Neil Patrick Harris in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
Billy's "Everything You Ever"
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Poll: I Want ... Songs!
One of the best tools creators of musicals use to get the audience to sympathize and/or relate to their subject's main characters is the "I want" song.*
Which of the following "I want" songs** from nonDisney studios gives you some or all of the best feels?
While you're in the desirable mood, go over here and vote at the I Want Disney Songs counterpart poll to this one.
*"The 'I Want' song is a popular type of song featured in musical theatre [where] the main character [sings] about how they are unsatisfied with their current life, and what they are searching for." Wikipedia
Make Your Choice
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Ben Platt in Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
Evan Hansen's "For Forever" -
Wicked (2004)
Elphaba's "The Wizard and I" -
Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer in West Side Story (1961)
Tony's "Something's Coming" -
Helena Bonham Carter in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Mrs. Lovett's "By The Sea" -
Julie Andrews, Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies-Urich, and Debbie Turner in The Sound of Music (1965)
Maria's "The Sound of Music" -
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Professor Hill's "The Sadder But Wiser Girl for Me" or Marian the Librarian's "My White Knight" -
Madonna in Evita (1996)
Eva Perón's "Buenos Aires" -
Renée Zellweger in Chicago (2002)
Roxie Hart's "Roxie" -
Aileen Quinn in Annie (1982)
Annie's "Tomorrow" -
Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dorothy's "Over The Rainbow" -
Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
Buffy Summer's "Going Through The Motions" -
Michael Blevins, Jan Gan Boyd, Vicki Frederick, Janet Jones, Charles McGowan, Alyson Reed, Justin Ross, and Matt West in A Chorus Line (1985)
Entire cast singing "A Chorus Line Opening/I Hope I Get It" -
Topol in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Tevye's "If I Was A Rich Man" -
Candy Bonstein, Elaine Edwards, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small in Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava's "Matchmaker" -
Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (1964)
Eliza's "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" -
Nikki Blonsky in Hairspray (2007)
Tracy Turnblad's "Good Morning Baltimore" -
Judy Garland and Ray Bolger in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Scarecrow's "If I Only Had a Brain" -
Jack Haley in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Tin Man's "If I Only Had a Heart" -
Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Cowardly Lion's "If I Only Had The Nerve" -
An American Tail (1986)
Fievel Mousekewitz's Somewhere Out There
