Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

#1

Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 2:27am

I can think of a few just off the top of my head, but keen to know other people opinions!

Stay with me - Into the woods.
Roses' Turn - Gypsy.
No good Deed - Wicked
Epiphany - Sweeney..
We do not Belong together - Sunday in the park..
Daddys' Son - Ragtime

#2

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 2:33am

There's a Fine, Fine Line - Avenue Q

#3

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 2:39am

great!
Also thiking about it, Most of Jacques Brel is, all the no comical songs are so heavy and gutt renching, to sing them night after night is so demanding!

#4

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 2:48am

Nobody Needs to Know- The Last 5 Years, although If I Didn't Believe in You fits also.
The Last Midnight- Into the Woods
This is the Hour- Miss Saigon
Astonishing- Little Women

Updated On: 8/30/06 at 02:48 AM

#5

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 4:45am

One of my favorite breakdown songs is "Live, Laugh, Love" from Follies

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#6

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:07am

Lot's Wife - Caroline or Change.

#7

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:20am

Does Defying Gravity count? It's a turning point and a minor break down. Nothing compared to No Good Deed but a bit of a break down.

Also Javert's Suicide from Les Mis, I love that moment and how it's done on the stage.

I Know the Truth from Aida

And the mother of all break down songs (even if it is a finale) Tell me it's Not True from Blood Brothers

#8

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:07am

My favorite turning point song was from the Last 5 Years, THE NEXT 10 MINUTES, absolutly perfect!

As farr as breakdown songs, I really have a couple first that come to mind are:
1. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, Wicked
2. Goodbye Love - I absolutly adore the breakdown right after Angel's funeral. It's fantastic (and never should have been deleted from the movie but my opinion)
3. If I didn't believe in you - Last 5 Years

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#9

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:17am

^^^^ Again lots of the ones I had in mind to list have been listed. Great minds think alike, right

I will ad ELABORATE LIVES from AIDA. It is when Radames and Aida consumate their feelings.

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#10

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 9:15am

Your Daddy's Son is a great one. I also think that Coalhouse's Soliloquy applies.

#11

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 9:17am

"And I Am Telling You" from Dreamgirls

"Losing My Mind" from Follies

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#12

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 9:22am

Nowadays from Chicago
Move On from Sunday in the Park with George
Being Alive from Company
If He Walked into my Life from Mame

The list could go on and on...

#13

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 9:22am

One day later and I realize it's a double post. Sorry.

Updated On: 8/31/06 at 09:22 AM

#14

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 9:24am

Without You / I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face, from My Fair Lady

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#15

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 12:05pm

Rose's Turn and Lot's Wife.

They are the best, seriously!

#16

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 12:09pm

Does "Nobody's Side" from Chess count?

also "Made of Stone" from Hunchback is great too

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#17

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 1:26pm

"Finale-Let Me Finish (Reprise)/What Have I Done?/Take That Look Off Your Face" from Song & Dance, performed with exhausting emotion by Bernadette Peters

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"Be On your Own"-Nine-performed with steely cold resolve from Miss Mary Stuart Masterson

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#18

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 1:28pm

"apology to a cow" batboy

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#19

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 1:45pm

I like the reprise of Waiting for the Light to Shine from Big River, especially Huck's preface of "all right then, I'll go to hell!"

#20

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 2:00pm

"Woe is Me Reprise" from Spelling Bee and "Dividing Day" from Piazza.

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#21

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 2:08pm

Joshy, I'm so with you on Rose's Turn. The best. How could I have forgotten that when I first posted!?

What I wouldn't give to time travel and see Angela Lansbury's performance!

#22

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:03pm

Cabaret.
I can't believe no one has mentioned that yet!
Could Lament from ITW be in this category?
also
Exquisite Corpse - Hedwig

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#23

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:10pm

"The Beauty Is [Reprise]" from Light In The Piazza
"Gimme Gimme" from Thoroughly Modern Millie
"Camera Wall" from Bright Lights, Big City
"I Believe" from Altar Boyz

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#24

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:56pm

ooh you got to The Beauty Is reprise right before me.

#25

re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs

Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:04pm

Make me happy from the wild party
and I guess, Let me drown.
I wish you'd lovem e, once were warriors the muscial