Best Finales

[LetMeLeave]

Best Finales#0

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:25pm

Personally, I love me a good finale and sadly I don't get it in many shows, the ONLY finale I LOVE LOVE LOVE is the Finale to RENT. I'm sorry, but that is the hands down, BEST finale number ever.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

re: Best Finales#1

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:27pm

Cabaret! There is no better Finale! Not ever been!

[hannahshule]

re: Best Finales#2

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:30pm

Les miserables

~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~

[LetMeLeave]

re: Best Finales#3

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:30pm

you guys are crazy.

[umgeoboy]

re: Best Finales#4

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:30pm

I have to agree with Franklin Cabaret has an amazing finale.

I for one did not care for Rent's finale. When she coughs, wakes up, and screams "I'm BACK..." too corny for me.

I loved the finale from Les Mis, with all of the dead members of the cast showing back up on stage for the wedding.

And the finale from Titanic again with the dead memebers...I think it's something to do with realising how many people died. Always gets me.

"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo

"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q

"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical

[My Fair Lady]

re: Best Finales#5

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:42pm

Little Shop of Horrors.

[J.J.]

re: Best Finales#6

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:44pm

In my eyes - Titanic, hands down.
Love the ending to Follies.

"Mutate or perish."

[maybethistime]

re: Best Finales#7

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:46pm

If you'd count Rose's Turn (plus the little bit of diologue after), I think it's the best, closly followed by Cabaret.

[WISHIHADATONY]

re: Best Finales#8

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:48pm

A CHORUS LINE

"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."

[bwaybaby891]

re: Best Finales#9

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:49pm

I love the finale to "Wicked". Not the music to it but the actual finale during the show. I was cheering and almost crying when I saw it. Even the people who had been there before were excited. There is just something about it.

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals" -Benjamin Franklin

[whatyouown223]

re: Best Finales#10

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:49pm

The Phantom Of The Opera
Les Miserables
I'm sorry.....but I like Wicked's

[bwaybaby891]

re: Best Finales#11

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:50pm

Thank You, whatyouown223. I love it too. It was magical and sad at the same time. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals" -Benjamin Franklin

[WillParker]

re: Best Finales#12

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:51pm

you stole mine, JJ--i was going to say Follies...the eerie quietness of it after we've been thru all that emotional turmoil...chilling.

"I'll eat some breakfast then change the world." "I hate you, and I hate your ass face!"

[suddenlyseymour]

re: Best Finales#13

Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:51pm

the king and i, i was fighting back some tears it was so sad...and also little shop

[broadway betty]

re: Best Finales#14

Posted: 3/8/05 at 5:05pm

YOU CAN'T STOP THE BEAT!

Hairspray is a joy to sit through, but YCSTB is the icing on the already delicious cake that sends you into a diabetic coma!

"I'm the STAR!"--Daniel Reichard during Glory Daze sound check

[stagestar130]

re: Best Finales#15

Posted: 3/8/05 at 5:25pm

I'll have to agree with Hairspray. Sometimes it can be a bit over the top though

[zippyjen]

re: Best Finales#16

Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:17pm

oh so many! LSOH, hairspray, cabaret and i have to say rent.

"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!

[oxdreaminxo]

re: Best Finales#17

Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:25pm

Let Me Leave- I totally agree. Hands down, Rent has the best finale.

A most ingenious paradox.

[LetMeLeave]

re: Best Finales#18

Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:27pm

thank you! I knew I wasn't the only one to have felt that way.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: Best Finales#19

Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:29pm

YAGMCB
Taboo
Caroline or Change

those are the only i can think of that haven't been listed

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[Edelweiss]

re: Best Finales#20

Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:38pm

I very much agree that Titanic has the best finale...I was able to be there the night the show closed and you could see that the cast was so moved...the tears were real. I really effected me...imagine a 16 year old girl walking back to the hotel sobbing...yep that's what the ending did to me.

(Les Miserables is also right up there...another tear jerker)

[zippyjen]

re: Best Finales#21

Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:39pm

how could i have forgotten YAGMCB!!!!

"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!

[FOAnatic]

re: Best Finales#22

Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:56pm

Top 3:
CABARET
GYPSY
INTO THE WOODS

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

[Footlooser]

re: Best Finales#23

Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:17pm

Les Mis rocked my world
I also loved the finale of Fiddler on the Roof

"You know just because you put a smiley face after it doesn't change the fact that it was an a-hole comment." ~ Sumofallthings

[little_sally]

re: Best Finales#24

Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:23pm

Les Miserables
POTO
Hairspray
The Boy From Oz ("I Go to Rio" was great)

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.