Favorite Broadway Overtures!

I'm tuning into AccuBroadway right now and am continually reminded how many overtures are just fun to listen to. What're your favorites? Entr'actes count here, too. Mine are:

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Candide

Gypsy

The Carousel Waltz

Phantom (guilty pleasure...)

I'm pretty partial to Oklahoma!

Jesus Christ Superstar, easily.

I love the Gypsy and 42nd Street overtures, as well as the Carousel Waltz.

Jesus Christ Superstar

Cats (other than "Memory," it's the only good part of the show)

 

Basically, I like any overture that doesn't begin with a big, showy fanfare (like almost every overture ever written).

 

FUNNY GIRL

 

HIGH SPIRITS

 

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (it sounds great on my Golden Ear Technology Triton One speakers).

 

And of course GYPSY.

In no particular order:

• * Gypsy
• * Merrily We Roll Along
• * My Fair Lady

And although they're not traditional overtures:

• * The Carousel Waltz from Carousel
• * Runyonland from Guys and Dolls
• * Prologue (All things Bright and Beautiful) from Follies

Updated On: 12/6/16 at 07:41 PM

Guys and Dolls

I admire Urinetown for its understated quirkiness. Hello, Dolly! is outright fun!

1. Merrily We Roll Along

2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

3. Candide

4. The Full Monty

5. Sweet Charity

6. Gypsy

7. Amour

8. She Loves Me

9. Nine

10. Guys And Dolls

Urinetown is also great for the music that it is sending up, especially now that I've understood that parody in a richer way in recent years.

 

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

The Tap Dance Kid overture has always been a favourite of mine

How did I forget Chicago and Show Boat?! Shame on me...