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Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
#75re: 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!!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#77re: 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 !
#78re: 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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Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#79re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/29/07 at 9:21am
"Those You've Known And Lost Still Walk Behind You"-Spring Awakening
Updated On: 8/6/08 at 09:21 AM
Emcee4ever
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#80re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/29/07 at 10:05amThe Finale from Cabaret and the Finale from Wicked. :)
worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#81re: 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
#82re: 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.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
Updated On: 6/29/07 at 01:07 PM
BDavis0092
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/06
#83re: 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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#84re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/29/07 at 3:27pm"110", "Rent", "Ave Q"... just to name a few.
#85re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/29/07 at 3:40pmOne of my favorites is "Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)" from Ragtime.
Shari Lewis: Did you ever wish upon a star?
Lamb Chop: I once asked Mr. Rogers for his autograph.
#86re: 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.
#87re: 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.
#88re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:11pm
RAGTIME- just beautiful
Sunday in the Park with George
#89re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:38pmCompany is one of my favorites, but I agree that Chorus Line's ending is fantastic.
#90re: 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)
#91re: 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.
::bust a move::
#92re: 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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twoladies
Chorus Member Joined: 12/4/07
#93re: 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.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#94re: 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!
#95re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 8/6/08 at 3:12pmquestion... 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?
cfnumberone
Swing Joined: 8/4/08
#96re: 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
#98re: 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
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
Updated On: 8/6/08 at 03:21 PM
lovesclassics
Broadway Star Joined: 10/7/05
#99re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 8/6/08 at 4:00pm"Kickin' the Clouds Away" from "My One and Only"
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