I've been issued a challenge

To own songs from more musicals than a friend. He's got about 130, From the start I've got some uncounted number, but it's probably between 60 and 80. I firmly believe I can beat him because the rules allow illegal downloads and he never said that you had to have more than one song/the entire soundtrack per musical, but I don't think I have the patience to actually discover that many on my own in the short time I have.

So... help me. This is of course very silly but I want to do it cause I like finding new music anyway, and even extremely pointless, silly competition is fun. I can type up a full list of the ones I currently have if you'd like, but for now if you'd just like to go naming obscure musicals/lists thereof... that'd be easier for me. :3

/posting in live performance cause music might judge me

We talking about songs as in tracks from cast recordings, or songs as in sheet music?

edited 13th Aug '11 9:13:59 PM by Pannic

Recordings. My goodness, I hardly have the money to buy one book of sheet music. Well, that's an exaggeration, but I wouldn't.

Can you have multiple songs from the same musical?

That's what I heard.

Listen. Tell us what ya got. We tropers have some obscure and some not-so obscure tastes.

Is the entirety of Team Starkid on there?

But Team Star Kid won't work if it has to be broadway (insert grumbling about how Starship should be on Broadway here).

You could see if you can't cheat with revivals...

edited 14th Aug '11 3:02:52 PM by cheeseypoofs

If Broadway than this is easier.

Turn Off The Dark, POTO, Every Sondheim work, Cats, Pippin...

Anything else?

Anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Schwartz.

Warning Webber's work starts declining in quality.

I didn't say it was good. I said it was an option

Start going through wikipedia archives for Tony nominated shows. They may suck, but at least someone thought they didn't suck.

We're counting by show, not by song, since we both know we're both curious and will listen to the whole thing anyway, but we have different amounts of memory available to us.

Okay, here's the full list of musicals (including song cycles and off-broadway/film) so far:

1.13
2.The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
3.110 in the Shade
4.1776
5.Across the Universe
6.Aida
7.Aladdin
8.Alice in Wonderland
9.Anastasia
10.Annie Get Your Gun
11.Anything Goes
12.Assassins
13.Avenue Q
(I have the tracks from the musical episode of Batman The Brave and the Bold but I'm not sure if they count)
14.Beauty and the Beast
15.Billy Elliot the Musical
16.The Book of Mormon
17.Cabaret
18.Carousel
19.Cats
20.Chess
21.Chicago
22.Children of Eden
23.A Chorus Line
24.Company
25.Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
26.Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
27.The Drowsy Chaperone
28.Edges
29.Enchanted
30.Evening Primrose
31.Evita
32.The Fantasticks
33.Fiddler on the Roof
34.Flower Drum Song
35.Follies
36.Footloose
37.Funny Girl
38.A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Glee (not sure if it counts)
39.Godspell
40.Grand Hotel
41.Grease
42.Guys and Dolls
43.Gypsy
44.Hair
45.Hairspray
46.Honk!
47.How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
48.The Hunchback of Notre Dame
49.In The Heights
50.Into the Woods
51.Jesus Christ Superstar
52.Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
53.The King and I
54.Kismet
55.The Last 5 Years
56.Legally Blonde the Musical
57.Les Miserables
58.The Light in the Piazza
59.The Lion King
60.A Little Night Music
61.Little Shop of Horrors
62.Little Women
63.Love Never Dies
64.Mamma Mia
65.A Man of no Importance
66.Me and my Dick
67.Memphis
68.Miss Saigon
69.Moulin Rouge
70.Mulan
71.The Music Man
72.My Fair Lady
73.Next to Normal
74.Nine
75.Notre Dame de Paris
76.Oklahoma
77.Once on this Island
78.Once Upon a Mattress
79.Passing Strange
80.The Phantom of the Opera
81.Piece the Musical
82.Pippin
83.Pocahontas
84.The Princess and the Frog
85.Rent
86.Repo! The Genetic Opera
87.Rock of Ages
88.Romeo et Juliette: de la heine a l'amour
89.Seussical the Musical
90.She Loves Me
91.Show Boat
92.South Pacific
93.Spamalot
94.Spring Awakening
95.Starship
96.Sweeney Todd
97.Sweet Charity
98.Tangled
99.Thoroughly Modern Millie
100.[title of show]
Veggietales (dunno if it counts... but it should!)
101.A Very Potter Musical
102.A Very Potter Sequel
103.West Side Story
104.Wicked
105.The Wild Party
106.You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
107.Zanna, Don't!

The glaring absences I've noticed so far are Hello Dolly, Songs for a New World, Bye Bye Birdie, Sunday in the Park with George, Jersey Boys, Forever Plaid, and Spiderman: Turn off the Dark. Luckily I have more than I thought. I didn't number the ones I wasn't sure about. This list took a long time to make.

edited 14th Aug '11 11:35:34 PM by spasticgecko

Get Birdie. And if possible the sequel Bye Bye Birdie had.

Huh, I didn't know it had a sequel. Also I should probably pick up Pirates of Penzance. I'll probably pay for Birdie, Dolly, Jersey, Plaid, and New World cause I like them, but I expect to get most of these through Perfectly Legal Means.

The sequel is Bring Back Birdie.

And yeah get every Gilbert and Sullivan work.

I bet Pannic would know which Sondheim shows I'm missing.

Anyone Can Whistle, Do I Hear a Waltz? (which Darren Criss is a fan of, apparently. Lyrics only.), Merrily We Roll Along, Pacific Overtures, Passion, The Frogs, and the various revues (although only "Marry Me a Little" would be significant, as it's all cut songs).

Also, for non-Sondheim, you should look at Porgy and Bess.

edited 15th Aug '11 7:53:46 AM by Pannic

Two more: Promises Promises and Jersey Boys.

edited 15th Aug '11 8:51:47 AM by cheeseypoofs

Hold on... We counting movies?

-grins evily-

Singin In The Rain... I had something else.

I actually have Singing in the Rain, I just missed it somehow.

Let's count Moulin Rogue actually.

Why did you accepted the challenge if you are at disventage since the beggining... (Wow fail english is fail)

edited 15th Aug '11 6:55:00 PM by NONAMEGIVEN

I don't know why I just now thought of this: Blood Brothers.

^^ For fun.

^ WHOA. Looked it up and I am loving it. Fantastic! Definitely buying this.

Also, Urinetown.

Three words: Evil. Cops. Rapping.