Garfunkle. I sang it a few times with a chorus at various graduations, and it was the crowd favorite.
We've also done:
"And So It Goes" by Billy Joel - pretty song, but irrelevant to graduation
and
"Seasons of Love", of course
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
WildhornFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 2/5/05
#19re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:37amDuring my graduation a couple years ago, the whole choir sang BRING ON TOMORROW from FAME and right at the end of graduation, before we left, I sang THIS IS THE MOMENT from JEKYLL & HYDE.
#20re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:51am
Just don't do "Letting Go" from Jekyll & Hyde. At my old high school the seniors sang it every damn year at the last concert. It's not even that good.
And if I hear one more trio of high school students sing "Louder Than Words," I might have to kill someone.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
bbtomhl
Swing Joined: 10/9/06
#21re: Graduation Song?
Posted: 10/9/06 at 2:33amwhat about "For Good" from Wicked its a really pretty song that a few people can sing. I sang it at my graduation and like 5 people sang it with solos and everything. We had a lot of people crying. The song is mostly about change, and how people helped them and stuff like that, its really great you should try it.
