Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical- Page 2

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

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)

[ben4]

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.

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

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..

[jv92]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:36pm

Rose's Turn!

[MungoGypsy8232]

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)

[i.heart.link]

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

[bundy5000]

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

SPAMALOT
c'mon a gay couple get together

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:59pm

The Phantom!!!! I love the mystery of not really knowing what happens to him!

[Kitzarina]

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

Les Miserables
Ragtime

[Theatreboy49]

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.

[IAMmyownMUSICAL]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:17am

RENT

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:27am

Agreed, y'all:
Being Alive
Rose's Turn
Fable

And I'm very in love with Who Loves You?

[Christina Cooper]

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

For Good- Wicked

And Finale B- RENT

Awesome!!

[everythingtaboo]

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

[BwayBoy25]

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.

[jmponstage]

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.

[Lavieboheme3090]

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.

[opiv]

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.

[shakejake6282]

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

[sing_dance_love]

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.

[Anthony3]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 3:01am

Who Loves You - Jersey Boys

[donna_darko_23]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 3:40am

Rent
Company
Sunday in the Park with George
tick...tick...BOOM!
ACL
Spring Awakening
Hairspray
Sweeney Todd

[AStack75]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:25am

Don't know if this counts, but I loved "Catch Our Act At The Met" at the recent Encores! Stairway to Paradise.

[SeanMartin]

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."

[NS]

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