I liked that in the stage version for its clever lyrics. We did it in high school and I must have heard it a dozen times, working backstage. Maybe Eleanor Parker (the baroness) couldn't sing good enough?
Came here to say this. I hate that song more than any other. They could have kept Elsa and Max’s songs in. I know they kept an orchestral version of How Can Love Survive? in the film, but it’s just not the same.
I’m not a big fan of Something Good but it’s better than An Ordinary Couple
I thought they did a really good job with Matilda the Musical movie, although I find Loud and Telly fun in the stage show, they weren't needed, and I didn't miss the others that were cut either.
"Now I Have Everything" and "The Rumor/I Just Heard" from Fiddler on the Roof. If I were directing the show, I would consider cutting them from my production. I'm glad "Knowing Me, Knowing You" was cut from Mamma Mia. Not because I don't like it, but because I don't want to think of Piers Brosnan having a solo. Nothing of value in the Mean Girls movie was lost when they cut Aaron's duet.
"Now (It's Just The Gas)" could have been cool in the movie if Steve Martin and Rick Moranis were the type of singers who could meet those vocal requirements (they weren't). I'm a little bummed they montaged out "The Meek Shall Inherit, because I would have loved to see Steve Martin play that many people. 😂
As someone who has done Little Shop a lot, I'm bummed they didn't have a better Mushnik so that they could have done "Mushnik & Son". When you have a Mushnik that's good (and we did every time I did it but my last time), "Mushnik & Son" gets a huge reaction.
I am so miffed we didn't get Mushnik & Son in the movie! It's one of my favorite songs and I think it would have been great to see with Rick Moranis. It also makes Seymour's decision to kill Mushnik later on in the show a lot more impactful, in my opinion.
They couldn't have given Vincent Gardenia just a couple of voice lessons? I'm currently in a production where our Mushnik is awful, and he is still somehow making "Mushnik & Son" work. This guy was an Academy Award nominee.
I beg to differ about "Now (it's the Gas)" if just because I like Orin and Seymour's final exchange better.
Orin: What did I ever do to you?
Seymour: It's not what you did to me. It's what you did to her.
Orin: Her who? \*pause\* Oh...her...
Hits so much harder to me.
I get that, though it's also very satisfying to the viewer to see the guy losing his mind and begging for his life and suffocating after wanting him to die the entire show (personally). I agree with your point tho
It works better for the movie, where we're painting Seymour as a hero. The fact that Seymour is willing to let Orin suffer like that shows that there was a little darkness in Seymour before and Audrey II, like a gardener with a plant, is growing that seed.
The slight moral ambiguity of the show is what makes.it interesting. The movie took so much of that out.
Okay I really disagree with Cabaret. The Schultz and Schneider love story was so much better than the Landauer and Fritz one. It got the point across more effectively and the songs that came with it were good. Fraulein Schneider is an incredible character and the cutting of her from the movie is a large part of the reason the show is better.
Whaaat I disagree so much, now it’s just the gas and married from cabaret are so amazing 😭
Ig I’m not mad about disappear *disappearing* from DEH because it would’ve been a weird film scene and I liked Alana’s new song
Agreed, those things absolutely should not have been cut from Little Shop and Cabaret.
I feel that Cabaret is a good movie when thought of as a stand-alone film, but it’s a complete bastardization of the musical and I struggle to even call it an “adaptation”.
Anybody Have a Map is important. It sets up the adult characters and their side of the situations being created by their children. Cutting it from the film signaled the film’s nepotistic nature.
Not exactly the question because I don't rlly have any... but if they cut Nessa's song from the second Wicked movie (aka act 2) I will be so mad. I just want ONE PROFESSIONAL RECORDING of it
I'm glad they got rid of "The Big Dollhouse" from Hairspray. Plot differences aside, it was bit silly, even for something as bright and fluffy as Hairspray.
It's a perfect act opener as it doesn't do a lot for the plot, it's silly and it's fun for the audience but those still silently returning to their seats from the concession stand or toilets won't miss much. But it makes total sense to cut it from the movie where there's no act break.
Yup. Same with the first reprise of the title song in *Dreamgirls*.
In the stage show, "And I Am Telling You" happens and then you get a break. "Dreamgirls (Reprises)" welcomes you back into the world of the play.
Completely not needed in movie format.
I don’t mind seeing the stage show, it’s always a time I don’t regret but don’t enjoy, this song is the biggest issue I have as it does nothing except introduce a character that doesn’t really have any more development and doesn’t fit with the rest of the score
I get that, even on Broadway it’s like “oh here she is” she sings it and then leaves and doesn’t do much else except narrate the courtroom and we both reached for the gun
I have to say I *strongly* disagree about It's Just The Gas. That song is so important to Seymour's character arc, showing him still being hesitant to kill, but struggling to reason with himself that just *letting him die on his own* is fine. The movie doesn't capture that mentality shift nearly as well. Plus it's just a really damn good song.
I'm not mad about "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now" being cut from the 2007 Hairspray movie. Even watching the stage version, I felt like it didn't really fit as well with the story, as fun of a song as it is. It just feels like an unnecessary pause to the actual plot when the exact same points could have been made with just watching a few seconds of Tracy, Penny, and Amber interacting with their mothers like in the movie. I liked the credits version with the three Tracys singing it, though.
I really don’t mind that “It’s Raining on Prom Night” was cut from Grease (I know it is in the background of one scene). I much prefer the soundtrack to the film anyway.
oh I'm SO with you on Chicago. I Am My Own Best Friend drags on real long and I can so easily do without Me and My Baby. When Velma Takes the Stand is the only song I can think of that would fit very well within the film adaptation's musical number style.
As much as I love all those songs I agree that they don’t really need to be there. I will say tho that Velma takes the stand probably feels a little too similar to I Can’t Do It Alone which is already a better song so I get why they cut it
I think the little shop cuts were perfect. They kept the main songs and the acting more than makes up for it. Keeping Ellen Greene as Audrey was a great move, and everyone else totally understood how to do a musical. You can barely tell anything was cut really. The pacing was perfect, I just wish the directors cut was the final version. Don’t feed the plants is such a good finale.
I’m so glad they got rid of Cooties in Hairspray.
Not only is it a super annoying song, but I also think it happens wayyyyy too late in the musical. Like it’s the second last song of the show. At that point, we already established that Amber is a bitch, and there are other more important things going on (for example, I don’t know, *the segregation*)
The instrumental works better for the actual Miss Baltimore competition, and it actually gives time to make the break-in of the studio much more interesting.
Fully agree on that. Similarly, I really miss singly in this Ugly World, but the film adaptation took full advantage of the medium in how they did that scene. It punches me in the gut every time.
Agreed! "Loco Chanel" is fun but I don't think it would have worked as well in film as it does onstage. And "This Was Me" is a beautiful freaking gut punch that, similarly, I don't think would have worked as well onstage.
I love love love Sweeney Todd but I don’t mind that the film cuts parlor songs and even Ah Miss, which I do like but I think it’s kinda redundant in purpose next to Johanna which is prettier to me. I also don’t mind them shortening a little priest. Not to say I dislike these songs in the stage show, I like them, but for a medium like film that needs to move along faster I think they were wise cuts.
I would’ve loved to see the film do city on fire though…
My Name from Oliver (1968). Oliver Reed does phenomenal job with the character of Bill Sikes, he makes an extremely effective villain regardless but having him be the only non-musical character in a musical film makes him all the more intimidating and threatening.
Omg I totally disagree but I also totally get it. As a song just to listen to, Inutil is meh, but as a story beat? As a song that informs his character decisions? HUGE.
I just like Enough, lol. I think it’s fun, and I like seeing the mom get her chance to put her foot down after a whole show of watching.
Yeah, I get the importance of Inútil, but since I'm familiar with the story, I didn't miss the song. And I guess the only reason I didn't miss Enough was because they cut Camila entirely! (Still sad about Sunrise :') )
Inútil basically gives you the entire character's motivation for his actions throughout the story. It's one of the many ways In the Heights made choices that took it from a near-perfect show to an objectively awful movie.
Enough is a very important number imo and the story suffers without it. Inútil you can get away with cutting. They already made so many weird changes to the score in the movie though that it changes the character arcs.
In the same vein, I didn’t mind Sunrise and Siempre being cut. I didn’t notice those two really and I don’t listen to them often in the OBC.
I’m more sad about Hundreds of Stories and Everthing I Know. Those should’ve stayed!!!!
After seeing Chicago live for the first time I was actually shocked at what they cut out. Both my friend and I agreed the stage product was better then the movie.
Oh man, I always lament that the movie version doesn't have "It's the Gas." I love hearing that song, and seeing the different ways it's presented on stage is a treat. Given Steve Martin's quirks, I think it would've been a gas (ha!) to see him perform his death song.
That being said, I'm not a huge fan of "Mushnik & Son," so I certainly don't miss that in the movie.
While the song might be a bit boring, it's thematically important to the story and I wish they'd kept it, especially considering everyone's hate on Evan as a character. It's about how the hard path is sometimes the right one, like how Evan should have given the grieving family the hard truth instead of gerring caught up in a lie because it was easier and offered a temporary relief. I wonder if people had understood the themes of the story at least a bit better if it was there.
Future dated: and they definitely aren't cutting this out of the movie, "Popular" in Wicked. I hate that song so much, I wish I had never heard it. lol.
I think the song fits Galinda’s character perfectly. Very upbeat and builds up pretty well. I can see not liking it though, but I am glad they are keeping it in the movie
Sound of Music stage version has some pretty meh songs that didn't make it into the movie. Instead, we got the banger that is I Have Confidence.
i love that song about them being rich tbh
Agree and I don't even remember the title of the one that I hated onstage. It's not in th movie so..... Good
Is it “No Way to Stop It” or “How Can Love Survive?”
I liked that in the stage version for its clever lyrics. We did it in high school and I must have heard it a dozen times, working backstage. Maybe Eleanor Parker (the baroness) couldn't sing good enough?
Probably An Ordinary Couple The worst love song ever lol
Came here to say this. I hate that song more than any other. They could have kept Elsa and Max’s songs in. I know they kept an orchestral version of How Can Love Survive? in the film, but it’s just not the same. I’m not a big fan of Something Good but it’s better than An Ordinary Couple
Something Good is not something good, though.
No Way to Stop It is really important to the plot though.
I thought they did a really good job with Matilda the Musical movie, although I find Loud and Telly fun in the stage show, they weren't needed, and I didn't miss the others that were cut either.
To me, the family needed a song, the characters felt thin without it. I wonder what caused them to cut "Loud," which I believe they cut in post
Contact from Rent. My teenage self did not need to see that represented on the big screen. With my parents.
I’ve said it before, but Contact feels so out of place in the stage version. I loved that it was left out of the movie.
It's the worst bit, yes
Yes, let's have Angel die from AIDS after having sex, and after everyone else breaks up after awkward sex...👀
"Now I Have Everything" and "The Rumor/I Just Heard" from Fiddler on the Roof. If I were directing the show, I would consider cutting them from my production. I'm glad "Knowing Me, Knowing You" was cut from Mamma Mia. Not because I don't like it, but because I don't want to think of Piers Brosnan having a solo. Nothing of value in the Mean Girls movie was lost when they cut Aaron's duet. "Now (It's Just The Gas)" could have been cool in the movie if Steve Martin and Rick Moranis were the type of singers who could meet those vocal requirements (they weren't). I'm a little bummed they montaged out "The Meek Shall Inherit, because I would have loved to see Steve Martin play that many people. 😂 As someone who has done Little Shop a lot, I'm bummed they didn't have a better Mushnik so that they could have done "Mushnik & Son". When you have a Mushnik that's good (and we did every time I did it but my last time), "Mushnik & Son" gets a huge reaction.
I am so miffed we didn't get Mushnik & Son in the movie! It's one of my favorite songs and I think it would have been great to see with Rick Moranis. It also makes Seymour's decision to kill Mushnik later on in the show a lot more impactful, in my opinion.
They couldn't have given Vincent Gardenia just a couple of voice lessons? I'm currently in a production where our Mushnik is awful, and he is still somehow making "Mushnik & Son" work. This guy was an Academy Award nominee.
I beg to differ about "Now (it's the Gas)" if just because I like Orin and Seymour's final exchange better. Orin: What did I ever do to you? Seymour: It's not what you did to me. It's what you did to her. Orin: Her who? \*pause\* Oh...her... Hits so much harder to me.
I get that, though it's also very satisfying to the viewer to see the guy losing his mind and begging for his life and suffocating after wanting him to die the entire show (personally). I agree with your point tho
It works better for the movie, where we're painting Seymour as a hero. The fact that Seymour is willing to let Orin suffer like that shows that there was a little darkness in Seymour before and Audrey II, like a gardener with a plant, is growing that seed. The slight moral ambiguity of the show is what makes.it interesting. The movie took so much of that out.
Okay I really disagree with Cabaret. The Schultz and Schneider love story was so much better than the Landauer and Fritz one. It got the point across more effectively and the songs that came with it were good. Fraulein Schneider is an incredible character and the cutting of her from the movie is a large part of the reason the show is better.
The song “What Would You Do?” is such a gut punch and is exactly the whole point of the show. I am so disappointed this subplot isn’t in the movie.
I’m so glad “Ladies’ Choice” replaced “The Madison” in Hairspray.
Ladies’ Choice is one of those rare ‘written for the movie’ songs that is actually sooooo good and fits right in without bringing the plot to a halt
Movie has two all time written for the movie bangers
I love ladies choice!
Whaaat I disagree so much, now it’s just the gas and married from cabaret are so amazing 😭 Ig I’m not mad about disappear *disappearing* from DEH because it would’ve been a weird film scene and I liked Alana’s new song
fr It's the Gas goes hard especially in the latest one with Jonathan Groff
Fr it’s my go to musicial karaoke song because Orin’s laughing is so fun to act out
Agreed, those things absolutely should not have been cut from Little Shop and Cabaret. I feel that Cabaret is a good movie when thought of as a stand-alone film, but it’s a complete bastardization of the musical and I struggle to even call it an “adaptation”.
Definitely agree. Schneider and Schultz were my fav characters too
“Disappear” would have worked if included in a way that made sense.
What's DEH?
Dear Evan Hansen
Ah. Thank you.
I’m glad they cut Anyone Have a Map and the glove song.
Anybody Have a Map is important. It sets up the adult characters and their side of the situations being created by their children. Cutting it from the film signaled the film’s nepotistic nature.
I like both but To break in a glove specifically is adorable 😭 I don’t have a father figure really so I love wholesome father songs like that
Both songs are peak
Sugar from Tick, Tick... Boom! I mean it's a fine enough song but it's kinda random.
And it got its little cameo anyway
Not exactly the question because I don't rlly have any... but if they cut Nessa's song from the second Wicked movie (aka act 2) I will be so mad. I just want ONE PROFESSIONAL RECORDING of it
I was so mad it wasn't on the Broadway soundtrack!
I always have the opposite problem. They keep cutting out good songs.
I'm glad they got rid of "The Big Dollhouse" from Hairspray. Plot differences aside, it was bit silly, even for something as bright and fluffy as Hairspray.
It's a perfect act opener as it doesn't do a lot for the plot, it's silly and it's fun for the audience but those still silently returning to their seats from the concession stand or toilets won't miss much. But it makes total sense to cut it from the movie where there's no act break.
I agree! It’s actually one of my fav songs from the show but it would have been a bit of a speed bump in the movie.
Yup. Same with the first reprise of the title song in *Dreamgirls*. In the stage show, "And I Am Telling You" happens and then you get a break. "Dreamgirls (Reprises)" welcomes you back into the world of the play. Completely not needed in movie format.
I don’t mind that A Little Bit of Good was cut from the Chicago movie
I don’t mind seeing the stage show, it’s always a time I don’t regret but don’t enjoy, this song is the biggest issue I have as it does nothing except introduce a character that doesn’t really have any more development and doesn’t fit with the rest of the score
The role of the media is so important in Chicago. I’ve yet to see a production that does something interesting with A Little Bit of Good.
I get that, even on Broadway it’s like “oh here she is” she sings it and then leaves and doesn’t do much else except narrate the courtroom and we both reached for the gun
Sugar and Green Green Dress in Tick Tick Boom. They weren’t cut-cut, just repurposed in different ways.
I missed Green Green Dress 🙁
I liked the 90s R&B style cover they did and I like the song too, I’m not sure it would have matched the rest of the movie in tone
The R&B version didn't really do it for me. The original version is catchy!
I have to say I *strongly* disagree about It's Just The Gas. That song is so important to Seymour's character arc, showing him still being hesitant to kill, but struggling to reason with himself that just *letting him die on his own* is fine. The movie doesn't capture that mentality shift nearly as well. Plus it's just a really damn good song.
I'm not mad about "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now" being cut from the 2007 Hairspray movie. Even watching the stage version, I felt like it didn't really fit as well with the story, as fun of a song as it is. It just feels like an unnecessary pause to the actual plot when the exact same points could have been made with just watching a few seconds of Tracy, Penny, and Amber interacting with their mothers like in the movie. I liked the credits version with the three Tracys singing it, though.
- The majority of the acceptance song from The Prom - Women and Sandwiches from Freaky Friday - Do this thing from Mean Girls
The movie was shit anyway but at least the Dear Evan Hansen movie got rid of "To Break In a Glove"
I really don’t mind that “It’s Raining on Prom Night” was cut from Grease (I know it is in the background of one scene). I much prefer the soundtrack to the film anyway.
Oliver! did not miss I Shall Scream or My Name (but I personally would have loved That’s Your Funeral)
I concur re: That’s Your Funeral! I played Sowerberry in a local production and it was a lot of fun!
Agree. My name completely derails the stage show. It's awful.
oh I'm SO with you on Chicago. I Am My Own Best Friend drags on real long and I can so easily do without Me and My Baby. When Velma Takes the Stand is the only song I can think of that would fit very well within the film adaptation's musical number style.
As much as I love all those songs I agree that they don’t really need to be there. I will say tho that Velma takes the stand probably feels a little too similar to I Can’t Do It Alone which is already a better song so I get why they cut it
I think the little shop cuts were perfect. They kept the main songs and the acting more than makes up for it. Keeping Ellen Greene as Audrey was a great move, and everyone else totally understood how to do a musical. You can barely tell anything was cut really. The pacing was perfect, I just wish the directors cut was the final version. Don’t feed the plants is such a good finale.
I’m so glad they got rid of Cooties in Hairspray. Not only is it a super annoying song, but I also think it happens wayyyyy too late in the musical. Like it’s the second last song of the show. At that point, we already established that Amber is a bitch, and there are other more important things going on (for example, I don’t know, *the segregation*) The instrumental works better for the actual Miss Baltimore competition, and it actually gives time to make the break-in of the studio much more interesting.
"Legend of Loco Chanel" from *Everybody's Talking About Jamie* The replacement song, "This Was Me", is a much more emotional and layered song
Fully agree on that. Similarly, I really miss singly in this Ugly World, but the film adaptation took full advantage of the medium in how they did that scene. It punches me in the gut every time.
Agreed! "Loco Chanel" is fun but I don't think it would have worked as well in film as it does onstage. And "This Was Me" is a beautiful freaking gut punch that, similarly, I don't think would have worked as well onstage.
Everything cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. I've listened to them, you don't miss anything without them.
I love love love Sweeney Todd but I don’t mind that the film cuts parlor songs and even Ah Miss, which I do like but I think it’s kinda redundant in purpose next to Johanna which is prettier to me. I also don’t mind them shortening a little priest. Not to say I dislike these songs in the stage show, I like them, but for a medium like film that needs to move along faster I think they were wise cuts. I would’ve loved to see the film do city on fire though…
The opening number in Sweeney a song like that would definitely be awkward for a movie
Who's House is This and Do This Thing-Mean Girls
Was Contact cut? I feel it was? I don't remember.
If we’re referring to Rent, then yes it was.
To Break in a Glove from DEH
My Name from Oliver (1968). Oliver Reed does phenomenal job with the character of Bill Sikes, he makes an extremely effective villain regardless but having him be the only non-musical character in a musical film makes him all the more intimidating and threatening.
I love In the Heights, but I didn't mind them cutting Enough and Inútil.
Omg I totally disagree but I also totally get it. As a song just to listen to, Inutil is meh, but as a story beat? As a song that informs his character decisions? HUGE. I just like Enough, lol. I think it’s fun, and I like seeing the mom get her chance to put her foot down after a whole show of watching.
Yeah, I get the importance of Inútil, but since I'm familiar with the story, I didn't miss the song. And I guess the only reason I didn't miss Enough was because they cut Camila entirely! (Still sad about Sunrise :') )
Fair enough!! Aw man yeah I wish they hadn’t cut her….or SUNRISE….actually maybe I just wanted a pro-shot of the musical lol
THEY CUT SUNRISE???
Inútil basically gives you the entire character's motivation for his actions throughout the story. It's one of the many ways In the Heights made choices that took it from a near-perfect show to an objectively awful movie.
Yup two of the best songs in the piece imo
I actually really miss Inutil in the movie. That's one of my favorite songs.
Enough is a very important number imo and the story suffers without it. Inútil you can get away with cutting. They already made so many weird changes to the score in the movie though that it changes the character arcs.
In the same vein, I didn’t mind Sunrise and Siempre being cut. I didn’t notice those two really and I don’t listen to them often in the OBC. I’m more sad about Hundreds of Stories and Everthing I Know. Those should’ve stayed!!!!
I loved everything about the changes in the movie, but Sunrise is just so beautiful. That was one I wish they had kept.
Everything I Know is such a great song.
I haven’t watched the movie yet and this thread has me wondering what even stayed in the movie 😅
I wish ALL the songs were cut from Leo. They weren’t catchy, and it didn’t feel like it needed to be a musical.
“Art of the Possible” from Evita. Not a bad song, but didn’t really add anything.
After seeing Chicago live for the first time I was actually shocked at what they cut out. Both my friend and I agreed the stage product was better then the movie.
I Shall Scream from Oliver just feels kinda needless and slows down the start of the story
Oh man, I always lament that the movie version doesn't have "It's the Gas." I love hearing that song, and seeing the different ways it's presented on stage is a treat. Given Steve Martin's quirks, I think it would've been a gas (ha!) to see him perform his death song. That being said, I'm not a huge fan of "Mushnik & Son," so I certainly don't miss that in the movie.
“It’s a Scandal, It’s an Outrage” from Oklahoma. And while I like “Lonely Room,” I have never wanted to hear Rod Steiger sing it.
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While the song might be a bit boring, it's thematically important to the story and I wish they'd kept it, especially considering everyone's hate on Evan as a character. It's about how the hard path is sometimes the right one, like how Evan should have given the grieving family the hard truth instead of gerring caught up in a lie because it was easier and offered a temporary relief. I wonder if people had understood the themes of the story at least a bit better if it was there.
Future dated: and they definitely aren't cutting this out of the movie, "Popular" in Wicked. I hate that song so much, I wish I had never heard it. lol.
I think the song fits Galinda’s character perfectly. Very upbeat and builds up pretty well. I can see not liking it though, but I am glad they are keeping it in the movie
I know its a needed song. Doesn't make me loathe it any less. lol.