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#76

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 6:46pm

Great choices...

Defiunitely You Can't Stop the Beat - it's just so fun.
Little Shop... Don't Feed the Plants
I also liked Burning Love/C'mon Everybody from All Shook Up.
Mamma Mia megamix was absolutely fantastic,
and sitting third row center when I saw "Joseph..." in Boston having the bass from the Megamix go through me was just so neat!!

#77

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 6:50pm

Crazy For You finale.

#78

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:16pm

HAIRSPRAY - Wonderful !
RENT - Explosive !
LES MIS - Moving !
MAMMA MIA - Electrifying !
CRAZY FOR YOU - Dazling !
MISS SAIGON - Heartbreaking !

#79

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:26pm

Les Miz - Heart breaking
A Chorus Line - Simply wonderful
Carousel - Up lifting
Mamma Mia - Simply the most fun
Xanadu - Also simply fun!

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#80

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/29/07 at 9:21am

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"Those You've Known And Lost Still Walk Behind You"-Spring Awakening

Updated On: 8/6/08 at 09:21 AM

#81

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/29/07 at 10:05am

The Finale from Cabaret and the Finale from Wicked. :)

#82

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/29/07 at 12:55pm

Who Loves You-Jersey Boys
Don't Feed The Plants-LSOH
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd(finale)-Sweeney Todd
Burning Love-All Shook Up
For Now-Avenue Q
The Song of Purple Summer-Spring Awakening

#83

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/29/07 at 1:07pm

- You Can't Stop The Beat from Hairspray
- Being Alive from Company
- Dirty Rotten Number from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Find My Way from Legally Blonde
- Who Loves You from Jersey Boys
- Burning Love/C'mon Everybody [reprise] from All Shook Up
- For Now from Avenue Q.
-Finale from Wicked.

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Updated On: 6/29/07 at 01:07 PM

#84

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/29/07 at 3:06pm

Les Miserables finale is absolutely breath taking.

Being Alive from Company just brings me to tears.

Those are my two favorites. I also love You Can't Stop The Beat from Hairspray.

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#85

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/29/07 at 3:27pm

"110", "Rent", "Ave Q"... just to name a few.

#86

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/29/07 at 3:40pm

One of my favorites is "Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)" from Ragtime.

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#87

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 6/29/07 at 3:46pm

My vote goes to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame introduction / Confessional, leading to the finale where the Jersey Boys cast performs "Who Loves You" and December 1963.....

Nothing but chills down the spine, raw emotion, standing ovations and an encore..... That's what always happens to the audience when I watch "Jersey Boys". Electricity just fills the air in the theatre.

#88

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:09pm

Ragtime
A Chorus Line
The Drowsy Chaperone
In the Heights
and finally, Parade.

#89

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:11pm

RAGTIME- just beautiful
Sunday in the Park with George

#90

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:38pm

Company is one of my favorites, but I agree that Chorus Line's ending is fantastic.

#91

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:44pm

Come on in from the outside (Taboo)
Every Story is a Love Story (Aida)
Mamma Mia!, Dancing Queen and Waterloo! (Mamma Mia!)
Dirty Rotten Number (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)

#92

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 2:01pm

Hairspray: You Can't Stop the Beat... that's a given

But my latest obsession is the finale from In the Heights. It's so beautiful and powerful... and fun to blast in the car.

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#93

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 2:06pm

No one says... Rose's Turn? That is a major ending!

I also loved in CHESS (the Music Circus version) when they reunite Florence with her Father who has been rotting in jail for so many years and he is old and looks into her eyes and sees her again...

and Anything Can Happen from MARY POPPINS.. I just saw it a couple months ago and
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when she flies into the audience and waves at the audience ... I was waving back and crying... It was like my childhood all over again.

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#94

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 2:15pm

Rent - Finale B
In the Heights - Finale

I also thought the Cabaret revival finale was pretty epic.

#95

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 2:47pm

Man of La Mancha - as Cervantes walks slowly up those stairs to his fate and the prisoners rise to sing The Impossible Dream and the music builds and chills go down the spine.

The Sweeney Todd door slam is great!

#96

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 3:12pm

question... i don't know much about chess because i just started listening to it... on my cd he says something about if your father was alive he'd surely be dying with shame or something like that...s o isn't her father dead?

#97

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 3:19pm

Finale (The Impossible Dream) - Man of la Mancha - walking up the stairs to face the Spanish Inquisition

Every Story is a Love Story (Reprise) - Aida - back in the museum when the two notice each other

One (Reprise) - A Chorus Line - sparkly gold hats!

42nd Street (Reprise) - 42nd Street - Julian singing alone on stage gives me chills

Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer - Phantom of the Opera - beautiful music, empty chair...

Finale - West Side Story - wonderfully emotional

Updated On: 8/6/08 at 03:19 PM

#98

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 3:21pm

Mamma Mia
Les Mis
Avenue Q

#99

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 3:21pm

Rose's Turn - Gypsy
Song of Purple Summer - Spring Awakening
You Can't Stop the Beat - Hairspray
Come Look at the Freaks (Reprise) - Side Show

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Updated On: 8/6/08 at 03:21 PM

#100

re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical

Posted: 8/6/08 at 4:00pm

"Kickin' the Clouds Away" from "My One and Only"