# Recommend me energetic Broadway musicals (or other vocals) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000 "2011-09-20T23:37:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000/21 "2011-09-22T23:04:08Z")
If you are listening to a lot of musicals you might really appreciate what is going on in **Urinetown**. I don’t know if you can follow the story without knowing the show, but it’s vaguely parody. Start off with Run Freedom Run, it’s a fairly straightforward song and nice and upbeat. But the gold 🆒 is in stuff like _Too much Exposition_ or \*Urinetown \*or _Don’t Be the Bunny_. It isn’t super upbeat, but **The Last Five Years** is another musical worth listening to. It’s beautiful crazy beautiful. Jason Robert Brown needs to be more well known. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000/22 "2011-09-23T05:32:46Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > It isn’t super upbeat, but **The Last Five Years** is another musical worth listening to. It’s beautiful crazy beautiful. Jason Robert Brown needs to be more well known. Preach it. And “Moving Too Fast” fits the OP’s criteria perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![raspberry\_hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@raspberry\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raspberry_hunter)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000/23 "2011-09-23T18:07:39Z")
Oh my gosh, what great suggestions! Going to check many of them out – stay tuned. IN the meantime, a couple of thoughts: Hairspray, yes! I forgot to mention that one as one of the energetic ones I really like. Pippin I bounced hard off the two songs I know from it, but I’ll have to look into the others. I love Chorus Line and Annie, and will have to add those to my listening list. I had no idea the Ragtime guys had done more musicals! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000/24 "2011-09-23T18:16:51Z")
This week’s “It’s not unusual” cover Glee download has had me bopping for days. Actually, some of the other songs this week were pretty energetic come to think of it, and a few were showtune covers. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000/25 "2011-09-23T18:22:13Z")
Also, the Indigo Girls / Big Fish Ensemble version of Jesus Christ Superstar is a good mix of energy either musical or emotional. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000/26 "2011-09-23T18:31:58Z")
> [@raspberry\_hunter](#): > > I had no idea the Ragtime guys had done more musicals! Yay! Off topic, but if you’re a certain age, one of the Ragtime people also taught you the preamble to the Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000/27 "2011-09-24T01:37:56Z")
And the order of the planets! ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000/28 "2011-10-22T16:04:43Z")
> [@raspberry\_hunter](#): > > Oh my gosh, what great suggestions! > > Going to check many of them out – stay tuned. Hey, so what did you think? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-energetic-broadway-musicals-or-other-vocals/597000/29 "2011-10-22T18:57:00Z")
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