Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Musicaldudepeter
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
#1Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:03am
Are there many?
'The Light in the Piazza' - 'Fable'
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:25amGypsy - Rose's Turn
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#2Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:30amCompany- Being Alive
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#3Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:38am
Catch Me If You Can - "Goodbye"
Promises, Promises - "Promises, Promises"
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#4Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:43am
Catch Me if You Can ends with "Stuck Together."
Sweet Charity-I'm the Bravest Individual (reprise)
#5Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:49amSunset Boulevard "With One Look" (Reprise)
And I Am Always So Vitriolic
#6Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:51am
You're right. I got the order of those two reversed.
The Boy From Oz - "Once Before I Go"
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#7Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:51amCaroline or Change - Emmie sings the Epilogue
Just give the world Love.
Jackson Upperco
Chorus Member Joined: 8/5/10
#8Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:53am
EVITA- "Lament"
Merman > LuPone > Rodgers > Paige > Foster
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#9Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 11:07am
Wonderland - "Finding Wonderland"
The Wiz - "Home"
#10Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 11:20am
EVITA really ends with Che, though Lament is, indeed, the last song.
Updated On: 11/22/11 at 11:20 AM
BDrischBDemented
Broadway Star Joined: 11/13/05
#11Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 1:16pm"42nd Street" ends with Julian's solo reprise of the title song.
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
Updated On: 11/22/11 at 01:16 PM
Musicaldudepeter
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
#12Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 1:43pm
My Fair lady - 'I've grown accustomed to her face' - don't know if this counts as Eliza returns..
Oliver - 'Reviewing the situation'
Updated On: 11/22/11 at 01:43 PM
#13Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 1:54pm
Depending on the production, Chess can finish with Florence reprising Anthem alone.
Funny Girl - Don't Rain on my Parade [Reprise]
Grey Gardens - The Girl Who Has Everything [Reprise]
rorschach37
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/10
#14Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 2:09pmWell, the show itself doesn't really end with a song, but the last song in The Music Man is Harold Hill's reprise of "Till There Was You"
#15Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 2:10pm
Mack and Mabel - I Promise You a Happy Ending
Barnum - Sucker Born Every Minute (reprise)
Best Little Whorehouse - Bus From Amarillo
March of the Falsettos - Father to Son
#16Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 2:14pmGlory Days - "My Next Story"
"dreams don't die so keep an eye on your dream" - Merrily We Roll Along
Gaveston2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/11
#17Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 2:18pm
"Well, the show itself doesn't really end with a song, but the last song in The Music Man is Harold Hill's reprise of 'Till There Was You'."
Seems to me a lot of shows listed in this thread actually have an additional scene after the last number. As we all know, there is a short scene after "Rose's Turn". Even MY FAIR LADY, however brief Eliza's return may be, doesn't really end with the solo.
Shows where the final curtain falls on the applause for a solo seem much rarer, if that's what the original poster intended. As noted above, FUNNY GIRL fits. Also MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS.
Updated On: 11/22/11 at 02:18 PM
#18Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 3:18pmThe first thing that came to mind was my old VHS copy of Mary Martin in PETER PAN. I'm not sure if the stage version ends the same way since I have never seen it, but I can never forget Mary Martin singing that last bit - "...in Never Never Land!"
sundayclothes2
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/09
#19Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 3:29pmBoy From Oz ends with I go to Rio
evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#21Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 5:18pm
Does it count if like Company they actually finish with a group reprise--or is that basically curtain music (and there is a final, short scene).
Umm, probably too obscure, but Positive Role Model from Closer to Heaven immediately popped in my mind.
I may be mis-remembering, but what about something like Phantom's very brief end reprise of Music of the night? Similarly I'm pretty certain that Aspects of Love ends with yet another reprise of the one song I dislike in the show, Love Changes Everything.
#22Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 7:53pm
KISMET - "Sands Of Time"
KEAN - "Apology"
THREE PENNY OPERA - "Moritat" -reprise after choral "Finale"
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
Updated On: 11/22/11 at 07:53 PM
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#23Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 10:04pmWill Rogers Follies (i think)
#24Musicals that end with a Solo Finale number...
Posted: 11/22/11 at 11:19pmWomen on the Verge ends with Pepa singing a short solo before going out onto the terrace with Marissa.
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