Honorable mentions: “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Color and Light” Sunday in the Park with George is not a terribly easy musical to sing along to in the car, so it’s probably cheating to pick the signature song from the show, the one that shows up in high school talent nights. I get that, but… Read More Songs from Musicals: #42, “Move On,” from Sunday in the Park with George
Honorable mentions: “Quintet,” “America” What a mistake it was to turn this into a duet. Like most people who know a musical that’s nearly sixty years old, my first contact with West Side Story was the 1961 movie, the first of four musicals to take Best Picture in that decade. One gets used to the back and forth in… Read More Songs from Musicals: #43, “Somewhere,” from West Side Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN7r0Rr1Qyc Honorable mentions: “Two Ladies,” “Mein Herr” the sun in the meadow is summery warm the stag in the forest is bae https://t.co/MlwzTp4buY — Jason Linkins (@dceiver) December 8, 2015 (I promise, that’s the only time Donald Trump’s name appear near this post.) Q: “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”? Isn’t this the Nazi song from Cabaret?… Read More Songs from Musicals: #44, “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” from Cabaret
Honorable mentions: “Schadenfreude,” “It Sucks to Be Me” There’s a trope in sports blogging in which the writer digs up two basically identical statlines and labels them “Player A” and “Player B.” Player A is usually some star player: Jimmy Butler, Cole Hamels, Cam Newton. Player B is some good-not-great type with roughly similar statistics.… Read More Songs from Musicals: #45, “I Wish I Could Go Back to College” from Avenue Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eao4SONuZs4 Honorable mentions: “Blow, Gabriel, Blow,” “You’re the Top” Anything Goes, like a movie of roughly the same age (eighty years and counting), is not the same now as it was when it first debuted. Musicals are different animals now than they used to be, having evolved from the skimpy plots and girls into occasionally… Read More Songs from Musicals, #46: “Anything Goes,” from Anything Goes
Honorable mentions: “An Original Musical,” “Two Nobodies in New York” [title of show]‘s appeal is that it is endlessly self-aware. “It’s a show about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical!” is the joyous, Escherian tagline. But there’s a worry. At one point, Hunter confides to Susan that he’s concerned that… Read More Songs from Musicals: #47, “Nine People’s Favorite Thing,” from [title of show]
Honorable mentions: “Prayer of the Comfort Counselor” and “My Unfortunate Erection” (There are two musicals I’m going to have to double-dip from, because silly me, I did not expect to embark on this project when I wrote posts about single songs from some favorite musicals. One of those musicals was The 25th Annual Putnam County… Read More Songs from Musicals: #48, “Pandemonium,” from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Honorable mentions: “One More Angel in Heaven,” “Joseph’s Coat” There’s a part in Gangs of New York where Happy Jack sees Johnny cradling a music box he intends to give to Jenny, smacks it out of Johnny’s hand with his billy club, listens to it briefly, and then says, “Not my favorite tune.” This is more… Read More Songs from Musicals: #49, “Any Dream Will Do,” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Honorable mentions: “Memory,” “Mr. Mistoffelees” This is a weird musical. It’s not the weirdest musical – to me, Germany’s favorite, Starlight Express, will always be the winner of that competition – but Cats is perhaps objectively odd. It is a democratic musical, where there are certain starring roles (Grizabella, the Rum Tum Tugger, Jemima, Munkustrap) and then a… Read More Songs from Musicals: #50, “The Moments of Happiness,” from Cats
Rules: Yes, I stole this idea from my older brother. He can complain to someone else about it, because people pay him to write stuff in real life and I have a blog that no one cares about. I’ve chosen fifty musicals that mean at least a little something to me, and then picked some… Read More Songs from Musicals: Intro and Links
Seeing Things Secondhand 