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Favorite Showstopper
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#25re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:44pmDirty Rotten Number from DRS stopped the show for literally 5 minutes when I saw it. That song's a lot of fun.
#26re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:47pm
"Downtown" from Little Shop of Horrors. When I saw it on tour this song blew the roof off the house. That last note always gives me chills.
"Out Tonight" from RENT. Though not "classic" I think this is the only song in the show that really rocks out and when Mimi ends in that pose facing Roger it's like you have to catch your breath.
"Petrified" from Taboo. If you know the song, this needs no explaining.
And "The Time Warp" from Rocky Horror. I was in this show a couple months ago and every night when we finished that song you could feel the electricity in the theatre.
"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs."
-RuPaul
#27re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:04am
"Petrified" definately!
I forgot to mention 2 Eartha Kitt Pieces:
"Moving Uptown" - THE WILD PARTY
&
"Rahadlakum" - TIMBUKTU!
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
musicalsaregreat
Understudy Joined: 4/13/05
#29re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:40am
Soliliquy from Carousel
With One Look from Sunset Boulevard
Don't Cry for Me Argentina from Evita
Defying Gravity from Wicked
Do you Hear the People Sing? from Les Miz
Memory from Cats
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
iliketheater
Broadway Star Joined: 12/10/05
#30re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:46am
"And I am Telling You" - Dreamgirls
"Easy as Life" - Aida
"No Good Deed" - Wicked
"America" - WSS
"Tonight" (quartet) -WSS
"Cabaret" - Cabaret
"The Last Midnight" - Into the Woods
"Home" - The Wiz
& so many more...
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#31re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:46amRight now, it's "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd, and "A New Argentina" from Evita.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#32re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:47am
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls
"I Am What I Am" from La Cage Aux Folles
"Soliloquy" from Carousel
"Rose's Turn" from Gypsy
"I Got Rhythm" from Crazy For You
"So Long, Dearie" from Hello, Dolly!
Updated On: 12/14/05 at 12:47 AM
#33re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 2:08am
Gimme Gimme definetly
Great Big Stuff-DRS
All For You-Seussical
sidwich
Understudy Joined: 2/14/05
#34re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 2:52am
"My One and Only" from "My One and Only" was pretty cool. Tommy Tune had such visual flair.
"Trouble" from "The Music Man"
"One" from "A Chorus Line"... it's such an emotional climax.
"Luck be a Lady" from "Guys and Dolls"
Much quieter, but amazingly effective, "Send in the Clowns" from "A Little Night Music." Just so powerful.
#35re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 5:25am'Sit down, you're rockin' the boat' - Guys and Dolls. I just wish they'd record the current version in London as it has a far better arrangement than most of the other G&D recordings out there...
#36re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 6:56am
All That Jazz - Chicago
Roses Turn - Gypsy
Gimme Gimme - Millie
You're Timeless to Me - Hairspray
There are tons others but I'm at work. 
mandy2loveRB
Featured Actor Joined: 5/4/05
#37re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 11:26am
Agreeing with most of the lists above...
Suppertime
What I Did for Love
#38re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 5:09pm
I'm Still Here from Follies
Dirty Rotten Number from DRS
Rose's Turn from Gypsy
Iluv2fly4594
Swing Joined: 12/14/05
#39re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 5:39pm
Well,
Everything is Comin Up Roses-Gypsy
Defting Gravity-Wicked
Astonishing-Little Women
Lullaby of Broadway-42nd Street
The Phantom Of The Opera-the title is the song!!
#40re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 5:50pm
Dirty Rotten Numer- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Fine, Fine Line- Avenue Q
Defying Gravity- Wicked
We're in the Money- 42nd Street
Lullaby of Broadway- 42nd Street
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
Updated On: 12/14/05 at 05:50 PM
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#41re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 8:11pmLa Vie Boheme. I could watch it over and over and over.
#42re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 8:16pm
I Am What I Am from La Cage
Who Will Love Me As I Am from Side Show
Find Your Grail spamalot
Ol Man River Showboat
Anything You Can Do Annie get your gun
bigrab1018
Leading Actor Joined: 10/9/05
#43re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:18pmSanta Fe from RENT
"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee
bigrab1018
Leading Actor Joined: 10/9/05
#44re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:18pm
just kidding 
"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee
#45re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:29pm
Betrayed- The Producers
I Only Have Eyes for You - 42nd Street
We're In the Money- 42nd Street
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
Run and Tell That- Hairspray
And I Am Telling You - Dreamgirls
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
#46re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:32pm
I agree with all these choices. But two are missing in my mind.
"Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd.
and....
"Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime.
Flahooley
Leading Actor Joined: 11/17/05
#47re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:32pmI'm partial to the RAIN ON THE ROOF/AH, PAREE!/BROADWAY BABY sequence in FOLLIES.
#48re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:41pm"total eclipse" from Dance of the Vampires when it used to exist on Broadway.
#49re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:52pmOnce Upon a time- brooklyn
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
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