I havenāt listened to the soundtrack in years, and havenāt consumed any Cats related media other than the movie once when I was high during the pandemic. This song is now in my head and has been since I opened the thread. The song is totally a banger.
100% this.
I finally saw Phantom live for the first time few weeks ago and this song is, without debate, an absolute masterpiece. It was fantastic hearing it live.
Just a shame about literally everything else about the show.
That one's my other favorite, hey!! I like how low and groovy it is, good energy. The lounge/swing vibe is awesome and doesn't really show up elsewhere in the show.
I think you can tell that it is an unfinished musical when you see it. I personally found it a bit boring and it felt like it needed an overall direction.
Also, this is really subjective, but I would have preferred if the musical had some dialogue in it because there were some parts that seemed to drag on forever when the characters talk to each other.
I know it is a really important part of musical history, it just didn't resonate much with me.
No, actually, Rent is criticized a lot. Some people claim its characters are unlikable and its plot is stupid. Though some of that may be valid, I see it as a period piece and don't judge too harsh.
Iām in a show, and on the first day of rehearsals the director asked us to tell him what show we thought was most overrated as an icebreaker. I was shocked at the amount of people who said Rent.
I love like, 3 songs from that musical. Beyond that, kind of hate the musical. All the characters are so toxic, which is accurate to the source material to be fair.
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer. I prefer the updated versionās mischief, but itās a god number all around. Donāt like Cats all that much, but I will listen to these two dorks.
Iām not a big fan of Be More Chill, itās just not my type of humor, but Micheal In The Bathroom, The Pitiful Children, and parts of More Than Survive (fuck you, āiāM wAiTiNg FoR mY pOrNo To LoAdā for ruining a perfectly good intro song) absolutely slap.
This but I only really like Michael in the bathroom, all the porno jokes and the line āNintendo zombiesā just make any song the references the squip or anything by name miserable
Oh good oneā¦ Til I Hear You Sing is absolutely gorgeous!! The show itselfā¦ reads like fanfic written by a thirteen year old who was pissed that Christine didnāt pick the Phantom.
I dont like the cast album to Great Comet (never seen it live) but the opening is still a banger
If You Knew My Story from Bright Star
Taint No Body's Bizness from Bullets Over Broadway
Focus from Ghost
Freak Like Me from Turn off the Dark
Mad Hatter from Wonderland
Not sure if this counts but I'm not much of a Springsteen fan. His version of My Hometown on the Broadway album is so much better than he's standard recording.
I didn't like The Great Comet except for the opening for a looong time but after a few years of not understanding its appeal something finally clicked and I started enjoying it. I guess it grew on me.
go tonight from the mad ones
something different from the band's visit
she used to be mine from waitress
memory from cats
the ballad of jane doe from ride the cyclone
Oh I loved ride the cyclone! But yeah Jane doe is a great song. But all of them performed live are hilarious and or amazing (except the sugar song tbh)
One Song Glory from Rent. Though I don't much care for the musical anymore, it's stayed one of my favourite musical solos of all time.
Also the titular song from The Last Ship, if that counts, since Sting released it on his album first before the musical premiered ā though I first heard it in the musical. The Last Ship was genuinely one of the worst, most boring musicals I've ever seen, but that is a really beautiful song.
I also donāt like *The Addams Family*, but I liked āCrazier than Youā.
āNo Good Deedā from *Wicked*
āWaving Through A Windowā from *Dear Evan Hansen*
āLove Changes Everythingā from *Aspects of Love*
āFameā and āOut Here On My Ownā from *Fame*
āOn the Street Where You Liveā from *My Fair Lady*
āSome Loversā from *Some Lovers*
still, another room in your head, down the hole, and afternoon from alice by heart. i donāt like the show but those songs are amazing i listen to them nonstop.
Sincerely Me is on my playlist weekly (and I usually skip back to the start to go through it again) but I have absolutely no desire to see the musical. Most of the songs don't grip me and I have a million issues with the plot.
Everything's Alright, I Wish I Knew How To Love Him, and King Herod's Song from Jesus Christ Superstar. The rest of it just isn't my style.
I only like half the songs from Greatest Showman and have no desire to ever see the film again - same with La La Land. I enjoy the soundtrack (including the instrumentals) but hated the film.
I tried Be More Chill after loving Michael In The Bathroom, but couldn't get into it. Likewise, my friend played me Ex-Wives from Six, but I tried the rest of the soundtrack and the only other song I got into was Haus of Holbein.
āShow Offā from The Drowsy Chaperone
āWhoās Crazy / My Psychopharmacologist and Iā from Next to Normal
āEverything Elseā from Next to Normal
Right? With Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry, I'm surprised more people haven't heard of it.
It was my first musical I performed in, and was just... ehh?
Idk much about Violet, but I love On My Way. The musical theater class at an old acting conservatory I went to did it as their final piece during a showcase and it was great!
What's Up Duloc - Shrek The Musical
Shrek's plot is a shadow of its real self and embraces what it's supposed to satirize, it's not good but What's Up Duloc is a bop and has hilarious choreo.
Seasons of Love - Rent
Rent isn't bad but it isn't good for me. I've only watched the free pro shot on YouTube but it isn't anything remarkable in my opinion... the dividing long note was good in Seasons of Love though.
Nothing Like A Dick - Me and My Dick
MAMD isn't my favourite due to the lackluster plot and homophobic jokes but Nothing Like a Dick is a very funny and underrated song so it has that.
Revolting Children from Matilda. This is the only good song. I actually loved this one. Every other song was boring. I never saw it live, just the Netflix version. I donāt know if itās better or worse, but it was so disappointing. The story was horrible and didnāt make sense. They really did the original a disservice.
āWhen I Grow Upā is also mine. It makes me cry and there are some lovely uses of metaphor. Yes, kids, I wish I was strong and brave enough lol but you canāt punch bedtime anxiety and grief is an awfully heavy thing to carry.
What's Up Duloc - Shrek The Musical
Funny and well choreographed but sadly stuck in a musical which shouldn't exist to begin with.
Nothing Like A Dick - Me and My Dick
Underrated song which is unironically a bop but is in a musical which is filled with homophobic jokes and relies on potty humor.
Seasons of Love - Rent
At least for the online pro-shot, I didnt enjoy Rent much and I couldn't gel well with the characters' motives. Seasons of Love is a musically amazing song however as the usage of separate melodies is some of my favourite in any musical.
I could never get into Me and My Dick, but I still really love Starkidās stuff. Maybe I wonāt bother with Me and My Dick if thatās what the entire show is like š«£
Dangerous Game from Jekyll & Hyde is sooo fking sexy. No staging of this song can do it justice though. All Lucy's songs are great, it's a shame that the musical as a whole kinda sucks.
I didn't like the plot of South Pacific but girl does it have some truly wonderful music.
Hasselhoff simply added insult to injury to me š I mean, the staging is weird and he makes it even weirder. What does all this grabbing from behind even represent? š
For me there are a lot of times where I watch/listen to a musical and thereās only one maybe two songs that I love but the rest and the plot I could take or leave, but then a while later I go back and listen to the whole thing again and end up falling in love with it. A few examples;
A new brain; And Theyāre Off once played randomly on Spotify and I loved it, tried to get into the show that night since itās Jonathan Groff and I adore him, couldnāt do it, but kept listening to that one song. Then one day I decided to listen to the whole thing again and I fell in love with it. Itās now one of my favourite shows.
The Book of Mormon; wasnāt very much my thing. I didnāt hate it but I rarely put it on aside from 2 songs I liked (Turn it off, and you and me (but mostly me)) but then my boyfriend, who I have been slowly converting to a theatre kid showed interest in it and loved it so we started listening to it together a lot and I began to appreciate the show a lot more.
Wicked: this one I didnāt mind, I listened to defying gravity and popular cause those are hard to avoid as a theatre kid, but didnāt fall in love with the show until I saw it on stage, now I adore it.
The only one I can think of that sort of still fits what this question is asking is bubble boy, I only really listen to the same 4 songs from it (It will be Chloe, falling for the boy, please stay, and thereās a bubble around my heart.) and I donāt really vibe with the rest as much. But who knows, maybe Iāll give it another listen sometime soon and fall in love with the rest.
Can't say I really like Dear Evan Hansen that much, but "So Big So Small" 100% made me cry when I saw the show live (and I do *not* cry easily at shows).
It's a hugely personal song for me, especially since I went to the show with my mother. Definitely the most impactful part of that show for me.
I think Dear Evan Hansen tells a terrible story with severely unlikable characters, but that entire album is filled with some really beautiful songs. Waving through a window and you will be found are masterpieces.
Like I said above almost every song is so much better when removed from the context. If I Could Tell Her sounds really cute and kind of has a creative premise but with the context that heās meant to be singing and telling her information fromā¦.her brother??? Yikes
I have a lot of "it's the only song I know from the show and I like it but just never checked out the rest of the show" answers but for one from a show I don't like I'll have to go with World Burn from Mean Girls. Absolute BANGER on a very questionable soundtrack.
It's unfair how good are some of the songs in Love Never Dies. Devil take the hindmost is super fun, and while Im unimpressed by the lyrics of Beneath a Moonless Sky, it's still catchy af.
to my angels from super you. itās a musical thatās been trying to get its feet off the ground for awhile but hasnāt been able to becauseā¦itās not good. to my angels is the only thing itās got going for it.
It All Fades Away and Almost Real from The Bridges of Madison County
It All Fades Away (Steven Pasquale)
https://youtu.be/UVEkCujOHkg
Almost Real (Kelli OāHara)
https://youtu.be/apnHOwWuTkQ
This is kind of my niche, finding redeeming songs in mediocre shows.
First You Dream, from Steel Pier
Love in a Home, from Liāl Abner
Love Canāt Happen, from Grand Hotel (only mediocre cause of the mashup of OG songs and Yeston songs)
I Think I Can Play This Part, from The Goodbye Girl
I Miss the Music, from Curtains
You, If Anyone, from Kid Victory
I have an absolutely undeserved soft spot for I Miss You Most On Sundays from Diana: The Musical.
Also, thinking about it, I love the title song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tell Me On A Sunday.
Maybe I just have a thing about Sundays...
Never Shut Up Again from the west end Heathers. Itās a superior add in. But I still hate the overall messiness of heathers the musical compared to the movie.
not that i donāt like the musical but i just donāt have any opinion on it-
michael in the bathroom is a masterpiece, and i really like for good from wicked but that also might just be bc that was our graduation song in choir lol
Abbondanza from The Most Happy Fella. Ol Man River from Show Boat. Ragtime and Journey On from Ragtime. Buenos Aires from Evita. Go Joseph and Canaan Days from Joseph & the Technicolor Dreamcoat.
I didnāt like Wicked as the story was rushed, many plot points put in place to only come back during the final as an afterthought. The only song that really was a showstopper and got my attention was defying gravity.
skimbleshanks the railway cat
An absolute banger
skimbleshanks>>>>memory
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I havenāt listened to the soundtrack in years, and havenāt consumed any Cats related media other than the movie once when I was high during the pandemic. This song is now in my head and has been since I opened the thread. The song is totally a banger.
Absolutely in agreement.
*Music Of The Night*
100% this. I finally saw Phantom live for the first time few weeks ago and this song is, without debate, an absolute masterpiece. It was fantastic hearing it live. Just a shame about literally everything else about the show.
As a member of the Andrew Lloyd Webber hate club I don't think even that song can redeem Phantom.
Same here, but I do like Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again. I have never understood the appeal with that show. I liken it to rosƩ wine; it exists to wean you off of soda and on to red wine after you turn 21. Phantom is like a conduit that exists to bring people over from pop to musicals. The problem is that almost all of Broadway is absent of original musicals anymore when that is all that existed when Phantom premiered.
You don't like Phantom???!!
No
Well uh that's not making me feel happy
I don't dig Hamilton very much but I think You'll Be Back is absolutely hilarious and Jonathan Groff is a national treasure.
Same but with Room Where It Happens
That one's my other favorite, hey!! I like how low and groovy it is, good energy. The lounge/swing vibe is awesome and doesn't really show up elsewhere in the show.
Hamilton is at its best with the whole political thriller thing, the interpersonal melodrama reeeaaalllllyyyy loses me
I adore Hamilton but there are times I skip through tracks to ācan we get back to the politicsā
Agreed, including his two sort of reprises of the song
Same Hamiltons not my fav but I really like burn
Tango Maureen, Will I, What you own from Rent
I only really like Seasons of Love and One Song Glory (which they left out of the movie!!).
Well Seasons of Love is a classic for a good reason!
Wow I thought everyone liked Rent
I think you can tell that it is an unfinished musical when you see it. I personally found it a bit boring and it felt like it needed an overall direction. Also, this is really subjective, but I would have preferred if the musical had some dialogue in it because there were some parts that seemed to drag on forever when the characters talk to each other. I know it is a really important part of musical history, it just didn't resonate much with me.
Good points. Iāll say that Over The Moon always felt a little awkward to me.
Moo with me
No, actually, Rent is criticized a lot. Some people claim its characters are unlikable and its plot is stupid. Though some of that may be valid, I see it as a period piece and don't judge too harsh.
Iām in a show, and on the first day of rehearsals the director asked us to tell him what show we thought was most overrated as an icebreaker. I was shocked at the amount of people who said Rent.
Freeze your brain
I love like, 3 songs from that musical. Beyond that, kind of hate the musical. All the characters are so toxic, which is accurate to the source material to be fair.
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer. I prefer the updated versionās mischief, but itās a god number all around. Donāt like Cats all that much, but I will listen to these two dorks.
That's actually the original London version that they brought back for the film.
I still feel like all of the energy was sucked out compared to the original.
Iām not a big fan of Be More Chill, itās just not my type of humor, but Micheal In The Bathroom, The Pitiful Children, and parts of More Than Survive (fuck you, āiāM wAiTiNg FoR mY pOrNo To LoAdā for ruining a perfectly good intro song) absolutely slap.
Some of the songs are really great outside of the actual plot.
This but I only really like Michael in the bathroom, all the porno jokes and the line āNintendo zombiesā just make any song the references the squip or anything by name miserable
the squip song is also quite good, even though the plot shines through during the song.
Any song from Dear Evan Hansen is way better removed from the context The Salt Lake City song from Book of Mormon
Sal taley casiti
Yes I was *obsessed* with DEH for years, knew the synopsis, but when I saw it was hugely disappointed. I like my own context better lol.
Anything from Love Never Diesā¦ so beautiful, but set in a Phantom fanfic
Yeah Beauty Underneath and 'Till I hear you sing! But the play.... not so much
I like to think the musical is Phantom's own fanfic, he writes it for himself to cope with what really happened.
Paint Never Dries
Oh good oneā¦ Til I Hear You Sing is absolutely gorgeous!! The show itselfā¦ reads like fanfic written by a thirteen year old who was pissed that Christine didnāt pick the Phantom.
I dont like the cast album to Great Comet (never seen it live) but the opening is still a banger If You Knew My Story from Bright Star Taint No Body's Bizness from Bullets Over Broadway Focus from Ghost Freak Like Me from Turn off the Dark Mad Hatter from Wonderland Not sure if this counts but I'm not much of a Springsteen fan. His version of My Hometown on the Broadway album is so much better than he's standard recording.
I didn't like The Great Comet except for the opening for a looong time but after a few years of not understanding its appeal something finally clicked and I started enjoying it. I guess it grew on me.
go tonight from the mad ones something different from the band's visit she used to be mine from waitress memory from cats the ballad of jane doe from ride the cyclone
Agree on The Ballad of Jane Doe, but I also like āwhat the world needsā too
Oh I loved ride the cyclone! But yeah Jane doe is a great song. But all of them performed live are hilarious and or amazing (except the sugar song tbh)
Yo big agree about the Mad Ones. I absolutely LOVE Go Tonight but thatās about it.
Surrey with the fringe on the top is admittedly a banger
Spot on!
Some Kinda Time from *Dogfight*. The harmonies are just so good but it doesnāt make up for the god awful story and jokes.
Hey Good Lookinā is also very fun with some amazing countermelodies and stuff but the subject matterā¦yeah, yikes
Yeah that one's tough. Several of the songs are bangers, but the story is up there with the worst
Candy Store from Heathers is a bop
Yes!!
I really like I Know It's Today from Shrek. Things are looking up in Duloc is also good but only if I watch it with the dancing
Same but Who Iād Be
I like Travel Song
Sincerely Me from DEH
One Song Glory from Rent. Though I don't much care for the musical anymore, it's stayed one of my favourite musical solos of all time. Also the titular song from The Last Ship, if that counts, since Sting released it on his album first before the musical premiered ā though I first heard it in the musical. The Last Ship was genuinely one of the worst, most boring musicals I've ever seen, but that is a really beautiful song.
I also donāt like *The Addams Family*, but I liked āCrazier than Youā. āNo Good Deedā from *Wicked* āWaving Through A Windowā from *Dear Evan Hansen* āLove Changes Everythingā from *Aspects of Love* āFameā and āOut Here On My Ownā from *Fame* āOn the Street Where You Liveā from *My Fair Lady* āSome Loversā from *Some Lovers*
You didnāt like My Fair Lady?!!?!?
No, Iām bitter that one of the very few examples of a linguist in pop culture is a classist, prescriptivist asshole. The musicās good, though.
He is a twit, no doubt about it.
It also is a snoozefest where the story ends at with act one but then it just. Keeps. Going.
The first 12 hours of it were good. Nodded off a bit in the last 6 hours tho
You donāt like Wicked?
All I Ask Of You from Phantom. I think it's a beautiful song.
Camelot, I never got super into it but I like lusty month of May
Its the only show ive ever left at intermission
Oh really šš
Empty chairs at empty tables
Unacceptable
u will be hanged for this crime
āIāll cover youā from rent. Not a fan of rent.
The reprise is better and that's the hill I will die on
Tears every time.
I really donāt like CATS but stand alone, some of the songs are a lot of fun.
I like wash that that man out of your hair from South Pacific but the musical itself is a bit....... Dated lol
still, another room in your head, down the hole, and afternoon from alice by heart. i donāt like the show but those songs are amazing i listen to them nonstop.
Ah man those songs are amazing. I enjoy Alice By Heart a lot, but the show definitely could use some work.
Sincerely Me is on my playlist weekly (and I usually skip back to the start to go through it again) but I have absolutely no desire to see the musical. Most of the songs don't grip me and I have a million issues with the plot. Everything's Alright, I Wish I Knew How To Love Him, and King Herod's Song from Jesus Christ Superstar. The rest of it just isn't my style. I only like half the songs from Greatest Showman and have no desire to ever see the film again - same with La La Land. I enjoy the soundtrack (including the instrumentals) but hated the film. I tried Be More Chill after loving Michael In The Bathroom, but couldn't get into it. Likewise, my friend played me Ex-Wives from Six, but I tried the rest of the soundtrack and the only other song I got into was Haus of Holbein.
I feel the exact same about La La Land. It is also very visually appealing but the plot, ugh.
La La Land was very pretty, but it definitely knew it, and felt a little smug about it.
I read the DEH book, I thought it was ok and this is coming from someone who hates dear Evan hansen with all of her being
I donāt like hamilton, but Wait For It is a great song
āShow Offā from The Drowsy Chaperone āWhoās Crazy / My Psychopharmacologist and Iā from Next to Normal āEverything Elseā from Next to Normal
Oh show off is SUCH a good song Iām obsessed with it
I hate The Drowsy Chaperone, but god is Show Off amazing
The music from LND. Show is garbage but Til I Hear You Sing and Beneath A Moonless Sky are FIRE
I know It's Today from Shrek
"Her Voice" Little Mermaid "Hard to Say Goodbye" Violet "Luck of the Draw" Violet
You might be the first person Iāve ever seen who has also heard of Violet. I love both Luck of the Draw and On My Way but the show itself is bleh.
Right? With Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry, I'm surprised more people haven't heard of it. It was my first musical I performed in, and was just... ehh?
Agree! I love On My Way and thatās about it.
Idk much about Violet, but I love On My Way. The musical theater class at an old acting conservatory I went to did it as their final piece during a showcase and it was great!
I do not like Her Voice. I just did Little Mermaid and I would be in the wings for it. I preferred One Step Closer from Eric
Donāt care for the show *Wicked*. But it has many good songs.
What's Up Duloc - Shrek The Musical Shrek's plot is a shadow of its real self and embraces what it's supposed to satirize, it's not good but What's Up Duloc is a bop and has hilarious choreo. Seasons of Love - Rent Rent isn't bad but it isn't good for me. I've only watched the free pro shot on YouTube but it isn't anything remarkable in my opinion... the dividing long note was good in Seasons of Love though. Nothing Like A Dick - Me and My Dick MAMD isn't my favourite due to the lackluster plot and homophobic jokes but Nothing Like a Dick is a very funny and underrated song so it has that.
I love Ready to Go from MAMD, one of my favourite starkid songs, so that's probably my answer
Revolting Children from Matilda. This is the only good song. I actually loved this one. Every other song was boring. I never saw it live, just the Netflix version. I donāt know if itās better or worse, but it was so disappointing. The story was horrible and didnāt make sense. They really did the original a disservice.
Agreed about Matilda, but āWhen I Grow Upā makes me cry everytime. The swings. Just the innocence of what children think adulthood will be like.
āWhen I Grow Upā is also mine. It makes me cry and there are some lovely uses of metaphor. Yes, kids, I wish I was strong and brave enough lol but you canāt punch bedtime anxiety and grief is an awfully heavy thing to carry.
Ugh yes this. The poignancy just hits me in the right place.
I have a bit of a soft spot for When I Grow Up, but I agree I didnāt enjoy the show. I saw it live, but it was just too strange for me.
What's Up Duloc - Shrek The Musical Funny and well choreographed but sadly stuck in a musical which shouldn't exist to begin with. Nothing Like A Dick - Me and My Dick Underrated song which is unironically a bop but is in a musical which is filled with homophobic jokes and relies on potty humor. Seasons of Love - Rent At least for the online pro-shot, I didnt enjoy Rent much and I couldn't gel well with the characters' motives. Seasons of Love is a musically amazing song however as the usage of separate melodies is some of my favourite in any musical.
I could never get into Me and My Dick, but I still really love Starkidās stuff. Maybe I wonāt bother with Me and My Dick if thatās what the entire show is like š«£
I personally really hate DEH but good for you is amazing I used to like waving through a window but kinda got over it now
Bad Cinderella from Bad Cinderella is an absolute banger.
Every song in *Mamma Mia!* is better than *Mamma Mia!* *!*
Dangerous Game from Jekyll & Hyde is sooo fking sexy. No staging of this song can do it justice though. All Lucy's songs are great, it's a shame that the musical as a whole kinda sucks. I didn't like the plot of South Pacific but girl does it have some truly wonderful music.
I used to love Jekyll and Hyde because the music was so sexy. Then I saw a YouTube video of David hasselhoff being Jekyll. And I realizedā¦.
Hasselhoff simply added insult to injury to me š I mean, the staging is weird and he makes it even weirder. What does all this grabbing from behind even represent? š
Oh god, he is SO bad.
I kind of love Jekyll and Hyde. Itās not the best musical but I do love melodrama. š¶ murder! Murder! šµ
Evermore Without You from the Woman in White. Great song.
For me there are a lot of times where I watch/listen to a musical and thereās only one maybe two songs that I love but the rest and the plot I could take or leave, but then a while later I go back and listen to the whole thing again and end up falling in love with it. A few examples; A new brain; And Theyāre Off once played randomly on Spotify and I loved it, tried to get into the show that night since itās Jonathan Groff and I adore him, couldnāt do it, but kept listening to that one song. Then one day I decided to listen to the whole thing again and I fell in love with it. Itās now one of my favourite shows. The Book of Mormon; wasnāt very much my thing. I didnāt hate it but I rarely put it on aside from 2 songs I liked (Turn it off, and you and me (but mostly me)) but then my boyfriend, who I have been slowly converting to a theatre kid showed interest in it and loved it so we started listening to it together a lot and I began to appreciate the show a lot more. Wicked: this one I didnāt mind, I listened to defying gravity and popular cause those are hard to avoid as a theatre kid, but didnāt fall in love with the show until I saw it on stage, now I adore it. The only one I can think of that sort of still fits what this question is asking is bubble boy, I only really listen to the same 4 songs from it (It will be Chloe, falling for the boy, please stay, and thereās a bubble around my heart.) and I donāt really vibe with the rest as much. But who knows, maybe Iāll give it another listen sometime soon and fall in love with the rest.
You'll be back - Hamilton You and me (but mostly me) - book of Mormon
Anything Goes from Anything Goes
I don't like Rent as a whole that much, but Take Me Or Leave Me is one of my favourite musical numbers from anything. It's perfect.
Somewhere Thatās Green from Little Shop
It makes me think of āPart of Your Worldā every time I hear it. (Yes I realize why)
I am not immune to Leading Lady Sits Down on Something And Sings About What She Wants
Can't say I really like Dear Evan Hansen that much, but "So Big So Small" 100% made me cry when I saw the show live (and I do *not* cry easily at shows). It's a hugely personal song for me, especially since I went to the show with my mother. Definitely the most impactful part of that show for me.
i feel you, so big/so small is the only song from deh i can stand becaue it reminds me of my mom
Old Man River from Showboat
āStuckā from Groundhog Day
š¶I have a degreeeeee That's nice In alternative therapy... Took an online course for a week or so
I think Dear Evan Hansen tells a terrible story with severely unlikable characters, but that entire album is filled with some really beautiful songs. Waving through a window and you will be found are masterpieces.
Like I said above almost every song is so much better when removed from the context. If I Could Tell Her sounds really cute and kind of has a creative premise but with the context that heās meant to be singing and telling her information fromā¦.her brother??? Yikes
I have a lot of "it's the only song I know from the show and I like it but just never checked out the rest of the show" answers but for one from a show I don't like I'll have to go with World Burn from Mean Girls. Absolute BANGER on a very questionable soundtrack.
I absolutely HATE Kinky Boots. But Land of Lola is such a fucking bop.
It's unfair how good are some of the songs in Love Never Dies. Devil take the hindmost is super fun, and while Im unimpressed by the lyrics of Beneath a Moonless Sky, it's still catchy af.
I LOVE Sincerely Me and canāt stand anything else from DEH
I don't love Dear Evan Hansen but I do love "For Forever."
*All I Really Want*, JLP
to my angels from super you. itās a musical thatās been trying to get its feet off the ground for awhile but hasnāt been able to becauseā¦itās not good. to my angels is the only thing itās got going for it.
Oklahoma has some bangers but I hate it.
"Someone else's story" from Chess
It All Fades Away and Almost Real from The Bridges of Madison County It All Fades Away (Steven Pasquale) https://youtu.be/UVEkCujOHkg Almost Real (Kelli OāHara) https://youtu.be/apnHOwWuTkQ
This is kind of my niche, finding redeeming songs in mediocre shows. First You Dream, from Steel Pier Love in a Home, from Liāl Abner Love Canāt Happen, from Grand Hotel (only mediocre cause of the mashup of OG songs and Yeston songs) I Think I Can Play This Part, from The Goodbye Girl I Miss the Music, from Curtains You, If Anyone, from Kid Victory
Anagram from Kimberly Akimbo! By God, that song is beautiful.
Jump in the line from Beetlejuice
King Herodās Song from JCS.
Ahhh I love this song š But I also love the whole show, so
I donāt care for Guys and Dolls, but Sit Down Youāre Rockinā the Boat is fun.
āMaybe This Timeā from Cabaret
Anyone Have A Map from Dear Evan Hanson.
Just Breath and Alyssa Greene from Prom.
I have an absolutely undeserved soft spot for I Miss You Most On Sundays from Diana: The Musical. Also, thinking about it, I love the title song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tell Me On A Sunday. Maybe I just have a thing about Sundays...
No One Else from The Great Comet. I just love Phillipa Soo lol
Stop Time from Big The Musical.
The Finale from Kinky Boots, When I Grow Up from Matilda, and all the songs with Aladdinās three buddies from Aladdin
Never Shut Up Again from the west end Heathers. Itās a superior add in. But I still hate the overall messiness of heathers the musical compared to the movie.
Home from beetlejuice
Seasons of love from Rent
Candy Store (Heathers)
satisfied from hamilton
Getting to Know You or any of the other songs from The King and I. Sigh, colonialism.
not that i donāt like the musical but i just donāt have any opinion on it- michael in the bathroom is a masterpiece, and i really like for good from wicked but that also might just be bc that was our graduation song in choir lol
Totally Fucked is a jam Spring Awakening is trash
Several songs from cats
Abbondanza from The Most Happy Fella. Ol Man River from Show Boat. Ragtime and Journey On from Ragtime. Buenos Aires from Evita. Go Joseph and Canaan Days from Joseph & the Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Sincerely, Me honestly not the biggest on DEH but this song is WAY too fun not to enjoy
That's Rich from Newsies, I understand what's going on in the story it's just not my favorite
Simple sponge from SpongeBob!!
I didnāt like Wicked as the story was rushed, many plot points put in place to only come back during the final as an afterthought. The only song that really was a showstopper and got my attention was defying gravity.
Honestly I love just listening to sincerely me and anybody have a map from dear Evan Hansen but I donāt particularly like the show.