The beautiful song "I Have Dreamed" has become a standard over the years, sung by Sinatra and Streisand and even used to conclude an episode of "The Sopranos" to comment on unrequited, fantasy love.
Yet it is not in the 1956 movie!
I can't think of another instance where such a famous song from a musical was cut from the movie version. Can you?
I am kind of surprised that "Another Op'nin Another Show" was discarded from Kiss Me, Kate, that "I've Never Been in Love Before" and "A Bushel and a Peck" were both replaced in the movie of Guys and Dolls, and that "Come to Me, Bend to Me" was deleted from Brigadoon. Each of those songs were well known before the films were made, weren't they?
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I was also dismayed to find that out as well when I watched the DVD. I had anticipated watching it on screen because "I Have Dreamed" is on the soundtrack album of the movie (I have the old vinyl).
A great version of that song is sung by Lea Salonga on the 1992 Hollywood Studio Cast recording, starring Julie Andrews and Ben Kingsley.
I can think of several musicals where signature numbers were cut... case in point the Sound of Music, which replaced "An Ordinary Couple" with "Something Good" and Max and Elsa's only number, "How Can Love Survive", was cut from the movie.
"... Oh Mother I could hardly breathe!"
What was that again???
An Ordinary Couple in what sequence?
How can love survive?????
I have the movie soundtrack, never heard of those numbers??
As the poster before you said, those numbers from The Sound of Music were not in the film and thus are not on the soundtrack album. They were part of the show originally when it opened on Broadway in 1959.
An Ordinary Couple was replaced in the film by a new song, "Something Good," with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers (Hammerstein had died in 1960). It is said that neither Rodgers nor Hammerstein really liked "Ordinary Couple" and had hoped to replace it during the stage show's run, but Hammerstein was too ill to work. Ordinary Couple is actually quite a lovely song, especially as sung by Mary Martin, the musical's original Maria. The song can be heard on the Original Broadway Cast and Original London Cast albums but was not in the 1998 Broadway revival; Something Good was used instead...I guess they figured too many people were too familiar with the film to accept any other song there.
How Can Love Survive was also in the original stage musical. It was sung by Max and the Baroness (and the Captain?). In the film I think it would have happened when the three are on the back porch of the von Trapp house, shortly before Maria and the children appear in the rowboat. I do believe that Rodgers and the producers never intended to use it in the film but am unsure why. The song was also heard in the 1998 revival.
There was also another song, "No Way to Stop It," that was in the stage show but not in the film. It was sung by the Captain, the Baroness, and Max, and is about the approaching Anschluss.
Finally, the song "I Have Confidence" was written (music & lyrics) by Rodgers specifically for the film and was not in the original Broadway or London shows. It was included in the revival.
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The melody of How Can Love Survive from The Sound of Music can be heard during the ball at Captain von Trapp's. I think it is shortly before he and Maria start dancing. It's a beautiful melody and it's a shame it was cut.
I thoroughly agree about I Have Dreamed - I wish they had included it. I'm glad the instrumentatl is on the film soundtrack though.
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thaats myy fav song in SOM
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Loved it.
The Julie Andrews & Ben Kingsley version.
Lea Salonga did an awesome job singing the version
of I Have Dreamed. We used the material/song @ my
1st wedding dance. It was something else.
The lyrics were so fitting......
I have dreamed (him) all my life...
Just beautiful
I don't know why, but in most of the prints and video versions of this film, "I Have Dreamed" has been cut as well as Anna's soliloquy "Shall I Tell You What I Think of You?" and Tuptim's solo "My Lord and Master."
shareAs far as the "i have dreamed" is concerned the scene that it was in inthe show does not exist in the film.
shareThe 1955 Broadway show of "Silk Stockings" had a title song, sung by Don Ameche. But when MGM filmed it two years later, they eliminated the lyrics and restaged the number as instumental only, as a 'coming out' solo ballet dance for Cyd Charisse. But it's treated as background music only, with no literal reference to the music as the title song.
Tampering of song scores was also done to "On The Town" (the deleted songs include 'Carried Away,' 'Some Other Time,' and 'I Can Cook, Too!'); "Guys and Dolls" (not only 'A Bushel and A Peck,' but 'Marry the Man Today-' which would've given both female leads one song to perform together); and, of course, the aforementioned "The Sound of Music."
I've heard "I Have Dreamed" was indeed set for the film. They tried to place it in it's show position, before the ballet. That didn't work. (It would have had to be either before the banquet scene or interrupting it with an exterior scene.) They tried to place it with "We Kiss In A Shadow" (as on the album). It made the scene too long and somewhat redundant (Zanuck didn't like long scenes).
Interestingly enough, one of Ernest Lehman's original ideas was for Tuptim and Lun Tha to be arriving on the same boat as Mrs. Anna and for a relationship to be established there (and as a possible spot for "We Kiss In A Shadow"). This is the kind of thing screenwriters do, and fortunately the idea was scrapped, probably with the realization that it would hamper the main story and prolong our first view of the king.
Anna's "Soliloquey" was also set for the film, but it preceeded a better song, "Something Wonderful" (see Zanuck and long scenes). The one song on the album never intended to be used in the film was "My Lord And Master", maybe because there's no way in a film to give Tuptim a moment alone with herself to voice her feelings "to the audience" (see Zanuck and long scenes).
But to the original post, some songs I miss in the films of... include-
"Rhymes Have I"- KISMET
"Before I Gaze At You Again"- CAMELOT
"Why Do I Love You"- 1936 SHOW BOAT
"So What?"- CABARET
"The Music That Makes Me Dance"- FUNNY GIRL
Admittedly, none as famous as "I Have Dreamed", but....
Anna's soliloquy, "Shall I Tell you What I Think of You", if memory serves, is on the original soundtrack album. I love "My Lord and Master"...I think that song is gorgeous. I also love "So What?" from CABARET...that songs gives me goosebumps when it's performed properly.
shareThanks for the info, I have been told that the 'I Have Dreamed' sequence was actually filmed, so I was surprised that it wasn't restored to the film for 50th Anniversary DVD release, I bet it has survived somewhere like the full version of 'WASH THAT MAN' from SOUTH PACIFIC. No indeed I dont believe 'MY LORD AND MASTER' was even ever filmed which is great pity as they are both great songs!! not sure again whether 'SHALL I TELL YOU WHAT I THINK OF YOU' was actually filmed, photographs survive of that sequence, of course the other song that was cut entirely out of the film even on the soundtrack album was the amusing'WESTERN PEOPLE FUNNY'.
I hope that if any of that footage survives it will one day be restored to this classic Rodgers & Hammerstein film musical.
You mentioned the cutting of "Marry the Man Today" from GUYS AND DOLLS, which I have always found very troubling because that song is a major plot-advancing device in that show. Without that song, there is no viable reason for Adelide and Sarah to marry Nathan and Sky at the end...the song explains that they need to get their men now and work on changing them later...or accept them the way they are.
share"Marry The Man Today" is certainly fun, but, let's face it, the whole show leads up to these two couples getting together (in the play, the final scene is Nathan and Adelaide's wedding- Sky and Sarah are already married).
The problem with the song in film terms is that the song was written do be done "in one" to cover a scene change. Period. In fact, Sarah and Adelaide have never even met and cover this little fact with only one or two lines of introduction, and suddenly they're commiserating like old friends. Nice as the song is, the moment is jerry-built. It's nice to give the two female leads a moment together, but the song's intent is to cover a scene change (unnecessary in a film), and to be an audience pleaser (difficult to carry off without a live audience). On film it would stop the action cold just when we're ready to wrap things up.
I understand what you're saying but at the point of the story where the song comes, both women are furious with both men and without another piece of music cut from the film "Adelaide meets Sarah", which brings the two characters together and "Marry the Man Today", we don't understand the women's change of heart. Yes, after SIT DOWN YOU'RE ROCKIN THE BOAT, Sarah realizes she's made a mistake about Sky, but we haven't seen Adelaide since SUE ME, and her change of heart makes no sense without "Marry the Man Today."
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"Brigadoon" is missing "The Love of My Life" (probably deemed too lusty) and "Camelot" also lost "The Seven Deadly Virtues".
"Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise!" (Sophocles)
"The Love of My Life" is the best song in the score and without it, the role of Meg is practically a cameo in the film.
shareI agree 100%. I was stunned to discover it was missing.
"Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise!" (Sophocles)
Yes, sadly, BRIGADOON was part of the two-movie-newsreel-cartoon type of programming that took a lot of material out of a lot of movies. In order to tell the main Gene-Cyd story in about two hours, not only did we lose almost all of Meg and her two songs, "The Love Of My Life" and "My Mother's Wedding Day", but a lot of Charlie's focus as well, with the loss of "Come To Me, Bend To Me", and the transformation of "Bonnie Jean" into a dance number for Gene Kelly and Van Johnson, who have no business being in it. Along with the loss of Maggie's Funeral Dance, and the unfortunate substitution of Gene Kelly's choreography for Agnes deMille's, the film of BRIGADOON is a misfire.
Between what Alan Jay Lerner had to do to this, and what Comden and Green had to do to ON THE TOWN, I hope MGM paid them plenty.
I had grown up loving "Brigadoon" (based on having seen it on stage), and spoke of it glowingly to others, even telling them there was a film version without having watched it myself (which was foolish, recalling the songs missing from "Camelot" and the nightmare that is Franco Nero's Lancelot). When I finally saw the film I was truly crushed. Like others, I loved Meg and to see her whittled down to nothing was a huge disappintment. How they came to the conclusion that such a character--and such songs--should be sacrificed I will never know.
"Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise!" (Sophocles)
We did BRIGADOON my senior year of college and I was the assistant director. Prior to this, my only exposure to the piece had been the movie. And because of that, I was not too thrilled with the idea of being involved with the show. Imagine my surprise when I saw the script and saw how the movie had butchered the original piece. It was a lovely show that the movie only bares a faint resemblance to.
shareSo glad to hear you felt that way.
I constantly tell my students to avoid the film and read the script.
And they only really believe me after they actually watch the film and realize what a bad job was done.
THEN they get to work!
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It's funny your mentioning ON THE TOWN. I saw a stage revival of ON THE TOWN on PBS many many years ago and I was absolutely shocked...the show I saw bore little or no resemblance to the 1949 MGM musical. The only two songs that were in the play and the movie were "Come up to my Place" and "New York New York."
share"I Have Dreamed" from The King and I and "Come To Me, Bend To Me" from Brigadoon are 2 of my favourite musical songs ever! But neither of them appear in the film versions! It's crazy. They shoud keep the good songs in the films!
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Besides "I Have Dreamed," my vote for most famous song to be cut from a film version of a Broadway musical is "Together Wherever We Go" from "Gypsy."
share"Together Wherever We Go" was filmed, but the singing was so bad it had to go!
shareOther good songs deleted from the final film versions of musicals:
"You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan" from Carousel
"Goodbye Love" from Rent
"Christmas Bells" from Rent
"Halloween" from Rent
If you haven't already guessed, I love the OBC recording of Rent but don't care for the movie anymore.
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Of the songs excised from 'The King and I', "I Have Dreamed' is the most unfortunate loss. The audience really needs to feel more for Tuptim and Lun Tha lest the climax lose its impact. When we find out that he has been executed, we should be as devastated as Tuptim.
"What do you want me to do, draw a picture? Spell it out!"
I agree with what you say, shandy8.
But the relationship of Tuptim and Lun Tha really got very little screen time in the overall scheme of things, so it seems to have been a very secondary consideration (even though it was important to the human rights and self-determination subtext of the story).
In that context, I wonder if the film-makers felt that "I Have Dreamed" was too similar in tone to "We Kiss in a Shadow"? It's a lovely song, but if you look at it brutally, it doesn't really give us much information about their relationship or their situation that we don't also get in other ways. Perhaps they felt it didn't repay enough in terms of invested screen time.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
Well put. From a story telling standpoint, the Tuptim/LunTha storyline is analagous to the Will/Ado Annie, Carrie/Mr. Snow, Cable/Liat etc... The loss of that song is no loss to the story.
I am now wondering how Deborah Kerr could have handled 'Shall I Tell You What I Think of You'. I'll bet she would have been charming lip-synching that missing song.
By the way, couldn't they have found a better Lady Thiang? "Something Wonderful" is such a gorgeous song; it deserved a better performance.
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'I Have Dreamed' is arguably the most beautiful song in The King and I. But it's featured in the 1999 animated version and it's beautifully sung.
I also missed "The Music and the Mirror" and "Hello 12, Hello 13" in A Chorus Line
I saw the movie for the first time ever tonight and was shocked that it wasn't in the movie. I waited the whole movie and when it ended I thought that I fell asleep or something and missed it. It has to be the most glaring omissions of a song in a musical ever. I can't believe it!!!
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