Best opening notes
Best opening notes
InfiniteGirl
Understudy Joined: 1/5/05
#0Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:20pmWhich opening notes of a musical best let you know what you're about to see? My daughter likes Hairspray's first few notes because they tell you how much fun the show is going to be. I'm stuck in old world - West Side Story and Fiddler.
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
dotmarie
Broadway Star Joined: 8/14/03
#2re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:23pmI love Les Mis' opening notes and think that they pretty much reflect the rest of the show!
#3re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:24pmYup, Les Miserables will always be my favorite opening.
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gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#4re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:25pm
Les Miserables
Phantom of the Opera
What the puck?!
#5re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:26pmI thought GYPSY's opening notes were considered musical theatre's most memorable.
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#6re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:27pm
Gypsy!!!!!!
da-dun-dun-duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.
classic four opening notes.
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#7re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:27pmI actually like the opening phrases of "Caroline, or Change".
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bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#10re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:38pmWICKED!! i love that beginning! and DRS of course!
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:40pm
Candide
Carousel
They totally set you up for what's to come.
Brilliance.
~Steven
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#14re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:41pmWicked's beginning notes are thrilling and with the dragon and monkeys and whatnot, the affect is even more enthralling and exciting.
#15re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:43pm
I love Wicked's beginning..it is very thrilling! and DRS makes you wanna dance!
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#16re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:44pmLes Mis, POTO, Gypsy, and Sweeney Todd (after the factory whistle) the fast paced music and the eery arrangements- it lets you know what kind of night you're in for.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
jim coleman
Stand-by Joined: 1/10/05
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#19re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:16pmIf you mean best opening notes of the overture- well, Gypsy simply has the best overture, so I'd go with that. If you mean opening notes of the first song, I always liked the beginning of Oklahoma!
#20re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:18pmI forgot Carousel! Shame on me...
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
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Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/04
#21re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:18pmgypsy
"Don't thank your parents, if you were raised in a nurturing environment you wouldnt be in show business"--Conan O'Brien at the 2006 Emmy Awards
#22re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:20pm
*prepares to be flogged*
Wicked
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#23re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:20pmLes Mis...unfortunately, the OLC opens terribly - like the OFC...the difference, OFC opens without a Prologue.
#24re: Best opening notes
Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:22pm
GYPSY, of course.
And CABARET...(drumrollllllllllllllll...CRASH!)
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