You Gotta Get A Gimmick (Gypsy)
The ladies are singing about how to be a better stripper. While entertaining and funny, this song is a a good illustration of a couple economics concepts. First, this song…
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How the Money Changes Hands (Tenderloin)
In this song, the singer sings how money cycles through the economy from the landlord to the farmer to the grocer to the banker. This is a good example of…
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Great Big Stuff (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Freddie is asked what he wants – and he doesn’t hesitate to answer. He wants all sorts of things. This would be a good song to play to introduce the…
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A Musical (Something Rotten)
The Bottom brothers are playwrights competing with William Shakespeare in the 1590s. Shakespeare is brilliant, of course, so these brothers need to figure out the next innovation for their business…
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What Kind of Man? (Curtains)
The singers here describe a job that is so terrible and that only a disgusting person could possibly take it. (For those who haven’t seen this clip before, I won’t…
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Simple Joys (Pippin)
The Singer is describing a couple economic issues in this song. First, despite having power and material wealth, the subject of this song isn’t happy. This song might be good…
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Airport Song (Honeymoon in Vegas)
Jack wants to get from Kauai to Las Vegas as soon as possible. The initial price quoted is exorbitant, and then the airline employees discuss other routes that might be…
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Molasses to Rum (1776 The Musical)
Thanks to J. Brian O’Roark for creating this video and for the description below. The musical 1776 tells of the battle in the Continental Congress over signing the Declaration of…
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Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
No one does anything like Gaston. He’s the best! (If you doubt it, just ask him!) In this song, we learn about how Gaston is better than anybody else at…
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Everybody Out (Made in Dagenham)
As stated in Wikipedia (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_sewing_machinists_strike_of_1968#cite_note-wainwright-4): The Dagenham sewing machinists walked out when, as part of a regrading exercise, they were informed that their jobs were graded in Category B…
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