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Poll: I Want ... Songs!

A poll by TsarStepan
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?

Trill, warble, croon, or belt out loud your feelings about this musical poll with us, theater nerds, over here.

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

Results of 357 votes:

  1. 1.

    Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

     
    Dorothy's "Over The Rainbow"
  2. 2.

    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"
  3. 3.

    Helena Bonham Carter in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

     
    Mrs. Lovett's "By The Sea"
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