Show Tune Showdown #9: 1993-96 Broadway Seasons

In the eighth Show Tune Showdown, Company won the most showdowns - and the following songs will be moving on to Round 2:

Company's "The Ladies Who Lunch", "Being Alive", "Getting Married Today", "Another Hundred People", "You Could Drive a Person Crazy", "Someone Is Waiting", "Marry Me a Little", "Side by Side by Side/What Would We Do Without You?" and "Company"

Grease's "Beauty School Dropout", "Summer Nights", "Those Magic Changes", "Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee", "We Go Together" and "There Are Worse Things I Could Do"

Follies' "The Road You Didn't Take", "Too Many Mornings", "One More Kiss", "In Buddy's Eyes" and "Live, Laugh, Love"

Applause's "But Alive" and "Think How It's Gonna Be"

Jesus Christ Superstar's "Everything's Alright" and "I Don't Know How to Love Him"

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown's "Suppertime" and "Happiness"

Coco's "Coco"

The Grass Harp's "Yellow Drum"

Prettybelle's "When I'm Drunk I'm Beautiful"

Purlie's "Walk Him Up the Stairs"

70, Girls, 70's "Broadway My Street"

PLEASE NOTE: The next Show Tune Showdown will be on Monday, February 6.

Now on to our ninth Show Tune Showdown, which takes us back to three Broadway seasons - 1993-94, 1994-95 and 1995-96 - when the following seven musicals opened:

The Red Shoes
December 16, 1993 - December 19, 1993 (5 performances)

Beauty and the Beast
April 18, 1994 - July 29, 2007 (5,461 performances)

Passion
May 9, 1994 - January 7, 1995 (280 performances)

Sunset Boulevard
November 17, 1994 - March 22, 1997 (977 performances)

Victor/Victoria
October 25, 1995 - July 27, 1997 (734 performances)

Big: the musical
April 28, 1996 - October 13, 1996 (193 performances)

RENT
April 29, 1996 - September 7, 2008 (5,123 performances)

Now here are the competing show tunes - and if you're wondering how to judge each showdown, just ask yourself, "Which song do I enjoy listening to more?"

RENT's "One Song Glory" (Adam Pascal performs on the original Broadway cast recording)

vs.

"Sunset Boulevard" (John Barrowman performs on the 2006 BBC series, The Sound of Musicals)

RENT's "Tango: Maureen" (Anthony Rapp and Fredi Walker perform on the original Broadway cast recording)

vs.

Sunset Boulevard's "The Perfect Year" (Hugh Jackman and Debra Byrne of the 1996 original Australian production perform)

RENT's "Another Day" (Adam Pascal and Daphne Rubin-Vega perform on the original Broadway cast recording)

vs.

Sunset Boulevard's "Too Much in Love to Care" (Alice Ripley and Alan Campbell perform in the original Broadway production)

RENT's "I'll Cover You" (Wilson Jermaine Heredia and Jesse L. Martin perform on the original Broadway cast recording)

vs.

Passion's "Happiness" (Marin Mazzie and Jere Shea perform in the original Broadway production, which was filmed in 1995 for PBS)

RENT's "La Vie Boheme" (the cast perform in the 2005 film)

vs.

Sunset Boulevard's "As If We Never Said Goodbye" (Patti LuPone performs during her 1997 PBS concert, An Evening with Patti LuPone)

RENT's "Seasons of Love" (from the final Broadway performance, which was filmed and screened in movie theaters)

vs.

Passion's "Loving You" (Donna Murphy performs in the original Broadway production, which was filmed in 1995 for PBS)

RENT's "Take Me or Leave Me" (Idina Menzel and Fredi Walker perform on the original Broadway cast recording)

vs.

Sunset Boulevard's "With One Look" (Glenn Close performs at Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday celebration at the Royal Albert Hall on April 7, 1998)

RENT's "What You Own" (Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal perform on the original Broadway cast recording)

vs.

The Red Shoes' "When It Happens to You" (Stearns Matthews performs at NYC's Don't Tell Mama in November 2008)

Victor/Victoria's "Who Can I Tell?" (Liza Minnelli performs on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee on December 20, 1996)

vs.

Sunset Boulevard's "New Ways to Dream" (Betty Buckley performs on the 1995 Broadway highlights cast recording, Songs From Sunset Boulevard)

Big's "Stop, Time" (Barbara Walsh performs on the original Broadway cast recording)

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Beauty and the Beast's "Home" (Susan Egan performs on the original Broadway cast recording)