#26
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:00pm
I really like Roosevelt Petrucius Coleslaw from Caroline, or Change. I think that it really fits the show, and yet it is still a great song to listen to.
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#27
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:02pm
Before they cut the intermission during previews, Storms a Brewin' in ....Trailer Park... was a great finale.
#28
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:10pm
Maybe because I just saw an excellent production of ALNM at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake my vote would go to "A Weekend in the Country." It combines several plot threads and sets up a great what-will-happen.
But that's just one of many possibilities.
But that's just one of many possibilities.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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#29
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:14pm
"Old Maid" in itself is a brilliant, brilliant song. I'm studying it in my voice lessons, and just starting to really appreciate it more than I already did.
Anyway, my vote goes to "I'd Give My Life for You" from Miss Saigon. The boat people chanting, and then Kim goes to join them... just a very haunting and dramatic ending.
Have to agree with Evita and Sweeney as well.
Anyway, my vote goes to "I'd Give My Life for You" from Miss Saigon. The boat people chanting, and then Kim goes to join them... just a very haunting and dramatic ending.
Have to agree with Evita and Sweeney as well.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#30
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:18pm
A Weekend In the Country- A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
A Little Preist- SWEENEY TODD
Sunday- SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
One Day More- LES MISERABLES
A New Argentina- EVITA
Everything's Coming Up Roses- GYPSY
All of those are pretty brilliant Act 1 Finales.
A Little Preist- SWEENEY TODD
Sunday- SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
One Day More- LES MISERABLES
A New Argentina- EVITA
Everything's Coming Up Roses- GYPSY
All of those are pretty brilliant Act 1 Finales.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#31
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:18pm
I love the act one finales in Spelling bee, Xanadu, Chorus Line, Drowsy Chaperone, and [Title Of Show].
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
Updated On: 7/30/08 at 05:18 PM
#32
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:19pm
For nostalgia, I still really love the end of RENT's 1st act.
I adore Passing Strange's act closer.
I adore Passing Strange's act closer.
#33
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:29pm
Blackout- In the heights (loved the cell phones)
One- bare (this is where **** hits the fan)
Defying gravity- Wicked (emotional and powerful)
One day more- les mis (classic and beautiful)
Bravest individual- Sweet Charity (FUNNY!!!)
And i'm telling you- dreamgirls
There are so many more but these are my all time favorites
One- bare (this is where **** hits the fan)
Defying gravity- Wicked (emotional and powerful)
One day more- les mis (classic and beautiful)
Bravest individual- Sweet Charity (FUNNY!!!)
And i'm telling you- dreamgirls
There are so many more but these are my all time favorites
#34
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:32pm
Definitely, Sunday from SITPWG.
It is simply beautiful.
It is simply beautiful.
#35
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:49pm
"Jimmy" as sung by Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
I can't help it. It's stuck in my head, my all time favorite show!
I can't help it. It's stuck in my head, my all time favorite show!
#36
Posted: 7/30/08 at 5:57pm
ever after from Into The Woods and beauty and the beast.
Updated On: 7/31/08 at 05:57 PM
#37
Posted: 7/30/08 at 6:26pm
I really like "Final Storm" at the end of the Secret Garden. Just because its so huge, and then gets quiet, in the intermission you're like "Woah... what just happened."
or, that was my responce.
or, that was my responce.
#39
Posted: 7/30/08 at 7:24pm
I have never, ever been so moved and awed by the end of an act as when I saw Coram Boy. The combination of the music and the action...I just sat there stunned, nearly sobbing.
#40
Posted: 7/30/08 at 8:08pm
Grey Gardens and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels both really do it for me.
#41
Posted: 7/30/08 at 8:12pm
Some of my favorites:
The Gods Love Nubia from Aida
All I Ask of You/Reprise from Phantom
La Vie Boheme from Rent
I Am What I Am from La Cage
Defying Gravity from Wicked
No Moon from Titanic
Can't Help Falling In Love from All Shook Up
Sunday from Sunday in the Park...
One Day More from Les Mis
Blackout from In the Heights
Act One Finale from Urinetown
A Little Priest from Sweeney
The Gods Love Nubia from Aida
All I Ask of You/Reprise from Phantom
La Vie Boheme from Rent
I Am What I Am from La Cage
Defying Gravity from Wicked
No Moon from Titanic
Can't Help Falling In Love from All Shook Up
Sunday from Sunday in the Park...
One Day More from Les Mis
Blackout from In the Heights
Act One Finale from Urinetown
A Little Priest from Sweeney
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#42
Posted: 7/30/08 at 8:16pm
As odd as it sounds i thought 'I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance' from Carrie was a brilliant and haunting act 1 finale
The Rent act 1 finale is brilliant as is the Dreamgirls one
The Rent act 1 finale is brilliant as is the Dreamgirls one
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#44
Posted: 7/30/08 at 8:42pm
Everythings Coming Up Roses
A Little Priest
Sunday
Don't Rain on My Parade
And I am Telling You
Anthem
Anything Goes
A New Argentina
One Day More
A Little Priest
Sunday
Don't Rain on My Parade
And I am Telling You
Anthem
Anything Goes
A New Argentina
One Day More
#45
Posted: 7/30/08 at 8:50pm
Though I've never seen it in person, I've seen a video clip and listened to the recording enough to know that "Rebecca" has a truly chilling act 1 finale. It gets me every time.
-- SDG
#46
Posted: 7/30/08 at 8:53pm
Definitely in agreement with those who said Sunday.
#47
Posted: 7/30/08 at 10:28pm
I'm saying DEFYING GRAVITY...
and I'm not even going to apologize for it or pretend I'm above the best effing send-off to the toilets in recent memory!
VIVA La Witch!
:)
and I'm not even going to apologize for it or pretend I'm above the best effing send-off to the toilets in recent memory!
VIVA La Witch!
:)
"To love another person is to see the face of God!"
#48
Posted: 7/30/08 at 10:31pm
A Little Priest - Sweeney
Defying Gravity - Wicked
So Much Better - Legally Blonde
Act I: Finale - The Producers
Mama Mia rings a bell as well.
Defying Gravity - Wicked
So Much Better - Legally Blonde
Act I: Finale - The Producers
Mama Mia rings a bell as well.
#49
Posted: 7/30/08 at 10:32pm
Everything's coming up roses is great, but it isn't as 'climactic' as these other finales we've mentioned. AMAZING song though.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, man. Got my laugh for the day.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, man. Got my laugh for the day.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#50
Posted: 7/30/08 at 11:29pm
I can't believe no one's mentioned I Am What I Am from La Cage.
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