Best Openning Numbers
Best Openning Numbers
#0Best Openning Numbers
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
#1re: Best Openning Numbers
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
#3re: Best Openning Numbers
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
#4re: Best Openning Numbers
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
Featured Actor Joined: 8/24/04
#5re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 1:50amLadies 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
Understudy Joined: 8/27/04
#6re: Best Openning Numbers
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)
david felderman
Swing Joined: 3/12/05
#9re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 4:27amI'm going with 42nd Street and A Chorus Line. You just sit there, jaw open, for the first several minutes.
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MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#10re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 4:34amDREAMGIRLS -- 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
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11re: Best Openning Numbers
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
Leading Actor Joined: 1/23/05
#12re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:22amRENT! 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
Broadway Star Joined: 1/2/05
#13re: Best Openning Numbers
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..."
#14re: Best Openning Numbers
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#15re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:45amThe 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
#16re: Best Openning Numbers
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
Leading Actor Joined: 9/15/04
#17re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:55am
Into the Woods
Avenue Q
Wicked
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#18re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:03pmI 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:15pm
Prologue-Into the Woods
Oh the Things You Can Think-Seussical
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#20re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:20pm
The Phantom Of The Opera
Wicked
Hairspray
Into The Woods
#21re: Best Openning Numbers
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."
#22re: Best Openning Numbers
Posted: 3/13/05 at 12:28pmand 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."
#23re: Best Openning Numbers
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.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#24re: Best Openning Numbers
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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