This post is an attempt to categorize every song within the five Soprano volumes of The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology. Other criteria like character name, age, and song tempo may be added at a later time. For a complete songlist with volume numbers included, click here.
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OPERETTA STANDARDS | 1870s-1920s
| Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life | Naughty Marietta (1910) |
| Art is Calling Me | The Enchantress (1911) |
| O, Goddess Wise | Princess Ida (1884) |
| Poor Wand’ring One | The Pirates of Penzance (1879) |
| The Sun, Whose Rays are All Ablaze | The Mikado (1885) |
| Vilia | The Merry Widow (1861) |
| What Will it Be for Me? | Regina (1948) |
JAZZ AGE STANDARDS | 1920s-1940s
| All Through the Night | Anything Goes (1934) |
| Barbara Song | The Threepenny Opera (1928) |
| Begin the Beguine | Jubilee (1935) |
| Bewitched | Pal Joey (1940) |
| Bill | Show Boat (1927) |
| Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man | Show Boat (1927) |
| Falling in Love with Love | The Boys from Syracuse (1938) |
| Fascinating Rhythm | Lady, Be Good! (1924) |
| Glad to Be Unhappy | On Your Toes (1936) |
| The Gypsy in Me | Anything Goes (1934) |
| He Loves and She Loves | Funny Face (1927) |
| He Was Too Good to Me | Simple Simon (1930) |
| How Long Has This Been Going On? | Rosalie (1928) |
| I Wonder What Became of Me | St. Louis Woman (1946) |
| I’ll Follow My Secret Heart | Conversation Piece (1934) |
| It Never Was You | Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) |
| Italian Street Song | Naughty Marietta (1910) |
| I’ve Got a Crush on You | Strike Up the Band (1930) |
| Lover, Come Back to Me | The New Moon (1928) |
| Make Believe | Show Boat (1927) |
| The Man I Love | Lady, Be Good! (1924) |
| My Funny Valentine | Babes in Arms (1937) |
| My Ship | Lady in the Dark (1941) |
| Nobody Makes a Pass at Me | Pins and Needles (1937) |
| Once You Lose Your Heart | Me and My Girl (1937) |
| One Life to Live | Lady in the Dark (1941) |
| Pirate Jenny | The Threepenny Opera (1928) |
| The Saga of Jenny | Lady in the Dark (1941) |
| Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | Roberta (1933) |
| Solomon Song | The Threepenny Opera (1928) |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | Oh, Kay! (1926) |
| The Song is You | Music in the Air (1932) |
| Speak Low | One Touch of Venus (1943) |
| Summertime | Porgy and Bess (1935) |
| Surabaya Johnny | Happy End (1929) |
| There’s a Small Hotel | On Your Toes (1936) |
| Where or When | Babes in Arms (1937) |
| Why Do I Love You? | Show Boat (1927) |
| Why Was I Born? | Sweet Adeline (1929) |
| Yesterdays | Roberta (1933) |
GOLDEN AGE STANDARDS | 1940s-1960s
| And This is My Beloved | Kismet (1953) |
| Baubles, Bangles and Beads | Kismet (1953) |
| Before I Gaze at You Again | Camelot (1960) |
| I Could Be Happy with You | The Boy Friend (1953) |
| Climb Ev’ry Mountain | The Sound of Music (1959) |
| Come Home | Allegro (1947) |
| Cry Like the Wind | Do Re Mi (1959) |
| Dear Friend | She Loves Me (1963) |
| Farom the Home I Love | Fiddler on the Roof (1964) |
| Getting to Know You | The King and I (1951) |
| Glitter and Be Gay | Candide (1956) |
| Goodnight, My Someone | The Music Man (1957) |
| Hello, Young Lovers | The King and I (1951) |
| I Could Be Happy with You | The Boy Friend (1954) |
| I Could Have Danced All Night | My Fair Lady (1956) |
| I Feel Pretty | West Side Story (1957) |
| I Hate Men | Kiss Me, Kate (1948) |
| I Have Confidence | The Sound of Music (1959) |
| I Have Dreamed | The King and I (1951) |
| I Have to Tell You | Fanny (1954) |
| I LIke Him | Drat! The Cat! (1965) |
| I Loved You Once in Silence | Camelot (1960) |
| I Whistle a Happy Tune | The King and I (1951) |
| I’ll Know | Guys and Dolls (1955) |
| I’ll Show Him | Plain and Fancy (1955) |
| If I Loved You | Carousel (1945) |
| If I Were a Bell | Guys and Dolls (1955) |
| In My Own Little Corner | Cinderella (1957) |
| Is It Really Me? | 110 in the Shade (1963) |
| It Wonders Me | Plain and Fancy (1955) |
| It’s a Most Unusual Day | A Date with Judy (1948) |
| It’s Nicer in Nice | The Boy Friend (1954) |
| Just You Wait | My Fair Lady (1956) |
| Like a Woman Loves a Man | The Most Happy Fella (1956) |
| A Little Bit in Love | Wonderful Town (1953) |
| Look for a Sky of Blue | Little Mary Sunshine (1959) |
| Love, Don’t Turn Away | 110 in the Shade (1963) |
| Love, Look Away | Flower Drum Song (1958) |
| A Lovely Night | Cinderella (1957) |
| Make a New Day | Oklahoma! (1943) |
| Matchmaker | Fiddler on the Roof (1964) |
| Mister Snow | Carousel (1945) |
| Mr. Right | Love Life (1948) |
| Much More | The Fantasticks (1960) |
| My Favorite Things | The Sound of Music (1959) |
| My House | Peter Pan (1954) |
| My Lord and Master | The King and I (1951) |
| My White Night | The Music Man (1957) |
| No More Candy | She Loves Me (1963) |
| No Other Love | Me and Juliet (1953) |
| Old Maid | 110 in the Shade (1963) |
| Out of My Dreams | Oklahoma! (1943) |
| People Will Say We’re in Love | Oklahoma! (1943) |
| Rauncy | 110 in the Shade (1963) |
| Ribbons Down My Back | Hello, Dolly! (1964) |
| The Secret Service | Mr. President (1962) |
| Show Me | My Fair Lady (1956) |
| The Simple Joys of Maidenhood | Camelot (1960) |
| Simple Little Things | 110 in the Shade (1963) |
| So Far | Allegro (1947) |
| So in Love | Kiss Me, Kate (1948) |
| Somebody, Somewhere | The Most Happy Fella (1956) |
| Somehow I Never Could Believe | Street Scene (1947) |
| Something Good | The Sound of Music (1959) |
| Something Wonderful | The King and I (1951) |
| Somewhere | West Side Story (1957) |
| The Sound of Music | The Sound of Music (1959) |
| Stay Well | Lost in the Stars (1949) |
| Sweet Thursday | Pipe Dream (1955) |
| Ten Minutes Ago | Cinderella (1957) |
| Till There Was You | The Music Man (1957) |
| Trouble Man | Lost in the Stars (1949) |
| Vanilla Ice Cream | She Loves Me (1963) |
| A Very Special Day | Me and Juliet (1953) |
| Waitin’ for My Dearie | Brigadoon (1947) |
| Warm All Over | The Most Happy Fella (1956) |
| We Kiss in a Shadow | The King and I (1951) |
| What Does He Want of Me | Man of La Mancha (1965) |
| What Good Would the Moon Be? | Street Scene (1947) |
| What’s the Use of Wond’rin’ | Carousel (1945) |
| When Did I Fall in Love | Fiorello! (1959) |
| Who Am I? | Peter Pan (1954) |
| Without You | My Fair Lady (1956) |
| The Woman in His Room | Where’s Charley? (1948) |
| Wouldn’t It Be Loverly | My Fair Lady (1956) |
| You’ll Never Walk Alone | Carousel (1945) |
POST-GOLDEN AGE STANDARDS | 1960s-1970s
| Feelings | The Apple Tree (1966) |
| The Golden Ram | Two by Two (1970) |
| Gooch’s Song | Mame (1966) |
| The Greatest of These | Philemon (1975) |
| He Plays the Violin | 1776 (1969) |
| I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You | Two by Two (1970) |
| I Loved | Jacques Brel is Alive and Well Living in Paris (1968) |
| A Little Bit of Good | Chicago (1975) |
| Nelson | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (1979) |
| Never | On the Twentieth Century (1978) |
| A Quiet Thing | Flora, the Red Menace (1965) |
| Sons Of | Jacques Brel is Alive and Well Living in Paris (1968) |
| Take Care of This House | 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976) |
| Under the Tree | Celebration (1969) |
| What Makes Me Love Him? | The Apple Tree (1966) |
CONTEMPORARY MIXED* | 1980s-present
| Another Winter in a Summer Town | Grey Gardens (2006) |
| Around the World | Grey Gardens (2006) |
| The Beauty Is | The Light in the Piazza (2005) |
| Bride’s Lament | The Drowsy Chaperone (2006) |
| A Call from the Vatican | Nine (1982) |
| Children of the Wind | Rags (1986) |
| Daddy’s Girl | Grey Gardens (2006) |
| Fable | The Light in the Piazza (2005) |
| Home | Phantom (1991) |
| How Could I Ever Know? | The Secret Garden (1991) |
| How Many Tears? | Martin Guerre (1996) |
| I’m Leaving You | The Life (1990) |
| In My Life | Les Miserables (1987) |
| The Light in the Piazza | The Light in the Piazza (2005) |
| Love Makes Such Fools of Us All | Barnum (1980) |
| Moonfall | The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985) |
| My True Love | Phantom (1991) |
| Rosa’s Confession | The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985) |
| Simple | Nine (1982) |
| Some Things are Meant to Be | Little Women (2005) |
| Still | Titanic (1997) |
| Think of Me | The Phantom of the Opera (1986) |
| This Place is Mine | Phantom (1991) |
| Too Much in Love to Care | Sunset Boulevard (1993) |
| Unusual Way | Nine (1982) |
| Will You? | Grey Gardens (2006) |
| Wising You Were Somehow Here Again | The Phantom of the Opera (1986) |
| Your Daddy’s Son | Ragtime (1998) |
MUSICAL THEATRE POP SONGS | 1960s-present
| Another Suitcase in Another Hall | Evita (1979) |
| Christmas Lullaby | Songs for a New World (1995) |
| The Flagmaker, 1775 | Songs for a New World (1995) |
| Follow Your Heart | Urinetown (2001) |
| From Chopin to Country | Cowgirls (1996) |
| The Girl in 14G | N/A (2001) |
| How Can I Lose You? | Myths and Hymns (1998) |
| How Lovely to Be a Woman | Bye Bye Birdie (1960) |
| In His Eyes | Jekyll & Hyde (1997) |
| Let Us Be Glad | Wicked (2003) |
| Migratory V | Myths and Hymns (1998) |
| Nothing is Too Wonderful to Be True | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005) |
| Once Upon a Dream | Jekyll & Hyde (1997) |
| One Boy | Bye Bye Birdie (1960) |
| Popular | Wicked (2003) |
| The Song That Goes Like This | Monty Pyton’s Spamalot (2005) |
| Thank Goodness | Wicked (2003) |
| Unexpected Song | Song and Dance (1982) |
| Whistle Down the Wind | Whistle Down the Wind (1996) |
MUSICAL THEATRE ROCK SONGS | 1960s-present
| Whispering | Spring Awakening (2006) |
SONDHEIM SONGS | 1960s-present
| The Girls of Summer | Marry Me a Little (1981) |
| The Glamorous Life | A Little Night Music (1973) |
| Green Finch and Linnet Bird | Sweeney Todd (1979) |
| I Remember | Evening Primrose (1966) |
| Lovely | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) |
| Not a Day Goes By | Merrily We Roll Along (1981) |
| On the Steps of the Palace | Into the Woods (1987) |
| One More Kiss | Follies (1971) |
| So Many People | Saturday Night (1954) |
| Take Me to the World | Evening Primrose (1966) |
| That’ll Show Him | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) |
DISNEY SONGS
| Anything Can Happen | Mary Poppins (2006) |
| Belle (Reprise) | Beauty and the Beast (1994) |
| Home | Beauty and the Beast (1994) |
| Practically Perfect | Mary Poppins (2006) |
* This category includes contemporary songs that are not easily categorized. Most of these songs fall into either the ‘Pop Opera’ or ‘Contemporary Musical Comedy’ sub-categories. In some cases, they may be categorized differently depending on audition requirements.
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