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Best turning point/Breakdown, songs
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#25
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:23pm
Would "Who am I?" from Les Mis count?
Anyways, my favorite would be "Your Daddy's Son." It's just... too complicated to explain.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#26
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:38pm
Where In The World- Secret Garden, Archibald has had enough being haunted and breaks down in Paris.
No Good Deed- Wicked.
I Don't Want To- All Shook Up {When Chad falls in love with "Ed".}
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#27
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:39pm
Does the end of See, I'm Smilng from L5Y count? Sherie Rene has always blown me away with that one.
And the Fire Within Me from Little Women
Gimme Gimme - TMM
And I think Clara's Interlude is great.
Understudy Joined: 8/26/06
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#28
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:49pm
King of the world and One Step, form songs for a new world, wow!
Lat 5 years, most of the show, lol
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#29
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:51pm
First one that popped into my head was "I'm Breaking Down" that was inserted into Falsettos. If you haven't heard it, I think it's at the end of the In Trousers recording. Definitely worth getting.
Also:
Franklin Shepard Inc. from Merrily We Roll Along
Is Anybody There? from 1776
Funny from City of Angels
Though without a doubt the best is Rose's Turn.
Understudy Joined: 8/26/06
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#30
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:56pm
Roses' Turn is phenomenal, your so right.
that was my and I think alot of peoples first choice for "breakdown"
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#31
Posted: 8/30/06 at 7:28pmI can't believe no one has said, " I am Changing " , from Dreamgirls. Tsk...tsk...
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/05
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#32
Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:15pmAfter having just seen Spelling Bee, I have to say that "I'm Not That Smart (Reprise)" is a great turning point song.
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#33
Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:22pm"Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime. Audra is heart breaking.
To Kill A Mockingbird
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#34
Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:23pmSpeaking of Audra bring heartbreaking, Tell Me - Marie Christine.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#35
Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:57pm
No One Has Ever Loved Me/ I Love Fosca ( from the London cast production of PASSION)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#36
Posted: 8/30/06 at 11:55pm
Why- Tick tick boom
The Stuff (reprise)- reefer madness
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#37
Posted: 8/31/06 at 12:31am
Great ones listed so far, and I agree that rose's Turn has to be the motherlode.
Though my personal favorite--it's not quite a breakdown, but a very very emotional moment/reaction that I think counts: I am What I Am from La Cage.
My personal favorite turning point song--Rumble from West Side Story. What amazing music.
Wouldn't Everything's Coming Up Roses work too--the turning point between Rose focusing on Louise instead of June?
Adding a couple more:
I'm Here-The Color Purple
Valjean's Soliloquy-Les Miz
Not Me-Aida (Radames talks about becoming a new person)
I Know The Truth-Aida
The Reckoning-DRS
Confrontation-J&H
Judas' Death-Jesus Christ Superstar
Astonishing-Little Women
Down Once More-Phantom of the Opera
Close Every Door-Joseph...
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face-My Fair Lady
Back to Before-Ragtime
I Should Tell You-Rent
Your Eyes-Rent
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#38
Posted: 8/31/06 at 1:43am
"Bride's Lament" - The Drowsy Chaperone
'Best' doesn't have to mean 'most serious.' :)
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#39
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:57am
There is a truly dreadful show from London called "The Four Musketeers" in which the portly Harry Secombe (from The Goon Show and Oliver) plays, yes, a portly D'Artangnon. The show played for a while at Drury Lane in 1967. The music is by Laurie Johnston, that's a man, BTW, who wrote the theme music for "The Avengers" so you know the style - 1960's pop fused with musical comedy and french period.
ANYWAY, the 11:00 number, "There Comes A Time" (when a man has to face his fate alone...) which is a real corker. It drips of "turning point" and "11:00 number" but there's no denying that, with Secombe's amazing booming tenor voice and a thumping Drury Lane orchestra, you too would be moved to storm the Bastille (or battle the Cardinal's men, whatever).
BTW, Elizabeth Larner (Guenivere from the London Camelot) plays M'Lady de Winter and her big song is the absolutely mysoginistic "Cherchez La Femme" (it's always a woman's fault).
The record is available in many old record bins. I've seen dozens of copies. Yellow cover.
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#40
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:59pm
Epiphany-Sweeney Todd
Betrayed-The Producers
Where Did We Go Right?-The Producers
The Reckoning-Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Walk Like A Man(reprise)-Jersey Boys
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"That's our song. Oh What A Night, Ces Soirees-La, French. Number one in Paris, 2000, ten weeks. Not bad for a song from thirty years ago."
-Jersey Boys
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#41
Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:01pm
"The Music Still Plays On" and "And They're Off" from A New Brain are great.
oh, I love "I'm Breaking Down" too.
Obvi, "Rose's Turn".
"Cabaret"
"Lot's Wife"
"Gimme Love"
"He Wanted to Say"
eh that's all i can think of
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#42
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:27pmI Read from Passion. Depending how one does it, it can be melodramatic or subtle but it's very powerful.
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#43
Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:05pm
My personal favorite turning point song--Rumble from West Side Story. What amazing music.
Wouldn't Everything's Coming Up Roses work too--the turning point between Rose focusing on Louise instead of June?
wickedrentq, you read my mind. I was about to add those two! 
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#44
Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:07pm
Nobody's Side
No Good Dead
Rose's Turn
A Change in Me
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#45
Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:37pmIt sounds lame, but I confess from Footloose is a very powerful song
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
re: Best turning point/Breakdown, songs#46
Posted: 9/1/06 at 12:14pmSorry theateraddict. Great that someone else knows the magnificence of The Rumble though!
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