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Best Overtures
elphieisperky
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/05
#25re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 6:53pmLes Miz, Phantom, and Wicked. Wicked doesn't really have an actual overture, but the beginning of No One Mourns the Wicked is beautiful.
#26re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 6:54pmGypsy, Phantom.
#27re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 6:57pm
I like the Seussical one..All Shook Up..
It doesnt count as an overture, but I love the ticking of the clock in 30/90 from Tick, tick...BOOM!
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That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
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Where?
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#28re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 7:00pm
Mack & Mabel
Gypsy
Any Jule Styne Overture
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musicallover2008
Featured Actor Joined: 2/4/05
#29re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 7:11pm
For me from the shows that I have seen I really haven't gotton a bad overature. If I get chlls during it then to me it is a good overature.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Chicago
Mamma Mia
Peter Pan
Other shows that I have seen that didn't necesarily have overtures but gave me chills was when they kick off the music in Rent then some small chills at the beginning of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#30re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 8:21pmYaay, another orchestra thread! Hehe. I've actually never heard the Gypsy overture, sounds like I'm missing out. POTO and Les Miz and Wicked all have nice little openings, but I don't think it really counts as an overture. My two personal favorites are West Side Story(everything about the music to WSS is amazing) and My Fair Lady. That one really establishes the show for me.
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leefowler
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/04
#31re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 8:47pmAlthough I never hear this one mentioned as a favorite, "The Rothschilds" has a sensational overture!
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#32re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 8:50pmhaha you guys rock. the four that i were thinking were of course gypsy, poto, carousel (it actually gives me chills and i actually sing with it) and merrily.
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#33re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:19pm
Gypsy
The Producers
Mamma Mia
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Titanic
Nine
#34re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:30pm
1.) POTO
2.) Candide
3.) The Rothchilds
4.) Thoroughly Modern Millie
5.) Oklahoma
6.) Hello Dolly (1994 Cast)
7.) CATS ( I don't know why)
8.) The Producers
9.) Carousel
10.) Guy's and Dolls (Runyonland)
11.) H2$
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Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#35re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:31pm
Has anyone mentioned GYPSY yet. 
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Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#36re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:44pmOh, yes. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has a great overture. Chills every time!!
sharkgirl100
Chorus Member Joined: 2/1/05
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#38re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 1:18am
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels... i remember when i first heard it at the Old Glob Theater in San Diego.. i thought... i'm in for a treat tonight!
oh and the South Pacific one ain't bad...
and although Miss Saigon doesn't have one.. i just love the opening music of that show
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
Albin
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#40re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 6:54am
Odd that no one has mentioned Mame yet. It's one of my favorites.
Also, La Cage and Funny Girl.
Updated On: 3/5/05 at 06:54 AM
#41re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 7:34am
BEST OVERTURES (in the traditional sense)
-Gypsy
-Funny Girl (Jule Styne is a master)
-Merrily We Roll Along
-Carousel
-Candide (I'm categorizing it as a musical)
BEST OPENINGS
-Sunday In The Park... (Those chords!)
-Sweeney Todd (That whistle!)
and more recently
-Ragtime - the original set design with the stereopticon slides merging and revealing the families all in white.
-Phantom (You gotta admit - The opening is quite impressive)
Spitting distance? ...how vivid.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#42re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 9:57am
I Had A Ball
Ben Franklin in Paris
Applause
Over Here
110 In The Shade
Mr Wonderful
Sweet Charity
Lil Abner
Promises, Promises
Mame
Funny Girl
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stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#43re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 10:03am
GYPSY!!!
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Chicago
#44re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:14am
GYPSY
NO, NO, NANNETTE
SUGAR
APPLAUSE
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#45re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:15am
Phantom of the Opera
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Oklahoma
but my favorite is 42nd Street...it gets me SO excited!
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#46re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:21am
Producers
Wicked- yeah not much of an oveture but beginning of it is beautiful!
Phantom
Guys and Dolls
Damn Yankees
Wonderful Town
Annie
Fiddler on The Roof
noahrp3
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/05
#48re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:34amI have a personal thing with Big River. It's my fave overture, basically because back when I did the show, our orchestra played a replica of the version on the BCR, but what got me was that the Harmonica sounded like a real Harmonica, yet, it was coming from a keyboard. Still, it was great hearing the Orchestra play that live.
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#49re: Best Overtures
Posted: 3/5/05 at 11:39am
sometimes i think overtures are my favortie part of shows...heres a list:
(in no order)
candide,
gypsy,
nine,
amour,
producers,
bounce,
man of la mancha (you know that: Ayee... aye-yee. Este Fuego!!)
etc.etc.etc. there are so many
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