Midnight Mixtape: Musicals

Musicals

On the midnight mixtape, Laura McGhie was joined by Jo Kendall to look at listener selections (27/08/2026) with Songs featured in musicals in celebration of Dolly Parton (who starred in 9 to 5) and Tim Cirry (Rocky Horror Show amongst other musicals) who recently passed away.

Songs in contention

Tim Curry - Sweet Transvestite {Rocky Horror Picture Show}
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Who - Pinball Wizard {Tommy}
Donny Osmond - Any dream will do {Joseph}
John Travolta & ONJ - Summer Nights {Grease}
Rocky Horror Show - Time Warp
Lea Salonga - I dreamed a dream
Gene Wilder - Pure imagination {Charlie & Chocolate Factory}
Loren Allred - Never enough {Greatest Showman}
Bonnie Tyler - Cappuccino Girls
Monty Python - Always look on the bright side of life {Spamalot}
ABBA - Mamma Mia
Aretha - Think {Blues brothers}
Elaine Paige - Memory {Cats}
Celine Dion - My heart will go on {Titanic}
Ben Platt - You will be found {Dear Evan Hansen}
Jack Wild & Mark Lester - Consider yourself {Oliver!}
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I had the) Time of my life {Dirty Dancing}
Gari Glaysher - Empty chairs at empty tables {Les Miserables}
Dolly Parton - Love is like a butterfly
Crusaders - Streetlife {Sharkey's machine/Jackie}
Bad to the bone {T2}
Leslie Odom Jr. and Lin-Manuel Miranda - Dear Theodosia {Hamilton}
Gene Kelly - Singing in the rain
Liza Minnelli - All that jazz {Chicago}
Doris Day - Deadwood Stage {Calamity Jane}
Judy Garland - Somewhere over the rainbow {Wizard of Oz}
Aileen Quinn - It's a hard knock life {Annie}
John Morris - Springtime for Hitler {Producers}
Michael Crawford - Music of the night {Phantom of the Opera}

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Gene Kelly - Singing in the rain
Doris Day - Deadwood stage (Calamity Jane)
Bonnie Tyler - Cappuccino Girls
Grease - Summer nights
Elaine Paige - Memory (Cats)
[Side 2]
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Time warp
Who - Pinball wizard
Gene Wilder - Pure imagination
Aileen Quinn - It's a hard knock life (Annie)
Oliver - Consider yourself
Monty Python - Always look on the bright side of life
[Hidden]
Dolly Parton - Love is like a butterfly

12 Mixtapes of Xmas: Nat's Musical Mixtape

[5] Nat's Musical Mixtape

This mixtape on songs from musicals that have made the mixtape. Musicals are known to be a love of Natalie Jamieson and also includes the most selected under her curation.

Princess Nat's Musical Mixtape

[Side 1]
1. Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) - A spoonful of sugar
2. Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory) - Pure Imagination
3. Judy Garland/Ray Bolger (Wizard of Oz) - If I only had a brain
4. Dick Van Dyke/Sally Ann Howes - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
5. Mandy Moore (Tangled) - When my life begin
6. Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
[Side 2]
7. Claramae Turner (Carousel) - You'll never walk alone
8. Snow White & 7 Dwarfs - Whistle while you work
9. Timon & Pumbaa (Lane/Sabella) - Hakuna Matata
10. Levi Stubbs (Little shop of horrors) - Feed me (git it) Seymour
11. Billy Joel - For the longest time
12. Yazoo - Only you
Hidden: Extreme - More than words

Princess Nat's Musical Mixtape Stats

• "A spoonful of sugar" appeared on the Sugar mixtape. Mary Poppins has featured twice with "Let's go fly a kite" appearing on the Children's Toys mixtape.
• Gene Wilder's "Pure Imagination" appeared on the Imagination mixtape.
• "If I only had a brain" appeared on the Brain mixtape
• "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" appeared on the Car Showroom 2 mixtape
• "When my life begin" appeared on the Day in life of mixtape
• "9 to 5" appeared on the Day in life of mixtape
• "You'll never walk alone" appeared on the Human Spirit 1 mixtape
• "Whistle while you work" appeared on the Whistle mixtape
• Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella were Timon and Pumbaa respectively and "Hakuna Matata" appeared on the Good Advice mixtape
• "Feed me (git it) Seymour" appeared on the plants mixtape. Little shop of horrors has made 3 appearances in total. "Dentist!" made the Dentist mixtape (#StatTheObvious) and "Mean green monster from outer space" made the Aliens mixtape
• Billy Joel is the most picked (3 times) when Natalie was curating
• Yazoo's "Only you" is the only track that was selected more than once under Natalie's watch {Two Instruments/Windows}
• Remembered Natalie's defence of Extreme's "More than words" (was author's selection) on the two instruments mixtape. Tapping and playing guitar is considered two instruments in your eyes!

Note: A little birdie informed me that "Walking through a window" from the musical "Dear Evan Hansen" was another song that was feature in the Windows mixtape.