Best 10 Songs of the last 5 years on Broadway- Page 2

[MusicalDirector109]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:22pm

"Say it Somehow" - Light in the Piazza
"Dividing Day"
"The Light in the Piazza"
"You Can't Stop the Beat" - "Hairspray"
"Lot's Wife" - "Caroline,or Change"
"Good Morning Baltimore" - "Hairspray"
"Statues and Stories" - LITP
"The Color Purple"
"Push Da Button" -TCP
"What About Love?" - TCP

[So what...I sing]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:23pm

You reeallllly like Piazza and Color Purple eh?

[MusicalDirector109]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:33pm

IMHO "Piazza" is the best show written in the last five years.

[LifeoftheParty227]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:47pm

"Munk, why don't you just let people state their opinions and be done with it? They don't need to explain to you why they think the song's good in order for them to like it."


seriously

[So what...I sing]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 4:11pm

totally agreed, the petty annoyance of hearing you complain that you don't agree with an opinion is getting very old!

Also, Piazza is amazing...Musicaldirector...I agree with you

[wyou17]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 4:18pm

After reading Munk's list, I don't feel such a strong need to post my own. It would be pretty much the same. Maybe Stranger In This World (Taboo) or The Beauty Is (Piazza) would have found their way on to the list, but otherwise his is the list closest to reflecting my own opinions.

[rufussars]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 4:57pm

I usually refrain from joining broad lists like this, but I'll put my two-cents in:

Defying Gravity - Wicked
You Can't Stop the Beat - Hairspray
The Song That Goes Like This - Spamalot
The King of Broadway - The Producers
Forget About the Boy - Millie
The Light in the Piazza - The Light in the Piazza
It Sucks to Be Me - Avenue Q
For Good - Wicked
Find Your Grail - Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Number - DRS

Now, mind you, I'm not a fan of all those songs, and there are some from the same shows which I prefer more, but I feel the above will have any kind of lasting power as the show's signature. Also, I tried to hit a variety of shows from various seasons, excluding songs written before 5 years (mainly revivals).

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:02pm

For the record, SOmething Just Broke was added in 1992 to the Donmar Warehouse production in London - so it's not techincally a new song, certainly not last five years....

[Sant]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:14pm

Defying Gravity - WICKED
There's A Fine, Fine Line - AVENUE Q
The Wizard And I - WICKED
Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now - HAIRSPRAY
The Song That Goes Like This - SPAMALOT
The Money Song - AVENUE Q
Schadenfreude - AVENUE Q
Trying Not To Notice - THE WOMAN IN WHITE
What Was A Woman To Do - DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
Oklahoma? - DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

[tgrabon]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:26pm

In no particular order

1) The I Love You Song, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2) Oklahoma?, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3) You Can't Stop the Beat, Hairspray
4) I See Through You, Come on in From the Outside, Il Adore, Petrified, all from Taboo ( I can't pick just one song from thei show)
5) Somebody Gonna Love You, The Color Purple
6) For Good, Wicked
7) Passeggiata, The Light in the Piazza
Show Off, The Drowsy Chaperone
9) Once Before I Go, The Boy From Oz
10)Gimme Gimme, Thoroughly Modern Millie

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:27pm

Oh, and my Top 10:

1. Passeggiata, Light in the Piazza
2. The I Love You Song, Spelling Bee
3. There's a Fine Fine Line, Avenue Q
4. Lot's Wife, Caroline or Change
5. Bride's Lament, Drowsy Chaperone
6. It's Your Wedding Day, The Wedding Singer
7. Say It Somehow, Light in the Piazza
8. Stranger in this World, Taboo
9. Everyone's a Little Bit Racist, Avenue Q
10. MUE, Spelling Bee

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:41pm

In no order:

1. Find Your Grail - Spamalot
2. Pretrified - Taboo
3. It's Your Wedding Day - The Wedding Singer
4. Run Freedom Run - Urinetown
5. Defying Gravity - Wicked
6. The King of Broadway - The Producers
7. There's A Fine, Fine, Line - Avenue Q
8. I Speak Six Languages - Spelling Bee
9. Pie In The Sky - Taboo
10. Love Is A Question Mark - Taboo

[theatahguy]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:03pm

In no particular order (and many repeats from previous posts):

**Statues and Stories - it's a fantastic opening number
**I Love You Song - cause it's AMAZING
**I Hate the Bus - cause the sentiment rang really true
**The Song That Goes Like This - cause dying is easy & comedy is hard
**Fine Fine Line - cause I couldnt breathe after I saw Steph perform it
**Some Things Are Meant to Be (Little Women) - cause it's lovely and makes a beautiful moment in a crappy show
**Lot's Wife - 'nuff said
**Petrified - 'nuff said again
**Only For Now
**All Things (from Thou Shalt Not...flame away!!)

HONORABLE MENTION
**Its Your Wedding Day
**As We Stumble Along (only because she says PLUMBLE!)
**Astonishing (I love it...sue me)
**Talk Amongst Yourselves
**You Cant Stop the Beat
**Aiutami (forgive the spelling)...if for no other reason that to hear Sarah Uriarte Berry's screaming soprano ... phenomenal

...and then there are songs that I love simply because of the performer/performance:

**Fable
**Gimme Gimme
**Il Adore (Taboo) because Sarah Berry sounds like an angel
**Couldnt Be Happier (I CANNOT believe I listed something from Wicked...kill me now!)

[WiiCKED x3]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:18pm

In no order:

Defying Gravity- Wicked
It's your Wedding Day- The Wedding Singer
Great Big Stuff- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Big Girls Don't Cry- Jersey Boys
I Wish I Could Go Back To College- Avenue Q
Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now- Hairspray
The Wizard And I - Wicked
Show Off- The Drowsy Chaperone
Dirty Rotten Number- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
What Was A Woman To Do- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[I<3bway]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:33pm

1)It's Your Wedding Day- The Wedding Singer
2)Great Big Stuff- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3)Shiska Goddess- The Last Five Years
4)Not Me- AIDA
5)(Dawn)Go Away- Jersey Boys
6)The Wizard and I- Wicked
7)Seasons of Love- RENT
8 Stay In My Life- Bright Lights, Big City
9)Paseggiata- The Light In The Piazza
10)Purpose- Avenue Q


To tell you the truth, I love ALL of the songs on the same level and I think they're ALL amazing songs, so I couldn't really choose my favorite. Besides, if you just asked us to name off great broadway songs, I would just go on and on and on.


Updated On: 6/20/06 at 07:33 PM

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:38pm

I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves It's Your Wedding Day -- since I saw the show on Saturday I haven't been able to stop listening to the CD. My favorite song is actually probably Somebody Kill Me Please (I start yelling "It all was bull****" at random times - mostly in my head because I can't do that at school) but I know that was in the movie, so I didn't count it.

[Act4ever]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:47pm

I don't think it's fair to put anything from Jersey Boys... its not like those songs werent around before five years ago...

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:47pm

There are none. The dearth of even barely decent scores has resulted in a virtual black hole of musical theater and the demise of standards of excellence such as 'best.'






Allison MacKenzie
Peyton Place, New Hampshire

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:51pm

Enchanted Hunter - you continue to amaze me that ANYONE could be so negative - and waste SO much time on a site dedicated to a form they hate so much. You make me sad.

[I<3bway]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:52pm

"I don't think it's fair to put anything from Jersey Boys... its not like those songs werent around before five years ago... "



Hey I like it so why the hell not? Besides, it's also kind of saying you can't put songs from Mamma Mia or The Lion King up there since it's been in a movie before or it's been sung by a pop group already. I say it can be any song from b-way that has made you have a great time at the theatre and makes you enjoy broadway musicals even more.

[I<3bway]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:10pm

bump

[The W.A.N.D]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:12pm

#1- Its your wedding day

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:36pm

No order:

Fable
Dirty Rotten Number
Great Big Stuff
Love to Me
His Name is Lancelot
It's Your Wedding Day
Don't be the Bunny (that may be #1)
Follow Your Heart
You Can't Stop the Beat
No Good Deed

(list subject to change)

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:50pm

In no order

"Defying Gravity" Wicked
"The Internet is for Porn" Avenue Q
"There's a Fine, Fine Line" Avenue Q
"Whatever Happened to My Part?" Spamalot
"You Won't Succeed on Broadway" Spamalot
"The Song That Goes Like This" Spamalot
"You Can't Stop the Beat" Hairspray
"Good Morning Baltimore"
"Gimme Gimme" Thoroughly Modern Millie
Anything from Light in the Piazza

One that should be on there but probably won't is "Cookies" A Year with Frog and Toad.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 9:23pm

Was not "Thoroughly Modern Millie" released sometime in the sixties.