Musical Theater songs about "change" or "making a difference"
Musical Theater songs about "change" or "making a difference"
JasonM12480
Broadway Star Joined: 3/17/05
#1Musical Theater songs about "change" or "making a difference"
Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:33pm
Getting ready to teach a musical theater course this fall, and the theme is people and ideas that have made a difference or changed the world. Ideas such as: Famous composers - Beethoven ("Beethoven Day" from You're A Good Man Charlie Brown), or Engineers - Henry Ford ("Henry Ford" from Ragtime). So I need to find songs about change, people wanting change, making a difference, fighting for something they believe in, etc.
Any ideas? All suggestions would be most helpful! Thanks.
#2re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:36pmWhere are you guys coming from with these questions???????? Please!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#2re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:39pm"I Am Changing" from Dreamgirls. "There's Gotta be Something Better Than This" from Sweet Charity. "Corner in the Sky" from Pippin. Will think of more later.
JasonM12480
Broadway Star Joined: 3/17/05
#3re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:48pm
Usually, a question comes from the brain, or central nervous system, when one thinks of one.
#4re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:50pm
If you can find it: "Making Good" originally in Wicked before being replaced by "The Wizard and I"- which itself is a good "change" or "making a difference song."
"I Know Where I've Been" from Hairspray
"I Don't Want To" from All Shook Up
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
bwayballerina
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
#5re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:58pm
"Louder Than Words" from Tick Tick Boom is the song that immediately comes to my mind...
I3ella.Rosa
Swing Joined: 12/25/06
#6re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:59pmNot technically musical theatre, but Seize The Day from Newsies, and Make Them Hear You from Ragtime.
teka21
Leading Actor Joined: 12/19/06
#7re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:04pm
How about Fiorello-
lots of songs there, but just to name a few:
On the Side of the Angels
Little Tin Box
Unfair (the strike song)
Leading Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:16pm
Would "A Change in Me" from BATB work? It's not exactly making a difference, but its about change...
"Purpose" from Avenue Q?
Something from Les Mis? Or Miss Saigon. I haven't listened to it much, but there should be something from there, right?
Also, "Once We Were Kings" from Billy Elliot?
Updated On: 8/14/07 at 11:16 PM
Marianne
Stand-by Joined: 4/10/07
#9re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:19pm
Make Them Hear You from Ragtime.
Our Time from Merrily would work out of context.
#10re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:19pmYou should definitely look into CAROLINE OR CHANGE. A few songs I suggest are "I Hate the Bus," and the "Lot's Wife" sequence which includes "Sunday Morning" and "Lot's Wife."
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#11re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:21pmHold on from The Secret Garden always makes me think about making a difference.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#12re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:24pmA bunch things from Les Mis--Red and Black, Do You Hear the People Sing, One Day More.
I chose, and my world was shaken. So what?
The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not.
antz
Chorus Member Joined: 8/9/07
#13re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:25pm
Make Them Hear You (from Ragtime) - says to go out and make a difference
Also:
For Good (Wicked)
Being Alive (Company)
Day After That (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Seasons of Love (Rent)
Move On (Sunday in the Park with George)
Do You Hear the People Sing (Les Miserables)
Into the Fire (Scarlet Pimpernel)
No More (Into The Woods)
Electricity (Billy Elliot - the Musical)
LoringsGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/04
#14re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:37pm
Wait, can this be true? Have we really gotten this far into the thread and NO ONE has suggested "Defying Gravity"??
All kidding aside, it's definitely a song about being true to yourself, pushing boundaries, and seeing how far you can go.
Also, "Astonishing" from LITTLE WOMEN.
"Word of advice: Be who you are, wear what you want---just learn how to run real fast." Marc, UGLY BETTY
#15re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:39pm
Just looked up the lyrics for this song ~
Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha.
(My teenage mantra way back when).
Imagine - John Lennon
Updated On: 8/14/07 at 11:39 PM
#16re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:49pmA fun one may be Amazing Gertrude from Seussical
Just give the world Love.
#17re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:57pmDefying Gravity is very good, also Anything Can Happen from Mary Poppins. Oh, and Legally Blonde Remix from Legally Blonde.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#18re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/15/07 at 12:00am
"Legally Blonde Remix from Legally Blonde. "
Find My Way from Legally Blonde as well.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#19re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/15/07 at 12:01am
Has "Change" from A New Brain been mentioned???
It's PERFECT.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#20re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/15/07 at 3:16amWhat about "A change in me" from Beauty and the beast
#22re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/15/07 at 5:12am
Teamwork - Chitty
Find Your Grail - Spamalot
**You Can't Beat A Matcham!**
sleepyguy1717
Broadway Star Joined: 8/1/07
#23re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/15/07 at 6:44amA New Life from Jekyll and Hyde is a good one about personal growth and change. Just avoid the fact that she gets brutally murdered afterwords. 0.o
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#24re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/15/07 at 7:19am
One Person from Dear World
Open A New Window from Mame
#25re: Musical Theater songs about 'change' or 'making a difference'
Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:49amA brilliant one in Fame the musical is Bring On Tomorrow
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
