Broadway duets for 2 women?

[chanaleh]

So if gilana and I were going to do a duet for First Church's Broadway Night fundraising evening... what could we do?

There just aren't that many Broadway female/female duets that I know of (and gilana claims to know even fewer). But I was thinking "Marry the Man Today" from Guys & Dolls. Or maybe "Mister Snow" from Carousel. There must be something good from Chicago, but I don't know it well enough or have it to hand.

Ideas, anyone? Either alto/alto or alto/sopranoish is okay.

P.S. Tonight's auditions were fun! And not too terribly nerve-wracking!

Comments

[coraline]

"what you don't know about women" from "city of angels" is fabulous :)

[nacht_musik]

Seconded emphatically. And it should carry very well outside the context of the show as well, and be snazzy and upbeat.

[navrins]

Yes. That's a good one.

If you don't know it, I have it on tape.

[coraline]

...if you (chanaleh) don't have it, i can send you an MP3 :)

[nacht_musik]

Chess, "I know him so well"

[nacht_musik]

Also West Side Story, "A boy like that" ... doesn't carry so well outside the context of the show, and the overlaid rhythms are a real bitch even when you have an orchestra behind you.

[nacht_musik]

In the completeness category (I wouldn't necessary recommend these over WYDKAW):
"My Child" from Blood Brothers
"Every Day a Little Death" from A Little Night Music (this one is pretty and will stand alone, but it's also slowish and depressing)

and for a women's trio, "Perpetual Anticipation" from A Little Night Music is a wonderful sort of fugue that should stand alone fairly well, but you wanted duets...

[wren13.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, one of my favorites.

[zebediah.livejournal.com]

That's what I was going to suggest...make sure you discuss which mood you're going for with your partner first, & make it clear.

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

Dang. I was going to say that.... It is a beautiful song and I have the music if you want to borrow it.

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

beat me to it! yes.

[jessruth.livejournal.com]

How about the one greenlily and I always meant to do: "It's Never That Easy/I've Been Here Before" from Closer Than Ever?

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say thanks for showing up and that I'm very glad you had fun!

[fes42.livejournal.com]

Take me as I am - Rent
I know him so well - Chess
Bosom Buddies - (Think of the Bea Arther camp factor!)
Pie Jesu - Andrew Lloyd Weber's Requiem

Anything from Wicked?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_opus_/]

Anything from Wicked?

What is this feeling? (Loathing)
For Good

I've got the vocal selections if you want to look at either of those.

[gilana]

Ooo, Bosom Buddies, I love that one. My sister and I used to sing it. That could be fun.

Was Friendship ever in a Broadway show? "If you're ever in a jam, here I am..."

[cycon.livejournal.com]

"I don't know his name" from She Loves Me
"The more you love someone" from Avenue Q
"By your side" from Godspell
"Every day a little death" from A Little Night Music
"Something bad is happening" from Falsettoland

[fes42.livejournal.com]

Sisters - White Christmas

I love a challenge! And my mother will know more I know she will. Oh I am such a Broadway dork. Whhheeeee!!!!

[audioboy.livejournal.com]

I second "By Your Side"!

P.S. You were *fab* tonight! :)

That Jew Thing

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Add in another gal and do "Matchmaker"?

[guxx.livejournal.com]

If the two of you sing it together, it might work for "Where is Love" from Oliver Twist.

[guxx.livejournal.com]

Another idea...

"In His Eyes" from Jekyll & Hyde

[moria923.livejournal.com]

I love "I Know Him So Well" from CHESS. Also, there is "I Will Never Leave You" from SIDE SHOW, and there might be one or two more from that show, since it's about two women who are Siamese twins.

For a trio, there's "Moon at My Window" from DO I HEAR A WALTZ?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

"The Grass Is Always Greener" from Woman of The Year

"At The Ballet" from A Chorus Line is technically a trio but I've seen it done as a duet and it's gorgeous.

[cheshyre]

There's a funny song about being best friends in Mame
And Gypsy has "If Mama gets married"

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I'm not helpful in answering your question, but I have to say:

I'm half amused, half horrified by the lyrics for "Marry the Man Today" behind your link. It looks like it was transcribed by a voice-recognition program and then edited by a middle-school student.

"At Warner Makers and Sax and Klines" should be
"At Wanamaker's and Saks and Klein's," and

"from Borney Autonome" should be
"from Borneo to Nome"!

:D

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how funny is that..... Thanks for the much needed laugh.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

We Make a Beautiful Pair from Shenandoah.
Girls of the Night from Jekyll and Hyde.
Baby Dream Your Dream from Sweet Charity (can be reworked into a duet)

[xdaemon.livejournal.com]

Girls of the Night isn't included in the currently available version of J&H, but "In His Eyes" is (as someone noted above).

Downside is that they're both S/S, or *maybe* doable as S/A.

[currentlee.livejournal.com]

there's great stuff with the lesbians from next door in "falsettoland".

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

"A very nice Prince" from "Into the woods"
It isn't quite a duet, it's more alternation. And the ranges aren't coming to me at the moment.

[laurion]

Dang, seems like everyone has mentioned I know him so well. It's one of my personal favorites. Not done often enough.

Every Day a Little Death, already nabbed too.
Oh! Come to my Garden from Secret Garden!

[thevortex.livejournal.com]

You could probably do "Hey, Big Spender" from "Sweet Charity" or "Bali High" from South Pacific and turn either into a duet.

(And, I would love to hear you do "Bali High" sometime.)

Huzzah!

The Vortex

Chicago

[qarylla.livejournal.com]

I Move On is a duet between Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly and Class is between Velma and Mama Morton. I'm not that familiar with the vocal ranges, the first song is more soprano/alto and the other is alto/alto. I Move On is definitely not challenging.

There is also "I Still Believe" from Miss Saigon (Ellen and Kim).

[zogathon.livejournal.com]

"I know him so well" from Chess also sprung to my mind. If you've never heard it, I have two different mp3 versions I could send you. It's a beautiful song.

[gilana]

I've never heard it. I'd love the mp3s, if you're willing -- gilana at gmail dot com. Thanks!

[alaria-lyon.livejournal.com]

Jekyll and Hyde have: Girls of the Night and In His Eyes (a fabulous duet!).

[drwex]

So if [info]gilana and I were going to do a duet for First Church's Broadway Night fundraising evening... what could we do?

See, now here's the benefit of having slightly bad eyesight and skim-reading. I thought you two were going to do a DUEL. And I thought to myself, what a fun exercise. It could be stage combat style - you'd both look smashing in Musketeer-style garb, with rapiers, sashes, hats, boots, the works... I'd pay to see that.

Or perhaps it would be funnier to do a verbal duel. A la The Importance of Being Earnest. There are plenty of verbally wicked female-female theatrical duels you could do...

Then I read on to the bit about Broadway. Singing. Meh. I like my fantasy plan better.

[navrins]

Heh - chanaleh in her iconic pirate outfit... hey, for Broadway duels, you could do the Pirate King and Sergeant from Pirates of Penzance! It's not female/female, but I find it highly unlikely there are any. (Though you might find some in good fiction.)

The Gwendolyn/Cecily verbal duel in Earnest is, in fact, excellent.

You might even be able to combine it with What You Don't Know About Women, sung about Earnest... which could be very fun. And give the women some interaction in the song, which they don't have in the original context.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ah, but now I have TWO iconic pirate outfits! -- Well, perhaps only this one technically qualifies as an outfit (in the sense that it consists of clothes I own and can combine as such again).

I think Gilly and I are just going to have to take this list of suggestions and go look at sheet music.

[navrins]

Ah, so you do. I'd forgotten about the first. The new one is much more flattering. (Okay, it also helps that you look female in it.)

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

While I could repeat what everyone else has said about doing "I know him so well" from Chess, it would be really redundant at this point.

But I will add "I still believe" from Miss Saigon