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Chika 10:25 am UTC 12/05/09
In reply to: Songs in the musical? - Rob 07:23 pm UTC 12/01/09

Every songs from Bat1 exept paradise. Maybe songs from Bad and Deadringer. Bat out of hell 2. Land of the pig from Bat 3. And the new ones:
What Part of my Body Hurts the Most?
Still the Children We Were Then
Who Needs the Young?
Graveyard Shift
The Devil's Playground

> Inspired by something I read someplace else, I've had a
> little look back through Jim's blogs and tried to work out
> a list of the songs that might be in the musical. Thought
> it might be interesting to see what everyone thinks, and
> what songs you'd like to add to the list of possibles (and
> what songs you'd like to remove!)
>
> Anyway, knowing Jim this could all have changed by now but
> here's a basic list of what we know was going to be in
> there (possibly, at some point in the not too distant past
> etc etc):
>
> What Part of my Body Hurts the Most?
> Still the Children We Were Then
> Who Needs the Young?
> Graveyard Shift (although Jim said it might not make the
> final cut)
> The Devil's Playground
> Land of the Pig (see Lemon, below)
>
> And then, up to 15 songs from Bat 1 and Bat 2. Jim
> stressed they were "major" songs, and I come up with 16
> "major" songs on the 2 albums, so at least 1 of the
> following won't make the cut:
>
> Bat out of Hell
> Took the Words
> Heaven Can Wait
> All Revved Up
> 2 out of 3 (Jim specifically said he'd found a place for
> this one)
> Paradise
> For Crying out Loud
> Anything for Love
> Life is a Lemon (to be done as a "medley" with Land of the
> Pig)
> Rock'n'Roll Dreams
> It Just Won't Quit
> Frying Pan
> Objects
> Everything Louder
> Good Girls
> Lost Boys and Golden Girls
>
> So, that's quite a list. Gonna be a long night in the
> theatre if only one of those songs gets dropped!
> Presumably, some of them will be heavily edited down or
> even rewritten to fit, and some of them won't make it at
> all.
>
> Jim also spoke about Todd coming up with some acapella
> arrangements for the show, so maybe some will only appear
> in that format.
>
> Of course, all this still leaves obvious Peter Pan-themed
> songs like Bad for Good and Surf's Up without a home, so
> there could be yet more numbers to crowbar in.
>
> Thoughts everyone? (And, yes, I am rather bored this
> afternoon). As Mrs Merton would say - let's have a heated
> debate! (But not too heated - oh no, no, no....;-)
>
>
>


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