History VillainSong / Theatre

* "Was I [[EvilChancellor Wazir]]?" from ''Theatre/{{Kismet}}''.
* The title song from ''Literature/KissOfTheSpiderWoman''.
** The Spider Woman isn't so much the villain of that show as a character's nightmare. A better villain song would be "Lucky Molina".

* "Progress Is the Root of All Evil" from the musical adaptation of ''Li'l Abner''.

* In Andrew Lippa's version of The Wild Party, Burrs gets several songs, such as "Queenie Is A Blonde", "What Is It About Her", "Let Me Drown", and "Make Me Happy".

* Miss Asp's songs in ''Theatre/LoveInHateNation'', where she expresses her desires for society to stay conservative and expresses longing for the good old days with [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Nixon, the war, and...Hitler.]]

* ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' gives AntiVillain [[UsefulNotes/PopeJuliusII Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere]] a rather sympathetic SongOfPrayer, that reference his rise from poverty and asserts that no one understands divine salvation like he does. It ends with a projected vision of the Art/SistineChapel ceiling frescoes that, as pope, he would commission almost 20 years later. Why is he a villain, then? Well, he spent the whole story ordering assassination attempts against 16-year-old protagonist Cesare Borgia (the son of [[UsefulNotes/PopeAlexanderVI his rival]]), and got two of Cesare's [[spoiler: teenaged classmates killed while following his orders]], which he shows no remorse for. It was par for the course in the politics of the time, but even so.

* Jud Fry, the villain of Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein's ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'' gets "The Lonely Room". It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for the guy.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory: The Musical'' gives one to Sid, a rock number entitled "Make A Little Noise" wherein he brags about his skill at mutilating and destroying playthings and generally causing chaos.

** The West End production also gives [[JerkJock Kurt and Ram]] a proper VillainSong: in the original production, "Blue" was far too lighthearted and comical to serve as a proper villain song and Kurt and Ram are mostly just drunken but harmless jerks. The West End production, in order to avoid it seemed like the musical is downplaying AttemptedRape, swaps out "Blue" with the much more aggressive and assertive "You're Welcome," which cranks Kurt and Ram's vicious, licentious behavior UpToEleven and throws in a generous dosage of victim-blaming ("If you don't want me starin', why you wearin' that skirt?").

* The stage version of ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' plays with this. The AntiVillain main antagonist, Reverend Moore, gets two songs, but "Heaven Help Me" is more like a TheVillainSucksSong directed at ''himself'', while "I Confess" is sung at the very end during his HeelFaceTurn. The straight example is actually "The Girl Gets Around," which is sung by local HateSink[=/=]BastardBoyfriend Chuck Cranston as he gloats about how he's using Ariel Moore for cheap sex and loving every minute of it.

* "La donna è mobile" from Verdi's ''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}'' is the Duke's villain song and apparently he sings it a lot. A lot of the commercials that use it to sell their products seem to forget it's a villain song.

** And then, "The Abduction", which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pretty much what the title implies]]. Monza's Nun tricks Lucia into going out, purposedly playing on her faith and weak will, and her tragic backstory doesn't help us giving her sympathy. But still, the fact that the Nun was brain-washed and forced in the convent by [[AbusiveParents her materialistic nutjob of a father]], was then seduced by [[ManipulativeBastard Egidio]] [[BastardBoyfriend who only sees her as a tool of pleasure]], and looks like a cross between [[BondageIsBad a S&M slave and a mistress]], adds both pathos and [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels incredible creepyness]].

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUgoMzkaSoE Le Veau d'Or]]'' from Gounod's ''Faust'', sung by Mephistopheles himself. Mephistopholes also gets the mocking serenade, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c78KhJkwxN8 Vous qui faites l'endormie]], which has one of the best EvilLaugh s ever. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQei11TXwP4 Check out Bulgarian basso Boris Christoff]] doing this. The personification of EvilSoundsDeep -- he wasn't called "The Mighty" for nothing!

* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', Ammut sings "Hungry for your Heart", a song about how she will devour Jasper's heart if he can't confess his greatest misdeed.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUgoMzkaSoE Le Veau d'Or]]'' from Gounod's ''Faust'', sung by Mephistopheles himself. Mephistopholes also gets the mocking serenade, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c78KhJkwxN8 Vous qui faites l'endormie]], which has one of the best {{EvilLaugh}}s ever.

* Act One of Puccini's ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'' ends with the corrupt police chief Scarpia [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lPxwct2sk gloating]], because he has gained a hold on the title character that will force her to [[ScarpiaUltimatum succumb to his perverted desires]]. And if that was not creepy enough, there is a simultaneous ''Te Deum'' to provide OminousLatinChanting. In Act II, Scarpia gets another solo in which he professes his lustful urges to Tosca, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MkPdkidTNI Gia mi dicon venal]]''.

* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'' Ammut sings "Hungry for your Heart", a song about how she will devour Jasper's heart if he can't confess his greatest misdeed.

* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'''s villain song is "ThePitifulChildren", where the [[AIIsACrapshoot SQUIP]] convinces the protagonist Jeremy to give [=SQUIPs=] to all the other students in his school in order to take over the world.

* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'''s villain song is ''Music/ThePitifulChildren'', where the [[AIIsACrapshoot SQUIP]] convinces the protagonist Jeremy to give SQUIPs to all the other students in his school in order to take over the world.

** "The Lansquenets, the letters". Cannon sounds, blood-red lighting, and an arm of mercenaries marching through Milano, singing a creepy cross between a Church chant, a Nazi parade anthem, and that thing the Uruk-Hai sung in the Bakshi "Lord of the Rings" movie. If anybody studied history, they'll know what exactly the Lansquenets did. If nobody did, don't worry: while they do their war chants, Renzo provides an explanation, saying that they are a scourge devastating the fields, burning the houses, murdering everybody, raping women and bringing the plague, to top all of that; the song itself ends with Renzo repeating "The Plague!", echoed by the Lansquenets in German. All is made especially creepy when you realize that is [[AdultFear what Renzo is dictating to be written in a letter to Lucia, to tell her he hopes to make it out alive to see her again]].

** The original version of the show (which held its tryout run in Tampa back in 2010) included a song for the Jabberwocky entitled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm3ks1fct8M Misunderstood]]", although it's more of a subverted VillainSong, as he claims himself to be NecessaryEvil in a world where "you can't know pleasure if you don't know pain", even justifying his actions by claiming that he was ''born'' to be a man-eating monster, and that it's really all he can do. Sadly, both the song and the character were cut from the show once it hit Broadway.

* 'Theatre/{{Carrie}}'' has quite a few. AlphaBitch Chris Hargensen gets "The World According to Chris" in the revival, in which she sings about her "whip or get whipped" view of the world. Chris and her boyfriend Billy sing "Do Me a Favor" with Sue and Tommy, their share being Chris talking him into helping her. They also have a brief part in "A Night We'll Never Forget", in which they plot to get even with Carrie at the dance.

* "Cool, Cool Considerate Men" from ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' lays out the reasons Dickinson and his supporters don't want independence: they're comfortable as they are, they don't want to put their wealth and property at risk for a cause they think can't win, and they think the common man will follow them because they're pretty cynical about him. It's accompanied by a big dance number on the floor of Congress.
** "Molasses to Rum" for Edward Rutledge, which is also him [[NotSoDifferentRemark saying that the South and the North aren't so different]]--they both, in different ways, participate in and profit from the slave trade. Therefore, not only must the anti-slavery clause be removed from the Declaration, the Northerners are absolute hypocrites for wanting it there in the first place.