Best Musical Overture.
Best Musical Overture.
#1Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:33pm
Everybody talks about favorite songs...but what about favorite overtures - - -I can think of some really good ones - can anyone else???
#2re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:33pm
Candide is legendary.
i also find Bounce's to be fantastic.
and you can't not mention Merrily
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#2re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:35pm
There are a bunch of threads on this subject already, but I'll bite.
The Fantasticks has one of the most elegant overtures I've ever heard.
She Loves Me is on of my personal favorites
and while not an overture, I think The prologue from Godspell is the best opening Ive heard for a showin a long time.
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#3re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:36pmCandide, Merrily, Sunset Boulevard, Follies, Urinetown, and Piazza.
broadwaybelter
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#4re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:38pm
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=118829#2719054
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=921136#2717082
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=895473#2134342
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=443240#443511
Many other threads as well. Though while we're here--"Sunset Boulevard" is pretty fantastic.
Updated On: 2/14/07 at 10:38 PM
husk_charmer
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#4re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:38pmGypsy. Hands down, those first 4 notes...omg...
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#6re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:40pmi forgot about the charming She Loves Me overture. it's wonderful
"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
#7re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:45pmCandide for sure. Gypsy, The Phantom of the Opera, Kiss Me, Kate and oddly Cabaret. I downloaded the Cabaret overture on itunes. It's crap but I like listening to it. The entr'acte is better, though not on the new London revival CD as they butchered it. I've always found the entr'act in Beauty and the Beast to be gorgeous and often overlooked because it's Disney.
#8re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:47pmGypsy and The Drowsy Chaperone are my favorites.
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husk_charmer
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#9re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:47pmBATB has a nice overture/entr'acte. Wizard of Oz (Though film) has a lovely one, and I really kinda like the one for Carrie...nicely ominus, slightly ridiculous. I like the exit music for "Into the Woods" too.
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#10re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:48pmTHREEPENNY OPERA
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Fenchurch
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#11re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:50pm
I definitely second Candide and Threepenny.
Again, no idea what people see in Gypsy
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husk_charmer
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#12re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:52pmI like "Gypsy" because it sort of grabs you by the waist and pulls you along.
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#13re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:58pm
I love Candide, Gypsy, Sunset Boulevard, Follies, and Applause.
Funny, it seems to be less debate over Overtures than anything else. Maybe it's because there's rules to a great overture, it's not so much a taste thing.
ETA: Follies.
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Updated On: 2/14/07 at 10:58 PM
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#14re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 10:59pm
GYPSY
(& thats what i'll say next time, too!)
#15re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 11:02pmI personally love Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Urinetown. But there are a lot of good overtures out there...
neddyfrank2
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#17re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 11:08pmI think Gypsy, Bells ar Ringing,and Follies
teka21
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#19re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 11:11pmoh Follies is awesome!
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#21re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 11:15pm
Follies
Gypsy
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#22re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/14/07 at 11:17pm
While short, The Producers overture really hit me when I first heard it.
'Made me fall in love with it from the get-go.
Goshen doesn't do High-School-shows.
COOOOLkid
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#24re: Best Musical Overture.
Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:09am
I think Sunset Boulevard's overture is hauntingly beautiful.
I LOVE Cats' overture. Don't ask me why.
Of course, I love Gypsy's and Candide's overtures. :)
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