Musical Theatre Moments: 40 Favorite YouTube Clips from Broadway Shows
I know how my readership loves to watch videos from Broadway shows. For years, I have been wending my way through YouTube, watching great clips from Tony Awards, talk shows, and the occasional bootleg that has presented itself. Today, I feel like sharing my forty FAVORITE clips from hit shows (I’ve already done the flops). Hopefully, you will enjoy this countdown to my favorite and enjoy all the “hard work” I have put in assembling it for you. Let the streaming begin!
40. Chicago: “All that Jazz”
39. Damn Yankees: “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo.”
38. A Little Night Music: “Send in the Clowns”
37. The Will Rogers Follies: “Will-a-mania” and “Our Favorite Son”
36. Once on this Island: “The Human Heart” and “Mama Will Provide”
35. Sunset Boulevard: “As If We Never Said Goodbye”
34. The Secret Garden: A Tony Awards Montage
33. Hello, Dolly!: “Put On Your Sunday Clothes”
31. Mame: “Bosom Buddies”
30. Parade: “The Old Red Hills of Home” and “This is Not Over Yet”
29. Rags: “Rags”
28. Titanic: “Opening Sequence”
27. City of Angels: “What You Don’t Know About Women” and “You’re Nothing Without Me”
26. Jelly’s Last Jam: “That’s How You Jazz”
25.Falsettos: “Falsettoland”, “My Father’s a Homo” and “The Baseball Song”
24. Wonderful Town: ”Swing”
23. Evita: “A New Argentina”
22. Company: “The Ladies Who Lunch”
21. Sweeney Todd: “The Worst Pies in London”
20. Kiss Me, Kate: “Wunderbar”
19. She Loves Me: “Vanilla Ice Cream”
18. Sweet Charity: “I’m a Brass Band”
17. Camelot: “What Do the Simple Folk Do?”
16. Bye Bye Birdie: “Kids”
15. Starlight Express: “Starlight Express”, “I Am the Starlight” and “The Light at the End of the Tunnel”
14. Barnum: “One Brick at a Time”
13. Song & Dance: Sarah Brightman performing “Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad”
12. Me and My Girl: “The Lambeth Walk”
11. Dreamgirls: “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going”
10. Sunday in the Park with George: “Sunday”
9. Into the Woods: “Moments in the Woods”
8. Pippin: “Morning Glow”
7. Les Misérables: Linzi Hately singing “On My Own”
6. Big River: “Muddy Water” and “River in the Rain”
5. Kiss of the Spider Woman: “Where You Are”
4. The Mystery of Edwin Drood: “There You Are” and “Don’t Quit While You’re Ahead”
3. Purlie: “Walk Him Up the Stars”
2. 42nd Street: “Lullaby of Broadway”
1.Grand Hotel: “We’ll Take a Glass Together” and Michael Jeter’s Tony Acceptance Speech