Thursday Thirteen #9

Thirteen of my
Favorite Broadway Musical Songs

1. Summer Nights
from Grease
Grease was one of my favorite movies growing up, and still is. My kids love it too, and we’ve been known to blast the soundtrack and with the entire family singing at the tops of our lungs, singing the male and female parts respectively.

2. The Stepsisters’ Lament
from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
I love this musical partly because Cinderella is one of my favorite fairy tales, but also because I was involved in that production in high school. The Stepsisters’ Lament is always the highlight of the show. It’s hilarious, especially the line they sing (referring to Cindy): “She’s a frothy little bubble/With a flimsy kind of charm/With very little trouble/I could break her little arm!”

3. The Point of No Return
from The Phantom of the Opera
This song probably needs no explanation…it’s one of the most passionate, simmering, angsty songs out there. It just makes this musical, especially in the movie and when you can actually see Gerard Butler’s face. Loin quiveration. Big time.

And, in the did-you-know-category: this was the very first scene they filmed when doing the movie. Wow.

4. It’s A Fine Life
from Oliver!
My Music Man and I met more than sixteen years ago doing a community theater production of Oliver!
I always tell people that our relationship started off on the right foot—I was the Assistant Director and Stage Manager for the production, and he was merely a cast member. So he had to do everything I said.

And, yes, there might have been some hanky-panky going on in the wings (which is how I got some of my ideas for backstage scenes in my Phantom book), but all in all, it was a great production because that particular musical is so much fun to do!

5. All Good Gifts
from Godspell

6. There Are Worse Things I Could Do
from Grease

7. Music of the Night
from The Phantom of the Opera

8. I’d Do Anything
from Oliver!

9. Ten Minutes Ago
from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella

10. Patron Saints
from Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
This was the second musical production my Music Man and I did together, immediately after we closed Oliver! It’s a hilarious, touching show about growing up, with the backdrop of attending a Catholic school (which I did).

The guy who directed it for our community theater group had been one of the main characters in the Broadway show, so he had choreography that was way beyond most community theater productions. It was a huge success. I wish it would be revived; I’d love to see it again.

11. I Don’t Know How to Love Him
from Jesus Christ, Superstar

12. How Far is Too Far?
from Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?

13. I Shall Scream!
from Oliver!

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