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ideas please - tunes from musicals

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cosmobrown · 04/01/2025 18:59

I have to arrange a tune from a musical for a (very) mixed ability senior school music group.

Please tell me what your and/or your DC favourite tune is from a musical.
Hopefully I will get some inspiration!
Thank you

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Slowmoles · 04/01/2025 19:05

Is it a choir or instrumental piece?

xmasdealhunter · 04/01/2025 19:08

From DD:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Do You Hear The People Sing (Les Mis)
30/90 and Boho Days -Tick tick Boom
Hatful of Dreams/ For a moment- Wonka (musical movie rather than stage)

PermanentTemporary · 04/01/2025 19:11

Well, if Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat counts... Any Dream Will Do. Bog simple, nice tearjerker.

Popular from Wicked?

On the Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady is a wonderful tune.

IamfeelIamveryfeel · 04/01/2025 19:13

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Coffeemmmmcoffee · 04/01/2025 19:15

This is me - The greatest Showman
Gravity- Wicked (very current)

I love Wait for me from Hades Town

Billybagpuss · 04/01/2025 19:16

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Or black hills of Dakota, or once I had a secret love

Billybagpuss · 04/01/2025 19:18

Did you want upbeat or ballad

No17CherryTreeLane · 04/01/2025 19:19

A Million Dreams - The Greatest Showman

Hamilton soundtrack?

boysmuminherts · 04/01/2025 19:20

You will be found - Dear Evan Hansen
Defying Gravity - Wicked
One Day More - Les Miserables

menopausalmare · 04/01/2025 19:24

Something from Bugsy Malone.

NordicwithTeen · 04/01/2025 19:25

Currently Flying Free from Wicked

Gymmum82 · 04/01/2025 19:27

Popular or defying gravity or even what is this feeling? from wicked
Naughty from matilda the musical

HPandthelastwish · 04/01/2025 19:28

Are these students who are familiar with musicals in which case you can go with something more obscure and less well known but current like Hades Town, 'Why we build the wall' perhaps.

But if not and these are students that aren't as familiar I d go with something popular with a film adaptation so Hamilton, Wicked, Hairspray, Les Mis, Talkin' bon Jamie or Evan Hanson

cosmobrown · 04/01/2025 19:29

instrumental group.
no drummer.
we've just done a selection from Les Mis, which worked well and they enjoyed.

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AdaColeman · 04/01/2025 19:32

A selection from West Side Story.

HPandthelastwish · 04/01/2025 19:34

You could do Let ait Go, they'll have been the cohort that were 3 or 4 when it first came out so they'll probably like the nostalgia.

MargaretThursday · 04/01/2025 19:34

Popular songs from musicals:

When I grow up (Matilda)
Do you hear the people sing? (Les Mis)
Defying Gravity (Wicked)
Do ray me (Sound of Music)
Pure Imagination (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Flash Bang Wallop (Half a sixpence)
Be kind to your Parents (Fanny?)
It's a hard knock life (Annie)
Consider yourself (Oliver)
Any Dream will do (Joseph)
We're Six (Six the musical)
Bipperdy Bopperty Bo (Cinderella)
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Mary Poppins)
We're all in it together (High School Musical)
Grease Lighting (Grease)
Working 9 to 5 (musical by same name)

Are all ones that work well with groups and are easy to sing. Some of them have small amount of harmony/group work. These are all ones I've done with small chorus groups on stage.

There are ones that can be fun to do, but are harder to do.
"Pick out a simple tune" from Half a Sixpence, is fun, but unless they really are confident (you need a few to be able to do solo lines) it will sound flat.
Or "If I had money to burn" again from Half a Sixpence, is fun but more complicated.

If you're going for anything in concert be aware that Disney can be a pain about licencing anything and can be vicious in going for anyone using their tunes, yes even small charity events.

If you're wanting popular musicals for teens, I'd go for Six, Heathers, Les Mis, Wicked and if you look through the songs then you may find that some of them catch your eye.
Another thing you can do is ask them all to find one musical song they really like and put it in a box and choose some of them, I've done that and sometimes you get surprised by what they want.

If you want a bit of fun, you can rewrite some to be more relevant. Both favourite Things and So Long, Farewell (from Sound of Music) lend themselves well to that - some of them might even enjoy doing it.

On the whole I find upbeat ones they enjoy more, but quieter ones can be easier for them to learn. It's also worth giving them You-tube links so they can listen to them at home, because the more confident any one of them is, the more confident the whole group becomes.

Snowmanscarf · 04/01/2025 20:06

Sound of Music - Favourite things

Fiddler on the roof - If I were a rich man

Grease - Summer holuday

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