Pump-Up Songs
Pump-Up Songs
#0Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 5:52pm
Hey guys,
I was asking people in the dresisng room today @ my show if there were any songs they listen to before an audition/performance to get pumped up and ready?
Usually before an audition, I listen to Out Tonight from RENT...I don't know why, it just gets me ready, focused and excited.
Before a performance, I usually listen to You Can't Stop the Beat. And yes, I dance to it! It gets my blood flowing!
**Begin laughter and pointing here**
Let me know what you guys listen to!
Love,
Brandon
#1re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 5:56pmLast year when I did Forum we all listened to Defying Gravity, and Holding out For a Hero. Because we had a guy fly in the opening song and because of the character Hero. It was good times. I'd suggest finding something like that, that kind of matches with your show.
#2re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 6:18pm
In terms of show tunes only to get pumped up, I listen to:
"Another Day" - Rent
"Corner of the Sky" - Pippin
"Louder than Words" - Tick, Tick...Boom!
"Everyone Tells Jason to See a Psychiatrist" - March of the Falsettos
"Need to Know" - Weird Romance
I never get "pumped up" before a performance though. I am always that guy that disappears until 5 minutes before curtain and doesn't talk to anyone when I reappear. I like quiet alone time to prepare/get in character.
Updated On: 8/3/05 at 06:18 PM
#3re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 6:21pm
I like quiet alone time too. I just like to get excited about the show I am about to do, and singing YCSTB also helps warm up your voice!
Love,
Brandon
#4re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 6:26pmThe Wizard and I is my "feel good and powerful" song. But listening to Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, The Wild Party, Avenue Q, helps me pump up my self.
you say i'm weird! look at everyone you're sitting with! and hey, those guys over there just threw napkins up in the air like they were on something! it's contajous! you can't help it!
#5re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 6:28pmOut Tonight CERTAINLY always wakes me up and gets me alert.
#6re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 6:30pm
Yeah, it's so fun. I don't even know what it is about that song that I like so much. I guess it's the guitar and everything really gets me excited and ready.
Love,
Brandon
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#7re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 6:37pm
Ok before an audition i usually listen to anything from RENT or HAIR; usually HAIR though!
When we did Cinderella we all did the "Cha Cha Slide" in our 20lb costumes and then had to go fix the wear on the make-up! ok the costumes weren't 20lbs but they were made out of heavy HEAVY matirial theat looked like my couch. We also listenen to Cabaret before one performance or it, West Side Story before another, RENT everynight at least "Rent" it got us all pumped!
~EM~~
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 8:51pm"Go the Distance" from Disney's Hercules.
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#10re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 8:57pm
"What I Did for Love" -A Chorus Line
"Fame" -Fame (the movie)
"Heaven on their Minds" -JCS
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#12re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 9:14pmAt a theatre I regularly perform at, a group of us would go up to the third floor rehearsal room and get our groove on to West Side Story, Tick, Tick...Boom!, Rent, and L5Y just to get the blood pumping and adrenaline going...it was fun and nice to let loose before going into performance mode.
"Because what is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it. It can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog; hidden behind a curve of road, and then suddenly there in full glory. Its waves come like breaths, in and out, in and out, body stretched to forever in its possibilities, and yet its heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic."
#13re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 9:20pm
La Vie Boheme - RENT
Aiutami - Piazza
Look at Me Now - Lippa's Wild Party
The More We Dance - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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#14re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 9:21pmBest pump up song from a show I know of is Into the Fire from Scarlet Pimpernel. If that doesn't get your blood pounding...
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#15re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 9:22pmInto The Fire is an excellent choice from an underappreciated (all of Wildhorn's are) show
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#16re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 9:27pm
Wow, you guys listen to some great stuff! All of these are great songs, and some I will be downloading thanks to your suggestions! Thanks so much!!
Love,
Brandon
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#17re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 9:44pm
can i first just say that your username cracks me up.
ok..anyway.
hm...
fortune favors the brave-AIDA
rent-RENT
flying home-SFANW
let the sun shine in-HAIR
probably anything from hairspray
there are really so many that i can't think of at the moment.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
#18re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 10:01pm
Haha thank you so much...my friend actually came up with it for me years ago!
Brandon
#19re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 10:04pm
I forgot about "Into the Fire"! That really is a great pump-up song!! My friends and I sometimes sing that and "Creation of Man" also from Scarlet Pimpernel before shows because they're just great songs!!
And for some reason, "You're the One that I Want" from Grease and "Holding Out for a Hero" from Footloose are fun pump-up songs too.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#20re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 10:59pm
If I need to pump up, I listen to Spelling Bee's title track, "Morning Glow," or "Heart & Music."
But if I need to focus and find my zone, I pull out "Why?" or "Nobody Needs to Know."
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CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#21re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/3/05 at 11:09pm
I made a thread for showtunes that will wake you up in the morning, and the categories seem to overlap! Here ya go!
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=679466#679466
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#22re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/4/05 at 10:12am"Run and Tell That" from Hairspray is also good - as energetic as "You Can't Stop the Beat," but not as overplayed.
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#23re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/4/05 at 5:50pmmy school has a tradition of doing TimeWarp...overplayed, i know, but oh so much fun. We have dance moves to it, and added in parts. It's a lot of fun.
musicnmath
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/13/05
#25re: Pump-Up Songs
Posted: 8/4/05 at 7:25pmOut Tonight, Rent and La Vie Boheme really get my energy flowing when I'm feeling kind of blah before a show.
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