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#26

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 1:58pm

OhmyGodyouguys!
I love the overtures at Spring Awakening and Wicked!
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#27

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:36pm

Although I have to say, some other overtures I really listen to, sometime more than the rest of the album

Almost anything by Bock and Harnick, especially She Loves Me, Tenderloin and The Rothschilds.

The Fantasticks is another favorite of mine.

I also like the overture to Song and Dance, its a little guilty pleasure.

And On The Twentieth Century is incredible, so well constructed.
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Updated On: 12/29/06 at 02:36 PM

#28

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:39pm

It's definately Candide with the Fantasticks as second. I think I listen to the overture to Candide more than any of the other songs (except maybe Glitter And Be Gay, I love that song :) )
#29

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:02pm

Candide, Miss Saigon, and The Light in the Piazza
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#30

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:03pm

The light in the piazza
Wicked
Phantom
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#31

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:39pm

Isn't there another thread exactly like this?
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#32

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:41pm

Four or five.
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#33

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:48pm

Speaking of bad overtures...Color Purple's was awful but, I love the play. Did anyone notice that?

Any of Bernstein and R&H musicals have very beautiful overtures that I can listen to over and over (e.g. Candide, WSS, Sound of Music, Carousel, Flower Drum, King and I, etc.). Candide and King and I top my list for my personal favorites.
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#34

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:56pm

*rushes to post in all*

I love the string intro to "Mama Who Bore Me," though I don't consider it much of an overture.

The Pirate Queen Overture was great, though the longer version was...a little too long.
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#35

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 4:04pm

Gypsy
Sweet Charity
Funny Girl
They all have fantastic overtures
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#36

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 4:12pm

Peter Pan has an amazing one. underrated, IMO.

i actually don't like gypsy's that much..

Candide is good.

I really like Wonderful Town, and basically all the big Bernstein shows (On The Town mainly).
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#37

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 4:21pm

without question... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Full Monty!

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#38

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 5:26pm

My favourites are:

Les Misérables
Wicked
Witches Of Eastwick
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#39

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 6:50pm

Gypsy or any Jule Styne score
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#41

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 6:57pm

Another is Mack & Mabel or any Jerry Herman score
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#42

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 7:28pm

I love Amour's overture. It's so...bubbly, and different.

And Light in the Piazza. Something about overtures with singing, I guess.
#43

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 8:40pm

Gypsy
Sweet Charity
Les Miserables
The Light in the Piazza
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Rags
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#44

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 8:52pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Wicked, Mary Poppins...mostly things I've seen, because they bring back fond memories. =] As for DRS, it just sounds so sinister.
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Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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#45

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:47pm

oh west side story definitely. oh, it's so wonderful!
also, brigadoon has a lovely one as well.
=)
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#46

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/30/06 at 12:04am

i relaly like the urinetown overture. it's so nice and hummable!
#47

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/30/06 at 12:10am

Without a doubt....

The best overture to me is SUNSET BOULEVARD...
#48

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/30/06 at 1:46am

*The Light in the Piazza*



Other Fav's Include:
POTO
Spring Awakenings
42nd Street
WSS - duh
CHICAGO


And I agree with musicaltheater1, TCP's overture is terrible!

Updated On: 12/30/06 at 01:46 AM

#49

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/30/06 at 8:05am

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

Followed closely by CHICAGO, CATS and SUNSET BOULEVARD.
#50

re: Best Overture Ever

Posted: 12/30/06 at 12:04pm

I agree with much of what has already been written. Some that haven't been mentioned I also find invigorating:

The Rothschilds
Ben Franklin in Paris (better than most of the show!)
Applause

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