Broadway songs

zoey · #1 04-21-2007, 12:59 AM

If anyone has changed the words to a broadway song FOR RECRUITMENT skit can you share? THANKS

ΑΓΔSquirrel10 · #2 04-21-2007, 02:52 AM

Umm this is the sorority recruitment forum. This stuff belongs in either Chit-Chat or Entertainment.

SWTXBelle · #3 04-22-2007, 07:30 AM

I think she is looking for help with recruitment - gathering Broadway songs for a skit. We used "Annie" back in the day - "Somewhere" is the song I remember, but it was soooooo long ago, and I fear today's PNMs aren't familiar with "Annie".

irishpipes · #4 04-22-2007, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I think she is looking for help with recruitment - gathering Broadway songs for a skit. We used "Annie" back in the day - "Somewhere" is the song I remember, but it was soooooo long ago, and I fear today's PNMs aren't familiar with "Annie".

I was Annie way back when - there isn't a song called "Somewhere" in that show!

carnation · #5 04-22-2007, 05:27 PM

We did "Showboat" and "Flower Drum Song" when I was in the chapter but I doubt many PNMs have seen those either. Almost every sorority had a Broadway skit...Chi O had "Oliver!" and Tri Delt had "Carousel".

NUBlue&Blue · #6 04-22-2007, 05:37 PM

We did "The Sound of Kappa" for several years.

ADPiLove · #7 04-22-2007, 05:47 PM

It's not Broadway, but we used Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend from Moulin Rouge, and that was a big hit.

Right now, Wicked is really popular - you could even use the song Popular, but I'm not sure how well that would go over, considering that you're saying they'll be popular if they join your sorority, and that they were misfits before.

Rent, of course, but that might be hard to change the lyrics to, and a lot of the songs are fast, but I'm sure you could make it work.

Phantom is always an old classic; a lot of people have at least heard of it. There might be problems with the whole soprano/opera notes though, but you could work through it.

FSUZeta · #8 04-22-2007, 05:49 PM

we did my fair zeta. "on the street where zetas live" and "getting to know you" were two of the songs they sang when i was a rushee at fsu. the dg's did pippin.

we changed it to cabaret when i was in the house-"life is a cabaret old chum, when you're a z-t-a."

in the late 80's /early 90's, a lot of zeta chapters did the little mermaid or grease.

dgdramadawg · #9 04-22-2007, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by irishpipes

I was Annie way back when - there isn't a song called "Somewhere" in that show!

There is a song called "Somewhere" in West Side Story, isn't there?

We did a Wizard of Oz skit when I was a senior... Dorothy goes through rush and finds the perfect house for her. We sang "Somewhere There is a DG" and other variations of Wizard songs (Glinda urges her to "Follow Sorority Row," etc.). A couple of years after I graduated my chapter did a song from Chicago in their skit, but I am not sure which one. My chapter did Grease when I rushed back in the day.

It might be fun to do some songs from newer, well-known musicals like Wicked, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Hairspray... I would love to think that every rushee knows her musicals, but it's probably safer to only go with the well-known ones. You could also do a play-off on "I Wanna Be a Producer" from The Producers and make it "I Wanna Be a [insert GLO here]." Just no High School Musical, for the love of all that's holy.

MinDyG probably would have some good ideas for this!

dgdramadawg · #10 04-22-2007, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ADPiLove

It's not Broadway, but we used Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend from Moulin Rouge, and that was a big hit.

This song is from the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

What a perfect song for ADPi!!!!!

PenguinTrax · #11 04-22-2007, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

we did my fair zeta. "on the street where zetas live" and "getting to know you" were two of the songs they sang when i was a rushee at fsu. the dg's did pippin.

we changed it to cabaret when i was in the house-"life is a cabaret old chum, when you're a z-t-a."

in the late 80's /early 90's, a lot of zeta chapters did the little mermaid or grease.

I still have nightmares from the early 80's and the ZTA makeover of CATS. Eww....not one of our finer moments, IMO.

ADPiLove · #12 04-23-2007, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by dgdramadawg

This song is from the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

What a perfect song for ADPi!!!!!

Yes, I know, but we did the version from Moulin Rouge.

OldAOPi · #13 04-23-2007, 12:51 AM

Oh, this brings back a lot of memories - songs I hear in the elevator -and think of AOPi songs...

"Girl of AOPI...you'll be one forever" by some crooner and didn't you all have a version of Pass It On?? Not from church camp?

My mom always wanted me to sing "Remember" with my sister - who was a Theta like her = we had different words = she made me do it in front of my own dd, the Theta....

in PUBLIC (you don't say no to my mama, I didn't REALLY sing it)

OldAOPi · #14 04-23-2007, 12:52 AM

Not to date our songs - this was back in the dark ages of the late 70's.....we thought we were pretty hot when we changed my junior year to a Grease theme skit and song.

AOE2AlphaPhi · #15 04-23-2007, 02:26 AM

I was a PNM last year, and I would have liked Annie, the Wizard of Oz or Grease, because everyone knows them. I probably would have thought that it was weird for a chapter to do hairspray or wicked, even though they're big now, because they're still less well known, and even if people know their songs, they're less likely to get the plot. That might just be me though.