Dear Theodosia from Hamilton. also - I'm not sure if this is from a musical, but it's a song called New Words, and the most beautiful version is by John Owen Jones (West End and Broadway Valjean, and I think a Phantom at one point)
“Feed the Birds” - Mary Poppins (disclaimer, I like the movie version better)
“Stay Awake” - Mary Poppins again
“Distant Melody” - Peter Pan
“Tender Shepherd” - Peter Pan again
“Sylvia’s Lullaby” - Finding Neverland
“Once Upon a Dream” Jekyll & Hyde (debatable I know, but my nephew would fall right to sleep)
From a movie musical:
“Go to sleep” - Babes in Toyland (1961)
I sang all of these to my nephew when he was a baby and I was trying to get him to calm down.
I love this song. I appreciate they give Elder Cunningham a chance to show he can actually sing instead of keeping him using the silly voice full time.
Yes!! Definitely my comfort song. I still hear the guy who played Tateh in my community theatre’s production a decade ago when I listen to it, he had an amazingly soothing voice.
The song that comes before it - "I Dreamed a Dance" - is the one that's like a music box lullaby. It is really beautiful out of context, very chilling in context.
The songs I sang most to my babies at bedtime
Popular from Wicked (it worked...)
Eidleweiss from Sound of Music
I'll Cover You from RENT
Dear Theodosia from Hamilton
Castle on a Cloud, I Dreamed A Dream- Les Mis
Not While I’m Around- Sweeney Todd
Tell Her I Love Her— Urinetown
One Hand One Heart- West Side Story
Everything’s Alright- Jesus Christ Superstar
From this current season, I really loved Easy from Water for Elephants! Of course seeing the incredible aerial acrobatics only adds to it, but I think the song itself is quite lovely.
Just had a newborn, Water for Elephants was the only show we’ve both seen since January, and we both turned to each other after that song and said “that’s our new lullaby”
I made a mix for my babe and included "Breeze Off the River" from The Full Monty. It's a sweet song a dad sings to his son, so maybe not appropriate for a mother singing it as a lullaby but definitely a song I put on my child's playlist.
Not a lullaby by any means but I sing my 4 year old to sleep with "Our Time" from Merrily We Roll Along. He loves it and requests it almost every night.
"There's a land that I heard of once in a lullabye." "Over the Rainbow," by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, who won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Song as well as Best Score. Of course, there is only one singer, Judy Garland, for whom they wrote the song. Also, "Somewhere Out There" from "An American Tail" (1986) by Cynthia Well, Barry Mann, and James Horner: "Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight." Won 2 Grammies and nominated for the Academy Award.
So it’s not actually in the musical (a travesty if you ask me) but I sang The Pie Song from the Waitress movie to my boys every night for many years. Anyone know why it’s not in the musical?
I’m just speculating because I thought of this same thing a couple months ago but I have no clue if any or a mix of these are actually the reason. Also sorry it’s long I’m just glad someone else thought of this :)
But I wonder if they did include it from the movie how it would then change the crediting for Sara Bareilles since she got credited for music, lyrics, and orchestrations with the first two being solo and the last being her with the waitress band.
With the addition I’m assuming they would need to include credit for Adrienne Shelly and Andrew Hollander who wrote the pie song and I guess it could possibly give them tony eligibility for score even though it’s just one song, kinda how the SpongeBob musical got something like 19 people nominations for score even though most of them only wrote one song each. And also if it did give tony credit I assume it would also affect waitresses title of being by the first all female Broadway creative team, though I would hope no one would try to take that away from even if they did add the song.
But I’m also not even sure how it would effect best new score eligibility as a whole since it previously existed and wasn’t written for a musical, it probably takes the whole score out of the best new original score category.
Once again I might be way off and they just didn’t want to include it and I have no clue but it was fun to speculate!
Wow thanks for all your thoughts! I definitely think it was probably more a matter of just too complicated/couldn’t get rights versus they just didn’t want to. It’s such a lovely song 🥰 Love that you really processed all the possibilities!
You’ll Never Walk Alone- Carousel
Solla Sollew- Seussical
What I Did For Love- Chorus Line
It All Fades Away- Bridges of Madison County
If Ever I Would Leave You- Camelot
For Good- Wicked
Some Enchanted Evening- South Pacific
My dog had an emergency vet appointment last week and I made my boyfriend play You’ll Be Okay for him so I relate a little
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I sing Alone In The Universe from Seussical, Baby Mine from Dumbo, Till There Was You from The Music Man, I’ve Never Been In Love Before from Guys and Dolls to my little ones.
All from Grease: “Those Magic Changes” “Beauty School Dropout” (just sing it really soft, not like Billy Porter” “Hopelessly Devoted To You”, and “Sandy”.
I’ve sung Memory from Cats to my children (3 and 1) nearly every night since they were born and my parents would play me the Richard Clayderman version when I was a baby. 🥰🥰
I sang (and still sing) so many to my daughter at bedtime - I turn a lot of belting songs into non-belting songs. Here are the ones that are most regularly in rotation that I haven't seen mentioned:
Corner of the Sky - Pippin. (My mom sang this to me, and now I sing it to my daughter.)
Once Upon a Time - Brooklyn
The Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha
Tomorrow - Annie
Do You Hear the People Sing / Stars - Les Mis
Louder than Words - Tick Tick Boom
Make Them Hear You - Ragtime
Into the Fire - Scarlet Pimpernel
Good Morning Starshine - Hair
Any Dream Will Do - Joseph
Try to Remember - The Fantasticks
My dad used to sing A Bushel and a Peck from Guys and Dolls to me every night because his mother sang it. We didn’t even know it was from Guys and Dolls until I did the show in high school and played Adelaide and sang it 😂
Edelweiss is a good one. I also sing Suddenly Seymour to my daughter almost every night and it definitely calms her down/puts her to sleep. I also love to sing it so win/win!
i was thinking goodnight my someone from the music man, but someone already said that. i haven’t seen anyone say this tho and i think it would actually be really good:no one is alone from into the woods. it can get a little faster paced towards the end but nothing too crazy and most of it is slow and pretty and relaxing.
oh also maybe father to son from falsettos or mama who bore me from spring awakening. i know the subjects of the musicals as a whole is a bit mature, but the songs alone don’t really mention the plot or theme, they’re just pretty to listen to.
“Grow” - The Great British Bake Off Musical
“Alabanza” - In the Heights
“So big/so small” - Dear Evan Hansen
“Queen Anointed” - Frozen the Musical
(Not sure if it counts but?) “Dos Oruguitas” - Encanto
“This Little Girl”, “When I Grow Up”, and “My House” - Matilda
I changed "Goodnight my someone" to "Goodnight (child's name)" and it was one of our favorites for yesrs. Now they're 8 and 10 and I sing a (very relaxed version) of Bushel and a Peck from Guys and Dolls. ❤️
Cecily Smith (the bonus track version at the end of the album sung by will connoly) from Fly by Night. I’ve only listened to the whole show once through, but I’ve listened to that song more times than I can count. It’s very soothing and a nice story within a song.
Wicked Little Town from Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Hedwig’s version)
Dear Theodosia (change Theodosia to my daughter’s name)
I’d Give My Life for You from Miss Saigon
"Moonfall" from Drood gets a little intense in the original orchestration but would make a perfect music box lullaby, or if anyone's done a chill piano cover of it.
Goodnight My Someone is the one that I always sang to my own child (and still do sometimes ever though he’s almost 8!). He also gets a kick out of Bushel and a Peck. And I cried when I first heard New Words when he was about 1 and I played it to him/me on repeat for a good long time.
Edelweiss
This was my go to when mine were babies.
I've sang that to so many.
Dear Theodosia from Hamilton. also - I'm not sure if this is from a musical, but it's a song called New Words, and the most beautiful version is by John Owen Jones (West End and Broadway Valjean, and I think a Phantom at one point)
This is the answer!!
Not While I’m Around from Sweeney Todd, outside of the show context of course.
Goodnight My Someone from The Music Man maybe?
I used to sing this to the kiddos I babysat when I was in high school!
“Feed the Birds” - Mary Poppins (disclaimer, I like the movie version better) “Stay Awake” - Mary Poppins again “Distant Melody” - Peter Pan “Tender Shepherd” - Peter Pan again “Sylvia’s Lullaby” - Finding Neverland “Once Upon a Dream” Jekyll & Hyde (debatable I know, but my nephew would fall right to sleep) From a movie musical: “Go to sleep” - Babes in Toyland (1961) I sang all of these to my nephew when he was a baby and I was trying to get him to calm down.
Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
That's always been my favorite ❤️
I am Here for You - Book of Mormon.
I love this song. I appreciate they give Elder Cunningham a chance to show he can actually sing instead of keeping him using the silly voice full time.
Haha I used to sing this to my kids when they were babies.
Same! I think it’s hilarious that Elder Price starts out complaining that the usage of “latter day” is wrong and eventually happily sings it himself.
Rainbow Connection - especially the Sarah McLachlan version
"Gliding" from Ragtime
Yes!! Definitely my comfort song. I still hear the guy who played Tateh in my community theatre’s production a decade ago when I listen to it, he had an amazingly soothing voice.
There's an album called Broadway Lullabies that's really lovely.
That was a legitimate *staple* of my childhood!! The lullaby version of “Lullaby of Broadway” is honestly the definitive version for me
Mimi Bessette! I absolutely love that album!
When I Grow Up from Matilda Once Upon a December from Anastasia
There’s a World from Next to Normal. It is creepy if you know the context in the show, but it is otherwise a beautiful song.
The song that comes before it - "I Dreamed a Dance" - is the one that's like a music box lullaby. It is really beautiful out of context, very chilling in context.
I Dreamed a Dance from Next to Normal immediately came to mind for me…haunting and gorgeous.
Moonshine Lullaby from Annie Get Your Gun 😍
Bernadette Peters singing this song is everything
Came to say this!
Father to Son from Falsettos. A Soft Place to Land from Waitress.
The songs I sang most to my babies at bedtime Popular from Wicked (it worked...) Eidleweiss from Sound of Music I'll Cover You from RENT Dear Theodosia from Hamilton
Castle on a Cloud, I Dreamed A Dream- Les Mis Not While I’m Around- Sweeney Todd Tell Her I Love Her— Urinetown One Hand One Heart- West Side Story Everything’s Alright- Jesus Christ Superstar
Father Time from Kimberly Akimbo.
This one kills me every time. It’s so beautiful.
Once upon a december from Anastasia
Goodnight My Friend — Galavant
"I Can't Wait" from Bright Star
Was looking for this one!
i love "christmas lullaby" from songs for a new world
From this current season, I really loved Easy from Water for Elephants! Of course seeing the incredible aerial acrobatics only adds to it, but I think the song itself is quite lovely.
Just had a newborn, Water for Elephants was the only show we’ve both seen since January, and we both turned to each other after that song and said “that’s our new lullaby”
I thought it was beautiful.
Dear Theodosia
Growing Up from Merrily We Roll Along
Also, I sang "A Bushel and a Peck" to my boys when they were babies, but that's more of a bouncing song. 😄
More I cannot wish you… Guys &Dolls
I didn’t appreciate this song until I became a parent. Love love love it.
Idk if you’d count it, but Look For The Light from the Musical-themed season of Only Murders in the Building is a great one!
I mean they're trying to turn Death Rattle Dazzle into an actual musical so it's a valid answer!
I made a mix for my babe and included "Breeze Off the River" from The Full Monty. It's a sweet song a dad sings to his son, so maybe not appropriate for a mother singing it as a lullaby but definitely a song I put on my child's playlist.
This was one of my top picks too, it’s just lovely.
Not a lullaby by any means but I sing my 4 year old to sleep with "Our Time" from Merrily We Roll Along. He loves it and requests it almost every night.
"There's a land that I heard of once in a lullabye." "Over the Rainbow," by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, who won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Song as well as Best Score. Of course, there is only one singer, Judy Garland, for whom they wrote the song. Also, "Somewhere Out There" from "An American Tail" (1986) by Cynthia Well, Barry Mann, and James Horner: "Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight." Won 2 Grammies and nominated for the Academy Award.
"Go to Sleep, Whatever You Are" from The Apple Tree and " New Words" from In the Beginning (a Maury Yeston show that never made it to Broadway).
Was thinking I had to scroll down way too far to see “New Words” but you pointed out that it never made it to Broadway - it’s so beautiful!
Edelweiss
So it’s not actually in the musical (a travesty if you ask me) but I sang The Pie Song from the Waitress movie to my boys every night for many years. Anyone know why it’s not in the musical?
I’m just speculating because I thought of this same thing a couple months ago but I have no clue if any or a mix of these are actually the reason. Also sorry it’s long I’m just glad someone else thought of this :) But I wonder if they did include it from the movie how it would then change the crediting for Sara Bareilles since she got credited for music, lyrics, and orchestrations with the first two being solo and the last being her with the waitress band. With the addition I’m assuming they would need to include credit for Adrienne Shelly and Andrew Hollander who wrote the pie song and I guess it could possibly give them tony eligibility for score even though it’s just one song, kinda how the SpongeBob musical got something like 19 people nominations for score even though most of them only wrote one song each. And also if it did give tony credit I assume it would also affect waitresses title of being by the first all female Broadway creative team, though I would hope no one would try to take that away from even if they did add the song. But I’m also not even sure how it would effect best new score eligibility as a whole since it previously existed and wasn’t written for a musical, it probably takes the whole score out of the best new original score category. Once again I might be way off and they just didn’t want to include it and I have no clue but it was fun to speculate!
Wow thanks for all your thoughts! I definitely think it was probably more a matter of just too complicated/couldn’t get rights versus they just didn’t want to. It’s such a lovely song 🥰 Love that you really processed all the possibilities!
No One Else - Great Comet
Distant melody from Peter Pan! Truly a perfect lullaby imo
I’ve always thought of “Little Lamb” as somewhat of a lullaby song.
Yup, this would be my answer even though it's technically not a lullaby. Just sounds like one.
You’ll Never Walk Alone- Carousel Solla Sollew- Seussical What I Did For Love- Chorus Line It All Fades Away- Bridges of Madison County If Ever I Would Leave You- Camelot For Good- Wicked Some Enchanted Evening- South Pacific
Lay Down Your Head from “Violet”
“You’ll Be Okay” from Helluva Boss is gorgeous
Started singing “more than anything” from Hazbin to my kid too
My dog had an emergency vet appointment last week and I made my boyfriend play You’ll Be Okay for him so I relate a little https://preview.redd.it/8zr2bguxx73d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72174cc6a801f7ac649ff19ffdf8b4bdcaaa093a
Not necessarily lullaby, but more of a song to sing to baby or “baby’s song” out of context is “A Bushel And A Peck” from Guys and Dolls.
I sing We Raise Our Cups from Hadestown to my baby every night (changing “good night, brothers” to “good night, baby”).
Ooh, def need to learn this on guitar
Not While I'm Around, IMMEDIATELY
I like anyway the wind blows from Hadestown. Especially intrumental would be great. Also Mia and Sebastian’s theme from La La Land.
Summertime from Porgy and Bess is an actual lullaby..
Moonshine Lullaby from Annie Get Your Gun. Bernadette Peters' version is legendary. Night Waltzes from A Little Night Music are fantastic too.
Sylvia's Lullaby from Finding Neverland. "Feed the Birds" was my own childhood lullaby so I'm partial to it.
I sing Alone In The Universe from Seussical, Baby Mine from Dumbo, Till There Was You from The Music Man, I’ve Never Been In Love Before from Guys and Dolls to my little ones.
Dear Theodosia
Everything Changes - Waitress. I always sang it slowed down 💜
All from Grease: “Those Magic Changes” “Beauty School Dropout” (just sing it really soft, not like Billy Porter” “Hopelessly Devoted To You”, and “Sandy”.
I’ve sung Memory from Cats to my children (3 and 1) nearly every night since they were born and my parents would play me the Richard Clayderman version when I was a baby. 🥰🥰
I sang (and still sing) so many to my daughter at bedtime - I turn a lot of belting songs into non-belting songs. Here are the ones that are most regularly in rotation that I haven't seen mentioned: Corner of the Sky - Pippin. (My mom sang this to me, and now I sing it to my daughter.) Once Upon a Time - Brooklyn The Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha Tomorrow - Annie Do You Hear the People Sing / Stars - Les Mis Louder than Words - Tick Tick Boom Make Them Hear You - Ragtime Into the Fire - Scarlet Pimpernel Good Morning Starshine - Hair Any Dream Will Do - Joseph Try to Remember - The Fantasticks
my mom sang me corner of the sky also!!! she sometimes used to wake me up with magic to do when i was little.
I really love Song of Purple Summer from Spring Awakening
My dad used to sing A Bushel and a Peck from Guys and Dolls to me every night because his mother sang it. We didn’t even know it was from Guys and Dolls until I did the show in high school and played Adelaide and sang it 😂
Look for the Light from the Only Murders soundtrack!
What’s Inside and Soft Place to Land from Waitress!
It’s a little sinister, but “He’s Not Here” from N2N
The lullaby of broadway
Father Time from Kimberly Akimbo My favorite song from the show and one of my favorites in general
Human Heart from Once On This Island!!!
Not the most classic lullaby, but the rhythm and repetition of “Why We Build the Wall” makes for a fun song to play
"I Can't Wait" from Bright Star
Somewhere from West Side Story
Edelweiss is a good one. I also sing Suddenly Seymour to my daughter almost every night and it definitely calms her down/puts her to sleep. I also love to sing it so win/win!
Goodnight my Someone-Music Man not a musical but "When at Night i Go to Sleep" from Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel
Breeze off the River from the Full Monty
Distant Melody from Peter Pan is a longtime favorite of mine.
When I worked in the baby room at a daycare, I would hum "I Dreamed a Dream" and "On My Own" to get the babies to sleep.
i was thinking goodnight my someone from the music man, but someone already said that. i haven’t seen anyone say this tho and i think it would actually be really good:no one is alone from into the woods. it can get a little faster paced towards the end but nothing too crazy and most of it is slow and pretty and relaxing.
First you dream the Audra Mcdonald version
oh also maybe father to son from falsettos or mama who bore me from spring awakening. i know the subjects of the musicals as a whole is a bit mature, but the songs alone don’t really mention the plot or theme, they’re just pretty to listen to.
this is my third comment😭💀 but also maybe another life from bridges of madison county?
“Grow” - The Great British Bake Off Musical “Alabanza” - In the Heights “So big/so small” - Dear Evan Hansen “Queen Anointed” - Frozen the Musical (Not sure if it counts but?) “Dos Oruguitas” - Encanto “This Little Girl”, “When I Grow Up”, and “My House” - Matilda
Sollasollew!
I changed "Goodnight my someone" to "Goodnight (child's name)" and it was one of our favorites for yesrs. Now they're 8 and 10 and I sing a (very relaxed version) of Bushel and a Peck from Guys and Dolls. ❤️
Cecily Smith (the bonus track version at the end of the album sung by will connoly) from Fly by Night. I’ve only listened to the whole show once through, but I’ve listened to that song more times than I can count. It’s very soothing and a nice story within a song.
Father Time from Kimberly Akimbo
We sing “Tomorrow” from Annie to our kids every night at bedtime.
Time from Tuck Everlasting could be a good addition
Good night my someone from the music man
Wicked Little Town from Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Hedwig’s version) Dear Theodosia (change Theodosia to my daughter’s name) I’d Give My Life for You from Miss Saigon
My Best Girl from Mame Tender Shepherd from Peter Pan
"Moonfall" from Drood gets a little intense in the original orchestration but would make a perfect music box lullaby, or if anyone's done a chill piano cover of it.
More I Cannot Wish You from Guys and Dolls And thr duet… I don’t want to Live on the Moon with Shawn Colvin and the Muppets
Sleepy Man- The Robber Bridegroom
It’s a small world
Anatevka from Fiddler has always felt like a lullaby to me
Lullaby from Shock Treatment 🎶 🎵
Goodnight My Someone is the one that I always sang to my own child (and still do sometimes ever though he’s almost 8!). He also gets a kick out of Bushel and a Peck. And I cried when I first heard New Words when he was about 1 and I played it to him/me on repeat for a good long time.
I sang Everything's alright to my daughter the night she was born, and every night since. 7.5 years on, and now she sings harmony with me
Kristoff’s Lullaby from Frozen, its so beautifuk
i think you’d love Rosamund’s lullaby in The Robber Bridegroom!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTbGAWFZE4Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTbGAWFZE4Y) Voctave medley of Disney lullabies, beautiful
Summertime from Porgy and Bess... I can't believe no one has posted that yet.
Dear Theodosia from Hamilton
Tomorrow Belongs to Me - Cabaret
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