What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#0What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:24pm
I think it's LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS--when Audrey II comes out and attacks the whole audience! 
What's yours?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#1re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:26pm
Cabaret; not because it's something that you ENJOY sitting through, but because it left a serious impact.
Jeez. That's like my third "I heart Cabaret" post in five minutes. Can you tell what musical is on my mind today?
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#2re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:28pmPhantom. It's a bit open-ended, but I like it like that.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:29pm
Two:
Avenue Q and (gasp) Wicked. I'm not the biggest fan of the musical, I think it's ok, but I love the Wizard of Oz, so to see parallels was so cool.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#4re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:29pm
I was about to say that - when Meg picks up the Phantom's mask at the end when he just "disappears".
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#5re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:29pm
Yes, Emcee.
I remember one theater critic writing (I forget which one): "At the end of Fiddler of The Roof, Tevye still has his faith. At the end of Man of La Mancha, Don Quixote still has his dream. At the end of Cabaret, the characters are all over-run by Nazi domination and a world war."
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#6re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:31pm
*nods*
I'm hardly ever completely silent after a show. My mother thought something was terribly wrong with me that night.
#7re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:32pmPhantom, Wicked, Gypsy, Producers
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#8re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:34pmElphaba3, I think its critical that in GYPSY the authors add a short scene after "Rose's Turn" where Rose and Louise reconcile.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#9re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:35pmi love You Cant Stop The Beat at the end of Hairspray, and when Tracy says E=everybody lets dance
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
#10re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:36pmI know, Mary-Ethel. :) I love that part as well. "And the headline said, Madame Rose...and her daughter, Gypsy!"
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#11re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:50pmbklyn, just because its over
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#12re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 4:42pmFOLLIES
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#13re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 5:13pmLes Miz. I love the redemptive and cathartic quality of it.
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
BEKA531
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#14re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 5:21pm
RENT. when mimi comes "back to life" and the cast sings "NO DAY BUT TODAY"... which is what i live by.
Updated On: 11/23/04 at 05:21 PM
#15re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 5:28pm
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
Updated On: 11/23/04 at 05:28 PM
#16re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 6:18pm
Aida has a very cool ending...Unique and Mushy!!!
Into the Woods is a flawless show (the original) and the ending is very moving!!!
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
jesseeinstein
Broadway Star Joined: 11/9/03
#17re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 6:48pm
All about Parade! Every musical should end with a hanging.
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... wow I'm gonna be bashed for this one-(it's a joke)
#18re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:01pm
I agree with jesseeinstein, Parade has a very powerful ending. I also think that Phantom of the Opera has one of the best endings!
BUT.....
In my opinion, the musical with the most amazing ending is from the German musical "Elisabeth". The finale is truely one of the most powerful endings I have ever seen as well as heard. This musical is screaming to open in New York eventually!
Later!
Phantom05
------- "We Drink Your Blood And Then We Eat Your Soul, Nothings Gonna Stop Us Let The Bad Times Roll"
-------"Past The Point Of No Return, No Backward Glances, Abandon Thought And Let The Dream Begin"
Razz77
Broadway Star Joined: 11/22/04
#19re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:15pm
If anyone has seen the most recent revival of "Pacific Overtures", they will probably say that that has a great ending. Even if it isn't necessarily brilliant or appropriate (although I think its quite smart), the last five minutes of the show are nothing short of EXHILIRATING.
Also, who can resist the end of Hairspray. You leave the theatre wanting to hug people and buy cotton candy.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:15pm
Into the Woods
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BWIDB Charlie
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/04
#21re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:20pm
Hm, that makes me wonder... what shows would be better if the main character(s) were killed off during it?
Discuss.
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BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#22re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:34pmI would have to say Les Miz also. When Fantine comes out, and then Eponine, and then they take Valjean-I cried everytime I saw it.
PleaseChangeMe
Featured Actor Joined: 8/24/04
#23re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:37pmI'm suprised no one has mentioned Caroline, or Change. The whole last couple scenes are filled with the most beautiful melodies ever created. Then, to top it off, with the Epilogue, Emmie's Dream. Wow.
#24re: What Musical Do You Think Has The Best Ending?
Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:48pmCabaret and Into the Woods. I am in love with both shows and they have AMAZING endings.
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