Just because Anthony Rapp is nasally doesn't mean the man singing it has to be. A nasal voice is not in Mark's character description. It was something Rapp brought to the role. If the guy has good comedic skills and you have a nice belt, you could do it.
What about Old Fashioned Wedding from Annie Get Your Gun?
Although my vote is with You Must Meet My Wife from A Little Night Music. You can't get any better than A Little Night Music. If your partner is a queen (or can play a queen), you could also re-work Every Day a Little Death.
How about "It Takes Two" from Into the Woods? I also like "Anything You can do..." You could do a lot of stuff with both of them.
"Hold your head up high!"- Honk!
"The Phantom of the Opera is there inside my mind." - Phantom of the Opera
"Never put your own money into a show...that's TABOO!" - Nathan Lane in The Producers
ktswaz, my new philosophy isnt really a duet. it's a lot of the girl singing and the boy watching. There are few moments when they sing together or when he sings for the matter.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Ahahaha, that would indeed be hilarious. Well, I'm still checking out everyones ideas, and so far they are great. My partner is a bass so its going a little to be hard to find a "perfect" duet, but a lot of the ones everyone has been saying are really good. Please keep them coming!
Ahahhaa, I just heard a sound bite from "I Love You" Little Me, and it was hilarious. But there was only about 30 seconds of it which included dialogue, so I just wanted to know what the rest of the song was like if anyone knows?
Thou Swell On A Desert Island WIth Thee I Feel At Home With You Let's Not Talk About Love It's Delovely Friendship My Mother Would Love You Sue Me You're The Top You're Just In Love Too Good For The Average Man The Heart Is Quicker Than The Eye What Can You Do With A Man He and She She Could Shake The Maracas Come Up To My Place Bye Bye Baby I Get Carried Away I Still Get Jealous Cherrie Pies Ought To Be You Something Sort Of Grandish Marie's Law Rhymes Have I
Miriam
Every movement has a meaning--but what the hell does it mean!
If you want funny and rare/obscure, I have two for you:
"A Word A Day" by Johnny Mercer from the musical "Top Banana"
and
"Shakespeare Lied" by Carolyn Leigh and Elmer Bernstein from the musical "How Now Dow Jones." My theater group used it in a revue and it went really well. On the recording, it's two people singing to a third (who only has only a few lines in the song), but the song in the vocal selections is written so that one person could sing it. I have the sheet music if you need it. Email me.
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
The Internet is for Porn. (maybe a tad inappropriate though)
Some have choruses in the back, but I think you can get away doing it without them.
Wow, Jan '04? This is probably pointless, I have a feeling the performance is way over.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird