Best Overture vote- Page 2
Best Overture vote
#25re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:49pmI've always loved Gypsy. However I also love JCS, No, No, Nanette, West Side Story, and several others. It's a very hard thing to write... but when you do it correctly, it soars.
that's a really big mic...
#26re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/11/05 at 6:00pmI defiantely want to add Candide for its energy and WSS for its thrilling bolt of adrenaline you get from hearing it live.
"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
To Kill A Mockingbird
#27re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/11/05 at 6:10pm
GYPSY. Hands down.
However, Julian did remind me of the fabulousness that is known as the JCS overture. Gotta love those horns & guitars. They don't make 'em like that anymore...
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#28re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/11/05 at 6:20pm
Titanic
I can't put my finger on it but it reminds me of, like, romance.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
holdmetouchme
Chorus Member Joined: 5/3/05
#30re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/11/05 at 7:04pm
There's Gypsy.....
and then everything else!
Perhaps it was not a dream.
Gooch
Understudy Joined: 3/15/05
#31re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/11/05 at 7:10pmCandide is indeed amazing, and one of my all time faourites is Promises, Promises. Iy makes me happy immediately.
#32re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/11/05 at 7:11pmI love Candide's overture very much as well as Light In The Piazza. Those are my votes.
BwayFan4
Stand-by Joined: 6/1/05
#33re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 12:09amGYPSY,Funny Girl,Sweet Charity,Candide,Carousel,Phantom of the Opera
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#34re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 12:42am
Mammia Mia - I love that big "boom" in the begining, gets me everytime.
And I love Wicked's jus the begining part. Its so powerful.
phantom_tenor
Leading Actor Joined: 1/11/05
Albin
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#36re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:37am
I think we need to come to an agreement on exactly what an overture is. The openings of Saigon, Les Miz, Titanic and Phantom don't strike me as overtures.
That being said, my favorites:
Funny Girl
The Producers
Millie
The Jerry Herman hattrick.
#37re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 8:18amI find the overture to The Light in The Piazza really stunning. I don't really have a favorite, as that kind of thing can change almost daily when there is so much material to chose from - but currently, I'm pretty darned impressed with Piazza.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#38re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 10:35am
i had a great cd called THE OVERTURES OF JULE STYNE and i loved loved loved it. i think some drunken satyr used it as a coaster at one of my parties and ruined it.
i want to vote for THE KING & I, however. that overture gives me goose bumps and i'm giddy with anticipation.
Mind is Mantra.
#39re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 11:00am
and we all know there's NOTHING worse than a drunnken satyr! Well, perhaps one who's in rehab....
" 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
#40re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 11:32amWow...Gypsy...Sweet Charity...Merrily...a rare moment of unity here on BWW!
#41re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 11:37am
My Fair Lady
West Side Story
Urinetown (because it's so damn fun)
And now I really need to hear Gypsy because I love Sondheim and I feel so left out. ARGH! Damn you, pocketbook, for being so empty!
#42re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 1:19pm
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (my favorite part of the show)
Merrily, Gypsy and Candide
#43re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 1:50pm
Promises, Promises
Subways are for Sleeping --one of the great Jule Styne overtures
Forum
The Pajama Game
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#44re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 2:08pmI don't even really like Follies, but I think the opening orchestrations are stunning.
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
#45re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 2:21pm
GYPSY
CHICAGO
SWEET CHARITY
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#46re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 2:27pm
I think the Overtures or Opening Numbers for the following shows are really memorable or set the tone of the entire shows well...
Gypsy
Phantom of the Opera
Tom Wait's Woyzeck
Lion King
Jesus Christ Superstar
Evita
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss Me, Kate
Avenue Q
Into the Woods
West Side Story
Big River
Caroline, or Change
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Ironically, I really love the DRS overture but loathe the Full Monty one, and they're by the same guy
Updated On: 9/13/05 at 02:27 PM
#47re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:46pmThe light in the Piazza....I was in tears
This is wanting something
This is reaching for it
This is wishing that a moment would arrive- LITP
everybody goes down well with beer!-sweeney
Todd
Listen to the stories
Hear it in the songs
Angry men don't write the rules and guns don't right the wrongs!-Assassins
worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#48re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:03pm
Monty Python's SpamAlot(it's funnier at the show then on the cd)
The Producers
All Shook Up
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Urinetown
La Cage Aux Folles
The Phantom of The Opera
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#49re: Best Overture vote
Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:31pm
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. That's the Vince Vaughn of Broadway overtures. I keep half expecting to have someone stand up from the pit and scream 'F*** you' when its all over. I dunno, maybe thats just me...
Carousel. Nothing beats that waltz.
Light in the Piazza is very pretty too.
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