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Posted: 11/28/06 at 3:46pm
When do you feel that this should happen? If it should happen again, what should be the maximum? And could you name some songs from shows that encore themselves if I forget anything here?
MARY POPPINS ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious")
HAIRSPRAY ("You're Timeless To Me")
DAMN YANKEES ("Heart" and "Those Were The Good Old Days")
THE WOMAN IN WHITE ("You Can Get Away With Anything")
DROWSY CHAPERONE ("Show Off," albeit all too brief)
70, GIRLS, 70 ("Do We?")
OKLAHOMA! ("I Cain't Say No" and "Oklahoma!")
HELLO, DOLLY! ("Hello, Dolly!" but it fades away into dialogue)
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD ("Don't Quit While You're Ahead," but the encore abruptly stops in the middle, indicating that this is the "unfinished" point of the story)
BABES IN ARMS ("The Lady Is a Tramp")
Almost EVERY director of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta has the AUDACITY to sneak in an encore from ANY song (or EVERY song, depending on your perspective)
Almost EVERY Cole Porter list song in existence (most notably "Always True To You" and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare")
And if you're encoring a song from the show after CURTAIN CALLS:
MARY POPPINS (see above, plus "Anything Can Happen" before that)
DAMN YANKEES (see above)
OKLAHOMA! (just "Oklahoma")
HAIRSPRAY ("Good Morning Baltimore"/"You Can't Stop the Beat")
LENNON ("Instant Karma"/"Give Peace a Chance")
70, GIRLS, 70 (I think they encored with "Old Folks")
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (In London, they encored the title song twice, but in New York, they encored just once)
MAMMA MIA ("Mamma Mia"/"Dancing Queen"/"Waterloo")
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (long story short... EVERYTHING! and if you have to, do it as many times as you want)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL ("God Bless Us Everyone" in its entirety after hearing fragments of it all through the show)
while we're still on Dickens...
SCROOGE ("Thank You Very Much" -- we were going to do this one, but we cut it out)
HONK! ("Warts and All")
THE MUSIC MAN (when I saw the revival, they got everyone back out to do a whole "76 Trombones" parade, with everyone "playing" instruments)
COMPANY (in the original, they encored the title song; the current version had the actors playing the instruments, so it's virtually impossible now)
CABARET (in the original, they encored the title song; the current version had some of the actors playing the instruments, so it's virtually impossible now)
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD ("Don't Quit While You're Ahead")
any other ideas?
MARY POPPINS ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious")
HAIRSPRAY ("You're Timeless To Me")
DAMN YANKEES ("Heart" and "Those Were The Good Old Days")
THE WOMAN IN WHITE ("You Can Get Away With Anything")
DROWSY CHAPERONE ("Show Off," albeit all too brief)
70, GIRLS, 70 ("Do We?")
OKLAHOMA! ("I Cain't Say No" and "Oklahoma!")
HELLO, DOLLY! ("Hello, Dolly!" but it fades away into dialogue)
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD ("Don't Quit While You're Ahead," but the encore abruptly stops in the middle, indicating that this is the "unfinished" point of the story)
BABES IN ARMS ("The Lady Is a Tramp")
Almost EVERY director of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta has the AUDACITY to sneak in an encore from ANY song (or EVERY song, depending on your perspective)
Almost EVERY Cole Porter list song in existence (most notably "Always True To You" and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare")
And if you're encoring a song from the show after CURTAIN CALLS:
MARY POPPINS (see above, plus "Anything Can Happen" before that)
DAMN YANKEES (see above)
OKLAHOMA! (just "Oklahoma")
HAIRSPRAY ("Good Morning Baltimore"/"You Can't Stop the Beat")
LENNON ("Instant Karma"/"Give Peace a Chance")
70, GIRLS, 70 (I think they encored with "Old Folks")
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (In London, they encored the title song twice, but in New York, they encored just once)
MAMMA MIA ("Mamma Mia"/"Dancing Queen"/"Waterloo")
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (long story short... EVERYTHING! and if you have to, do it as many times as you want)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL ("God Bless Us Everyone" in its entirety after hearing fragments of it all through the show)
while we're still on Dickens...
SCROOGE ("Thank You Very Much" -- we were going to do this one, but we cut it out)
HONK! ("Warts and All")
THE MUSIC MAN (when I saw the revival, they got everyone back out to do a whole "76 Trombones" parade, with everyone "playing" instruments)
COMPANY (in the original, they encored the title song; the current version had the actors playing the instruments, so it's virtually impossible now)
CABARET (in the original, they encored the title song; the current version had some of the actors playing the instruments, so it's virtually impossible now)
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD ("Don't Quit While You're Ahead")
any other ideas?
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