Songs added after opening

[JJShaw]

Hello!

I'm trying to compile a list of songs that, for whatever reason, were added after a show opened.

Examples:
Our Little World: Into the Woods
You Make Me Happy: Annie
A Change in Me: Beauty and the Beast
Forever: Shrek

[Mark]

Heathers - I Say No.

[Someone in a tree]

Marry me a little - Company

Country House, Ahh but underneath, Make the most of your music - Follies

Some songs rewritten for the film of Night music. Not sure if that counts?

Beggar Woman's lullaby - Sweeney

Dress Big, Hades, Ariadne, All abroad - The Frogs. Plus other songs were expanded.

Something just broke - Assassins

I'm not even going to go into Candide or Road Show!

[richey]

You Must Love Me added to Evita

[TallPaul]

I'm stretching the question somewhat, but Oklahoma only became Oklahoma when Oklahoma was added to a musical that had been called, until then, Away We Go! (The ! was R&H's, not mine! 🙂)

[danb]

Lots of ‘Martin Guerre’ was added after opening...then taken away...then rewritten...then added again...then taken away...then put in a different order...then put back.

[undeuxtrois]

Quite a bit of Miss Saigon?

[steve10086]

Every Movie’s A Circus - Sunset Boulevard

[Deleted]

Gosh, loads.

Could do the ALW ones.

Joseph - About half of it. King Of My Heart for the 00s version.
JCS - Could We Start Again Please (well, added for the stage version I guess)
Evita - You Must Love Me
Cats - The various Italian things that replaced Ballad Of Billy McCaw.
Song and Dance - Unexpected Song (though melody was already there)
Starlight - Make Up My Heart, Crazy, Next Time You Fall In Love, I Do, Whole Lotta Locomotion, I Got Me, Megamix (deffo the ALW show with the most new songs).
Sunset - many interlinking sections
By Jeeves - About half of it compared to Jeeves
Whistle Down The Wind - The Gang
Beautiful Game - Boys In The Photograph
Tell Me On A Sunday - Multiple, for the DVO version.
Wizard of Oz - 5 new ALW songs
Love Never Dies - new melody to verses in Beauty Underneath (and lots of re-ordering of stuff)

Phantom stage show, Aspects, Woman In White, School of Rock have yet (I think) to get a new song!

There are also loads of songs removed and general re-writing.
"Musicals aren't written, they are re-written" as they always say.

A couple of other from faves of mine.
Miss Saigon - Maybe (God I wish they'd put It's Her Or Me back in).
Chess - Someone Else's Story. Then that Act 2 opener that Burke sang at the ENO.

[BurlyBeaR]

Feb 2, 2021 17:30:02 GMT Mark said:

Heathers - I Say No.

Off topic, but I say ‘no’ to Heathers too. 😑

[anthony40]

You Must Love Me really worked though, didn't it?

[danb]

Feb 2, 2021 19:30:00 GMT BurlyBeaR said:

Feb 2, 2021 17:30:02 GMT Mark said:

Heathers - I Say No.

Off topic, but I say ‘no’ to Heathers too. 😑

But ended up being the best standalone ‘song’ in the show.

[Deleted]

Feb 2, 2021 19:01:21 GMT undeuxtrois said:

Quite a bit of Miss Saigon?

And they should get rid of 'Maybe' asap.

[anthony40]

I believe (when it's eventually ever filmed- they've just announced a new director) there will be new songs added to Wicked

[anthony40]

What about Chess?

There was the original concept album, then when it was staged in the West End the song The Soviet Machine was added.

Then when it went to Broadway the song Someone Else's Story was added.

Incidentally, when the original concept album was remastered another song- The Press Conference was added to that recording. I downloaded it from i-Tunes.

[Deleted]

Feb 2, 2021 23:00:21 GMT anthony40 said:

I believe (when it's eventually ever filmed- they've just announced a new director) there will be new songs added to Wicked

Of course there will - every musical film adds at least an end credits song in an attempt to get a Best Original Song Oscar nomination!

[Phantom of London]

Send in the Clowns - A Little Night Music.

[Someone in a tree]

Feb 3, 2021 1:18:40 GMT Phantom of London said:

Send in the Clowns - A Little Night Music.

Nah. It was written in rehearsals prior to out of town tryouts

[robertb213]

Wasn't 'Dancing Through Life' added to Wicked after San Francisco? It replaced one called 'Life Of The Party' I think. And one called 'Making Good' was dropped and replaced with 'The Wizard & I' 😁

[Mark]

Feb 3, 2021 12:30:49 GMT robertb213 said:

Wasn't 'Dancing Through Life' added to Wicked after San Francisco? It replaced one called 'Life Of The Party' I think. And one called 'Making Good' was dropped and replaced with 'The Wizard & I' 😁

That’s right! Dancing Through Life replaced Which Way’s the Party.
Wizard and I was written especially for Idina Menzel when she was cast for Broadway.

[Phantom of London]

Feb 3, 2021 12:33:04 GMT Mark said:

Feb 3, 2021 12:30:49 GMT robertb213 said:

Wasn't 'Dancing Through Life' added to Wicked after San Francisco? It replaced one called 'Life Of The Party' I think. And one called 'Making Good' was dropped and replaced with 'The Wizard & I' 😁

That’s right! Dancing Through Life replaced Which Way’s the Party.
Wizard and I was written especially for Indian Mendel when she was cast for Broadway.

I had no idea that they altered the songs for Wicked and to be more inclusive, they BAME casted it that early. lol.

[Mark]

Feb 3, 2021 12:43:43 GMT Phantom of London said:

Feb 3, 2021 12:33:04 GMT Mark said:

That’s right! Dancing Through Life replaced Which Way’s the Party.
Wizard and I was written especially for Indian Mendel when she was cast for Broadway.

I had no idea that they altered the songs for Wicked and to be more inclusive, they BAME casted it that early. lol.

Oh dear, my autocorrect!

[pianowithsam]

Feb 2, 2021 23:00:21 GMT anthony40 said:

I believe (when it's eventually ever filmed- they've just announced a new director) there will be new songs added to Wicked

I thought this was going to say 'I believe from Book of Mormon' and I was like 0_0

[Phantom of London]

Feb 3, 2021 12:48:50 GMT Mark said:

Feb 3, 2021 12:43:43 GMT Phantom of London said:

I had no idea that they altered the songs for Wicked and to be more inclusive, they BAME casted it that early. lol.

Oh dear, my autocorrect!

I know it was autocorrect, Apple autocorrect can be ridiculous sometimes - but it still gave me a big smile.

[Deleted]

Feb 2, 2021 19:28:35 GMT @sharpe12 said:

Wizard of Oz - 5 new ALW songs

I see Lloyd Webber's version of The Wizard of Oz more as a new adaptation than a revival as it has a different book by himself and Jeremy Sams to the 1987 RSC adaptation by John Kane which is the one that many regional theatres/schools/amdrams have since used (granted it is still very close to the film's screenplay - which arguably so is ALW's). So I think the fact ALW and Tim Rice felt the need to add more songs was what gave the whole thing a complete overhaul to work on stage.

But whilst the Birmingham REP's 2018 production looked and sounded like Oz as never before, it was still the RSC adaptation (with a few extra lines/references to the gender changes etc.), however that production included the apple trees singing a song as the set changed into the Tin Man scene. I'm not sure what the lyrics were, nor can I find the song online but the music was the same bit that you hear as the underscore in the film as Dorothy goes to take an apple from the tree. So maybe lyrics were added to that piece of music for that specific production, as I don't believe it has been in any other...?

Onto another musical, Tim Minchin recently revealed that he has written a new song for the upcoming Matilda movie so I wonder if that will that be added to the stage show in the same way that "Could We Start Again Please" (Jesus Christ Superstar) "Mean Green Mother" (Little Shop of Horrors) and probably other examples were subsequently added.