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OK, moar Broadway help, plz!

Give some ideas for Broadway songs/numbers that:
a.) could be sung by a 2-part women's chorus
b.) fit into the theme of giving through service to the wider community.

GO!

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Avenue Q - The Money Song ;>

uh-huh. :)

Hey, it's all about building a School for Monsters. What could possibly be wrong with that? :)

More seriously, Wick from Secret Garden might work. And it's two part (OK alto and tenor, but still)

Hmmmmm. I like the sound of Wick - I'll look into it.

Make Our Garden Grow (Candide)

Well, don't forget the two-part women's chorus bit.

Also, that's about building up your own life/community. What about giving to other people?

We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.

I tend to think of gardens (and the "we" above) as having metaphoric significance (as well as literal). (Was also thinking of "Secret Garden" tunes.) It's a large chorus number, which means you could reduce to two-part (esp. since it's initially tenor/soprano).

Is there anything you could use from the Copland "Tender Land"? (Granted, an opera...)

Now that you mention it, how often do two women sing together in a musical?

Into the Woods, No one is alone — Cindarella and Red Riding Hood?
Anything in Les Mis?
Newsies Once and for all is a cast number but has some of that feel

Lemme think...

Oo, I love Newsies, I had totally forgotten about that.

But pertaining to your question, have you seen Wicked? The entire plot is about the friendship between two women. I thought I'd do "For Good" with them - here are the lyrics (http://www.metrolyrics.com/for-good-lyrics-wicked.html).

I think maybe musicals aren't quite as bad as movies when it comes to the Bechdel test, but they are still not awesome.

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