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Post by JJShaw on Feb 2, 2021 17:21:44 GMT
Hello! I'm trying to compile a list of songs that, for whatever reason, were added after a show opened. Examples: Our Little World: Into the Woods You Make Me Happy: Annie A Change in Me: Beauty and the Beast Forever: Shrek  |
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Post by Mark on Feb 2, 2021 17:30:02 GMT
Heathers - I Say No.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 2, 2021 17:50:49 GMT
Marry me a little - Company
Country House, Ahh but underneath, Make the most of your music - Follies
Some songs rewritten for the film of Night music. Not sure if that counts?
Beggar Woman's lullaby - Sweeney
Dress Big, Hades, Ariadne, All abroad - The Frogs. Plus other songs were expanded.
Something just broke - Assassins
I'm not even going to go into Candide or Road Show!
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Post by richey on Feb 2, 2021 18:05:59 GMT
You Must Love Me added to Evita
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 2, 2021 18:18:32 GMT
I'm stretching the question somewhat, but Oklahoma only became Oklahoma when Oklahoma was added to a musical that had been called, until then, Away We Go! (The ! was R&H's, not mine! 🙂)
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Post by danb on Feb 2, 2021 18:32:17 GMT
Lots of ‘Martin Guerre’ was added after opening...then taken away...then rewritten...then added again...then taken away...then put in a different order...then put back.
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Post by undeuxtrois on Feb 2, 2021 19:01:21 GMT
Quite a bit of Miss Saigon?
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Post by steve10086 on Feb 2, 2021 19:25:43 GMT
Every Movie’s A Circus - Sunset Boulevard
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2021 19:28:35 GMT
Gosh, loads.
Could do the ALW ones.
Joseph - About half of it. King Of My Heart for the 00s version.
JCS - Could We Start Again Please (well, added for the stage version I guess)
Evita - You Must Love Me
Cats - The various Italian things that replaced Ballad Of Billy McCaw.
Song and Dance - Unexpected Song (though melody was already there)
Starlight - Make Up My Heart, Crazy, Next Time You Fall In Love, I Do, Whole Lotta Locomotion, I Got Me, Megamix (deffo the ALW show with the most new songs).
Sunset - many interlinking sections
By Jeeves - About half of it compared to Jeeves
Whistle Down The Wind - The Gang
Beautiful Game - Boys In The Photograph
Tell Me On A Sunday - Multiple, for the DVO version.
Wizard of Oz - 5 new ALW songs
Love Never Dies - new melody to verses in Beauty Underneath (and lots of re-ordering of stuff)
Phantom stage show, Aspects, Woman In White, School of Rock have yet (I think) to get a new song!
There are also loads of songs removed and general re-writing.
"Musicals aren't written, they are re-written" as they always say.
A couple of other from faves of mine.
Miss Saigon - Maybe (God I wish they'd put It's Her Or Me back in).
Chess - Someone Else's Story. Then that Act 2 opener that Burke sang at the ENO.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 2, 2021 19:30:00 GMT
Off topic, but I say ‘no’ to Heathers too. 😑 |
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 2, 2021 20:02:33 GMT
You Must Love Me really worked though, didn't it?
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Post by danb on Feb 2, 2021 21:43:15 GMT
Off topic, but I say ‘no’ to Heathers too. 😑 But ended up being the best standalone ‘song’ in the show. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2021 22:24:44 GMT
Quite a bit of Miss Saigon? And they should get rid of 'Maybe' asap. |
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 2, 2021 23:00:21 GMT
I believe (when it's eventually ever filmed- they've just announced a new director) there will be new songs added to Wicked
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 2, 2021 23:06:32 GMT
What about Chess?
There was the original concept album, then when it was staged in the West End the song The Soviet Machine was added.
Then when it went to Broadway the song Someone Else's Story was added.
Incidentally, when the original concept album was remastered another song- The Press Conference was added to that recording. I downloaded it from i-Tunes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2021 23:25:00 GMT
I believe (when it's eventually ever filmed- they've just announced a new director) there will be new songs added to Wicked Of course there will - every musical film adds at least an end credits song in an attempt to get a Best Original Song Oscar nomination! |
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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 3, 2021 1:18:40 GMT
Send in the Clowns - A Little Night Music.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 3, 2021 6:55:33 GMT
Send in the Clowns - A Little Night Music. Nah. It was written in rehearsals prior to out of town tryouts |
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Post by robertb213 on Feb 3, 2021 12:30:49 GMT
Wasn't 'Dancing Through Life' added to Wicked after San Francisco? It replaced one called 'Life Of The Party' I think. And one called 'Making Good' was dropped and replaced with 'The Wizard & I' 😁
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Post by Mark on Feb 3, 2021 12:33:04 GMT
Wasn't 'Dancing Through Life' added to Wicked after San Francisco? It replaced one called 'Life Of The Party' I think. And one called 'Making Good' was dropped and replaced with 'The Wizard & I' 😁 That’s right! Dancing Through Life replaced Which Way’s the Party. Wizard and I was written especially for Idina Menzel when she was cast for Broadway. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 3, 2021 12:43:43 GMT
Wasn't 'Dancing Through Life' added to Wicked after San Francisco? It replaced one called 'Life Of The Party' I think. And one called 'Making Good' was dropped and replaced with 'The Wizard & I' 😁 That’s right! Dancing Through Life replaced Which Way’s the Party. Wizard and I was written especially for Indian Mendel when she was cast for Broadway. I had no idea that they altered the songs for Wicked and to be more inclusive, they BAME casted it that early. lol. |
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Post by Mark on Feb 3, 2021 12:48:50 GMT
That’s right! Dancing Through Life replaced Which Way’s the Party. Wizard and I was written especially for Indian Mendel when she was cast for Broadway. I had no idea that they altered the songs for Wicked and to be more inclusive, they BAME casted it that early. lol. Oh dear, my autocorrect! |
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Post by pianowithsam on Feb 3, 2021 13:39:30 GMT
I believe (when it's eventually ever filmed- they've just announced a new director) there will be new songs added to Wicked I thought this was going to say 'I believe from Book of Mormon' and I was like 0_0 |
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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 3, 2021 14:52:27 GMT
I had no idea that they altered the songs for Wicked and to be more inclusive, they BAME casted it that early. lol. Oh dear, my autocorrect! I know it was autocorrect, Apple autocorrect can be ridiculous sometimes - but it still gave me a big smile. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 17:30:10 GMT
Wizard of Oz - 5 new ALW songs I see Lloyd Webber's version of The Wizard of Oz more as a new adaptation than a revival as it has a different book by himself and Jeremy Sams to the 1987 RSC adaptation by John Kane which is the one that many regional theatres/schools/amdrams have since used (granted it is still very close to the film's screenplay - which arguably so is ALW's). So I think the fact ALW and Tim Rice felt the need to add more songs was what gave the whole thing a complete overhaul to work on stage. But whilst the Birmingham REP's 2018 production looked and sounded like Oz as never before, it was still the RSC adaptation (with a few extra lines/references to the gender changes etc.), however that production included the apple trees singing a song as the set changed into the Tin Man scene. I'm not sure what the lyrics were, nor can I find the song online but the music was the same bit that you hear as the underscore in the film as Dorothy goes to take an apple from the tree. So maybe lyrics were added to that piece of music for that specific production, as I don't believe it has been in any other...? Onto another musical, Tim Minchin recently revealed that he has written a new song for the upcoming Matilda movie so I wonder if that will that be added to the stage show in the same way that "Could We Start Again Please" (Jesus Christ Superstar) "Mean Green Mother" (Little Shop of Horrors) and probably other examples were subsequently added. |
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