"Could I Leave You?" is a song from the 1971 Broadway musical "Follies", with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. "Follies" is set during a reunion of former showgirls at a Broadway theatre that is scheduled to be demolished. Two middle-aged couples questioning their own regrets about life choices and their marriage are the focus of the story.
Ben and Phyllis Stone, and Buddy and Sally Plummer are the two couples, and the character Phyllis sings "Could I Leave You?" in Act II, after years of resentment about her husband. She sings a list of the things she would miss if she left him, but clearly as the lyrics unfold, they reveal a deeply resentful feeling about the marriage.
2. Do You Love Me?
Answer: Fiddler on the Roof
With music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, "Do You Love Me?" is sung by the characters Tevye and Golde, a married couple in the small Jewish village of Anatevka, around 1905. In Act II, Tevye has agreed to let daughter Tzeitel marry for love instead of through an arrangement, and his trepidation about this decision has led him to question his own marriage's arrangement.
He opens up a conversation in song with his wife. Golde responds to his title question, "Do I what?" "For 25 years I've washed your clothes, cooked your meals, cleaned your house...". Tevye keeps pushing for a more direct answer, and eventually:
"Tevye: Do you love me?
Golde: I suppose I do.
Tevye: And I suppose I love you too".
3. How Deep Is Your Love?
Answer: Saturday Night Fever
In the 1977 blockbuster hit movie, "Saturday Night Fever", the song "How Deep Is Your Love" functioned as nondiegetic music-not heard or performed by the characters, but rather as part of the soundtrack. It played during Tony's (Travolta's) subway ride home after a turbulent night.
When "Saturday Night Fever" was adapted for the stage in the late 1990s, "How Deep Is Your Love" became a romantic duet sung between the characters Tony Manero and Stephanie Mangano, the young Brooklyn disco club dancers whose dance floor relationship evolves.
4. What Do You Know About Love?
Answer: Frozen
"What Do You Know About Love?" is not in the 2013 animated film, but was added to the 2018 Broadway stage version to deepen the characters and relationships, especially the relationship between Anna and Kristoff.
The songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, have the song come early in Act I, when Anna and Kristoff first start to warm up to each other, bantering/arguing, yet displaying that they have chemistry.
5. Where Do You Belong?
Answer: Mean Girls
"Where Do You Belong?" is an ensemble performance in the 2017 Broadway musical "Mean Girls", with music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, an adaptation of Tina Fey's 2004 movie.
It comes early in Act I, sung by the characters Janis, Damian, and several of the students of North Shore High School, as Cady Heron arrives at her new high school. Janis and Damian take Cady under their wing, preparing the new student for the rough road ahead: "Welcome to North Shore. You'd better find your people - or get eaten alive."
6. Where Is Love?
Answer: Oliver!
Written by Lionel Bart and based on Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist", the song "Where Is Love?" in the musical "Oliver!", is a solo performed by the main character, Oliver, when he is locked in the cellar of the Mr. Bumble's workhouse after he had gotten into a fight with another servant, just because he asked for more food.
"Where is love?
Does it fall from skies above?
Is it underneath the willow tree
That I've been dreaming of?"
7. Where's My Shoe?
Answer: She Loves Me
Based on the 1937 play "Parfumerie" by Miklós László, "She Loves Me" was a 1963 musical with music composed by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. It centers on the misadventures of Amalia Balash and Georg Nowack, co-workers who often bicker in the Budapest perfume shop where they work. Little do they realize, they are also secretly romantic pen pals, who sign their letters "Dear Friend" and "Your Friend."
The song comes in Act II, when Amalia rushes around her apartment, trying to get ready for the day.
"Where's my other shoe, help me find my other shoe!
Don't just stand there like that where's my shoe
(I think you should lie down!)"
8. Who Am I?
Answer: Les Misérables
In "Les Misérables" the escaped convict, Jean Valjean, has taken on a new identity as a respected mayor and factory owner Monsieur Madeleine. Inspector Javert suspects that Madeleine is actually Valjean, and near the end of Act I, Valjean discovers that an innocent man Champmathieu, who looks like him has been arrested and is being tried as the fugitive Jean Valjean.
Valjean is faced with the dilemma:
"Who am I? Can I condemn this man to slavery? Pretend I do not feel his agony?"
"Who am I? Can I conceal myself for evermore? Pretend I'm not the man I was before?"
9. Who is Sylvia?
Answer: Two Gentlemen of Verona
The musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" has four question-songs: "Love, Is That You?", "What Does a Lover Pack?", "Where's North?", and "Who Is Sylvia?" Some musical adaptations spell the name with a more contemporary "Sylvia", some retain the original Shakespearean spelling "Silvia".
In the 1971 Broadway musical with lyrics by John Guare and music by Galt MacDermot, the song is performed by Proteus, one of the two titular "gentlemen", musing about Sylvia, the woman with whom he has fallen in love.
"Who is Silvia? what is she,
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admired be."
10. Who Needs Love?
Answer: Ever After
The musical "Ever After" is based on the 1998 film starring Drew Barrymore with the same title. It is a wonderful movie that is a sort of revisionist retelling of "Cinderella".
The musical "Ever After", composed by Zina Goldrich with lyrics by Marcy Heisler, features lead character Danielle, who sings "Who Needs Love?" along with her father Maurice and her step-sister Louise in Act I. Danielle, feels disillusioned by the world's injustices, believes love is unnecessary to survive, and that it's overrated as far as happiness.
"Who needs love, anyway?
I've got my family and I've got my way.
I don't need a man to tell me what to do
Or make me feel like I'm not enough."
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