Favorite Entr'actes
Favorite Entr'actes
#0Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:24pm
All the threads about overtures kinda got me thinking about entr'actes, which I think go under the radar sometimes. I love it when shows have entr'actes because it gets the audience back in the mood for the second act of the show. So what are some of your favorite entr'actes?
Mine are:
Chicago
Beauty and The Beast ( I like how it segues into the wolf chase)
Ragtime
The Phantom of The Opera
Miss Saigon
Little Shop of Horrors
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
#1re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:24pmBig River. :)
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
C is for Company
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#2re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:27pmLOVE Chicago and Cabaret entr'actes! I also like Little Shop's too a bit
#4re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:36pmI agree with C....Chicago and Cabaret!
Jack: For your information, most people who meet me do not know that I am gay.
Will: Jack, blind and deaf people know you're gay. Dead people know you're gay.
Jack: Grace, when you first met me, did you know I was gay?
Grace: My dog knew.
aces25
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/13/04
#5re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:40pmCabaret, Beuaty & the Beast and A Year with Frog & Toad actually
#6re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:49pmI completly forgot about Cabaret! I really like the entr'acte in that show.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
#7re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:56pm
Golden Rainbow (better than the overture) and State Fair -- you can practically the feel the moment when the house lights dim!
Updated On: 3/30/06 at 05:56 PM
MarkCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#9re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:14pm
CABARET. Oh yes. Also, ANYTHING GOES (on the 1988 recording)
Edited because I suddenly didn't know how to spell "Cabaret".
Updated On: 3/30/06 at 06:14 PM
#10re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:22pmCabaret!
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#11re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:28pmDefinitely BIG RIVER - great choice.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#12re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:32pmWhen I did BIG RIVER, we turned the Entr'Acte into a big dance number, since there really wasn't any dancing in the show otherwise.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:34pm
How about "They're Playing Our Song"
Updated On: 3/30/06 at 06:34 PM
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#16re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:52pmGypsy, without question!
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
#17re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:53pmBeauty and the Beast and Phantom
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
#18re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:58pmChicago, bar none.
"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"
#20re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:02pmIsn't the GYPSY overture literally identical to it's entr'acte? The latter is just the second half, no?
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#21re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:08pmThe Gypsy entr'acte (at least on the newest album) has a section that includes If Mamma Was Married. So, it's almost identical to the overture....
#22re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:09pmChicago has been said before, but I will echo it because I so agree.
MWAH! -Meghan
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
#23re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:11pm
I think the GYPSY entr'acte is identical to the overture, too...
Although, GYPSY has the best overture ever, so I guess that means it has the best entr'acte, too. Since they're... uh, the same.
ETA: Some people have said BATB and I was all "Whatever," but it just came up on shuffle and whoa, for real, way pretty. I didn't even realize.
Updated On: 3/30/06 at 07:11 PM
#24re: Favorite Entr'actes
Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:12pm
LOL--exactly, keatonbynumbers, why it's my favorite 
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
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