"I Cain't Say No ""I Cain't Say No"" is a song from the musical play ""Oklahoma!"" written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. In the song Ado Annie Carnes describes her sexual awakening (albeit in highly euphemistic terms) and the conflicts that it brings. One of two female leads, Ado Annie has a pair of principal suitors, a Persian traveling salesman Ali Hakim and the cowboy Will Parker, recently returned from an excursion to Kansas City. She describes to her friend Laurey the attention she is now receiving from men ""since she filled out"" and her inability"
"unlike in the original cast recording where Alexander Hamilton recounts the story. It incorporates the same backing vocals and music as the song from the musical. Say No to This ""Say No to This"" is the fourth song from Act 2 of the musical ""Hamilton"", based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote both the music and lyrics to the song. In this song, ""Hamilton's eye begins wandering"", as he has an affair with Maria Reynolds. According to ""Slate"", the song ""began with a quote from LL Cool J's ""I Need Love"""","
"Say No to This ""Say No to This"" is the fourth song from Act 2 of the musical ""Hamilton"", based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote both the music and lyrics to the song. In this song, ""Hamilton's eye begins wandering"", as he has an affair with Maria Reynolds. According to ""Slate"", the song ""began with a quote from LL Cool J's ""I Need Love"""", but due to clearance issues from Atlantic Records, ""the line was removed before the show's transition to Broadway"". The song outlines Alexander Hamilton's one-year adulterous affair"
"1, 2007. I Don't Dance (High School Musical song) ""I Don't Dance"" is a song performed by actor/singers Lucas Grabeel and Corbin Bleu in the television movie ""High School Musical 2"", released in 2007. It is one of seven songs from the soundtrack ""High School Musical 2"" to reach the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It was also named as the official theme song for the 2007 Little League World Series. The song is performed whilst the Wildcats, led by Chad (Corbin Bleu) play baseball against the Lava Springs staff. Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) challenges Chad to perform in the annual Lava Springs"
"the more you hear. I'm still learning things when I hear his songs. The musical includes two previously unpublished songs by Lennon: ""India, India"" and ""I Don't Want to Lose You"". A December 2004 ""Playbill"" article mentioned that the rarely heard Lennon song ""Cookin' (in the Kitchen of Love)"" (heard on the ""Ringo's Rotogravure"" album by Ringo Starr) would also be included, though the song was cut before the musical's Broadway opening. Lennon (musical) Lennon is a musical with music and lyrics by John Lennon and book by Don Scardino, who also directed its premiere. The musical is about the"
"No Good Deed (song) ""No Good Deed"" is a musical number from the hit Broadway musical ""Wicked"". It is sung by Elphaba, the main character of the show. It is widely regarded as the most powerful piece of the musical; and the most emotional. Performed towards the end of Act Two, the song springs from Elphaba's rage over her continuously thwarted efforts to do good and her inner turmoil about her intention for doing so. It explores the ideas of goodness and wickedness, which are central to the musical's theme. In the song she lists what she perceives as her"
"performed by rose bruford students at the Stratford circus theatre March 2017, directed by Ian Reekie. In 2009, a cabaret of Carner and Gregor songs, ""Sing, But Don't Tell"", was presented at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The cast of the Broadway revival of ""HAIR"" performed a concert of their songs in February 2010 entitled ""BUZZED"". A concert of their songs, again called ""Sing, But Don't Tell"", was presented in the London Hippodrome's Matcham Room in March 2013. They created ""Carner & Gregor's Barely Legal Showtune Extravaganza,"" an annual summer concert in New York City featuring current college musical"
"Not Going"", often considered the show's signature tune, describe Effie's love for Curtis, both strongly devoted and defiant. She refuses to let Curtis leave her behind, and boldly proclaims to him, ""I'm staying and you ... you're gonna love me."" In addition to its presence in the musical, ""And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"" is also notable as the debut single of two women who portrayed Effie. Jennifer Holliday originated the role on Broadway in 1981 and won a Tony Award for her performance as well as the Grammy for Best R&B Performance, Female for its re-release in"
"show gained Best Musical, Bacall Best Leading Actress in a Musical, but Bonnie Franklin missed out on the best supporting actress to Melba Moore. The composer, Strouse, called in Marvin Hamlisch to write the arrangement for the title song ""Applause"", which was sung at the opening of the show by Franklin as waiters danced on tables. The song was reprised at the end of the show. The song has Franklin's character, a waitress-cum-chorus dancer named Bonnie, asking her fellow waiter-performers: ""What is it that we're living for?""—then providing the answer: ""Applause, Applause! / Nothing I know / brings on the"
"running musical in the world. The original cast reunited again in 2010 to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary at the O2 Arena in London. In May 2009, Caine made her Chicago debut in the Chicago Opera Theater's production of Benjamin Britten's ""Owen Wingrave"". In December 2010, Caine returned to the musical theatre stage as Lady Raeburn in ""Salad Days"" produced by Tête à Tête. In May 2011, Caine played Ottavia in a jazz adaptation of ""The Coronation of Poppea"" directed by Mark Ravenhill. In the summer of 2012, Caine played Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the ""Sound of Music"" at the"
"3 shows 2007 - 3 shows 2006 - 3 shows 1990 Regular Season ""A Salute to Broadway"" at the ""Music USA Theater"". Songs performed included ""A Pretty Girl"" from ""The Ziegfeld Follies""; ""They Call the Wind Mariah"" from ""Paint Your Wagon""; ""Let Me Entertain You,"" from ""Gypsy""; ""Tonight"" from ""West Side Story"" and ""I Cain't Say No"" from ""Oklahoma"". Performers: Collette Schlappi, Angi Cannon, Camille Bailey, LauraLyn Oldham, Angela Burnett, Bret Wheadon, Jeff Whiting, Tim Shoemaker, Roger Stephenson, Brett Bradford. Every autumn the park offers Halloween-themed shows for the Fall season, which are collectively known as Frightmares. List of current"
"and ""Don't Walk Away""). The title track, performed by both Newton-John and ELO, is ELO's only song to top the singles chart in the United Kingdom. More than a quarter of a century later, ""Xanadu"", a Broadway musical, based on the film, opened on 10 July 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre to uniformly good reviews. It received 4 Tony Award nominations. The musical received its UK premiere in London in October 2015. Casey Kasem called The Electric Light Orchestra a ""7-man supergroup"" and ""amazing"" for hitting The Top 40 a remarkable 6 times in a one-year period from August"
"July 23, 2016. Corbin Bleu Corbin Bleu Reivers (; born February 21, 1989), known professionally as Corbin Bleu, is an American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter. He performed in the ""High School Musical"" film series (2006–2008). Songs from the films also charted worldwide, with the song ""I Don't Dance"" peaking inside the Top 10 of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. During this time, he also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie ""Jump In!"" (2007). His first lead role was in the film ""Catch That Kid"" (2004). He has since appeared in the Discovery Kids drama series ""Flight 29"
"Sigh No More (musical) Sigh No More is a musical revue consisting of twenty-two scenes and numbers composed, written and produced by Noël Coward, with additional items by Joyce Grenfell, Richard Addinsell and Norman Hackforth. The show was Coward's first post-World War II musical and starred Cyril Ritchard, his wife Madge Elliott and Joyce Grenfell. It also featured Graham Payn, Coward's longtime partner, who sang the best-known song in the show, the wistful ""Matelot"". It opened at the Manchester Opera House on 11 July 1945, before transferring to London's West End, where it opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on 22"
"November 2008 and lasting until at least May 2009, season two ""American Idol"" contestants Frenchie Davis, Trenyce Cobbins and winner Ruben Studdard starred in the 30th anniversary national tour of the show. A new cast recording has been made and is available on the Rhino label. Ain't Misbehavin' (musical) Ain't Misbehavin' is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by various composers and lyricists as arranged and orchestrated by Luther Henderson. It is named after the song by Fats Waller (with Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf), ""Ain't Misbehavin'"". The musical is a"
"Corbin Bleu Corbin Bleu Reivers (; born February 21, 1989), known professionally as Corbin Bleu, is an American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter. He performed in the ""High School Musical"" film series (2006–2008). Songs from the films also charted worldwide, with the song ""I Don't Dance"" peaking inside the Top 10 of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. During this time, he also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie ""Jump In!"" (2007). His first lead role was in the film ""Catch That Kid"" (2004). He has since appeared in the Discovery Kids drama series ""Flight 29 Down"" (2005–2007), as"
"from the musical ""Hair"", Laura Nyro's ""Eli's Comin'"" (US #10), Randy Newman's ""Mama Told Me Not to Come"" (US #1), Paul Williams' ""Out in the Country"" (US #15), ""The Family Of Man"" (US #12), and ""An Old Fashioned Love Song"" (US #4), Hoyt Axton's ""Joy to the World"" (US #1) and ""Never Been to Spain"" (US #5), Arkin & Robinson's ""Black and White"" (US #1), Argent's Russ Ballard's ""Liar"" (US #7), Elton John and Bernie Taupin's ""Lady Samantha"" and ""Your Song"", Daniel Moore's ""Shambala"" (#3), Leo Sayer's ""The Show Must Go On"" (US #4), John Hiatt's ""Sure As I'm Sittin'"
"revival of ""Show Boat"", directed by Hal Prince, which opened at the Gershwin Theatre in October 1994. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance. She was nominated for the 1999 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in the original musical revue ""It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues"", as well as the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. She performed in the musical revue ""Let Me Sing -- A Musical Evolution"" at the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in"
"Another Op'nin', Another Show ""Another Op'nin', Another Show"" is the opening number of Cole Porter's 1948 musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"". Sung by a band of players performing a musical adaption of Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"", the song has become regarded as a show business anthem on a level with ""That's Entertainment!"" (from ""The Band Wagon"") and ""There's No Business Like Show Business"" (from ""Annie Get Your Gun""). However, it was not included in the 1953 film version of the musical. Adelaide Hall, playing the role of Hattie, sang ""Another Op'nin', Another Show"" on the West-End stage (400 times)"
"as the biggest and most successful 'star turn' of the whole production"". Sigh No More (musical) Sigh No More is a musical revue consisting of twenty-two scenes and numbers composed, written and produced by Noël Coward, with additional items by Joyce Grenfell, Richard Addinsell and Norman Hackforth. The show was Coward's first post-World War II musical and starred Cyril Ritchard, his wife Madge Elliott and Joyce Grenfell. It also featured Graham Payn, Coward's longtime partner, who sang the best-known song in the show, the wistful ""Matelot"". It opened at the Manchester Opera House on 11 July 1945, before transferring to"
"February 22, 2015, Hudson performed a special version of the song (with some lyrics rewritten for the occasion) live as part of the memorial segment of the 87th Academy Awards show aired on the ABC television network. I Can't Let Go (Smash song) ""I Can't Let Go"" is an original song introduced in the fourth episode of the second season of the musical TV series Smash, entitled ""The Song"". It was written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Within the show's universe, it was written by songwriting team Jimmy Collins (Jeremy Jordan) and Kyle Bishop (Andy Mientus) for their musical"
"a song entitled ""She Is Beautiful"" into ""You Are Beautiful"". The team decided to include a song for Sammy Fong to explain to Mei Li that they should not wed. In the span of a few hours, they wrote the lyrics and music to ""Don't Marry Me"". Once the songs were finalized, Robert Russell Bennett, who had orchestrated several of the creators' most successful previous shows, did the same for the score of ""Flower Drum Song"". The musical opened for tryouts on October 27, 1958 at Boston's Shubert Theatre. The audience gave it an enthusiastic response, causing Rodgers to leave"
"Durnin"". The nominees included 11 nominations for the revival of the musical ""Pippin"", nine nominations for ""Kinky Boots"", eight nominations (each) for ""Chaplin: The Musical"" and ""Cinderella"" and six nominations (each) for ""Golden Boy"" and ""The Nance"". Winners include ""Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"" as Outstanding New Broadway Play, ""Kinky Boots"" as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, ""My Name is Asher Lev"" as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and ""Here Lies Love"" as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"" was named Outstanding Revival of a Play and ""Pippin"" as Outstanding Revival of a Musical. ""My Name is"
"ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children. Many songs from the musical have become standards, such as ""Edelweiss"", ""My Favorite Things"", ""Climb Ev'ry Mountain"", ""Do-Re-Mi"", and the title song ""The Sound of Music"". The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine nominations. The first London production opened at the Palace Theatre in 1961. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then. It"
"the leads in ""The Rose Tattoo"" and ""Betty's Summer Vacation"", for which she won the Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress, both produced at The Huntington Theatre in Boston. During the winter of 2012–2013, she played Berthe, Pippin's grandmother, in the American Repertory Theater production of ""Pippin"" in Cambridge, Massachusetts, singing the classic song ""No Time At All"". The show transferred to Broadway at the Music Box Theatre and opened in April 2013. For ""Pippin"" Martin won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical"
"– Musical or Comedy in their respective years, while such films as ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Hairspray"", ""Mamma Mia!"", ""Nine"", ""Into the Woods"", and ""The Greatest Showman"" were only nominated. ""Chicago"" was also the first musical since ""Oliver!"" to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards."" Joshua Oppenheimer's Academy Award-nominated documentary ""The Act of Killing"" may be considered a nonfiction musical. One specific musical trend was the rising number of jukebox musicals based on music from various pop/rock artists on the big screen, some of which based on Broadway shows. Examples of Broadway-based jukebox musical films included ""Mamma Mia!"""
"the Broadway musical ""Spamalot"", based on ""Monty Python and the Holy Grail"" – once in Act II and again during the curtain call. It is one of two Monty Python songs in the musical not taken from the original movie, along with the song ""Finland""; other songs were either from ""Holy Grail"" or were new creations. The song was made popular as a football chant by Aston Villa F.C. supporters in the 1980s and adopted by other clubs. The song is used at the end of ""Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)"", the comedic oratorio written by Eric"
"No One Is Alone (song) ""No One Is Alone"" is a song from the musical ""Into the Woods"", performed toward the end of Act II as the piece's penultimate number. During the show's tryouts at the Old Globe theatre, this song was absent. The LA Times recounts: ""At that point, there was simply a spot in the 'Woods' script that said 'quartet for Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Baker and Jack.' During intermission at a Wednesday evening performance, Sondheim showed up with 'No One Is Alone.' He played it for the cast after the show that night, and it was part"
"was green in judgment, cold in blood, To say as I said then!"", and the phrase has come to be used generally to refer to one's days of youthful inexperience. The musical's enduring popularity lies in its light-hearted innocence and apparent simplicity, in sharp contrast to the many ""hard-nosed"" American musicals of the era, and its bright score including the songs ""We Said We Wouldn't Look Back"", ""I Sit in the Sun"", and ""We're Looking for a Piano"". Jane and Timothy Dawes meet in a park, soon after their graduation, to plan their lives. They agree to get married, and"
"The cast of ""Cry-Baby"" next performed ""A Little Upset"". Stew and the cast of ""Passing Strange"", including Daniel Breaker and De'Adre Aziza, performed ""Keys (Marianna)""/""Keys (It's Alright)"". Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of ""In the Heights"" followed this with ""In the Heights""/""96,000"", after which the cast of ""Xanadu"" performed ""Don't Walk Away"". The three new musicals that were not nominated for Best Musical also gave abbreviated performances of a song from each show. Sierra Boggess performed ""Part of Your World"" from ""The Little Mermaid"". Faith Prince performed ""Vision"" from ""A Catered Affair"", as Leslie Kritzer and Matt Cavenaugh danced in"
"fraudulent. The song is a contrafactum, and shares its tune with the better known ""Don't Cry for Me Argentina"" from the same show. ""Oh What a Circus"" was a commercial success for Essex, who had been dropped by his previous record company due to his declining sales. The song reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart, and the top-30 in Belgium and Netherlands. In subsequent versions of the musical, ""Oh What a Circus"" was sung by a number of performers, including Mandy Patinkin, Ricky Martin and Scottish rock musician Marti Pellow. In the 1996 film adaptation of the musical,"
"hit in America, Gaynor's version of ""I Am What I Am"" was a Top 40 hit throughout Europe and eventually became a gay anthem. I Am What I Am (Broadway musical song) ""I Am What I Am"" is a song originally introduced in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical ""La Cage aux Folles"". The song is the finale number of the musical's first act, and performed by the character of Albin Mougeotte, first played by George Hearn. His version appears on the original cast album released in 1983. The song was composed by Jerry Herman, an openly gay man. The song"
"a OFTA Film Award for Best Music, Adapted Song, along with two other numbers from the production. Judy Collins recorded a cover of the song on her album ""A Love Letter to Sondheim"" in 2017. No One Is Alone (song) ""No One Is Alone"" is a song from the musical ""Into the Woods"", performed toward the end of Act II as the piece's penultimate number. During the show's tryouts at the Old Globe theatre, this song was absent. The LA Times recounts: ""At that point, there was simply a spot in the 'Woods' script that said 'quartet for Cinderella, Red"