40 Years of Broadway: 2013-2023:
Favorite Songs & Scores
Continuing with that third decade (August 20, 2013 - August 19, 2023), I've been thinking of my favorite songs and scores from that decade. There's been some really great stuff from then - trend-setters, hidden gems from flops, now-classics - and, of course, some real clunkers. This decade includes scores from Big Fish (October 6, 2013) through Back to the Future: The Musical (August 3, 2023). What I've learned from going back is that my tastes have changed and that I've come to appreciate much more music as I've grown.
Favorite Songs (2013-2023):
If I was going to make a playlist of songs from cast recordings without playing the whole thing, these are the songs that would be on it.
Favorite Opening Number: "Times Are Hard For Dreamers (Prologue)"
Favorite Solo Number: "When the Booth Goes Bright"
Favorite Group Numbers: "Selling Out" and "Cards"
Favorite Group Number: "Man's Man"
Favorite Duet: "I Know You"
Favorite Group Numbers: "You Will Be Found" and "Waving Through a Window"
Favorite Production Number: "We Own the Night"
Favorite Duet: "When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground"
Favorite Group Number: "No More Wasted Time"
Favorite Solo Number: "You Learn to Live Without"
Favorite Group Number: "Amerika (Checkmate)"
Favorite Finale: "Blast Off"
Favorite Group Number: "I'd Rather Be Me"
Favorite Finale: "I See Stars"
Favorite Production Number: "Letters"
Favorite Solo Number: "Sonya Alone"
Favorite Opening Number: "Paradise Square"
Favorite Solo Number: "Let It Burn"
Favorite Production Number: "Some Like It Hot"
Favorite Solo Number: "A Darker Shade of Blue"
Favorite Opening Number: "Welcome to the Renaissance"
Favorite Production Number: "A Musical"
Favorite Group Number: "Show Some Respect"
Favorite Duet: "The Night the Pugilist Learned to Dance"
Favorite Production Number: "Yellow Shoes"
Favorite Solo Number: "Love and Love Alone"
Favorite Opening Number: "What's Inside/Opening Up"
Favorite Solo Number: "She Used to Be Mine"
10 Favorite Complete Scores^ (2003 - 2013):
These are scores that contain few or no "skips" from me. These are also scores that to this day I still listen to with regularity. All the way through...
^ - I have not included scores from catalog musicals (Jagged Little Pill, for example), though I enjoy them very much.
Music: Tom Kitt Lyrics: Cameron Crowe & Tom Kitt
Favorite Opening Number: "1973"
Favorite Group Number: "Everybody's Coming Together"
Music and Lyrics: Irene Sankoff & David Hein
Favorite Opening Number: "Welcome to the Rock"
Favorite Group Number: "Me and the Sky"
Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics: Lisa Kron
Favorite Solo Number: "Changing My Major"
Favorite Solo Number: "Ring of Keys"
Favorite Solo Number: "Our Lady of the Underground"
Favorite Group Number: "Wait For Me"
Music: Imogen Heap
Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics: David Lindsay-Abaire
Favorite Group Number: "Anagram"
Favorite Group Number: "Better"
Music and Lyrics: Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally
Favorite Opening Number: "Corn"
Favorite Solo Number: "Somebody Will"
Music and Lyrics: David Yazbek
Favorite Opening Number: "Waiting/Welcome to Nowhere"
Favorite Solo Number: "Omar Sharif"
Music and Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown
Favorite Opening Number: "To Build a Home"
Favorite Duet: "Before and After You/One Second and a Million Miles"
Music: Matthew Sklar Lyrics: Chad Beguelin
Favorite Group Number: "Tonight Belongs to You"
Favorite Duet Number: "Zazz"
Contest Question #12:
How many of our 10 Favorite Complete Scores above represent the composers' first Broadway score?
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