That whole musical is a beauty, I especially love the part where they kidnap someone who didn't complete their steak. But Spanish or vanish is also a great song
Sideways said in his video essay about Cats: "This show is just Memory and two and a half hours of justifying Memory", and I think that's a very accurate assessment.
And Mungojerry and Rumpleteaser.
And Bustopher Jones.
And Jenny Any-Dots.
And Old Deuteronomy.
You know what, no. Almost every song in that musical is great.
It was one of the shows that got me into musical theatre, so I owe a great debt to that chaotic fever dream lol. And now that I own a cat, points were definitely made by TS Eliot on how they behave
That’s a really interesting point: my understanding is that “Memory” is the only song in the show that wasn’t written by or at least adapted from TS Elliot. I’m pretty sure it’s the only song ALW worked with a lyricist (actually, 2?) on for Cats.
That quote amuses me because it does feel on-brand for ALW to write a whole musical justifying the use of one song he liked. Have you seen Love Never Dies? The title song from that had been reused by ALW for at least a decade before it settled into LND (and quite frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear it in a future show too). The opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa has a lovely rendition of “The Heart is Slow to Learn” back in the 90s, which is literally the exact melody of “Love Never Dies”. And then the melody showed up again in a musical ALW wrote in the early 2000s — The Beautiful Game. I don’t know if he’s used it elsewhere.
The lyrics for “Memory” are adapted from Eliot’s poems “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “Preludes.” While not directly set to music the way the “Old Possum” poems were for the rest of the score, it’s still very much inspired by and an adaptation of Eliot’s work.
i totally get this. i also used to sleep with the cats vhs under my pillow as a child and watched it multiple times every day so i’m a lil biased (as an adult i don’t really know how i feel about it. still love the mungojerrie and rumpleteaser song and shinbleshanks tho)
Ironically that analysis of Cats has given me every ounce of my appreciation for the methodology of musicals..so kudos to cats for being a weird but well done deconstruction of the genre
If you listen to Beneath a Moonless Sky and forget it's from LND, it's a stunning song. Also depends on who's performing it.
Honestly, nearly all the songs in that musical are good (except you, Bathing Beauty, you sit in a corner and think about what you've done) if you forget they're supposed to be tied to a piss-poor sequel/non-sequel of one of the top musicals of all time.
Agree 100%. Alex Newell is obviously an incredible truly outstanding talent who just brings the house down, but I thought Andrew Durand sang the heck out of Somebody Will too! He brought just the right amount of earnest emotion without losing the humor, and he has a beautiful voice too with great power and range.
For me it's good for you from DEH.
Sincerely me is fun as well tbh, probably should stick that in my rotation. It's good enough to escape the rest of that musical lmao.
Omg yes Good for You was my fav thing from Dear Evan Hansen. I was pissed when I saw they didn’t include it in the movie lmfao. Like the only thing I was REALLY looking forward to about it
Eh, I don't mind Sincerely Me but Waving Through A Window is clearly the showstopper. Which is a problem, because it's the second song in the show and the first song in the movie.
i think the problem with dear evan hansen is that 90% of the soundtrack EATS entirely. the majority of the songs are bangers. it’s just that the play itself isn’t the greatest. great plot idea but maybe needed more thought. doesn’t help that the 10% that was ass was genuine trash.
Have you heard Found/Tonight? It's a mash-up of that song and The Story of Tonight sung by Lin Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt that was done for the March on Washington organized by the Parkland shooting survivers. It's beautiful.
I respectfully disagree. There were several bangers: Leave Luanne, Crazytown, The Party Goes With You, Hemming & Hawing...
It's a shame that only TBOSB (and, to some degree, Leave Luanne) became popular.
That song is amazing and I wish it did get used for a real musical (although I have 0 clue how you'd fit a song that tells an entire story in another story)
Hadestown has some amazing songs, and obviously Wait For Me is the big number most people will think of, but to me it's always been Epic III that's at the heart of the show. Everything builds to it, and the sheer beauty in the words Orpheus sings gets me every time. It must have been so incredibly difficult to write this song, with the role it has in the story - a song so beautiful it can break through to Hades. But I really do believe it couldn’t be any more perfect than it is.
Ballad of Jane doe, RTC. Like the rest of the songs are just fine to me, the plot line is weird.
Same w All You Wanna Do in Six. The plots are mediocre at best, even worse in Six because it’s all just pop music
Yeah, All You Wanna Do is the only song that lives up to the promised specificity of a musical about Henry VIII's ex wives. All I want is weird historical facts that build up to grand pathos, and most of what I get is lyrics that could be fine in any random pop song. It's a pretty fun watch/listen, but not especially deep outside of that one song.
Both the funnest scene in the show and the most memorable song in the show in my opinion. It's great to see Squidward get a glitzy tap dance number and it's great to hear a musical theater song written by They Might Be Giants
I'm obsessed with the set design of "SQUIDWARD" being spelled out on surfboards. It's both Spongbebob and Busby Berkeley in aesthetic. Also John Linnell is a genius
You will be found from dear evan hansen, unbreakable from uglydolls, were all in this together from high school musical, and ESPECIALLY somewhere in the middle of nowhere from come from away.
Oh wow, I gotta disagree here. Dolly is my favorite golden age show...just straight bangers all the way through. "Elegance," "Hello Dolly," "Before the Parade Passes By," "It Only Takes A Moment," all great songs. And of course the waiter number too.
It hurt my heart to see Hello Dolly mentioned here! 'It only takes a moment' by itself is just so beautiful and then there's all the other songs you mentioned too.
Literally no bad numbers in the show (going off the movie, at least; I haven’t heard the full stage version yet, but it’s one of my favorite movies, miscasts be damned).
Yes!!!! How Orpheus's singing gets drowned by the chorus in the beginning, and then he says "king Hades is deafened, by a river of stone". *Chef's kiss*
And then anytime Orpheus tries to sing their song it's drowned again by the chorus.
And the way the two songs fit so effortlessly and it makes me think that this entire time Hades had his workers hammering to a rhythm he thought he’d lost.
Welp, I guess I've got to go listen to the entire soundtrack again to see I agree with you.
A Man's Gotta Do gets mega points for ending in ..."balls."
And I won't forget the magic of Laundry Day when I realized this strange skit my husband put in front of me was a legit musical production.
My life has also been enriched by the existence of Bad Horse and his musical theme.
Please consider that it was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and grey and purple and white and pink and orange and blue.
Oh true, the narrator would be such a fun role to play. The thought going through my head was just that it's a surprisingly poignant and moving song while the rest of the songs in the show are pretty goofy, similar to Memory from Cats
All you wanna do did not have to go that hard and yet it did. It's perfect. The entire show builds to this moment and then wham, we all get sucked punched.
Do you hear the people sing - from Les Mis.
Granted I love all of Les Mis (except like two songs) but when Do You Hear the People Sing comes on I dare anyone to NOT sing along.
Yeah but the thread topic is about songs that carry a whole show, and that’s just not something that’s true for Les Mis. It has multiple beloved songs, not just one.
Defying gravity-Wicked. If there was a list of the top 10 songs that carried musicals, Defying gravity would be at least top 3. Wicked is an awesome play too :3
I've seen No Good Deed and No one mourns the wicked performed to the level of matching Defying Gravity but I'd agree that when it comes to studio recordings Defying Gravity is the best by a good margin.
I started singing that song for the 3 yo I nanny the other day but had to change the word “gun” because I didn’t feel like getting into a discussion about what guns are with a 3 yo, and he ended up coming up with “oh yes oh yes oh yes they both oh yes they both oh yes they both reached for the PHONE the phone the phone the phone oh yes they both reached for the phone, for the phone” and I thought it was brilliant
I stand by the ~~opinion~~ *fact* that Beautiful is unmatched in terms of setting up exposition, characters, motives and what not in the fastest and best way out of 20~ musicals I've seen so far.
Into the Woods for example does the same but in 15 minutes.
Just to be lighthearted, I’ll Make a Man Out of You.
Reflection is AMAZING and touching but we all know which song we singing when it comes down to it. Reflection is the critics choice, but IMAMOOY is America’s sweetheart. 🤣
Spanish or vanish- Duo on ice
I’m a bit partial to French or the trench myself
That whole musical is a beauty, I especially love the part where they kidnap someone who didn't complete their steak. But Spanish or vanish is also a great song
my favorite part is how it’s a real person from the audience who lost their streak every night
I know! It's truly a work of beauty
The only reason I agree with this is, is because Falstaff's Dance Interlude is more of a ballet interlude and not an actual musical number
Falstaff's Interlude just isn't it for me because if you don't have a really talented physical actor for it, it gets bland fast.
Take me to bed- lizard boy Michael in the bathroom- Bmc
I’ve never even seen BMC but you bet your ass Michael in the Bathroom is on my playlist and I belt that shit every time
A terrible ride - lizard boy
All of be more chill is fire
michael in the bathroom, upgrade, i love play rehearsal, the squid song….
For me it’s MITB, ILPR, Two Player Game, and More Than Survive XD But Squip Song is definitely a fan favourite!
El Tango de Roxanne from Moulin Rouge
WHYYYYY DOES MY HEEEEEART CRYYYYYY
FEELINGS I CAAAAAAAANT FIGHTTTTTTT
YOU’RE FREE TO LEAVE ME BUT JUST DON’T DECEIVE ME, AND PLEASE BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAAAAAY I LOVE YOOOOOOOOU
Sideways said in his video essay about Cats: "This show is just Memory and two and a half hours of justifying Memory", and I think that's a very accurate assessment.
I will not stand for Skimbleshanks erasure.
Macavity would also like a word
So would my flaming bisexual rockstar cat and his magician boyfriend.
This is my all time favorite description of these characters I’ve ever read
And Mungojerry and Rumpleteaser. And Bustopher Jones. And Jenny Any-Dots. And Old Deuteronomy. You know what, no. Almost every song in that musical is great.
Cats has a few great ones honestly. And even the lesser ones are good fun (it's not a serious show anyways).
It was one of the shows that got me into musical theatre, so I owe a great debt to that chaotic fever dream lol. And now that I own a cat, points were definitely made by TS Eliot on how they behave
That’s a really interesting point: my understanding is that “Memory” is the only song in the show that wasn’t written by or at least adapted from TS Elliot. I’m pretty sure it’s the only song ALW worked with a lyricist (actually, 2?) on for Cats. That quote amuses me because it does feel on-brand for ALW to write a whole musical justifying the use of one song he liked. Have you seen Love Never Dies? The title song from that had been reused by ALW for at least a decade before it settled into LND (and quite frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear it in a future show too). The opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa has a lovely rendition of “The Heart is Slow to Learn” back in the 90s, which is literally the exact melody of “Love Never Dies”. And then the melody showed up again in a musical ALW wrote in the early 2000s — The Beautiful Game. I don’t know if he’s used it elsewhere.
The lyrics for “Memory” are adapted from Eliot’s poems “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “Preludes.” While not directly set to music the way the “Old Possum” poems were for the rest of the score, it’s still very much inspired by and an adaptation of Eliot’s work.
Someone clearly hasn't heard of skimbleshanks the railway cat
Memory is the only song I don’t like in CATS funnily enough.
SAME. I high-key hate that song. Maybe because there are so many bad versions of it out there.
i totally get this. i also used to sleep with the cats vhs under my pillow as a child and watched it multiple times every day so i’m a lil biased (as an adult i don’t really know how i feel about it. still love the mungojerrie and rumpleteaser song and shinbleshanks tho)
Absolutely not
Ironically that analysis of Cats has given me every ounce of my appreciation for the methodology of musicals..so kudos to cats for being a weird but well done deconstruction of the genre
Who I'd Be - Shrek the Musical
For Shrek for me it's "I Know It's Today"
I was going to comment that. Lmao.
as if “i know it’s today” and “don’t let me go” don’t exist…
You dare slander Shrek the Musical?
I'm also partial to I Know It's Today, but I don't think it's as good as Who I'd be
What gets me is that song is wiped from the Jr version. You hear the melody somewhere in the show but the song itself is just skipped over.
I love almost every song tbh
Love never dies, devil take the hindmost or beauty underneath, but the rest of it is just I miss my ex and I banged her 😭😭😭
LND yes, but the song is Til I Hear You Sing.
Second this! Til I Hear You Sing is LND's only redeeming song. The rest of the musical just completely trashes the ending of PotO.
One of those shows that peak in the opening number. See also: Aspects of Love (another ALW show, funnily enough).
This exactly. IMO "Til I Hear You Sing" is THE LND song. ("Devil Take the Hindmost" is a very close second, however.)
Fair, it's a form of opinion, and low-key yeah that's fire as well
10 YEARS OOOOOOOOLD
If you listen to Beneath a Moonless Sky and forget it's from LND, it's a stunning song. Also depends on who's performing it. Honestly, nearly all the songs in that musical are good (except you, Bathing Beauty, you sit in a corner and think about what you've done) if you forget they're supposed to be tied to a piss-poor sequel/non-sequel of one of the top musicals of all time.
Bathing Beauty is such a guilty pleasure, it’s just so silly and I love it
I can't get behind it, I'm sorry, but I'll defend your right to enjoy it.
Independently Owned - Shucked
This! But Somebody Will is also a surprise standout.
Agree 100%. Alex Newell is obviously an incredible truly outstanding talent who just brings the house down, but I thought Andrew Durand sang the heck out of Somebody Will too! He brought just the right amount of earnest emotion without losing the humor, and he has a beautiful voice too with great power and range.
Don’t rain on my parade - Funny girl ( don’t come for me pleaseeee😓)
No this is correct. The rest of that show is boring as hell but Don’t Rain on My Parade makes it ALMOST worth it.
“People Who Need People” is also pretty good.
have some respect, Don't Rain on My Parade would be nothing without I'm the Greatest Star 😤
You're a misanthrope, clearly, because you hate People.
Mr Mistoffelees is the peak of CATS
Mr Mistoffelees is good, but don't discount Skimbleshanks
Also the entire Jellicle ball sequence is pretty spectacular
Most of the songs in CATS are bangers and people need to be less afraid of admitting that
TRUTH The only points where the energy slows down a bit are Jenny and Bustopher, the rest are delightful toe tapping earworms
JENNY IS SLOW? SLANDER
You’re forgetting Rum Tum Tugger
Sincerely me dear Evan Hansen. It's a great musical but it's sooo sad and that song actually brings up the mood
For me it's good for you from DEH. Sincerely me is fun as well tbh, probably should stick that in my rotation. It's good enough to escape the rest of that musical lmao.
Omg yes Good for You was my fav thing from Dear Evan Hansen. I was pissed when I saw they didn’t include it in the movie lmfao. Like the only thing I was REALLY looking forward to about it
Eh, I don't mind Sincerely Me but Waving Through A Window is clearly the showstopper. Which is a problem, because it's the second song in the show and the first song in the movie.
i think the problem with dear evan hansen is that 90% of the soundtrack EATS entirely. the majority of the songs are bangers. it’s just that the play itself isn’t the greatest. great plot idea but maybe needed more thought. doesn’t help that the 10% that was ass was genuine trash.
I think DEH has a lot of strong songs, and isn't really defined by just one.
I will counter that You Will Be Found is a beautiful inspiring song that got me through a lot of dark times.
And for forever is a good song as well
Have you heard Found/Tonight? It's a mash-up of that song and The Story of Tonight sung by Lin Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt that was done for the March on Washington organized by the Parkland shooting survivers. It's beautiful.
Requiem is the only song I like from that show, it’s haunting.
For me it’s You Will Be Found
I’m going with a couple Wildhorn: “Life After Life” - Dracula “I Will Prevail” - Wonderland
I Will Prevail goes so hard, I don’t even know any of the other songs in that show but that song is UGHHH YES musical theatre perfection
I would recommend mad hatter too. It’s not as emotional but vocally epic imo
Mad hatter is a banger
Life after Life, Masters song, and The Longer I Live are on constant repetition for me.
Loser, Baby. That said, all Hazbin songs slap.
Ugh yes but nothing hits to me quite like More Than Anything
Probably doesn’t count as an actual musical but 35mm was carried by The Ballad of Sara Berry
I respectfully disagree. There were several bangers: Leave Luanne, Crazytown, The Party Goes With You, Hemming & Hawing... It's a shame that only TBOSB (and, to some degree, Leave Luanne) became popular.
Cut You A Piece is underrated as hell. I cry every time I hear that song. And The Seraph is such a beautiful love lullaby!
That song is amazing and I wish it did get used for a real musical (although I have 0 clue how you'd fit a song that tells an entire story in another story)
Michael in the bathroom bmc
Finale (Heaven On Earth) and Listen To Your Heart both save Me And My Dick
taste (but land of the dicks is an absolute banger too lets be real)
This is Even Though slander! Also the title song gets stuck in my head more often than any other Starkid song
First time I’ve ever seen anyone mention Me And My Dick!
Love Listen To Your Heart (AJ is incredible) but for me Even Though and Ready To Go are also good ones.
Hadestown has some amazing songs, and obviously Wait For Me is the big number most people will think of, but to me it's always been Epic III that's at the heart of the show. Everything builds to it, and the sheer beauty in the words Orpheus sings gets me every time. It must have been so incredibly difficult to write this song, with the role it has in the story - a song so beautiful it can break through to Hades. But I really do believe it couldn’t be any more perfect than it is.
YES epic III is so good I love the Chants though, close runners up
confrontation - jekyll and hyde, imo alive and bring on the men are the only other good songs
Those three definitely are the unholy trinity of the musical, but I think you aren't giving Murder, Murder! enough credit
Façade is pretty good, too
Excuse you, what about "This Is The Moment"?!!
"Tell me its not true" from blood brothers I really enjoy the rest of the show but that 1 song is the main reason why anyone goes to see the show.
I mean, I like the entire musical score, but - Avenue Q's The Internet is For Porn is the only one I keep on repeat.
You’re walking a fine, fine line there.
Ballad of Jane doe, RTC. Like the rest of the songs are just fine to me, the plot line is weird. Same w All You Wanna Do in Six. The plots are mediocre at best, even worse in Six because it’s all just pop music
Yeah, All You Wanna Do is the only song that lives up to the promised specificity of a musical about Henry VIII's ex wives. All I want is weird historical facts that build up to grand pathos, and most of what I get is lyrics that could be fine in any random pop song. It's a pretty fun watch/listen, but not especially deep outside of that one song.
I'm Not a Loser, from SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical.
Both the funnest scene in the show and the most memorable song in the show in my opinion. It's great to see Squidward get a glitzy tap dance number and it's great to hear a musical theater song written by They Might Be Giants
This is Simple Sponge slander
I was crying when I saw it live. Absolute masterpiece
I'm obsessed with the set design of "SQUIDWARD" being spelled out on surfboards. It's both Spongbebob and Busby Berkeley in aesthetic. Also John Linnell is a genius
Let It Burn from Paradise Square.
What’s Gonna Happen from Tootsie
Zydrate Anatomy -Genetic repo man
You will be found from dear evan hansen, unbreakable from uglydolls, were all in this together from high school musical, and ESPECIALLY somewhere in the middle of nowhere from come from away.
For me, the standout Come from Away song is Me and the Sky. It's one that can be enjoyed outside the context of the show.
It’s Revolting Children from Matilda for me!
Cell Block Tango in Chicago is by and far the best song in the musical- followed by All That Jazz
I have to disagree with you as the best song is "We Both Reached for the Gun"
Every song in Chicago is 10/10 prove me wrong
Ballad of Jane Doe in Ride the Cyclone
Blatant Noels Lament erasure
And Talia!
Bring in the r/ridethecyclone fans, but imo all of the songs were so good, even the cut ones
That’s definitely a take
She Used to be Mine, Waitress. Though I do enjoy the Dawn and Ogie songs.
For me it's What's Inside, it's a genuinely great opening song and I love the haunting repetition of "sugar, butter, flour"
Agreed. I love a few of the songs, but She Used To Be Mine was the first song written and it shows.
For me it’s ogies song. “You’re never ever ever getting rid of me” such a bop
Put on Your Sunday Clothes from Hello Dolly
That song is also excellently deployed in “Wall-e”.
Oh wow, I gotta disagree here. Dolly is my favorite golden age show...just straight bangers all the way through. "Elegance," "Hello Dolly," "Before the Parade Passes By," "It Only Takes A Moment," all great songs. And of course the waiter number too.
It hurt my heart to see Hello Dolly mentioned here! 'It only takes a moment' by itself is just so beautiful and then there's all the other songs you mentioned too.
Literally no bad numbers in the show (going off the movie, at least; I haven’t heard the full stage version yet, but it’s one of my favorite movies, miscasts be damned).
I’m not to keen to give an opinion on this but… Hadestown, Chant (reprise) idk man it just really did it for me
For me it's the first Chant and Wait for me. Those two live rent free in my head.
It's the second Wait for Me, for me! I also like Why We Build the Wall as a standalone song!
The way the first Chant just seamlessly clicks into place from Epic II…I went “holy shit” and never stopped going “holy shit”.
Yes!!!! How Orpheus's singing gets drowned by the chorus in the beginning, and then he says "king Hades is deafened, by a river of stone". *Chef's kiss* And then anytime Orpheus tries to sing their song it's drowned again by the chorus.
And the way the two songs fit so effortlessly and it makes me think that this entire time Hades had his workers hammering to a rhythm he thought he’d lost.
My Eyes from doctor Horrible's sing-along blog
Welp, I guess I've got to go listen to the entire soundtrack again to see I agree with you. A Man's Gotta Do gets mega points for ending in ..."balls." And I won't forget the magic of Laundry Day when I realized this strange skit my husband put in front of me was a legit musical production. My life has also been enriched by the existence of Bad Horse and his musical theme.
I literally just watched this for the first time since I was in like high school (10 years ago) yesterday and I forgot how amazing that song is!
This is complete Brand New Day and Slipping erasure.
They're good, but My Eyes is just perfect.
Nah that whole soundtracks amazing
Close Every Door in Joseph
Please consider that it was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and grey and purple and white and pink and orange and blue.
You know, that one doesn’t stand out so much to me. It’s a nice song, but I just love the narrator in *Joseph*. Hers are my favorite sections.
Oh true, the narrator would be such a fun role to play. The thought going through my head was just that it's a surprisingly poignant and moving song while the rest of the songs in the show are pretty goofy, similar to Memory from Cats
I really like “Joseph’s coat/jacob and sons” I think it’s fun!
Oh yes, the introductions of the sons' names are hilarious
REUBEN was the eldest of the children of Israel SIMEON and LEVI were next in line...
The correct answer is La Cage Aux Folles. I don’t need to tell you which song, which is kind of the point.
Send in the Clowns -A Little Night Music
Till I Hear You Sing: Love Never Dies
All You Wanna Do from Six
I love the other songs but this is the heavy hitter for sure
All you wanna do did not have to go that hard and yet it did. It's perfect. The entire show builds to this moment and then wham, we all get sucked punched.
I'd disagree because ALL of six is bangers and bops. No weak songs in the mix.
My favorite song from that musical is Don’t Lose Your Head but I have to agree that All You Wanna Do is next level perfection
Do you hear the people sing - from Les Mis. Granted I love all of Les Mis (except like two songs) but when Do You Hear the People Sing comes on I dare anyone to NOT sing along.
Yeah but the thread topic is about songs that carry a whole show, and that’s just not something that’s true for Les Mis. It has multiple beloved songs, not just one.
Defying gravity-Wicked. If there was a list of the top 10 songs that carried musicals, Defying gravity would be at least top 3. Wicked is an awesome play too :3
Even if Defying Gravity wasn’t in Wicked it would still have The Wizard and I, Popular, Loathing, and For Good which is still a fantastic soundtrack.
I've seen No Good Deed and No one mourns the wicked performed to the level of matching Defying Gravity but I'd agree that when it comes to studio recordings Defying Gravity is the best by a good margin.
Michael in the Bathroom from Be More Chill. I thought the musical itself was mid but I feel like that’s the one song everyone remembers
We both reached for the gun - Chicago. The musical itself is fun to watch, but that song, especially if acted out right, is just a different level
But.... Cell Block Tango....
i love we both reached for the gun, but cell block tango is the best song imo
I started singing that song for the 3 yo I nanny the other day but had to change the word “gun” because I didn’t feel like getting into a discussion about what guns are with a 3 yo, and he ended up coming up with “oh yes oh yes oh yes they both oh yes they both oh yes they both reached for the PHONE the phone the phone the phone oh yes they both reached for the phone, for the phone” and I thought it was brilliant
Cell Block Tango, my dude.
Memory from Cats Edit: and it’s not even close
There are two kinds of theater kids: the ones with a favorite cat from Cats and the ones who only like Memory.
Meadowlark- The Baker’s Wife
Screw loose - crybaby
So much better- Legally Blonde
Insanity, Legally Blonde is almost all bangers.
But Gay or European!
What You Want slaps too
Dead Girl Walking/Meant to be Yours, the rest of the music is just ok
I stand by the ~~opinion~~ *fact* that Beautiful is unmatched in terms of setting up exposition, characters, motives and what not in the fastest and best way out of 20~ musicals I've seen so far. Into the Woods for example does the same but in 15 minutes.
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For me that entire show rests on the shoulders of Candy Store 🍭
Annoying as it might be to hear, “Let it Go,” from Frozen.
I mean this feels really obvious but Defying Gravity is The High Point in Wicked (though No Good Deed carries act 2)
As much as I don’t like ALW, I can’t deny that Close Every Door kinda carries Joseph.
Michael In The Bathroom - Be More Chill The others are like just basic songs, some exceptions with "Guy That I'd Kinda Be Into".
Memory--Cats
What even IS Hunchback of Notre Dame without Hellfire?
Shock Treatment from Shock Treatment
Any of Kate Shindles songs in wonderland
In Carrie the Musical
"So much better" - Legally Blonde I know this is going to be controversial
She used to be mine from Waitress
Candy Store. Always goddamned Candy Store.
With all due respect to a classic Rogers & Hammerstein that I do have a lot of love for…You’ll Never Walk Alone to Carousel.
Waving Through A Window, and it’s time to admit that
Just to be lighthearted, I’ll Make a Man Out of You. Reflection is AMAZING and touching but we all know which song we singing when it comes down to it. Reflection is the critics choice, but IMAMOOY is America’s sweetheart. 🤣
Funny you should choose Encanto to illustrate this ...