Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Most Un-Original Broadway Song
TrulyWicked
Chorus Member Joined: 2/28/05
#0Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 2:40pm
Just curious... which Broadway song's melody do you think is the most stolen from something else?
My vote would have to go to "No One Is Alone" from Into the Woods... stolen note for note from "The Candyman Can" -Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
#1re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 2:45pmi HATE Friendship from Anything Goes. Talk about generic...
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 2:50pmEven though I enjoy the song and it's probably the only thing good about the show, "Once Upon A Time" from "Brooklyn" is pretty cliche and unoriginal.
#3re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 3:21pmThe beginning of "Castle on a Cloud" in the same exact melody as a Tchaikovsky piece. Same exact melody, note for note.
#4re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 3:23pmhahahaha! funny
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 3:34pmI love these songs but "What Do I Need With Love" from Millie and "Dancing Through Life" from Wicked are pretty cliche male songs.
#6re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:44pmPretty much the entire score of "Wicked".
renthead2005z
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/2/05
#7re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:50pmBrooklyn songs sound like a Celine Dion(sp?) Concert!
"Why do we play with fire?-Why do we run our fingers through the flame?"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:52pm
"No One is Alone" Is a note for note steal from "The Candyman Can"? That's some sort of joke, right? Because, you know, the songs are completely different. Is that the joke?
And "Friendship?" My God you people are really hunting.
Of course, no thread is complete without a Wicked Bash, but I'll bite, MEF....What show, pray tell is the "Entire Score of Wicked" stolen from?
Good lord!
#9re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:55pm"Wicked" sounds like a regurgitation of everything Schwartz has ever written.
#10re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:56pmThe entire "score" of "Mamma Mia."
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#11re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:58pm
I'm glad someone piped up and defended "No One Is Alone" because...ugh.
I was going to comment...but reconsidered, considering the calibre of person that would think that...I decided to go and talk to a brick wall instead.
Much more intellegent conversation.
Sargar
Stand-by Joined: 10/16/04
#12re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 5:19pmsome of the songs from little women seem unoriginial...or maybe just uninspired
"Hey Joey McIntyre, is there a balcony in Madison Square Garden? Joey knows his venues a little better than me. That's okay...I have a bigger part on broadway...:)" -Idina Menzel
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#14re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 6:56pmI'm one of the biggest Phantom fans there is, but the score is a recollection of ALW and other people's works more or less.
#15re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 7:05pm
no one is alone and candyman are completely different except for one little part.
in candyman: "Who can take a sunrise..."
sounds the same as the melody in no one is alone "Someone is on your side..."
but that's it. other than that the songs are completely different, and i'd hardly consider no one is alone to be unoriginal.
#16re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 7:11pmMost of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and WICKED
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#17re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 8:29pmwonderful town has songs ripping each other off musically, specifically "pass the football" is the exact melody as "what a waste"
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#18re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 9:35pmThe melody of "Streetsinger" from BROOKLYN is an obvious rip-off of Sam Cooke's signature song "A Change Is Gonna Come" (it's so dead on that they need to pay his estate royalties).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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Bwaybaby109
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/03
#19re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 9:58pm
"No One is Alone" Is a note for note steal from "The Candyman Can"?
Wow!!! It's true!
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#20re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:24pmthe candyman/ no one is alone thing is true- minimally the first few lines
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#21re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:26pmMamma Mia....entire "score" of...does that even count as a score???/
Was that a fat joke?
#22re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:27pm
i think "all i ask of you" and "music of the night" sound the same.
that's all i ask of you
the music of the night
you think alw would at least put the same melodic line in two different shows.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#23re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:27pm
The ENTIRE "score" of Avenue Q
WTF!!?? Where the Hell did the WICKED crap come from!? You ppl are REALLY SAD!
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#24re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:33pmhate to break it to you fosseboi but wicked is takes on others of schwartz's work ala andrew lloyd webber. I'll give you ave q, although whats ripped off is in my opinion to get you into the sesame street mentality (what do you do with a b.a. in english is the same melody as the rainbow connection)
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#25re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song
Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:44pm
Please! I can think of two or three Stephen Schwartz songs "Defying Gravity" sounds like. ("Up to His Old Tricks" and "West End Avenue" come immediately to mind.) Also, "On the Right Track" from PIPPIN sounds a lot like "Turn Back, O Man" from GODSPELL.
Jule Styne once pointed out that "Why God, Why" from MISS SAIGON stole some of its melody from "There's a Small Hotel" from ON YOUR TOES.
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
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