There have been no scarcity of fathers on Broadway.  “Life with Father,” Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse’s adaptation of the tales by Clarence Day Jr., which ran from 1939 to 1947, stays the longest operating non-musical play in Broadway historical past. It’s a comedy a few fuddy-duddy of a patriarchal father. Fathers, and would-be fathers, are inclined to fare a bit higher in musicals. In honor of Father’s Day, under are songs from ten Broadway musicals about fathers.

“Wheels of a Dream” from Ragtime

I see his face
I hear his heartbeat
I look in these eyes
How smart they appear
Effectively, when he’s sufficiently old
I’ll present him America
And he’ll journey
On the wheels of a dream

Soliloquy from Carousel

I’m wondering what he’ll consider me
I suppose he’ll name me the “previous man”
I suppose he’ll suppose I can lick
Ev’ry different feller’s father
Effectively, I can!

I guess that he’ll turn into
The spittin’ picture of his dad
However he’ll have extra widespread sense
Than his puddin’-headed father ever had!

I’ll train him to wrestle
And dive by a wave
After we go within the mornins for our swim
His mom can train him
The best way to behave
However she received’t make a sissy out o’ him
Not him! Not my boy! Not Invoice!

Father to Son from “Falsettos”

“It’s a Boy” from Shenandoah

Not My Father’s Son from Kinky Boots

After I was only a child
All the pieces i did, was to be like him
Below my pores and skin
My father at all times thought
If i used to be robust and fought
Not like some albatross, id start
To slot in

Take a look at me powerless and holding my breath
Attempting onerous to repress what scared him to loss of life
It was not that straightforward to be his sort of man
To breathe freely was not in his plan
And the very best a part of me
Is what he wouldn’t see

I’m not my fathers son
I’m not the picture of what he dreamed of
With the power of Sparta and the persistence of Job
Nonetheless couldn’t be the one
To echo what he’d accomplished
And mirror what was not in me

One thing Was Lacking from Annie

To Break in a Glove, from Pricey Evan Hansen

Dawn, Sundown from Fiddler on the Roof

The Pants Track from Be Extra Chill

Jeremy is in large dangerous hassle proper now
It’s a hassle that he can’t see
And I gotta assist him by some means
I don’t know what he needs
However I do know what he wants
He’ll want a dad so robust
To assist him not slip away
I haven’t been a dad for thus lengthy
However I believe I’m prepared right this moment
….If you love any individual
You set your pants on for them

Pricey Theodosia from Hamilton

Pricey Theodosia, what to say to you?
You have got my eyes
You have got your mom’s identify
If you got here into the world, you cried and it broke my coronary heart
I’m dedicating day-after-day to you
Home life was by no means fairly my type
If you smile, you knock me out, I collapse
And I believed I used to be so good
…
Oh Philip, whenever you smile I’m undone
My son
Take a look at my son
Delight isn’t the phrase I’m on the lookout for
There’s a lot extra inside me now
Oh Philip, you outshine the morning solar
My son