I need a Broadway Song!!!?

Question

I need one to show off my voice. I kicked *** belting out "on my own" but another girl already chose it. I've got a soulful voice, but I can hit high notes if needed. It has to have been a song that was on Broadway at one point. Please no Wicked/Les Miz. My other two choices right now are "maybe this time" from cabaret and "I know where i've been" from hairspray. Both are okay, but much too slow. I've been searching for hours. Please help :)

PS: Energy! Big/amazingly pretty finish :)

Answer 1

Normally I would say that "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret would be a great song since songs from older musicals are overdone as the two ones you mentioned (along with Rent, Hairspray, Spring Awakening, and Phantom of the Opera). However, I believe it was a song featured on the show "Glee" not too long ago. You would think that having show tunes on "Glee" would be a good thing, but as someone who sings show tunes a great deal, I'm running into a younger audience that expect it to be sung only one way--the way they did on Glee--or I'm doing it "wrong". Dumb, huh?



Also it's up to you to put energy into a song. Even a ballad can be powerful and amazing when the singer not only sings the notes well, but pays attention to what the lyrics mean and sings with the proper feeling and interpetation.

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A soulful, belt song? I don't know how soulful this is, but it is upbeat and definitely a good belt number.

"Blow, Gabriel Blow" from "Anything Goes" by Cole Porter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keixiITpUPU&feature=related

"Buenos Aires" from "Evita"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ebeUGljQ0Q

Answer 2

Here are some great FEMALE SOLOS from Musicals



A BRAND NEW DRESS... Coco

A FOGGY DAY IN LONDON TOWN. Damsel in Distress

A JOURNEY TO A STAR.. The Gang's all Here

A LADY OF SENSIBILITY.. Lady Pirates of capt. Bree

A SINGER MUST BE FREE... The Nightingale

A WAY BACK TO THEN.. Title of Show

A WEEK-END IN THE COUNTRY.. A Little Night Music

ALL MY LOVIN'... Across the Universe

ANOTHER DAY... Rent

ANOTHER HUNDRED PEOPLE.. Company

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST... We Will Rock You

APPLAUSE... Applause

AROUND THE WORLD... Grey Garden

BACK TO BASE... Closer than Ever

BACK TO BEFORE.. Ragtime

BACKWOODS BARBIE.. 9 to 5

BE MY HOST... No Strings

BE ON YOUR OWN... Nine

BEFORE I KISS THE WORLD GOODBYE.. Jennie

BLESS THE LORD.. Can Do

BOUNCE ME BROTHER.. Swing

BREATH... In the Heights

BUENOS AIRES... Evita

CAFÉ CONTINENTAL... Big

CANDLE IN THE WATER.. Pete's Dragon

C'EST MAGNAFIQUE... Can Can

COLORED WOMAN... Memphis

COWBOY TAKE ME AWAY... Urban Cowboy

DANCE 10, LOOKS 3... A Chorus Line

DAY BY DAY.. Godspell

DIVA'S LAMENT.. Spam

DON'T STOP BELIEVIN.. Rock of Ages

EASY TERMS.. Blood Brothers

ESCAPE... Escape

EVERY STORY'S A LOVE STORY... Aida

EVERYTHING'S BRIGHT.. Dance of the Vampires

EVERYTHING ELSE.. Next to Normal

FEELINGS YOU'VE GOT TO HIDE... Sideshow

FIFTY PERCENT.. Ballroom

FLASHDANCE...WHAT A FEELING.. Flashdance

FLY ME TO THE MOON.. Come Fly Away

FLY ME TO THE FUTURE.. The Vanities

FOLLOW YOUR HEART... Urintown

GET HAPPY... Everyday Rapture

GIMME LOVE.. Kiss of the Spider Woman

GLITTER AND BE GAY ... Candide

GRAND AVENUE... Flower Drum Song

GRIZABELLA THE GLAMOUR CAT... Cats

GROWING UP CATHOLIC.. Nunsense

HAPPY EASTER... Easter Parade

HELL NO.. The Color Purple

HOLDING ON.. Secret Garden

HOLDING TO THE GROUND... Falsettoland

HONEY, HONEY.. Momma Mia

TEACHER DON'T TEACH ME NO NONSENSE... Race

HOW LUCKY CAN YOU GET.. Funny Lady

I AIN'T GOT TIME.. Zanna Don't

I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME... She Likes Me

I GOT RHYTHM... Girl Crazy

I HATE MUSICALS... Ruthless

I KEEP REMEMBERING YOU... Yank

I MIGHT GROW FOND OF YOU.. Sunny

I NEVER SAID I LOVE YOU... Dear World

I WANT IT ALL.. Baby

I WAS WAY AHEAD AND SEESAW.. Seesaw

I'LL BE WAITING THERE... Kristina

I'M A WOMAN... Smokey Joe's Café

IMAGINE... Lennon

INSIDE YOUR HEART.. Bad Boy

IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING... State Fair\

IT NEEDS WORK... City of Angels

IT WON'T LET US LEAVE... Evil Dead

JUST AROUND THE RIVER BEND.. Pocahontas

IT'S NEVER ENTERED MY MIND..Higher and Higher

JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY.. Big Deal

KEYS .. Passing Strange

LADY'S MAID... Titanic

LAY DOWN YOUR HEAD.. Violet

LIGHT... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

LOOK FOR A SILVER LINING. Till the Clouds roll by

LOOK TO THE RAINBOW... Finian's Rainbow

LOSING MY MIND.. Fossee

LOVE... Love me Tonight

LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND.. Carnival

LOVE NEVER DIES... Love Never Dies

LULLABY OF BROADWAY... 42nd Street

MELTING MOGGY... Honk

MISTER RIGHT... Love Life

MOLL'S SONG... The Cradle Will Rock

MY FUNNY VALENTINE... Babes in Arms

MY OWN MORNING... Hallelujah Baby

NO OTHER LOVE.. Me and Juliet

NOBODY'S SIDE... Chess

100 WAYS TO LOSE A MAN.. Wonderful Town

OOH! MY FEET... The most happy fella

ONE NIGHT ONLY.. Dream Girls

PARIS BY NIGHT.. Victor Victoria

PASSONATE and TRUE..The Addams Family Musical.

PROMISES PROMISES, Promises, Promises

PURLIE... Purlie

RAGS... Rags

RAIN ON THE ROOF.. The Wild Party

ROLL IN THE HAY.. The Young Frankenstein

RUNNING IN PLACE... Steel Pier

SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT... Peter Pan

SCARLETT O'HARA AGAIN.. Gone with the Wind

SEPTEMBER SONG... Lovemusik

SHINE... Billy Elliot

SOME DAY.. The Wedding Singer

SON OF A PREACHER MAN... Enron

THANK GOD I'M OLD... Barnum

THE BARE NECESSITIES... The Jungle Book

THE CALLING.. Altar Boyz

THE GARDEN RAM... Two by Two

THE MAN I LOVE.. Strike up the Band

TRY TO REMEMBER.. The Fantastics

UNDER THE TREE.. Celebration

WAITING FOR LIFE...Once upon this Island

WITH ONE LOOK.. Sunset Boulevard

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS.. Witches of Eastwick

YOU'LL NEVER BE ALONE.A Tale of Two Cities



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Answer 3

Mama Who Bore Me from Spring Awakening is a good belting song, but it's kinda slow too.



My New Philosophy from You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown is upbeat and fun for belting.



Notice Me, Horton from Seussical is super cute, but there's a little guy's part in the end. If you can get a guy to do it with you, that one would be good.

I've heard solo versions though, and it fits well. Horton really only has one or two lines aside from the harmony he sings.