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#26

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:09pm

"Rose's Turn"-GYPSY
"Live, Laugh, Love"-FOLLIES (not exactly the closing number but I guess it counts)
"One"-A CHORUS LINE
"Sunday (Reprise)"-SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
"Epilogue"-CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (Emmie's final words always get me)
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#27

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:13pm

Hairspray, for all it's silliness and cheesey storylines, does have a pretty great finale.

My ultimate favorite would have to be Rose's Turn from Gypsy. It's just so visceral and emotional. And I can't really recall an intense musical number, pre 1959, that seems to be taking place inside the psyche of the character singing it. It's truly amazing.

I love A Chorus Line's as well, but I think it gets misinterpreted. I mean isn't it supposed to be more sad than joyful? The fact that they've all just become clones of one another. That's always the way i've thought of it atleast.
#28

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:14pm

'You Can't Stop The Beat'

I wanto to say 'I have a dream', but it's not technically the ending of the show. So, 'Waterloo' or just the end of MAMMA MIA! in general..
"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster. "Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
#30

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:42pm

Rose's Turn by far!!

But it stands big competition against the hilarious quote by Jennifer Laura Thompson, "My fellow Ozians, I LOVE IDINA MENZEL!!" (not verbatim, but close enough)
#31

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:43pm

"As We Stumble Along (Reprise)" from Drowsy Chaperone always brightens my day!

Updated On: 6/27/07 at 11:43 PM

#32

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:43pm

SPAMALOT
c'mon a gay couple get together
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
#34

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:10am

Les Miserables
Ragtime
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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#35

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:13am

Id say by far Rent and Company have the best closing numbers because both their songs give us a new beginning. Thats rather cliche but I like it alot how each song offers oppurtunity to some degree.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#39

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:40am

Going by the definition of "number...then blackout", as opposed to the traditional 11 o'clock number:

"Being Alive" Company
"Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)" Ragtime
"One (Reprise)" A Chorus Line
"Come on in From the Outside" Taboo
"You Can't Stop the Beat" Hairspray
"Finale B" Rent
"Only in the Movies" Kiss of the Spider Woman

...and because it's been stuck in my head for the past month...

"XANADU" Xanadu


"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#40

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:45am

i cant believe no one mentioned 42nd st!

both marsh's reprise as well as the completely danced finale complete with the stairs in the revival...seriously amazing.

and rose's turn, of course.
hear the beat...
#41

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:00am

yes ben4, you are totally right. michael bennet actually said that the ending of chorus line wast the saddest ending he could think of, because we have gotten to know these people individually and now they are unidentifiable and in terrible costumes in what is really a pretty tacky cliche number. so yes, it has been horribly misread over the years. in its intention though, absolutly brilliant.
#42

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:56am

You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel, I don't think I have ever cried so hard at the end of a show, and Children Will Listen from Into the Woods.
#43

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:58am

I was just thinking about this today. My favorites are defidently Being Alive and Finale B from Rent and Company.
"I feel god in this chili's..."
#44

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:04am

You Can't Stop the Beat!!!
along time ago when i did this at summer camp i was Motormouth Maybelle!!! lol it was fun
"Operator, you have obviously never been trapped in a Chinese opium den!" - Thoroughly Modern Millie
#45

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:21am

AH! I love the finale in "Baby"! Some of the music in there is beautiful...

And I'll definitely agree with "Fable" from Piazza.
"...and in a bed."
#49

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:36am

"Make Our Garden Grow" from CANDIDE, especially as it was staged in the 74 production. Gorgeous, sixteen-part, a capella choral work, building to this glorious climax as a bucolic scene is filled with all the characters we've seen throughout the evening, even the cow, which gently nuzzles our heroes. The music sweeps to this magnificent diminished seventh chord... and suddenly, before it can resolve, the cow tips over. Standing next to it, Voltaire looks down, then says, with a bit of bemusement, "Ah well. The plague."
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#50

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:39am

Mamma Mia
Hairspray
Les Mis
and of course Blood Brothers!! (ok I know it didnt last as long on Broadway but that ending is very emotional and powerful!)
Cabaret

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