The dissonant Parade theme in the background, the funeral song "It Don't Make Sense," the sound of the young girls singing and that amazingly freakish Hey YEAHHHHHH song with the simple awesome clapping (title escapes me).
Floyd Collins - "Ballad of Floyd Collins - simple, appealing folk song with the darkest lyrics and Jesse Lenat's voice is the f***in s***!!!!!! Also "I Landed On Him," "The Carnival" and the dream sequence. Gosh - it's all so beautiful, dark and creepy eerie.
People write Floyd Collins off - but it's SO AMAZING. The first time I listened, I was on the couch in the dark after I read about the story -which is disturbing enough on it's own. Just knowing the outcome as you listen to the score - you just want so bad for Floyd to...... I won't give it away.
LISTEN TO IT.
PS - My definition of haunting is achingly beautiful, somewhat dark and very moving.
Haunting to me is something that is dark, and brooding without being obvious about it. I think Phantom is too obviously trying to be haunting. It just comes off as 80s power ballads instaed of haunting.
I think Titanice is haunting. The fact that these people are singing these songs and stuff and sailing to their deaths is just heartbreaking.
Not sure how Piazza is haunting, but to each their own.
Everything Kurt Weill has ever written; particularly, The Threepenny Opera and Lady in the Dark.
Opera: Eugene Onegin (I can't get through the final scene without crying), Jenufa, La Traviata, A Streetcar Named Desire
"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
-Definitely agree with parts of "Carrie." I heard "And Eve was Weak" a long time ago and I still can't get that last verse out of my head. -"Parade" -"Passion" -Parts of "Grey Gardens"
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)
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
Grey Gardens Light in the Piazza Passion Sweeney Todd
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
Much of the music of ALWebber is quite haunting --
*Sunset Boulevard ( I saw the Australian production documentary and hearing Hugh Jackman humming SURRENDER was very haunting. So were songs like With One Look and As If We Never Said Goodbye)
*Woman in White ( Hauntingly romantic)
*The Beautiful Game ( although probably more poignant than haunting)
*Some of his songs in other musicals ( Memory from Cats, Don't Cry for Me Argentina from Evita, Chanson D'Enfance and orchestral versions of Love Changes Everything and Seeing is Believing from Aspects of Love, Angel of Music from Phantom of the Opera, Tell Me on a Sunday, Whistle Down the Wind, etc).
I agree about PASSION,too -- sweepingly romantic and haunting.