Best opening notes- Page 3

[nmartin]

re: Best opening notes#50

Posted: 6/3/05 at 4:53pm

I am going to have to jump on the Maria Ouspenskaya wagon and go with Gypsy also.

[mikewood]

re: Best opening notes#51

Posted: 6/3/05 at 4:57pm

I always like the mystical start to Cats...of course except for Memory it was all downhill from there.

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[OtherDaryl]

re: Best opening notes#52

Posted: 6/3/05 at 6:59pm

Sweeney Todd

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[Liz_Bennet]

re: Best opening notes#53

Posted: 6/3/05 at 7:44pm

Sondheim has actually said that he doesn't like the opening of Sweeney Todd- the organ bit. He thinks it sounds too much like a harmony exercise and that he didn't know enough about writing for organ at the time. I'm not sure, but the whole opening sequence is very effective.

I love the beginning of West Side Story because it sets up the music for the rest of the show perfectly (you can hear that motive and transformations of it through the whole show) and it has so much barely contained energy and tension that just bursts out.

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[Unknown User]

re: Best opening notes#54

Posted: 6/3/05 at 7:46pm

GYPSY

[aliceripleysnumber1]

re: Best opening notes#55

Posted: 6/3/05 at 8:56pm

Well, Gypsy is by far one of the best ones...Aida's opening gives me chills too.

[MissElphie]

re: Best opening notes#56

Posted: 6/3/05 at 9:20pm

Phantom, Wicked and Les Mis.

[Greekmusicalfan]

re: Best opening notes#57

Posted: 6/3/05 at 9:23pm

Les Mis, Phantom, Chicago, Cabaret and Miss Saigon

[WildhornFanatic]

re: Best opening notes#58

Posted: 6/3/05 at 11:50pm

Gypsy, Les Miserables and Lippa's WILD PARTY!!!!!!

[Aigoo]

re: Best opening notes#59

Posted: 6/3/05 at 11:53pm

Gypsy, Wicked (I love dissonance), and...mmm...probably Phantom.

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[Rentaholic2]

re: Best opening notes#60

Posted: 6/3/05 at 11:55pm

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

Haha...when someone mentioned Gypsy's first notes as being the most memorable, I couldn't think of how it went...but this actually helped!

[FosseBoi]

re: Best opening notes#61

Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:06am

GYPSY(which has the BEST overture EVER written!)
WICKED!
Phantom
A CHORUS LINE
And RENT!...JK!

"dum dum dum dum dum... December 24th 9 PM Est. standerd time..."

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[BwayFan4]

re: Best opening notes#62

Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:07am

Gypsy and Fiddler

[liotte]

re: Best opening notes#63

Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:13am

Wicked, Les Miz, ASU

[BwayFan4]

re: Best opening notes#64

Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:17am

Forgot about Sweet Charity

[everythingtaboo]

re: Best opening notes#65

Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:39am

Gypsy
Chicago
Ragtime

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[Kringas]

re: Best opening notes#66

Posted: 6/4/05 at 1:43am

I'm a sucker for a cowbell, so I'm going to have to go with Dreamgirls.

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[Whiteguy2088]

re: Best opening notes#67

Posted: 6/4/05 at 2:05am

WOW...I have suprised. While Wicked was my original choice...Love the intro - I had to really think.

LION KING. I am sorry but Rafiki's opening can either make or break that entire production. She sets the tone of the performance. It gives me chills everytime

The curtain raised with fog....and she just belts it. Oh...amazing. Then the sun... Seriously - Lion King has the most captivating opening I have ever seen.

[jam_man]

re: Best opening notes#68

Posted: 6/4/05 at 2:52am

Ragtime (ya-da-da-da-da-dum, ya-da-da-da-da-dum)
Wicked (crash, da, dun-dun-dun-dun-da-dun)
Phantom (even the movie had a great opening) (dan, dan-dun-da-dun-dun)
Gypsy - OF COURSE (da-da-dun-da)
Fiddler (yum-da-dun-da-da-da)
Les Miz (DA-DA, DAN-DA-DA)
Lion King (Nan ts'nagonya ma bakithi baba sithi hm ingonya ma)
Here's a new one - Assassins (dun-da-da, dun-da-da "Hail to the Cheif")

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[cathywellerstein]

re: Best opening notes#70

Posted: 6/4/05 at 11:22am

ragtime
dirty rotten scoundrels
phantom of the opera
dracula

[XOsweet_dancerOX]

re: Best opening notes#71

Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:44pm

WICKED definetley... and Phantom.

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[devonian.t]

re: Best opening notes#72

Posted: 6/4/05 at 3:06pm

Gypsy and Candide, of course.

Then the funky blast opening La Chiusa's WILD PARTY. Raucous and startling.

[B.B. Wolf]

re: Best opening notes#73

Posted: 6/4/05 at 3:15pm

Wow, not a single mention of my favorite of the last few years.

PARADE
- intimate, character-driven, crescendoing to full choral = perfection!

Word. Word, indeed.

[Rose_MacShane]

re: Best opening notes#74

Posted: 6/4/05 at 4:13pm

CATS and POTO are the only two overtures that give me chills.

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[Cages or Wings]

re: Best opening notes#75

Posted: 6/4/05 at 4:50pm

definitely Gypsy, Parade, Phantom, and Lion king
but best sum up what your about to see is DRS. It has the bumbling silly con artist feel of the entire show. Great opening.