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[PCSongman]

This challenge is open to all. It runs from Tuesday September 15 until September 22, 2009 at 6PM EDT.
PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES AND THEME DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY BEFORE POSTING.
PURPOSE - The purpose of the EAW Music Challenge is to encourage people to create and/or promote new music each week and to give them a forum to have their songs heard. There is no judging involved.
HOW IT WORKS - Every Tuesday at 6PM a topic featuring a new theme will be posted on this board. Those wishing to participate are invited to post links to their songs that match the theme. You may post a song with a link from any online music/singing site you belong to. Over the years a nice little community has sprung up around these challenges. We invite you to participate but be aware that here everyone is very supportive of each other. Amateurs and professionals are both welcome. You do not have to be a great singer to participate. No flaming is allowed on this board. This is not a contest. There is no judging. It is merely an opportunity to hear and be heard by others. You can post or merely listen and interact with the others who post here. Please follow the detailed guidelines which are posted below and at the top of each new challenge thread. Have fun!
CHALLENGE GUIDELINES -
1. Post links to ONE OR TWO songs that fit the theme. You may post a THIRD one on or after Thursday. You may post a FOURTH song link on or after Saturday. Your song can be a new song or one that was previously recorded.
2. For EACH song link you post, listen to at least SIX other people’s songs and leave feedback[/]. That means, if you post 2 song links you should listen to 12 others over the course of the 7 days of the challenge, a little less than 2 a day. If you post 3 song links, listen to 18 others and so on. You may, of course, listen to more if you choose. Listening is the most important part of this challenge. Supporting and experiencing others is what it’s about.
3. We prefer to listen to the whole song. Try not to listen to the same people every day. Give new people a chance as well.
4. You don't need to post a song to listen but you need to listen if you post a song. It's best to post earlier in the challenge. But you can post up until the end.
5. Please avoid making multiple posts in a row (spamming) by going back and modifying your posts if you left something out.
6. Remember to post the name of your song. For easy instructions on how to HOT LINK and post your song title, click EAW FAQ.
7. Please do not post glitter or large graphics as feedback or in the thread. Please keep to the standard font, size and color that is already provided[/] - this helps prevent your songs and comments from getting lost in a sea of shifting fonts and colors. For your song title only, use 14pt font size and bold. This will help your song stand out. For more information on how to do this, check the EAW FAQ.[/]

The theme for this challenge is Musical Theater/Theatre[/]
 
I spent the latter half of the summer working "On Broadway" as a participant in the "Give My Regards To Broadway - Season 2" contest on SingSnap. There I met another wonderful group of very talented folks who love to recreate great performances from stage musicals. We held "auditions" in late July, started the contest with 50 participants and after 7 rounds, named the winners just last week. Yours truly placed second with Butlersoft taking top honors. BTW, I've invited all the contestants to join us here this week. So if you notice a new EAW participant, please be sure to make them feel welcome.

Since I've still got musicals on my mind, it should come as no surprise that I've selected Musical Theater as this week's theme. It doesn't matter whether you look to Broadway in New York, The West End in London, or even your local community theater. Just sing us songs you love from your favorite stage musicals.

There are many songs from stage musicals available on SingSnap and many others available from other sources. And if you are looking for a long lost show, check out hamienet.com. There you will find simple, downloadable backing tracks from many long lost shows. In most cases Hamienet offers the ability to transpose the key and change the tempo. Also, you might be surprised by how many movie musicals have been turned into stage musicals in different parts of the world, so be sure to check wikipedia.org for your favorites.

Here are some other links that will help you select a show and explore its songs... 

Wiki Musical Theatre

Musicals By Year

West End Musicals

[PCSongman]

I will be posting a new song for this Challenge but to start us off here is a duet I performed, with myself, for Give My Regards To Broadway - Season 2...
 
Out There from The Hunchback of Notre Dame originally performed by Tony Jay and Tom Hulce
 
Now, you might claim that this song comes from a Disney movie. However, this film has already been turned into a stage musical which has been performed in Germany and elsewhere. There are rumors that it will be coming to Broadway in the United States soon.

[Sandysongbird]

Okay, here's one of mine...I hope it officially fits the theme.  I know it's in the movie musical, but not sure about the stage musical.  Anyhow, I like to sing this one when I'm pretending I really have some "confidence".

I Have Confidence...The Sound of Music

Now, maybe I'll have enough confidence to leave this song up all week...fingers crossed.

[PCSongman]

Hi Sandy: Perfectly acceptable for this Challenge. In fact, to make it easy on everyone, as long as the film has a stage musical counterpart, any song from either the stage or screen versions is acceptable.

[ColonelMac]

From the 1928 Broadway production "Whoopee", which starred Eddie Cantor.

Music by Walter Donaldson, lyrics by Gus Kahn.

Makin' Whoopee


And, from the 1940 Broadway musical "Pal Joey" with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart.

Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered

[Mariner]

 

This look brilliant Howard, I am really looking forward to this week I love the shows, so it should be wonderful, especially with all the talented people we have taking part.

This is from My Fair Lady

Get Me To The Church On Time

ColonelMac   Rich, really good to hear the first lines on this which you seldom here in more modern recordings, another fine sing my friend, loved it.

[grammatea4u]

Hi everyone...Hope you're all doing well

Here is my contribution

I Dreamed A Dream
http://www.singsnap.com/snap/r/babc122c

[JeninOz]

Aha I like-a da musicals, nice one Howard ...

Here's one from Les Miserables
DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
 http://www.singsnap.com/snap/r/b0c2428a

[fofun]

Hello Howard, thank you for hosting this week, "Broadway"Musicals I think is my favorite theme, so many talented folks out there...l will be checking back. 

[Philbaby]

Great theme Howard!

What a coincidence. I just did this one last week.

Edelweiss

[CerebralJam]

 PLAYLIST FOR THIS CHALLENGE:

                             
1.    Out There - Hunchback of Notre Dame - Howard
2.    I Have Confidence - The Sound of Music - Sandysongbird
3.    Making Whoopee - Whoopee - ColonelMac
4.    Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - ColonelMac
5.    Get Me To The Church On Time - My Fair Lady - Mariner
6.    I Dreamed A Dream - Grammatea4U
7.    Do You Hear The People Sing? - Les Miserables - JeninOz
8.    Edelweiss - Sound of Music - Philbaby
9.    Roxy - Renee Zellweger - Kittenkat
10.    Suddenly Seymour - Werewoof
11.  For Good - Wicked - Rachel & Annegirl
12.  Season of Love - Rent - Rachel & Will
13.  Music of The Night - Phantom of The Opera - FrankCNY
14.  All I Ask Of You - FrankCNY
15.  All I Ask Of You - LivingNY & K2501961
16.  She's Like The Wind - Dirty Dancing - PCSongman
17.  What I Did For Love - (Chorus Line) - Dreamergirl
18.  This Is The Moment - Jekyll & Hyde - Mariner
19.  Feed The Birds - Layla
20.  A Little Fall of Rain - LivingNY & SaCaChAu
21.  Sunrise, Sunset - Fiddler On The Roof - Doobtones
22.  You're a Grand Old Flag - ColonelMac
23.  Grow For Me - Fofun
24.  I Have Dreamed - Tommyrageous
25.  Something's Coming - Westside Story - Werewoof
26.  Any Dream Will Do - FrankCNY
27.  All I Ask Of You - FrankCNY & Grammatea$U
28.  People Will Say We're In Love - Fofun
29.  The Impossible Dream (The Quest)- Man Of La Mancha - Tomac
30.  Easy To Be Hard - Hair - Marigot
31.  How Are Things In Glocca Morra? (Finian's Rainbow) - CerebralJam
32.  You'll Never Walk Alone - Mariner
33.  My Favourite Things - PlatinumFilly
34.  Wouldn't It Be Loverly - Doobtones
35.  Les Mis - SaCaChAu (optional playlist - medley)
36.  Some Enchanted Evening - South Pacific - SaCaChAu
37.  If I Loved You - Carousel - Kittenkat
38.  All That Jazz - Chicago - ColonelMac
39.  Close Every Door - Tonedef
40.  Some Enchanted Evening - South Pacific - JeninOz
41.  Give Me Something to Sing About - LivingNY & Werewoof
42.  Summertime - Suecaz
43.  Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Sandysongbird
44.  With A Little Bit of Luck - My Fair Lady - Sandysongbird
45.  On The Street Where You Live - Mariner

[werewoof]

I guess that explains all the cool showtunes you've been treating us with lately over on singsnap Howard....

This is gonna be a really fun challenge!!!!

:~)

[Kittenkat]

Hi Howard!!  Nice to see you and great challenge theme!!  I have one from All That Jazz...

Roxie ~ Renee Zellweger
http://www.singsnap.com/snap/r/b4a04750

Look at all the songs posted already...Yeah!!!!

[werewoof]

I'm not going to be having any time to be recording something new this week...

But I did grab a half of a duet a couple of weeks ago that should fit quite snuggly into the theme...


Suddenly Seymour

Make sure you stop the singsnap player and click "play" on the widget.  It's a much cleaner recording.

[WravensWing]

Ooh!  One of my favorite genres for this week's challenge.  Thanks for the theme, Howard!!!  I have a lot of songs from musicals, including this one from one of my favorites, Wicked:

For Good (A duet with Annegirl1981)


And, if there are any fellow RENTheads out there, especially a soprano, who would like to join Will and I on the following:

Seasons of Love

[Philbaby]

Hey everyone...lots of good songs posted this week. Just stopping in to say I hope everyone has a great week.

[PCSongman]

   Excellent start folks. The first 10 songs are up in less than 2 hours and all showcase the creativity and talent of the EAW family. And a special shoutout to ColonelMac. I'm not yet a member of Red Karaoke... I'm wondering, is this a Russian karaoke website? ;-)... Regardless, you did a terrific job on Makin' Whoopee.
 
Keep 'em coming folks.

[JeninOz]

Wow fantastic fabulous & wonderful so far!! ...now we're going hiking & climbing things ...sun's shining & the wildflowers are out ...see you later!

[Daniela4Luv]

Hi, Howard, long time no see! GREAT CHALLENGE!! Sorry I missed you and Tomac in our new, chat place. I had left as you guys entered. I saw the chat log that you had said "hello" to me as I went back in. Janet and I entered after you guys left, so, I missed you guys AGAIN! Sorry about that. Fun new added feature, aye? Have a great challenge week! ;-)

[FrankCNY]

I have no business even attempting this, but what the heck I gave it a shot

The Music of the Night - Phantom of the Opera

[FrankCNY]

MY SECOND ONE IS ALSO FROM THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, BUT SINCE IT'S A DUET, I NEED A FEMALE VOICE TO COMPLETE IT, HINT!! HINT!!! HINT!!

ALL I ASK OF YOU - PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

[livingny]

This is the duet from Phantom that I sang recently with

All I Ask of You - Phantom with k2501961

of course this is right up my ally so I'll be adding more but the big brother finale is on so I'm off.

Oh think good thoughts for me tomorrow at 10:30 am est, I have an audition for a commercial with Capitol One, THIS is a big deal!

Edited ~ Sorry about not having the link, its there now. I was overwhelmed and not paying attention.  Ok have to get some beauty sleep can't have bags below the eyes in the morning.

[BronxBruce]

Hey Howard, you know I love this theme. I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to post a song but I definitely will be listening to some of you folks sing.

Those of you who have discovered our new Instant Message feature, if you have questions about how to operate it, click on the word ONLINE at the bottom of the page, then click on MENU in the upper left of the box that opens, and, finally, click on HELP. That will give you info on how it operates. Have fun, folks!

[PCSongman]

As promised, here is a new recording for the Musical Theater/Theatre Challenge/Showcase. This song is from the film Dirty Dancing which was adapted for the stage in 2004 as Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story On Stage.
 
This stage version premiered in Australia and has had sellout runs in Germany, London's West End and successful runs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles. A New York production is rumored to be in the planning stage.
 
You've probably heard this song quite a bit over the last couple of days but I want to honor the memory of Patrick Swayze and this is the best way to do that.
 
She's Like The Wind from Dirty Dancing as performed by Patrick Swayze

[Daniela4Luv]

Sigh....^ Good one Howard.   Have a great night.