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

[&OneForMahler]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 4:31pm

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."

[All_For_Laura]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 4:46pm

"I hate your coy little act! Is that a fact?" Leave Me Alone, Side Show

The Riffing at the end of "Feel the rain fall" Parade

"All For Laura, I will be strong! I will live to write this wrong!" All For Laura Reprise, Woman in White

"Everything I wished for!" Make Him Mine, Witches of Eastwick

[BroadwayNick]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:03pm

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!"

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:06pm

In the OBC of "Into The Woods", in "Stay With Me", Bernadette Peters gives a sad, little sigh before "Don't you know what's out there in the world..." Just something about that sigh kills me.

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:12pm

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

[Colle]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:12pm

Heather Headley's "Shadowland" on "The Lion King" OBC. I especially like how she makes her voice trail(that is the best way I can describe it) at the end of the "lea halaleda" right after the "take this prayer, what lies out there" line.

I am going to try to think of more for later.
Updated On: 6/29/06 at 04:12 PM

[Flahooley]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:19pm

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.

[shiksa_goddess]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:41pm

Miss Saigon OLRC- During please when Lea yells "Oh Tam he's here!" She sounds so amazing on that part.

Bare- On the sampler during "Role of a Lifetime," when Peter sings "Spending days in silent fear and spending nights in lonely prayer." Also one word in "You & I.." when Jason says "crack." I dunno why...

The Last 5 Years- In "The Next 10 minutes" when Jamie and Cathy sing "There are so many dreams I need to see with you /There are so many years I need to be with you."

The Rocky Horror Show- During "Once in a While" when Brad sings "The sweeter the wine, the harder to make the break." I also love "You beat the other girls to the bride's bouquet!"

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 7:48pm

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.

[azelma]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:29pm

I think a lot of mine have already been mentioned.
-My favorite is probably the aforementioned Fantine/Eponine harmony in Les Mis OBC.
-In Rent, I'm particulary fond of Voicemail #5(?), but I think there are plenty more.
-In the Sweeney Todd revival, I absolutely adore the part in "God, That's Good" when Lovett and Todd are talking ("Is this a chair fit for a king...") and you can hear Toby on violin in the background playing "Not While I'm Around"

I know I have many more, but I can't think of them.

[mijofly19]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:37pm

-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."

[littlelotte64]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 2:57am

"mmm...I must say, in "Follow Your Heart" from Urinetown...when Hunter Foster and Jennifer Laura Thompson sing "laughter and GLADNESS..." It always makes me just want to kiss someone. "

I couldn't agree more.

on the Weddding Singer recording everytime Julia sings "Will you sing at my wedding?" it makes me well up with tears everytime. Also the song "Grow Old With You", the whole thing lol.

In the Last Five Years the song The Next Ten Minutes, when Cathy sings "I want to be your wife, I want to bear you child." Sherie gives me chills at that point.

And as for Les Mis, On My Own in general...god i love that song.

I think I'm done now lol.

Updated On: 6/30/06 at 02:57 AM

[LostLeander]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 3:34am

"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.

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 11:40am

When Sarah Brightman starts singing the title number from "The Phantom of the Opera." I just love it. I love that whole song. Ialso like trying to pick out different people during the big argument during the Don Juan rehearsal.

On the new "Sweeney Todd" recording: I don't know who it is (maybe someone who has seen it can tell me) but when Anthony barges in at the end of "Pretty Women" and there's that (I'm guessing) string instrument plucking a steady beat under the dialogue. To me, it sounds like a bomb ticking inside Todd that it about to explode. But if anyone can tell me what it really is I'd be very grateful.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 2:30pm

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.

[dancnqn5]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 5:57pm

OBC of Sweeney Todd

~ In "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" the 'Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle' overlapp. The growth of it is just amazing and terrifying at the same time.

~ I also love during "Kiss Me pt 2" when the quartet is at it's fullest towards the end. I just recently was able to sit down and listen to it carefully and I just love how it sounds.

[brendcat]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 11:16pm

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"

[BNN]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 11:28pm

Lippa's Wild Party- The end of Life of the Party starting from the "Who's it gonna be..."

Sweeney Todd OBC- Angela Lansbury in the first few seconds of The Worst Pies in London

Sweeney Todd Revival- The section in By the Sea towards the end where the music turns almost into elevator music

I'm really descriptive, I know.

Posted: 6/30/06 at 11:31pm

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. ;-(

[snl89]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 11:42pm

Lippa's Wild Party- The end of Life of the Party starting from the "Who's it gonna be..."
YES!! just. agreed. haha. Just that one section truly shows Idina's FULL brilliance :) that girl can sing (particularly jazz, but in general too) like no other.

Other moments:
1)In the les mis obcr, the "2-4-6-0-1" part in the end of Who Am I. Just. Incredible. Although, there are soooooo many amazing moments on that cd I cant even begin to list them all.
2)In wedding singer, basically the entire harmony part in If I Told You. I just cant get over how incredibly gorgeous Stephen and Laura's voices blend together
3)RENT, the whole last part of Finale B. Just. Its probably THE most amazing ending song to any show. Ever.
4)Tick Tick Boom- ALL of Louder Than Words. It's just one of those times you have to go "Thank you Jonathon Larson." and that is all that can be said. Probably, in my opinion, the best song ever written. And that is no exaggeration for me
5)Aida- The ends of both Dance of the Robe and the Gods Love Nubia. Heather Headly is just unbelievable. Also, the parts in Elaberate Lives and Written In the Stars where the music picks up. Sooooooooo amazing
6)All of Some Things are Meant To Be from the Little Women OBCR. It makes me cry. Practically every time. The harmonies are just so incredibly gorgeous and ahhh.
7)Lippa's Wild Party- the group/harmony part of Make Me Happy. Oh. My. God. Just. brilliant. that is all haha
8. See What I Wanna See- the whole beginning part of Rising Up. So incredible

Updated On: 6/30/06 at 11:42 PM

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 7/1/06 at 12:05am

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

[freshasadaisy]

Posted: 7/1/06 at 12:22am

1) The gorgeous 3-part harmony at the end of the "I Love You Song" from Spelling Bee... gives me goosebumps.

2) 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!

3) Sara Ramirez singing her face off at the end of "Find Your Grail" in Spamalot - when the orchestra drops out for a split second and she hits that "yeah". So good.

4) Kelli O'Hara singing the "everywhere, it's everywhere, it's everything and everywhere... Fabrizio" in Piazza.

5) The rockin opening guitar solo in "Comfort in Joy" from Bat Boy.

6) Jennifer Laura Thompson in "I See A River" from Urinetown - when she does the gospel riff on "freedom" in the first verse.

7) In "I Turned the Corner" from Millie, Gavin Creel singing "the way you make me feel" on that crazy beautiful high note. Sigh. Anything he does is my favorite. Seriously.


Updated On: 7/1/06 at 12:22 AM

[snl89]

Posted: 7/1/06 at 12:29am

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

[broadway_socialite]

Posted: 7/1/06 at 12:32am

I like ones that are really over dramatic and/or make me laugh a little, so...

-"Good fortune witch hunters" from Wicked
-"Women of Paris come gather your bloody bouquets" from Scarlet Pimpernell
-"Czolgosh workin' man/ born in the middle of Michi-gan" from Assassin

[OnMyWay]

Posted: 7/1/06 at 12:32am

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.