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Best songs from musicals?

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clare8allthepies · 23/02/2020 22:08

I’m a big musicals fan and the kids and I often listen to songs from musicals on our Alexa in the house. I thought that I would make a playlist that we can listen to and download for in the car etc. We’ve got up to about 30 songs so far, lots from les mis and Hamilton (for me) and the Greatest Showman (for them).

Any recommendations for ones that I might not have thought about? It’s only a matter of time before I turn them into musical afficionados like me Grin

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clare8allthepies · 23/02/2020 22:29

Ooh everyone’s talking about Jamie! I only know and they don’t even know it and I love it, any other recommendations? My girls have a dance routine to say my name from Beetlejuice, not really sure how appropriate it is for a 6 and a 9 year old Blush

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FakeFraudSquad · 23/02/2020 22:31

Forgot Waitress

Not technically Musical Theatre but... I’ll Make a Man Out of You is Awesome

Aida (the Disney One)

He Lives in You from The Lion King, Shadowlands

Anastasia Broadway Cast

Shrek the Musical

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Grease

clare8allthepies · 23/02/2020 22:31

@dementedma, great minds think alike, I have almost all of those! 😂

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Hadenoughofitall441 · 23/02/2020 22:34

Seasons of love from rent.... such a powerful song.

FakeFraudSquad · 23/02/2020 22:34

Meant to say I’ll Make A Man Out of You from Mulan

Also forgot Legally Blonde lol Bend, What You Want and Snap and Ohmigodyouguys
are fun.

Little Shop Of Horrors

Dreamgirls

FakeFraudSquad · 23/02/2020 22:35

That should have read Bend and Snap and What you want (two different songs) Blush

RachelEllenRE · 23/02/2020 22:36

I love this thread, thank you OP.

DancingQueen2018 · 23/02/2020 22:37

Mine are loving six and mean girls.

Tartyflette · 23/02/2020 22:37

Gotta have something from the Rocky Horror Show!
Let's Do the Time Warp again?
Science Fiction/Double Feature
And of course...
Sweet Transvestite.
(Not exactly kid-friendly . But a great song. )

badg3r · 23/02/2020 22:37

There she goes/Fame
Little shop of horrors
Batboy
Urine town
Cabaret
In the heights

badg3r · 23/02/2020 22:39

Oh and billie Elliot!

notbeingfunnybut · 23/02/2020 22:39

She used to be mine (waitress)

Me and the sky (come from away)

Anybody have a map, waving through a window and you will be found (dear Evan Hanson)

Lonecatwithkitten · 23/02/2020 22:40

Pretty Funny from Dog Fight
One perfect moment from Bring it on

francienolan · 23/02/2020 22:40

42nd Street
La Cage aux Folles
Beauty and the Beast
Annie Get Your Gun
Next to Nothing
Mary Poppins
South Pacific (this has got to be one of the best musicals ever written)
Guys and Dolls

SpaceDinosaur · 23/02/2020 22:40

Ragtime - Ragtime
Over the moon - Rent
Nobody does it like me - Seesaw
I'll make a man out of you - Mulan
What is this feeling? - Wicked
Positive - Legally Blonde
Love is an open door - Frozen
The worst pies in London - Sweeny Todd
One - Chorus Line
I'm not wearing underwear today - Avenue Q 😂
Electricity - Billy Elliot

badg3r · 23/02/2020 22:40

Oh and my new philosophy from you're a good man Charlie Brown

WellTidy · 23/02/2020 22:40

Sit down you’re rocking the boat

America or Maria (west side story)

Rent - 525,600 minutes

Lots of songs from The Sound of Music - maybe my favourite things?

Fiddler - If I were a rich man

Joseph - any dream will do (and lots of others)

Chicago - all that jazz

Supercalorfragilistic...

Blood brothers - tell me it’s not true

Don’t rain on my parade - Funny Girl

Everything today is thoroughly modern

Anything goes

Oliver - as long as he needs me, or consider yourself

My fair lady - wouldn’t it be loverly or I could have danced all night

I don’t know how to live him

Memory

Don’t cry for me Argentina

Music of the night

Love changes everything

Anything by ABBA (mamma Mia)

Take that look off your face

Wicked - popular

I could go on!

clare8allthepies · 23/02/2020 22:41

@Tartyflette I already have over at the Frankenstein place and hot patootie. I did have rose tint my world but deleted it earlier after realising some of it isn’t really for 6 year old ears! 😂

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carlyclock · 23/02/2020 22:44

No to Everybody’s talking about Jamie. Fabulous soundtrack but not for kids

tararabumdeay · 23/02/2020 22:47

Some of us belong to the stars - Billy
Summertime.
Old man river.

And, as you've got girls - I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair.

Binterested · 23/02/2020 22:50

Oliver !

Consider Yourself
I’d do Anything

WeKnowFrogsGoShaLaLaLaLa · 23/02/2020 22:50

The soundtrack to &Juliet, We Will Rock You, Chicago, Wicked and Six are our most played.

Strawberrypancakes · 23/02/2020 22:52

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beckywiththeshithair33 · 23/02/2020 22:53

Edelweiss - The Sound of Music
I think I better think it out again - Oliver
Defying Gravity - Wicked
I love to laugh - Mary Poppins (but more because that scene used to crease me up every time I watched it as a kid)

beckywiththeshithair33 · 23/02/2020 22:54

On my own - Les Mis