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#1

Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:20pm

Which 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.
#2

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:22pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
#3

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:23pm

I love Les Mis' opening notes and think that they pretty much reflect the rest of the show!
#4

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:24pm

Yup, Les Miserables will always be my favorite opening.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#5

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:25pm

Les Miserables
Phantom of the Opera
What the puck?!
#6

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:26pm

I thought GYPSY's opening notes were considered musical theatre's most memorable.
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#7

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:27pm

Gypsy!!!!!!
da-dun-dun-duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.

classic four opening notes.
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
#8

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:27pm

I actually like the opening phrases of "Caroline, or Change".
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." -Oscar Wilde
#10

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:37pm

Passion and Wonderful Town - both very exciting
#11

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:38pm

WICKED!! i love that beginning! and DRS of course!
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#14

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:40pm

Candide
Carousel

They totally set you up for what's to come.
Brilliance.

~Steven
#15

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:41pm

Wicked's beginning notes are thrilling and with the dragon and monkeys and whatnot, the affect is even more enthralling and exciting.
#16

re: 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...
#17

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:44pm

Les 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.
#18

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:50pm

CITY OF ANGELS
#20

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:16pm

If 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!
#21

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:18pm

I forgot Carousel! Shame on me...
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
#22

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:18pm

gypsy
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#25

re: Best opening notes

Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:22pm

GYPSY, of course.

And CABARET...(drumrollllllllllllllll...CRASH!)
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

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