Boeing-Boeing Pre-Show Music?

[JamesMacon]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 9:03pm

I think my post got deleted for some reason, but does anyone know where I can get a list of the songs played at Boeing-Boeing before the show? I am kind of in love with them and would really like to get them.

Thank you!

[GIZMO2]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 9:34pm

The pre/post show music in BOEING BOEING is, as you know, American hits from the 60's that were recorded in Italian, German, and French (vis-a-vis the 3 fiancees, of course).

They were complied from several original sources, but I know this was one of them:

http://www.amazon.com/Swinging-Mademoiselles-Groovy-French-Sounds/dp/B0009VBTSW

Incidentally, Christine Baranski (goddess - make sign of the cross) told me that the fun music was the primary reason the sound designer for the show, Simon Baker, was nominated for the first-ever "Sound in a Play" Tony, because god knows he didn't do any mics on the stage or actors. (Those poor folks scream their way through that show 8x's a week!)

One more note: Don't confuse these songs with the "original music" that plays at that oh-so-fun curtain call and at the end of Act I. That's by Claire Van Kampen, who, like Mark Rylance, came from the UK -- specifically, she did a lot of work with mark at the Globe.

To get a copy of that, you'd probably have to email her directly. I don't think they're planning on marketing it.

Peace.

[louisamayfoster]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 11:10pm

This show is SO much fun and you're right...they do SCREAM their lines, but artfully!

[GIZMO2]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 8:39am

I couldn't agree more! It's a great show, with some of the best, campiest, and most genuine humor currently on Broadway.

But now let me retract the word "scream" from my previous posting. I should have said that as theater professionals, they all skillfully use their diaphrams to "project their voices" 8x's a week.

Besides, with the amount of furniture/floor-humping that tends to take place on stage, I suppose body mics would have been out of the question.

I also have to edit the "American songs" part of my previous posting. Turns out that most of the songs used in the preshow originated in the U.K.

Peace.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 9:11am

The atmosphere of the show in London was exactly the same as the one here. I was very glad that they brought over the music that set the mood so well in London.

But I liked Bruno Toneioli's choreography better...he had the ladies doing the traditional Stewardess moves.

[GIZMO2]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 9:22am

I think I'm going to regret asking this, but what, on god's green earth, are "traditional stewardess moves?"

And do they come with cream and sugar?

[allofmylife]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 10:47am

Dying to see the show, but it's probably dip and serve moves that Stews (yes, I'm old enough to have slept with women who were referred to as "Stews") used to use. The Playboy Bunnies were taught a sexualized version of the same moves.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 10:52am

More or less, yeah. Combine that with the two-fingered pointing of where the exits and bathrooms are, etc.

[GIZMO2]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:00am

I see. Cool.

Initially I was thinking more along the lines of "emergency exits are located in the midsection and rear of the plane." You know, the two fingers motion they do at the beginning of the flight? Or perhaps showing us how to attached our oxygen masks . . .

Either way, I think these would have made hysterical choreography and I'm sad they didn't make Gina Gershon do them on stage in New York.

Think of the homage Forbidden Broadway could have paid to her then!

Peace.

[GIZMO2]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 11:02am

Wow. Yankeefan.

Cross-postings!

Great minds think alike!

[JamesMacon]

Posted: 8/3/08 at 1:30pm

bump...

[seymour229]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:33pm

so does anyone know the actual names or a list of the songs that are played before the show??

i can think of a few, like 'monday, monday' but don't remember any of the others.
and does anyone know also where you can get them in the different languages?

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 12:04am

All I recognized were the two Beatles covers. The music was fabulous, I want it!

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 1:23am

I would totally buy a cd of that music.

[Parks]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 2:53am

"It's My Party" is one of the songs.

and GIZMO knows way too much. :P

[mikem]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 7:00am

I didn't get there much before the show started, so I missed most of the pre-show music, but it seemed that all of the songs I heard were in French. Are there a lot of songs in Italian and German?

Updated On: 8/28/08 at 07:00 AM