Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#0Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:03pm
I'm trying to make a list of empowering 'I can' type songs. And that sort of thing. I'm thinking 'This Is The Moment' for J+H and 'Defying Gravity' from Wicked. Obviously these are fairly obvious but I'm having a stupid day and I can't think of many others. I'm hoping that you'll be able to suggest some more. Old or new shows, anything suggestion is useful!
Thanks!
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:07pm
We Can Do It (Producers)
Teamwork (Chitty)
The Money Song (Avenue Q)
Find Your Grail (Spamalot)
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#2re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:09pmYeah! They're super suggestions! Thanks. More like this!
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#3re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:09pmYeah! They're super suggestions! Thanks. More like this!
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#4re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:10pm
"We Can Do It" - THE PRODUCERS
"I Know Where I've Been" - HAIRSPRAY
"This Is Not Over Yet" - PARADE
"Wheels of a Dream" - RAGTIME
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#5re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:12pm
"Great Big Stuff" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Waiting for Life" - Once on This Island
"Our Time" - Merrily We Roll Along (More of a "We Can" song)
"The Call" - Floyd Collins
"I Can See It" - The Fantasticks
#6re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:15pmI'm Free- Footloose
#7re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:18pm
Surprised -Violet
Astonishing -Little Women
-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#8re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:25pm
Good Morning Baltimore (Hairspray)
Let Me Walk Amoung You (Bat Boy)
Here's My Plan (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer... I might have the title wrong)
Great Big Stuff (DRS)
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
elphieisperky
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/05
#9re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:31pm
Don't Rain on My Parade - Funny Girl
I Have Confidence in Me - Sound of Music
One Day More - Les Miz
Defying Gravity - Wicked
Here I Am, and Great Big Stuff - DRS
Basically all of Rent
Updated On: 10/14/05 at 09:31 PM
#10re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:33pm
"Everything's Coming Up Roses" is sort of a twist on this theme.
And "Pirate Jenny" would be an even more macabre twist.
Probably more what you're looking for:
"Don't Rain on My Parade"
"Gimme Gimme" (from Millie)
"Go, go, go Joseph"
"My own best friend" (Chicago)
"Some people" (Gypsy)
"Into the fire" (Scarlet Pimpernel)
eta:
"I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair"
"Open a new window" (or almost anything from Mame)
"I am what I am"
"Bring me my bride" (from Forum)
Updated On: 10/13/05 at 09:33 PM
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#11re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:35pmI'm tempted to say "Rose's Turn," but that's probably darker than what you're looking for. "King of the World" and "Christmas Lullaby" from Songs for a New World might be appropriate, though.
#12re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:42pm"I Am What I Am" - LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Updated On: 10/13/05 at 09:42 PM
--Aristotle
rose&lark
Featured Actor Joined: 10/10/05
#13re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:43pm"This Is Not Over Yet" from Parade is another. Nice duet between Lucille and Frank.
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#14re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:53pm
"I Ain't Down Yet" (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
"Before the Parade Passes By" (Hello, Dolly!)
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 10/13/05 at 09:53 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:00pmIt's from a movie, but "Here's Where I Stand" from CAMP gives me chills.
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#16re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:02pmWhat about "The Impossible Dream"? I'm surprised no one has mentioned that.
#17re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:03pmI Can Do That - Chorus Line
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#18re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:07pmi believe in you (H2$)
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#19re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:10pmPurpose- Ave. Q
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#20re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:10pm"I'm the Greatest Star" - Funny Girl
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#21re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:14pm
Well, there's the ultimate I want song,
"Something's Coming" from West Side Story.
"The Wizard and I" from Wicked.
"The Beauty Is" from Piazza.
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from Wizard of Oz.
Man, it just goes on and on.
yr ronin,
joey
joey
#22re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:26pm"Johnny Can't Decide" from tick, tick...BOOM
#23re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:39pm
Mentioning Something's Coming gave me the itch to listen to it, so I am. :)
I love this thread.
"I Can Hear the Bells" from Hairspray always puts me an optimistic mood. :)
Alejandra
Updated On: 10/13/05 at 10:39 PM
#24re: Empowering 'I Can' or 'I Will Be The Best' type songs.
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:40pm
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