Ah, favorite little moments on an OBC... — Page 4

Parade- in Do it Alone when Carolee does her "or I could start to scream across the whole damn south and never shut my mouth until they understand."

Little Women- in Days of Pleanty, I always tear up when Maureen sings "so believe that she mattered, and believe that she always will, she will always be with you..."

The Wild Party (Lippa)- How Did We Come to This basically everything Julia sings from "No witness, no weakness, and no regrets" to the end.

The Wild Party (LaChiusa)- People Like Us when they both sing "People like us slip right through the cracks, we'll never be famous so who's going to care?" (actually- pretty much that entire song is amazing, now that I think about it).

Light in the Piazza -Octet, basically Kelli's entire little outburst thing, ending with "you go near him one more time you're dead."

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More Ragtime....

During "Coalhouse Demands" near the end when the gang sings "...and we'll play them the music of something beginning." and the chorus repeats the "Somewhere in the city!"

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The last refrain of "I Feel So Much Spring" from A New Brain, when the whole cast joins in...
It's so incredibly beautiful!

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I like when Harold Arlen sings the word "snow" for Diann Carroll on the OBC of HOUSE OF FLOWERS..

Also.. on the OBC of MY ONE AND ONLY when Tommy Tune and Twiggy muse over having had to cut LITTLE JAZZ BIRD.

Sweeney Todd Reveival- In poor thing, the music played on the violin when Mrs. Lovett says "Johanna, that was the child's name, pretty little Johanna.

Company )BCR- I love the beginning of Another Hundred People, before she starts singing.

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-In the Sweeney Revival, the notes that they play with the clarinets at the beginning of "Green Finch & Linnet Bird"
-Also in the Sweeney Revival, I love the bass strings being plucked while Patti's singing "By The Sea."

"You Fooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!! From Passion.
"And we haven't paid the rent, since July, just so you knooooooooow" Passion.

I actually love the entire Flashback scene. It's my favorite thing in the piece. Especially when the music swells, and Captain sings, "Or was I just relieved to know, that someone would want her or a wife!" Ahhhhh chills.

Lippa's Wild Party... in the Ad Lib section of Queenie Was a Blonde.. someone says, "Ah Queenie, you're sweeter than candy".

Yeah, great ad lib. Let's hope no one ever asks that guy to ad lib EVER again.

LaChiusa's... There's this obnoxious laugh from a girl that I LOVE so much. It happens throughout the recording.
Collete's scoops in Lowdown-down.
"MODERNISM IS DEAD!"

Caroline, or Change has SOOO many of these kind of moments.
"TAKE THE CHANGE WHILE YOU'RE DISINCLINED!"
Mostly the radio's harmonies.

Imagining Lansbury beating the dough to the beat in "Worst Pies in London"

Peters's glottal release of the word "looooos-uh" in Lament from ITW.

Kelli's sigh at the end of Light in the Piazza
Kelli's pronunciation of the "o" vowel when she sings "Museo"

Audra McDonald. Period. Some examples
Her power mixing in Carousel, specifically in "Give it to 'em good"
"It is not....... done" in Marie Christine.
Her belt (RARE!) in "I Will Give".

Kristin's solo in "Calamari"

The Actor's Fund Concert of Dreamgirls is ALL "Ah Moments"
Good and bad.
Bad:
"Oh Mama, your Deena's gonna be on Records!" I didn't know Deena was Irish.
Ain't No Party.
Lilias' riff in the finale. It's actually one of the most painful things I've ever heard, but I MUST listen to it.

Good:
Heather Headley's one liners. "Ooooh Deena yo' mama gon' kill you."
Lilias' When I like a Man's Eyes, I am Changing, and final scene solos. "Cause this time, Effie White's gonna-uh-ah-akglaglamdga-.. Wi-in!
It's All Over.

My how I do go on, there are so many more.

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Patti Lupone's little ad libs during You're The Top on the Anything Goes recording, such as "you're the pants, ooh la la, on a roxy usher" and there are more that I can't think of.

Some of my favorites:

1. The Color Purple - During "I'm Here" when LaChanze hits that note on "I wanna SING out"

2. Wicked - the key change in "Loathing" and when Idina says "Come with me to the Emerald City"

3. Bat Boy - When the sheriff sings "sorry to hear your life's a sham" in I Imagine you're Upset. Also, in Another Dead Cow when they keep stopping mid-word.

4. Taboo - In Come in from the Outside when Raul sings "If they told you you could never love yourself, it was a lie"

5. Spamalot - The harmonies and lyrics during "All For One"

6. Tick, Tick Boom - "5 oclock, diner calls, I'm on my way"

7. Rent - opening piano on Seasons of Love. Like lots of you that can just transport me away

8. Ragtime - Journey On - "A salute to the fellow who hasn't a chance"
The soaring chords of A Shretl Iz Amerke
Henry Ford - "even people who ain't too clever can learn to tighten a nut forever"

9. Avenue Q - There's a Fine, Fine Line, "I Don't Have the Time to waste on you anymore..."

10. YaGMCB - My New Philosophy - "She said Miss Sally Brown, Your grades are going down"

This is pretty obscure because it's soooo small. I may be the only person who notices it but...Michael Ball's "there" on the Les Miserables' OLC Red and Black.

"My world if she's not Th---eeee-rrr---eee."

I love the way he extends there.

He doesn't do it on the complete recording. ;-(

The sound of Kendra Kassebaum in Assassins during "Something Just Broke"... particularly when she says "Lizzie's sheet"

The ensemble's "oh oh ohhh"s in the background of the final chorus in "It's Your Wedding Day" from Wedding Singer... really weird, I know, but I love it!
omg! I thought I was the only one!! hehhe, I LOVE that part, soooo much

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Fresh, we should be new best friends bc I agree soo much with everything you just said.

How fun is this thread? It's so great that we all love the same things.

I love in the Wedding Singer "and George gets down on tambourine" and then you can hear it in the backround.

Oh, gee, I love all of you.

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