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Musicals Without Overtures
#25re: Musicals Without Overtures
Posted: 12/22/03 at 10:07pmI still don't get this thread. Is it with or without overtures?
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#26re: re: Musicals Without Overtures
Posted: 12/22/03 at 11:04pm
CapnHook is no where to be found to clarify the mystery.
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#27re: re: re: Musicals Without Overtures
Posted: 12/23/03 at 1:19am
Then let's just say it's for musicalsw without overtures. 
Neither "Little Shop" nor "Fiddler on the Roof" have overtures.
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#28re: re: re: re: Musicals Without Overtures
Posted: 12/23/03 at 12:32pm
I apologise, I caught the flu. Hadn't the strength to go upstairs to get online.
I had meant WITHOUT Overtures.
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#29re: re: re: re: re: Musicals Without Overtures
Posted: 12/23/03 at 12:51pm
Once on this Island - no overture
Best Little Whorehouse - no overture (I think...)
West Side Story - no overture, per se...the beginning is danced, so it's not an overture in the true sense.
Grease - no overture
#30re: re: re: re: re: re: Musicals Without Overtures
Posted: 12/24/03 at 10:27amParade has no overture but it does have that haunting drum beat that starts and finishes the show.
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#31re: re: re: re: Musicals Without Overtures
Posted: 12/24/03 at 10:44amsome corrections: gypsy, mamma mia, urinetown, and oklahoma all have overtures. maybe there's just confusion because of the subject saying "without" but the post saying "with".
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#32re: re: re: re: re: Musicals Without Overtures
Posted: 12/24/03 at 10:50am
Does this mean I was within some sense of reason when I correctly stated the GYPSY has an overture and contradicted someone who wrote that it did not?
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#33re: re: re: re: re: re: Musicals Without Overtures
Posted: 12/25/03 at 9:57am
Most shows that were directed by the late Gower Champion did not have overtures. He hated them because the audience frequently talked right through them--something verified many years ago while the two blu haired ladies in front of me during Linda Lavin's GYPSY chatted away while the orchestra played that thrilling overture. When I "shhh'ed" them, one responded, "It's only music."
Anyhow, the original production of TWHM did not have an overture. It was added when Pearl Bailey revived the show in 1975.
I DO! I DO! doesn't have an overture
CARNIVAL! lacks an overture, but has one of the most effective openings in musical theater.
The original BYE BYE BIRDIE had an overture, but it was an underscoring to a slide show of 60's teens.
THE HAPPY TIME lacked an overture, but started with the title tune--and another slide show.
IRENE had an overture that was "acted out".
ROCKABYE HAMLET lacked an overture, but started with the wedding of Gertrude and Claudius (the whole show was a messs).
Yes, MACK AND MABEL had an overture.
Did the original 42ND STREET have an overture or did it just start with that very effective opening number?
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