Best Overture vote

[HamletWasBipolar]

Best Overture vote#0

Posted: 9/11/05 at 2:52pm

I was just wondering what everybody's favorite overtures/openings are? Classically, I love the Jerry Herman overtures ( w/Hello, Dolly being the fave), I also love Gypsy's overture. AS far as contemporary theatre. Valjean's prologue/opening number is what inspired me to make this a career choice when I saw it in high school, and as cliche as it is, I am a sucker for the "Gentleman, a little illumination"--- cue the moving chandelier. I am a Sondheim fan/performer, but that organ ditty still gets me EVERY time I see it live, and when I hear it provides a great visualization!

" I wish that the stage were as narrow as a tightrope wire, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." -- Goethe (he wants you to go to my Myspace page www.myspace.com/jasonklemm

[gavrochegirl]

re: Best Overture vote#1

Posted: 9/11/05 at 2:53pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Les Miserables
The Light in the Piazza
Wicked (Yes, you can pound me now.)
Gypsy

What the puck?!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: Best Overture vote#2

Posted: 9/11/05 at 2:55pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=251008#352099

[Sant]

re: Best Overture vote#3

Posted: 9/11/05 at 2:55pm

CHICAGO
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

[Jon]

re: Best Overture vote#4

Posted: 9/11/05 at 2:57pm

I think if you limit the poll to adults (in other words, those who don't think the Broadway musical began with RENT), the odds-on favorite would be GYPSY.

[lamentingenvelope]

re: Best Overture vote#5

Posted: 9/11/05 at 2:58pm

Gypsy is my all time favorite, Merrily We Roll Along is my current favorite.

[HamletWasBipolar]

re: Best Overture vote#6

Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:04pm

LOL..Jon..you mean there was broadway before Wicked?? We should be safe as there hasn't been a hell of a lot overtures written recently. I think witch Elphaba could fart on stage and half this site would vote it their favorite song!

" I wish that the stage were as narrow as a tightrope wire, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." -- Goethe (he wants you to go to my Myspace page www.myspace.com/jasonklemm

[Jon]

re: Best Overture vote#7

Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:05pm

The overture on the original cast album of MERRILY is thrilling. I hate the abbreviated overture in the "revised" version of the show (among many things I hate about the revisions).

[hypertruffle]

re: Best Overture vote#8

Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:06pm

My vote goes to Gypsy, Sweet Charity, and/or Candide.

"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve

[HamletWasBipolar]

re: Best Overture vote#9

Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:08pm

Having been in Merrily, I should lose my pink card for neglecting from my list!

" I wish that the stage were as narrow as a tightrope wire, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." -- Goethe (he wants you to go to my Myspace page www.myspace.com/jasonklemm

[boytobroadway]

re: Best Overture vote#10

Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:08pm

Les Miserables
Miss Saigon

They are short, but so full of emotion and set the tone for the whole musical. I LOVE IT!!!!

I love me some Les Mis and Miss Saigon,
B2B

[Demitri2]

re: Best Overture vote#11

Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:22pm

GYPSY with FUNNY GIRL a close second runner up. I've also always liked the overture to HIGH SPIRITS.

[GYPSY1527]

re: Best Overture vote#12

Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:24pm

Gypsy
Merrily We Roll Along

Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

[jasonf]

re: Best Overture vote#13

Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:27pm

Gypsy
Candide
Merrily
Carousel
West Side Story

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[WithoutATrace]

re: Best Overture vote#14

Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:52pm

Gypsy
Sweet Charity

[James885]

re: Best Overture vote#15

Posted: 9/11/05 at 4:49pm

I like the overture to The Producers, even though it was cut from the show.

Other favorites:
Gypsy
Urinetown
Les Mis
Miss Saigon
Little Women

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

[lovinlife2]

re: Best Overture vote#16

Posted: 9/11/05 at 4:50pm

MAMMA MIA is pretty rockin, and so is its Entracte

[joeybiltmore1]

re: Best Overture vote#17

Posted: 9/11/05 at 4:50pm

Funny Girl
Mack and Mabel
On the Twentieth Century

[cserannie]

re: Best Overture vote#18

Posted: 9/11/05 at 4:57pm

DRS

Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."

[popular_elphie]

re: Best Overture vote#19

Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:06pm

I really love the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels overture.

[Bwaybaby109]

re: Best Overture vote#20

Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:09pm

Gypsy
Phantom of the Opera
The Producers
Merrily We Roll Along
South Pacific
and the Nightmare Before Christmas one on the cd (fabulous!)

For Prologues:
Fiddler on the ROof
Into the Woods
Godspell
West Side Story

"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"

[WickedGeek28]

re: Best Overture vote#21

Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:14pm

I'm just going to list my favorites, but in no particular order.

Gypsy
Wonderful Town
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Sweet Charity
All Shook Up
La Cage Aux Folles
Little Women

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[VonTussleGirl]

re: Best Overture vote#22

Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:15pm

Gypsy. Gypsy. Gypsy.

Oh, and did I mention Gypsy?

[hearthatstrue]

re: Best Overture vote#23

Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:28pm

West Side Story
Chicago
Gypsy
Finian's Rainbow
Aida
Little Women

[best12bars]

re: Best Overture vote#24

Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:32pm

Gypsy, it is!

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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