Favorite Showstopper
Favorite Showstopper
Annie23
Swing Joined: 10/30/05
#0Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 5:32pmmine is Gimme, Gimme from Throughly Modern Millie...no one does it like Sutton, but the song is amazing!!!
#1re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 5:35pmDefinetly "Unexpected Song" from Song and Dance. "All for Laura" from Woman in White and "Don't Rain On My Parade" from Funny Girl. Those are top three for me.
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rose&lark
Featured Actor Joined: 10/10/05
#2re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 5:35pm
I think Rose's Turn from Gypsy has to be mentioned in the category of "showstoppers" 
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BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
bdwybug55
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/04
#4re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 5:43pm
"Lullaby of Broadway" 42nd Street w/ Jerry Orbach
"Seventy Six Trumbones" Music Man
"If I Were a Rich Man" Fiddler
"Soliloquy" Carousel
"Hello Dolly" Hello Dolly
Okay...I really can't think of any modern shows that have a true "showstopper" to me...but of course, I am not a huge fan of the modern pop musical. Sue Me.
#5re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 5:49pm
Roses Turn
Lots Wife
A Little Priest
There's a Fine Fine Line
Gimme Gimme
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
#6re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 5:54pm
Take Me or Leave me
Defying Gravity
Astonishing
agree about fine fine line
Once Upon a Time-brooklyn
#7re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:07pm
Do Act I finales count as showstoppers? I always thought they didn't count because the show stops anyway.
My choices:
Rose's Turn-Gypsy
Some People-Gypsy
Take Me or Leave Me-Rent
Could I Leave You?-Follies
No Good Deed-Wicked (yes,I said it!)
Funny Honey-Chicago
We Both Reached For The Gun-Chicago
Shy-Once Upon A Mattress
Don't Tell Mamma-Cabaret
I Dreamed A Dream-Les Miserables
On My Own-Les Miserables
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#8re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 7:34pmI really love "I'm Still Here" from Follies
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#9re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:19pmLe Jazz Hot from Victor Victoria.
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#10re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:26pmTHE LIFE OF THE PARTY and POOR CHILD from THE WILD PARTY, THE STORY GOES ON from BABY and WHEN I LOOK AT YOU from SCARLET PIMPERNEL.
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Wicked_fan
Broadway Star Joined: 5/25/04
#11re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:31pmI'm particularly fond of "Comfort and Joy" from Batboy
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit"
-Feste from "Twelfth Night"
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#12re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:38pm"Betrayed" from The Producers, particularly, the musical version, because it has that long "Intermission" pause that literally stops the show.
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jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#13re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:38pm
i'll cover you (reprise)
all that jazz- gotta love opening with a showstopper
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Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#14re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 8:49pm
"Gimme Gimme...no one does it better than Sutton".
I'll second that!
renthead92
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#17re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 9:03pmI would have to say Lily's Eyes, at least the productions I have seen. I also love Bring Him Home from Les Miserables.
It was 6 hours, I don't even like to have sex and eat bacon for 6 hours.
Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#18re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 10:29pm
I never thought "gimme, gimme" was that big of a show stopper. Maybe I expected too much.
"Look at the Sky" Urinetown or "Run Freedom Run"
heaja123
Understudy Joined: 5/9/05
#20re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:13pmHere I Am-Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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#21re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:16pm
Defying Gravity
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SNLMedia
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#22re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:18pm
Here I Am - DRS
Epiphany - Altar Boyz
Welcome to the 60's - Hairspray (in particular, the reprise by the Dynamites; cheers and applause everytime!)
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#23re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:31pm
La Vie Boheme-RENT
I'll Cover You (Reprise)-RENT
Defying Gravity- Wicked
The I Love You Song-Spelling Bee
Show Off- Drowsy Chaperone
#24re: Favorite Showstopper
Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:32pm
"You're Timeless to Me" - HAIRSPRAY
"The Apple dosen't Fall" - THE RINK
"Oklahoma!" - DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
"Diva's Lament" - SPAMALOT
"We'll take a Glass" - GRAND HOTEL
"That's how young I feel" - MAME
"McHugh Medley" - SUGAR BABIES
"New Years Eve" - SUNSET BLVD
"Where You Are" - KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
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