Best Openning Numbers

[Qfan2.0]

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]

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

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

[Qfan2.0]

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

damn i forgot into the woods

[everythingtaboo]

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

Ragtime
Chicago
Into the Woods

[Jwei123]

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

42nd street
a chorus line

[PleaseChangeMe]

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]

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]

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

Into the Woods gets my vote.

~Steven

[david felderman]

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

Into the woods.
Amen.

[shira467]

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.

[MargoChanning]

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.

[Mr Roxy]

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

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

[playbill_signer_05]

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]

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.

[FOAnatic]

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.

[Feodor Sverdlov]

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

[WISHIHADATONY]

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

[QtKt]

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

Into the Woods
Avenue Q
Wicked
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[wickedrentq]

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.

[Unknown User]

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

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

[whatyouown223]

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

The Phantom Of The Opera
Wicked
Hairspray
Into The Woods

[SallyBrown]

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!

[SallyBrown]

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

and Thoroughly Modern Millie

[StickToPriest]

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

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

[Unmasked05]

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

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