Favorite Entr'actes

#1

Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:24pm

All the threads about overtures kinda got me thinking about entr'actes, which I think go under the radar sometimes. I love it when shows have entr'actes because it gets the audience back in the mood for the second act of the show. So what are some of your favorite entr'actes?

Mine are:
Chicago
Beauty and The Beast ( I like how it segues into the wolf chase)
Ragtime
The Phantom of The Opera
Miss Saigon
Little Shop of Horrors

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#2

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:24pm

Big River. :)

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#3

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:27pm

LOVE Chicago and Cabaret entr'actes! I also like Little Shop's too a bit

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#4

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:31pm

Sweet Charity's

#5

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:36pm

I agree with C....Chicago and Cabaret!

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#6

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:40pm

Cabaret, Beuaty & the Beast and A Year with Frog & Toad actually

#7

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:49pm

I completly forgot about Cabaret! I really like the entr'acte in that show.

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#8

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:56pm

Golden Rainbow (better than the overture) and State Fair -- you can practically the feel the moment when the house lights dim!

Updated On: 3/30/06 at 05:56 PM

#9

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 5:57pm

I love Merrily's.

#10

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:14pm

CABARET. Oh yes. Also, ANYTHING GOES (on the 1988 recording)

Edited because I suddenly didn't know how to spell "Cabaret".

Updated On: 3/30/06 at 06:14 PM

#11

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:22pm

Cabaret!

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#12

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:28pm

Definitely BIG RIVER - great choice.

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#13

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:32pm

When I did BIG RIVER, we turned the Entr'Acte into a big dance number, since there really wasn't any dancing in the show otherwise.

#14

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:34pm

How about "They're Playing Our Song"

Updated On: 3/30/06 at 06:34 PM

#15

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:35pm

Once Upon A Mattress

#16

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:51pm

Scarlet Pimpernel

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#17

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:52pm

Gypsy, without question!

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#18

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:53pm

Beauty and the Beast and Phantom

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#19

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:58pm

Chicago, bar none.

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#20

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 6:59pm

Phantom

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#21

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:02pm

Isn't the GYPSY overture literally identical to it's entr'acte? The latter is just the second half, no?

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#22

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:08pm

The Gypsy entr'acte (at least on the newest album) has a section that includes If Mamma Was Married. So, it's almost identical to the overture....

#23

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:09pm

Chicago has been said before, but I will echo it because I so agree.

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#24

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:11pm

I think the GYPSY entr'acte is identical to the overture, too...

Although, GYPSY has the best overture ever, so I guess that means it has the best entr'acte, too. Since they're... uh, the same.

ETA: Some people have said BATB and I was all "Whatever," but it just came up on shuffle and whoa, for real, way pretty. I didn't even realize.

Updated On: 3/30/06 at 07:11 PM

#25

re: Favorite Entr'actes

Posted: 3/30/06 at 7:12pm

LOL--exactly, keatonbynumbers, why it's my favorite

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