Broadway Based Music Videos

[Adam Chris]

I love the Phantom of the Opera music video because it's soooo bad that it's delicously good. There is also an All I Ask of You music video that is just as cheesy, where Sarah Brightman runs and JUMPS into the arms of her "lover". So frickin' funny.

This makes me wonder outside of these two are there any other (either good or bad) Broadway-related music videos?

[morosco]

I think CATS was one of the first.
CATS - The Rum Tum Tugger - MTV Music Video

[greensgreens]

The best is the downright totally bizarro 80s video for Rum Tum Tugger from Cats with Terrance Mann. It's awesome.

There was an ALW video some years ago with lots of these, but all ALW stuff. I don't know if anyone else has done it. Oh how I wish they would though - there have been some real lost marketing opportunities.

[morosco]

The First Man You Remember (Aspects of Love)

[Adam Chris]

I just now remembered Written In The Stars with Elton John and Leann Rimes. In this video, if I remember correctly, they are singing in a pyramid while looking at lovers trapped in various snow globes. I think they started shaking them. LOL

[taboo123]

Don't leave out the Classic 80's top 10 hit from CHESS!!!

It is not to be missed!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqZCGTe5ISQ

[taboo123]

Another gem from the 80's...

Irving Berlin's ' Puttin on the Ritz' by Taco.

Complete with blackface- which was later deleted weeks after its premiere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY&feature=related


---- just as interesting in the 80's and race --

Huey Lewis and Madonna at the American Music Awards announcing
"Favorite Black Album" in 1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3sSf2DilaE

[taboo123]

Not a music video- but a Broadway Music commercial.

They should seriously consider re-doing this campaign.
So much fun!!!!

Here's the rest of the series:
Filled with rich history and people who still stuck around,
and loved ones we've lost along the way.

Version 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYWzxjNCNuE&feature=bf_prev&list=PL3C5C7F70A5079AFB

Version 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrT97o3eeBI&feature=bf_next&list=PL3C5C7F70A5079AFB

Version 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbSG4gdm55A&feature=bf_next&list=PL3C5C7F70A5079AFB

Version 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb30tFDEZD8&feature=autoplay&list=PL3C5C7F70A5079AFB&playnext=1

Version 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVxKeys0C0s&feature=bf_next&list=PL3C5C7F70A5079AFB

[Adam Chris]

The ALW video's are terrible.

What is going on with the Madonna dancers in The First Man You Remember?

[Rainbowhigh23]

The promo VHS was a prized possession back in the 80s!


Elaine Paige - "Nobody's Side"

[willep]

From Billy Elliot....


Electricity

[willep]

I'm not sure how to put more than one link per message, sorry, but here is another version of the Electricity music video...the aptly named "More Liam" version...
Electricity - "More Liam"

[bdn223]

Gwen Stefani's Wind it Up is based on The Lonley Goatherd from The Sound of Music...

[RainbowJude]

Adam Chris wrote: What is going on with the Madonna dancers in "The First Man You Remember"?

Those dancers certainly bring some comedy to the piece, so I guess it must be a tragc thing that Michael Ball actually can't be the 'first to dance (Diana Morrison) round the floor' because as he sings that line he is actually watching her dance with someone else!

It occured to me while watching this that this arrangement of the song makes it seem like the song is trying to emulate, in showtune terms, "So in Love", but some of the lyrics make it sound more like a "Wunderbar" that doesn't know its a parody. of course, that's not the context of the song as it appears in the show, but this is something else!

"The First Man You'll Remember"

[Sinfonia2001]

I know of a couple of videos that pay tribute to Broadway.

Michael Jackson's "Beat It" pays tribute to West Side Story's "Tonight (quintet)," and the gang fight itself

Michael Jackson's "Bad" pays tribute to West Side Story's "Cool."

Janet Jackson"s "Alright" pays tribute to Guys and Dolls' "Fugue for tinhorns."

[06s091]

RainbowJude wrote: "Those dancers certainly bring some comedy to the piece, so I guess it must be a tragc thing that Michael Ball actually can't be the 'first to dance (Diana Morrison) round the floor' because as he sings that line he is actually watching her dance with someone else!"

That "someone else" is actually the choreographer of the video, but he is of course better known for being a judge on both "Strictly Come Dancing" and "Dancing with the Stars" these days: Bruno Tonioli
He was a guest on Michael Ball's talkshow where they talked about this video and it was apparently the producers that wanted the Vogue dancing in the video...

The other "Aspects of Love" music video:
"Love Changes Everything"