The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
#1The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/25/11 at 6:46am
Day 13. A song that made you love a musical from the first note.
Updated On: 4/25/11 at 06:46 AM
#2The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/25/11 at 9:22am"Overture" from The Light in the Piazza
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#3The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:20pm
Hmmm...this is tough. I actually LOVE the overture from "Phantom of the Opera" and I do love the show.
I also loved the first words in "Sunday in the Park With George" (as well as the show itself).
#4The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:23pm"Queenie Was a Blonde" from LaChiusa's Wild Party.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
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#5The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/25/11 at 3:52pmOpening chords of the "Carousel Waltz"
#6The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/25/11 at 4:08pmThe Overture to Fanny had me hooked immediately.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#7The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/25/11 at 4:11pmThe Overture of Promises, Promises really grabbed me the first time I heard it. Such a different sound than I'd really heard before, and such fun.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
#8The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/25/11 at 4:57pmOverture from Phantom of the Opera.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#9The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/25/11 at 5:59pm
Definitely "Overture" - Promises, Promises. It really sets up the style and sound of the show.
I'd also say that "Prelude" - Next to Normal is pretty damn incredible.
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..."
~Jaques - "As You Like It" Act 2, scene 7
#10The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/26/11 at 4:32pmDefinitely the overture from Phantom of the Opera. Also love the prologue from Beauty and the Beast, although I already loved the movie when I saw the show.
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#11The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/26/11 at 9:24pm"Prelude" from Next to Normal
#12The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:28pmOverture to Oklahoma! and Oh, what a beautiful mornin'
Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)
#13The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:31pmI'll go with "Prelude" from Next to Normal as well. Combined with the stage lights at that moment it is completely entrancing.
#14The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:47pmThe opening notes and then "again!"...can't be beat. "I Hope I Get It" from A CHORUS LINE had me hooked from the first few seconds!
"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "
#15The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13
Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:52pm"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" from Sweeney Todd
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
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