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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 18:46:38 GMT
All of the songs that wouldn't exist in a sung-through musical if it wasn't entirely sung-through. Most Lloyd-Webber musicals have at least five "We. Are. Going. To. Sing. This. Whole. Conversation. All. On. The. Same. Note." songs that should be cut.Really? Name them... |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 18:52:17 GMT
Memory from Cats. Partly because it's horribly overdone, and partly because so many people think it's called Memories. It's one word; how can you get it wrong?
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Post by Dave25 on May 10, 2018 20:49:29 GMT
"We. Are. Going. To. Sing. This. Whole. Conversation. All. On. The. Same. Note." songs that should be cut. Well, I can name another show and composer that is literally all about the same note. "when he was ten his father split full of it debt ridden two years later see alex and his mother bed ridden I am not throwing away my shot I am not throwing away my shot, hey yo, I’m just like my country I’m young, scrappy and hungry and I’m not throwing away my shot, get colder I shoulder every burden, every disadvantage I have learned to manage, I don’t have a gun to brandish I walk these streets famished" Boring. |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 20:52:36 GMT
"We. Are. Going. To. Sing. This. Whole. Conversation. All. On. The. Same. Note." songs that should be cut. Well, I can name another show and composer that is literally all about the same note. "when he was ten his father split full of it debt ridden two years later see alex and his mother bed ridden I am not throwing away my shot I am not throwing away my shot, hey yo, I’m just like my country I’m young, scrappy and hungry and I’m not throwing away my shot" Boring. So true! |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 20:53:48 GMT
Really don't like In The Land Of The Pig The Butcher Is King in my current West End fave, Bat Out Of Hell. Is just so aggressive! Wish they'd cut it!
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Post by westendcub on May 10, 2018 21:34:34 GMT
Bar maybe three songs, the Evita score is a real snooze in my opinion. No just no dear!! |
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Post by dazzlair on May 10, 2018 21:54:35 GMT
It's a tie between Something and Loose Ends from Witches of Eastwickzzzzzz.
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Post by avenueqresident on May 10, 2018 22:15:29 GMT
Benjamin Calypso from Jospeh
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 6:44:18 GMT
Something Bad, Thank Goodness and Wonderful from “Wicked”
I’d Be Surprisingly Good for You, Waltz for Eva and Ché, She is a Diamond and Dice Are Rolling from “Evita”
Pathetic from “Matilda”
Take What You Got from “Kinky Boots”
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Post by Jonnyboy on May 11, 2018 7:10:47 GMT
Ball of Wax from Ghost.
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Post by MrsCondomine on May 11, 2018 7:46:45 GMT
So many people don't like this! I adore it, mostly because it does a great job of portraying a little girl trying to cling onto her childhood and talking to her stuffed toys. |
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Post by MrsCondomine on May 11, 2018 7:49:55 GMT
For me it has to be Blood in the water from Legally Blonde. That show is fab but that song is dire. Especially when "sung" by Peter Davison. |
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Post by JJShaw on May 11, 2018 9:53:22 GMT
For me one of them is 'All You Have To Do Is Wait" from City of Angels, completely breaks up the flow of an otherwise nearly perfect score. Plus it is very odd to have this song sung by characters we dont really know much about/need to care about.
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Post by MrsCondomine on May 11, 2018 10:00:08 GMT
For me one of them is 'All You Have To Do Is Wait" from City of Angels, completely breaks up the flow of an otherwise nearly perfect score. Plus it is very odd to have this song sung by characters we dont really know much about/need to care about. Plus it's irritatingly catchy!! In fact... I think it's a great song, but it doesn't belong in that musical. I do quite like singing it with an exaggerated accent though... best to wind up the windows in the car if singing "When the pellets hit the pail, from the instant you inhale, all you have to do it waaaait" in traffic, otherwise you get some looks. |
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Post by JJShaw on May 11, 2018 12:46:59 GMT
For me one of them is 'All You Have To Do Is Wait" from City of Angels, completely breaks up the flow of an otherwise nearly perfect score. Plus it is very odd to have this song sung by characters we dont really know much about/need to care about. Plus it's irritatingly catchy!! In fact... I think it's a great song, but it doesn't belong in that musical. Ah thats a better description of it i think! Youre right, its not a bad song, but being in that particular show (which is one of my favourites so thats probably why i feel more negative towards it), its merits are weakened. |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2018 21:06:18 GMT
Play the Game, Hammer to Fall, Headlong and Fat Bottomed Girls From WWRY. It was my school play last year and those were the songs that I felt the most bored/least engaged whilst performing.
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Post by BoOverall on May 28, 2018 22:39:30 GMT
“The Day Off” from Sunday in the Park with George (but an otherwise ravishing score)
“Harry Houdini, Master Escapist” from Ragtime
“Over the Moon” from Rent
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Post by Peter on Jun 5, 2018 21:48:23 GMT
It's a tie between Something and Loose Ends from Witches of Eastwickzzzzzz. I agree - I loved the show but these just stopped the flow at crucial moments in each act. I recall Loose Ends was supposed to be replaced by another song at the time of the first (and last) London cast change but it never happened - fortunately Rebecca Thornhill had learned both! It’s been cut from most subsequent productions. ‘Something’ got moved to Act One, restaged and shortened at the time the show moved to the Prince of Wales. Appearing to both spoof and embrace the cliche ‘love song’ moment it’s trying to have cake and eat it and just comes across as a one-note joke stretched far too thin. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 22:42:44 GMT
Something Bad, Thank Goodness and Wonderful from “Wicked” I’d Be Surprisingly Good for You, Waltz for Eva and Ché, She is a Diamond and Dice Are Rolling from “Evita” Pathetic from “Matilda” Take What You Got from “Kinky Boots” See on the flip side, Take What You Got is maybe my favourite song from Kinky Boots. Though all of them are ace! |
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Post by alece10 on Jun 6, 2018 7:04:59 GMT
I don't like Temporary Arrangement from Funny Girl.
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Post by welsh_tenor on Jun 6, 2018 7:49:39 GMT
Anything with Dillamond or the Wizard in Wicked and that baseball glove song from DEH!
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Post by Mr Snow on Jun 6, 2018 8:26:46 GMT
The one in The Rink with the "AW Mah!" chorus. I do believe several examples are edited out in the current Southwark production, but why stop there?
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Post by haz23 on Jun 6, 2018 8:28:12 GMT
Something Bad - Wicked
Contact - RENT
Blood in the Water - Legally Blonde
Someone is Waiting - Company
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Post by PhantomNcl on Jun 6, 2018 10:13:42 GMT
Don't Like You from The Beautiful Game. Dreadful tune, even worse lyrics.
Mind, I don't think I liked a great deal from that show...
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Post by ruby on Jun 6, 2018 11:56:36 GMT
"I am Telling You" - Dreamgirls. It's the reason I won't see the show which is a shame as "One Night Only" is one of my favourite songs.
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