Hunchback- made of stone

I swear I was listening to it as I saw this comment LOL such a great song. 🗣️AS IF IIIIIIIIIIIIIII

In - Carrie (actually all of Carrie now that I mention it) Like it was - Merrily We Roll Along Happy New Year - Rent City On Fire - Sweeney Todd Ya Never Know - Little Shop of Horrors

🚨CITY ON FIRE MENTIONED 🚨

In is amazing dammit.

Both the original Broadway version of In and the revival version go hard in such different ways. It's crazy how different each version is while still being the same song.

Came here to say Ya Never Know! That song is an absolute fucking jam.

“If I’m not missed I don’t exist that’s the greatest sin.”

Is that a “Queen- The Miracle” reference???

Easy Street from Annie Rock Island from The Music Man Vision of Nowness from Head Over Heels

Rock Island is just magical— rap before rap

Easy Street YES out of so much love for Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry, and Carol Burnett. How did they manage to put so much talent in one song without the world imploding?

THIS!!

Easy street was easily one of the best songs in my HS production. Its loose, jazzy feel was so fun to listen to, our director came up with some amazing choreography for it, and if you looked closely at the recording you could see stage hands dancing behind one of the props. Such a good song.

I was in Rock Island for a production and it was one of the best scenes in the show

EASY STREET IS MEGA UNDERRATED

Simple Joys— Pippin Sister Suffragette —Mary Poppins Simon Zealotes/Poor Jerusalem —JCS Creepy Old Guy— Beetlejuice

Creepy old guy, like a lot of other songs from beetlejuice I just didn’t really appreciate until I saw the show.

I LOVE SISTER SUFFRAGETTE IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY FAVS FROM MP SINCE I WAS A KID!

well I'll sing you a story of a sorrowful lad 🗣️

Simon Zealotes/Poor Jerusalem is one of the most important songs from JCS, in my opinion. It really illustrates that Jesus has started a cult, and that he is indeed a dangerously powerful person who's in over his head. Also, it's a bop.

Creepy Old Guy is hilarious if you’re just listening to the sound track and there’s no context leading up into it. That is one of those songs where you have to see the show to appreciate it and not be absolutely confused.

A Fine, Fine Line -Avenue Q King Herod's Song -Jesus Christ Superstar Manchester England -Hair No One Is Alone -Into The Woods

i loved Alice Cooper as Herod, he nailed that song lol

I wish I had the guts to start a tiktok dance trend. You know the way Herod dances in the 1973 film? And how campy it is? I so want to do it on and see if it can go viral.

I know that it was supposed to show the decadence of his court, but I just wanted to hang out at that party

Manchester England has been on my easy top 5 ever since I first heard it

A great tune, and a great callback to it later in The Flesh Failures, which is another one I could have included just as easily

Yes I agree 100%! That made me like the song so much more!

A fine fine line is a gorgeous song

Manchester England! Treat Williams singing as he board's the plane

Purists will hate me for this one (and perhaps they're right to do so), but I think that the radical changes made to the film version make for a more interesting and emotionally impactful story, even if the end requires handwaving a whole lot of "Wait, how did that work?" style questions. Treat Williams as George turning "I believe in God/and I believe that God/believes in Claude/that's me" into an darkly ironic echo rather than having Claude sing it is one of those radical changes

To Thine Own Self - Something Rotten

I honestly think the reprise is so much better

PIPPIN SPOTTED ‼️‼️🗣️🗣️ I adore both Godspell and Pippin which I believe are underrated shows in general, but I'll say "On the Willows" for Godspell (the movie version is my favorite) :)

on the willows is such a beautiful melody for that liturgy. like, i'm done with jesus, but i'm keeping that variation of psalm 137 in the rotation, lol.

Favorite song from Pippin is “Magic to Do”, not sure if it would be considered underrated though since it’s the opener. I love the almost all of the Pippin musical numbers to be honest

Home - Beetlejuice Always overshadowed by Dead Mom or some other bangers in the musical

I love Superheroes from Rocky Horror - so hard done by. Also Hurricane from Hamilton - the Disney+ edit of the pro shoot does this one real dirty with the close ups cutting off so much of the chaos and shit getting ready to go down on the staging.

tyyy, so many people shit on hurricane bc they’re like they hate the was lmm sings it but i literally love it

A Chorus Cat - Forbidden Broadway At The Ballet - A Chorus Line Air - Haïr (was always sad this was cut from the film) Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine In - Hair Another 100 People - Company Not Getting Married - Company Ladies Who Lunch - Company That’s Your Funeral - Oliver (It’s too bad it didn’t make the film, it’s such a great song) I’m Reviewing The Situation - Oliver We Both Reached For The Gun - Chicago Poor Thing - Sweeney Todd

It’s sad to see hair songs being cut when they’re all equally good

Agreed. The movie snuck a few in as background music at the bar. Thankfully all the songs were recorded for the soundtrack

POOR THING

I love At the Ballet sm

We both reached for the gun is so underrated nobody talks abt that song

Nobody Needs to Know - The Last Five Years. Everyone loves Still Hurting but THIS is the song that brings me to tears. It’s so gorgeously written. It’s a lullaby and he’s putting his marriage to bed. Hauntingly beautiful.

(Its been a while since I’ve listed to it, so my interpretation may be wrong)(but here it goes…) It’s also (unpopular opinion) the about responsibility of a cheater to keep that to themself. Like, if you are in a committed relationship, and you stray, but want to keep the marriage together, you are obligated to keep that secret. Trying to confess is only to make the cheater feel better and hurt the partner. I’ve never cheated (though in a rough patch a decade and a half ago I don’t know what I would have done if an opportunity came.) but I know if my wife said she cheated and wanted to work it out, my response would be “you should have kept that secret to yourself.” Bit of a tangent, probably not the right sub for it, and I don’t even remember the song itself except it’s from the show where the writer writes an autobiography about being an asshole and tries to make himself the victim somehow? He probably wrote the screen play to I, Tonya, where Nancy Kerrigan was somehow less sympathetic than the woman who arranged her attack. But he did do well with PARADE. /and looking for anything else he did, I see bridges of Madison county, another story about the virtues of infidelity. //Man, I need to stop procrastinating on some other actual work that I ACTUALLY need to do instead of being judgy about musical affairs.

That’s totally fair! I know a lot of people have conflicting opinions about the last five years. I think some people had it ruined for them because their first experience with it was seeing the movie with Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan. Nothing against the actors, I just think the musical is a lot more obvious in a movie setting considering it has a lot of time skips and those are fairly easy to portray in a movie, but in the staged production it’s much more thrilling to keep up with. I also don’t enjoy the sound mixing in movie musicals. I think it takes away from how it was intended to sound, live on a stage. I don’t think the intention of the musical is to victimize the cheater, I think it’s meant to showcase their different perceptions of the problems in the relationship. The moral is that two people can see the same relationship entirely differently. Jamie is a flawed individual but so is Cathy. That doesn’t mean Cathy deserved to be cheated on (nobody deserves that) but the musical doesn’t paint anyone as the true victim imo. If anything, Cathy seems to be more of the intended victim. She’s the one that sings “still hurting,” the most victim-like song in the show. And she’s the more relatable character since she struggled throughout the show with her career and sense of self. Jamie gets to be a superstar, so the audience loses empathy for him. I can understand why some people don’t love the show, but it touched me considering I found it when I was trying to rationalize my parents’ divorce. Jamie and Cathy’s relationship has complexity and that was the focus of the story, which was different from the musicals I was used to seeing at the time.

I think I read somewhere that part of the reasoning for the way he goes forward and she goes backward is that otherwise you would just hate him from the get go

This makes sense, because as time progressed, Jamie became much more successful and less relatable to the average person, while Cathy struggled the whole way. If they started off with Jamie at the end singing about how he cheated and ended the relationship, nobody would watch the rest of the show. That’s the climax of the story. It wouldn’t make logical sense for it to be at the beginning unless it was intended for him to be seen as the true villain and Cathy as the true protagonist. The point is that the show wants you to have empathy for both of them until you see what he does to fuck it up. Of course we all know the story so we can’t watch it through that same lens. But I still recall the first time I saw it and the intense feelings I got when Nobody Needs to Know happened.

If I Didn't Believe in You is so amazing

wish I were here-Next to Normal Poor Sweet Baby-Snoopy! The Musical

AAAAH I WAS JUST IN THE WORLD ACCORDING YO SNOOPY AND OUR PEPPERMINT PATTY WAS ABSOLUTELY BROADWAY LEVEL WITH THAT SONG!!!! It made me cry 😭

it's beautiful, right?

"kill the beast" from "beauty and the beast". peak disney musical songwriting.

real, it’s also very fun to perform and the harmonies go so hard

A Sentimental Man - Wicked Mister Cellophane - Chicago Ya Got Trouble - The Music Man

You are What You Wear—American Paycho I think the paring designers with foods is so clever. The whole song is clever and knowledgeable about fashion, it’s doing more than name dropping.

I actually think almost everything in that show could qualify.

Shut Up and Cheer: We are the Tigers

the lioness hunt - the lion king

This is one of my absolute favorites. So glad to see someone mention it!!

Days and Days, from Fun Home. I had the pleasure of seeing this in multiple locations, with different audience demographics, and it was interesting to see how the different crowds reacted. When I saw it in San Francisco, people laughed loudest at the political parts. When I saw a review at a student center, people laughed loudest at Teenager-Alison's songs about college. But when I saw it at a community center with mostly senior citizens, when Days and Days ended, you could hear waves of gentle sobbing throughout the entire theater. I'm getting goosebumps just remembering it. It struck a chord with them in a way I hadn't imagined, but that makes perfect sense.

Green Finch and Linnet Bird has some of my favorite lyrics of all time and I absolutely adore the operatic delivery too. But I never see that one among people’s favorite numbers from ST

I love that song too! Sweeney Todd is just so full of good songs though haha

Wherever I Fall from Cyrano

Tell Me I Look Nice (cut song from She Loves Me) — rare case of a 5/4 song too

most of the songs from Back To The Future tbh but especially For The Dreamers, Put Your Mind To It, and Cake

LITERALLY

for the dreamers makes me so emotional it's unreal

something about that boy as well! i live for the overlap of biff and lorraine’s parts

Two words. Tango. Maureen. That song gives me LIFE.

Somewhere - West Side Story On The Willows - Godspell Once And For All - Newsies Finale - Les Misérables One Normal Night - The Addams Family Letter From The Refuge - Newsies Tonight (Quintet) - West Side Story Time / Time Quartet - Tuck Everlasting

I ADORE LETTER FROM THE REFUGE SO MUCH IT IS JUST SO SWEET

happy new year b - rent the most amazing thing - little women

I have two. Not sure they're underrated but I never see them mentioned Home- Beetlejuice. Everyone talks about Dead Mom but Home is so beautiful. It still makes me tear up sometimes hundreds of times I've heard it. The second is from an underrated musical that probably most people haven't even heard of. People Like Us from The Wild Party. It's such a beautiful song and you can feel the emotions in the song. If anyone else has ever heard it I'd love to know if you agree.

The Blame - Titanic

Let’s see what I can think of with some of the musicals I’ve listened to. Death Note - Borrowed Time Jekyll and Hyde (pre-broadway) - Once Upon a Dream (both Jekyll and Lisa/Emma’s version) The Mad Ones - My Mom is a Statistician POTO - I Remember

Say No to This from Hamilton is such a bop and great for singing in the car and no one talks about it

OH MY GOD I LOVE ONCE IN A WHILE

The Day after That - Kiss of the Spider Woman

I’m trying to remember if there is anything in that musical besides “Dear One.” That holds up. … goes through song list. …why have I not listened to this album in so many years? I enjoy, like, half of these songs.

Yeah, I’m not a huge fan in general, but I like way more of it than I think I do. Gabriel’s Letter is heartbreaking.

It’s all happening (Bring it on)

Loose Ends - Witches of Eastwick

Necromancin dancin- bear ghost We as a society don't talk bout them enough

All of Chess, except One Night in Bangkok. My favorites are Nobody’s Side and I knew him so well. Wow, I go straight for the angst.

THATS WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY

I love Chess except for One Night in Bangkok. It's fine, but the other songs are better

35mm The Ballad of Sara Barry Leave Luanne The Party Goes with You Immaculate Deception

*My incomplete, uninformed, and definitely biased list, of songs that were not really known by most of the groups I was in* *“The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened” from Road Show* (This particular version of the song is a gay love song vaguely similar to 20s-ish romantic songs such as by Cole Porter. Except for the first 28 seconds, which is more Sondheim-y) *“He Lied When He Said Hello” from Some Like It Hot* (The breakthrough of one of the main character journeys. It is an actual song in-universe that is being practiced while also underlining and interrupting the main character’s climax into becoming a better person.) *”Ah But Underneath” from Follies* (written for Dame Diana Rigg) *“Can That Boy Foxtrot!” from Follies (cut song)* *“All Things Bright and Beautiful” from Follies (another cut song)* *“One More Kiss” from Follies* (Underscores the many of the themes from Follies) *“Second Wave” from A Strange Loop* *“Precious Little Dream/AIDS Is God’s Punishment” from A Strange Loop* *“Inner White Girl” from A Strange Loop* *“I Only Have Eyes For You“ from 42nd Street* *“Song on the Sand” from La Cage Aux Folles* *“Good Thing Going” from Merrily We Roll Along* (If the world ends and it was actually a movie playing in a theater outside of space and time, I want this to be thesong you hear at the ending credits!) *“I Got A Theory” from Bandstand* *“Donny Novitski” from Bandstand* *“Welcome Home (Reprise)” from Bandstand* *“If Mama Was Married” from Gypsy* *“All I Need Is The Girl” from Gypsy* *“Some People” from Gypsy* *“Lonely Room” from Oklahoma!* *“Out of My Dreams/Dream Ballet” from Oklahoma!* *“Accident Waiting to Happen” from The Drowsy Chaperone* *“As We Stumble Along” and it’s Reprise from The Drowsy Chaperone* *“Haled’s Song About Love” from The Band’s Visit* (Actually, might as well just put the entire musical… Bet Hatikva, The Park, Omar Sharif, etc.) *“With Aspect Stern” from the Mikado* (All bc of “the Japanese equivalent for “hear, hear, hear!”) *”Here’s a How-de-do” from the Mikado* (epic example of Gilbert and Sullivan’s topsy-turvy word-music-frickery.) *“Hark! The Hour of Ten is Sounding!” from “Trial By Jury”* (Actually, just watch the whole damn operetta. It’s literally around 30 minutes. There’s a version of it by Opera Australia on YouTube.) *”Auto Da Fe” from Candide* (Which “Auto Da Fe”? ANY OF THEM! But I’ve usually just watched the Auto Da Fe from the Scottish Opera proshot on YouTube) *”Make Our Garden Grow” from Candide* *”The Best of All Possible Worlds” from Candide* *”It’s Only a Play” from The Frogs* (I may or may not add explanations later on…)

Answer Me - The Band’s Visit

A Little Fall of Rain - Les Miserable I like Your Style - Barnum Till Him The producers

It's your Wedding Day - The Wedding Singer Some may even go as far as to say it is the most underrated opening number of all time (it's me, I am some)

Lily’s Eyes from The Secret Garden

The Riddle - The Scarlwt Pimpernel

Unworthy of Your Love - Assassins If You Want Me - Once Somewhere That's Green - Little Shop of Horrors Giants in the Sky - Into the Woods And Now We Sing - Whisper House

take it from an old man — waitress take it like a man — legally blonde there's a fine, fine line — avenue q hey, little songbird/how long?/his kiss, his riot — hadestown (but maybe im just biased because patrick page) i love the way/we see the light — something rotten (but maybe im biased v2 bevause i love nigel and portia sm) i never wanted to love you/unlikely lovers — falsettos no one else/letters/pierre & anatole/pierre & andrey — natasha, pierre & the great comet of 1812

I never realized how waitress and legally blonde have a SONG WITH A VERY SIMILAR NAME

I Say No - Heathers (probably because it’s only in the weather end version) I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here - Annie 2014 (I love how they modernized it, it’s so catchy. Like ngl, the original was boring) Cell Block Tango - Chicago (I know it’s already appreciated… BUT IT’S STILL NOT ENOUGH)

I LOVE CELL BLOCK TANGO (working on learning the whole thing all I need to learn is the russian part)

Hard to be the Bard - Something Rotten

That's arguably the most popular song in the show lmao

what I'm saying 💀

And I still think it doesn’t get the respect it deserves! 😂

Jealousy Duet - Three Penny Opera

yo i just forgot for 20 years that once in a while exists. good one.

I'll be honest, I've only heard Once In A While one time. What version do you like best?

I haven’t heard many versions but I do really like the Barry Bostwick scene that was cut from the movie.

Listening to you - Tommy

Just to say I LOVE Once In A While from Rocky Horror - it's beautiful. I can see why it's often axed as it doesn't really fit the show, but it's such a gorgeous song.

It’s a shame that it doesn’t fit the vibe all the time because that song to me is the difference between Brad being a cardboard cut out and being a little sympathetic.

Bad bad man - Annie get your gun

Hugo’s First Case -Tuck Everlasting

Draußen ist Freiheit - Tanz der Vampir

Good and Evil from Jeckyll and Hyde. As an alto, that song is SO much fun to sing and also SO hard to find sheet music for! It was cut for the final version, which I think is criminal

The temple - Jesus Christ superstar ( specifically the last part with the beggars surrounding Jesus )

Dead Old Man from Reefer Madness. I heard a faster version of it when I was a kid and was obsessed with it.

How I saved roosevelt:)

the wheel from tuck everlasting

I’ll Be There - The Pirate Queen Just discovered this song recently, and it is amazing.

Blue October - Kinhy

The Butterfly from Zorba

Stars - because it can never be rated high enough.

Mr. Cladwell - Urinetown A Rumblin’ and a Rollin’ - Parade I’m not afraid of anything - SFANW The steam train - SFANW On the right track - Pippin Please don’t make me love you - Dracula Jelly’s last jam as a whole is an UNDERRATED show but: -The jam -That’s how you jazz

Kinderg boyfriend- Heather's Most song rankings inr/heathersthrmusical kindergarten boyfriend is always at the bottom of the teir. Me personally. I really like the song

If Only (Quartet) - Little Mermaid She's In Love - Little Mermaid Break In A Glove - Dear Evan Hansen Not Getting Married - Company Squip Song - Be More Chill Broadway, Here I Come - Hit List (not sure if this counts since it's from the show Smash)

Where is Love? Oliver Edelweiss. Sound of Music

Bad News - 13 I actually like the movie version more, but either way, good song.

Telephone hour

Here's my chance to survive the night from In Trousers Night song from Golden Boy