Best Openning Numbers

[Qfan2.0]

Best Openning Numbers#0

Posted: 3/13/05 at 1:34am

List your favorite openning Numbers:

My faves are
"The old Red hills..."-Parade
"No one mourns the Wicked"-Wicked(actually my favorite number in the whole show)
"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd"-Sweenedy Todd

post yours

[munkustrap178]

re: Best Openning Numbers#1

Posted: 3/13/05 at 1:35am

DEFINITELY Sweeney.
NINE
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
INTO THE WOODS (all 15 minutes of it)

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[Qfan2.0]

re: Best Openning Numbers#2

Posted: 3/13/05 at 1:36am

damn i forgot into the woods

[everythingtaboo]

re: Best Openning Numbers#3

Posted: 3/13/05 at 1:43am

Ragtime
Chicago
Into the Woods

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

[Jwei123]

re: Best Openning Numbers#4

Posted: 3/13/05 at 1:46am

42nd street
a chorus line

awkward.

"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912

[PleaseChangeMe]

re: Best Openning Numbers#5

Posted: 3/13/05 at 1:50am

Ladies and Gentlemen, I Hope I Get It from A Chorus Line is THE opening number, above No One Mourns The Wicked, and even though it's Sondheim, The Prologue from Into The Woods.

[theatrechic]

re: Best Openning Numbers#6

Posted: 3/13/05 at 2:46am

Ragtime
We Dance (Once On This Island)
Opening the New World (Songs For A New World)
30/90 (Tick, Tick Boom)

[HeyMrMusic]

re: Best Openning Numbers#7

Posted: 3/13/05 at 2:51am

Into the Woods gets my vote.

~Steven

[david felderman]

re: Best Openning Numbers#8

Posted: 3/13/05 at 4:09am

Into the woods.
Amen.

[shira467]

re: Best Openning Numbers#9

Posted: 3/13/05 at 4:27am

I'm going with 42nd Street and A Chorus Line. You just sit there, jaw open, for the first several minutes.

Deet: Shira, I Love You!

[MargoChanning]

re: Best Openning Numbers#10

Posted: 3/13/05 at 4:34am

DREAMGIRLS -- it establishes every character and conflict in the show in the first (breathless and electrifying) 15 minutes.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[Mr Roxy]

re: Best Openning Numbers#11

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:14am

24 Hours A Day - Golden Rainbow
Will-O-Mania - Will Rogers Follies
Beautiful Girls - Follies

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[playbill_signer_05]

re: Best Openning Numbers#12

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:22am

RENT! Wow i'm getting predictable. lol. But I also think "Little Shop of Horrors" and "No One Mourns the Wicked" are GREAT, and so is the opening of Chicago.

[Therese]

re: Best Openning Numbers#13

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:25am

RAGTIME - When I finally got to see this (regional), I was practically in tears by the end of the opening, I was so thrilled.

And even though I've only seen the abbreviated version on the Tonys, I have to put in a vote for "Sucks to Be Me," from Ave. Q.; I love how it introduces the characters.

"In my own little corner..."

[FOAnatic]

re: Best Openning Numbers#14

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:34am

Wilkkomen from CABARET

Fisch Schlapping Song from SPAMALOT

We Are What We Are from LA CAGE

Tradition from FIDDLER

It Sucks To Be Me from AVENUE Q

Prologue from INTO THE WOODS

I'll think of more.

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

[Feodor Sverdlov]

re: Best Openning Numbers#15

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:45am

The greatest opening number is from the show CARNIVAL. From a single spot and one person with a concertina, to a complete carnival before our eyes. It was incredible. Other good openings - DREAMGIRLS, RAGTIME, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

scooter3843

[WISHIHADATONY]

re: Best Openning Numbers#16

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:52am

Beautiful Girls from FOLLIES

I hope I Get It from A CHORUS LINE

Comedy Tonight from A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

Tradition from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Company from COMPANY

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

[QtKt]

re: Best Openning Numbers#17

Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:55am

Into the Woods
Avenue Q
Wicked
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[wickedrentq]

re: Best Openning Numbers#18

Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:03pm

I definitely agree with certain ones like Into The Woods, but I also have to put in a vote for West Side Story's "Prologue." Sure it's different because there's not really singing, but that's what makes it all better--most of the story and conflict is shown just through Leonard Bernstein's amazing score and Jerome Robbins' amazing choerography. I think it's still a magical moment in theatre.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

[Unknown User]

re: Best Openning Numbers#19

Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:15pm

Prologue-Into the Woods
Oh the Things You Can Think-Seussical

[whatyouown223]

re: Best Openning Numbers#20

Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:20pm

The Phantom Of The Opera
Wicked
Hairspray
Into The Woods

[SallyBrown]

re: Best Openning Numbers#21

Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:24pm

The Phantom of the Opera
West Side Story
CHICAGO

and I would like to say YAGMCB, more simple then the others, but a great way to start the show!

"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."

[SallyBrown]

re: Best Openning Numbers#22

Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:28pm

and Thoroughly Modern Millie

"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."

[StickToPriest]

re: Best Openning Numbers#23

Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:43pm

Ragtime
A Man of No Importance
Sweeney Todd
Company
Into the Woods
Forum

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[Unmasked05]

re: Best Openning Numbers#24

Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:56pm

Ragtime
Aida (I love this opening)
CATS
The Phantom
Wicked
Seussical the Musical
Into the Woods

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