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Topic: Funny Variety Show Song

Posted By: padfoot13
Subject: Funny Variety Show Song
Date Posted: 6/06/05 at 11:37am

I'm singing in a Variety/Talent show next week. I told them that I was going to do a Broadway solo song. Any body have ideas on what I could do? I would really like to do something funny. I'm female, senior in HS, but can do just about any woman song, doesn't have to be a teen song. THANKS!
padfoot

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Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 6/06/05 at 12:24pm

Two of my favorite funny Broadway songs are "You Can Always
Count on Me" from "City of Angels," and "Shy" from "Once Upon
a Mattress."

Now that I think of it - LOL - "Happily Ever After" from "Once
Upon a Mattress" is really funny, too.

Posted By: Nyria
Date Posted: 6/06/05 at 4:32pm

Yes - SHY is great.

Also - 'I'm just a girl who can't say no' (or something like that) from Oklahoma

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NYRIA

Posted By: Juliet
Date Posted: 6/07/05 at 7:24am

If you want something short, you could do "that'll show him" from funny thing...forum, but i don't know if that's the kind of music you want.

Posted By: Shatcher
Date Posted: 6/07/05 at 3:10pm

The Ladies who lunch" From company is a great song. A little hard to sing though

Posted By: Colin
Date Posted: 6/07/05 at 5:14pm

"Everybody's Girl" from "Steel Pier" is also good, and David Friedman's "A
Simple Christmas Wish" is a hilarious, if you can belt and sing soprano.

Colin

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Colin Douglas

Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 6/07/05 at 9:46pm

A good one is Gooch?s Song from ?Mame?

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/mame/goochssong.htm - http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/mame/goochssong.htm

Similar to how it is staged in the production!

You can start the song sitting behind a desk, on the phone, facing the audiance, holding a singing conversation with Mame Burnside, as the lyrics dictate you stand up & reveal that your very much pregnant, at the appropriate time!

I have used this song to great effect from time to time!

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Joe
Western Gondawandaland
turn right @ Perth.
Hear the light & see the sound.
Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"}
May you always play
to a full house}

Posted By: Juliet
Date Posted: 6/07/05 at 11:20pm

or if you can belt, how about "Can't Get A Man With A Gun"? That's a showstopper if you've got the pipes for it. And the lyrics are cute.

Posted By: Kathy S
Date Posted: 6/08/05 at 1:17am

There is a song called "Nobody Does It Like Me" that is very funny, but sorry, I don't know the show it is from or the composer. Can anybody help?

Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 6/08/05 at 1:46pm

It's most popular version was by Shirley Bassey - but Michele
Lee originally sang it in the play "Seesaw" - which was the
musical version of the two character play "Two for the Seesaw."
"Seesaw" was also the play in which Tommy Tune made his
Broadway debut.

ya gotta love trivia LOL

Posted By: ronophonic
Date Posted: 6/24/05 at 12:37am

Adelaide's Lament from Guys and Dolls

done alot.............but IS funny

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ronophonic

Posted By: casey05
Date Posted: 6/24/05 at 4:12am

What about "Just you wait ..." from My Fair Lady? Probably need a Cockney Accent for it though.