Favorite Instrumental Break- Page 2

[GreenGirl22406]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:47pm

Anything from DRS, Miss Saigon, Chorus Line, or in Dancing Through Life.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:53pm

The I'm assuming it's trombone and saxophone duo part of the dance break in Cold Feets from Drowsy Chaperone.
Updated On: 3/16/07 at 08:53 PM

[GreenGirl22406]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:55pm

Oh yeah, Cold Feets is pretty awesome. And the one near the end of Spelling Bee with Olive and Barfe is cool as well.

[broadwaybaby086]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 9:05pm

Pretty much anything written by Leonard Bernstein.

[Mythus]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 9:20pm

I love the break in Can't Take My Eyes Off of You. Oh my god. I don't know why, it's just amazing for some reason.

I'm also fond of the techno is His Name is Lancelot...it's best live, with the heavy bass. Ahh, I love it.

[CompletlyNakedStatue]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 9:23pm

*prepares to be ridiculed and tortured*

I've always kinda liked the Jellicle Ball.

*runs and hides*

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 9:43pm

I'll go there with you!

The Jellicle Ball
...and I'm with brodyfosse on these three (probably my all-time favorites, too):

Turkey Lurkey Time (this Bacharach dance break is unbeatable)

Music and the Mirror (I love when it starts speeding up again, after the slow section and sounds very much like Rocky's "Gonna Fly Now" which came out a year AFTER this show opened...)

Tick Tock (with David Shire working wonders with the Sondheim melodies)

The Most Happy Fella (the instrumental arrhythmic music that is used to open the show, as well as for periodic dance breaks throughout--magic!)

And all of the dance break music in "America" from West Side Story.

[lvpblues]

Posted: 3/17/07 at 1:33am

One of my all time favorites is the dance break to "The Story of Lucy and Jessie" in Follies. It's woefully underrepresented on disc, being found in its entirety only on the PaperMill recording. And while I enjoyed the vocal ending they created for Encores, I missed the ending of the song as it originally played out.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 3/17/07 at 2:10am

Yay for lead clarinetists! Too bad you're not playing symphonic dances--you'd get the gorgeous clarinet solo in "Cha-cha."

Hmm, the one I played in 7th grade had all of those but also One Hand One Heart. Probably a different one.

Don't be ashamed Completelynaked, I said Memory. That's gotta be worse.

Amen Broadwaybaby!

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 6:35pm

I also like the dance break in Money from Cabret.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 6:59pm

The instrumental break in I'm Here from The Color Purple.

[scott68]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 7:02pm

Music and the Mirror, as everyone's already mentioned, along with most of ACL.

Oh, and one that's always hit home for me personally is the last brass-heavy section of "Stars" from Les Mis, right before Javert's last verse/tag/whatever the appropriate word is.

[misschung]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 7:04pm

Is Wicked Witch Of The east on CD yet?

wait, where is this on the Wicked soundtrack?

I LOVE the instrumental playout on Money from the Cabaret movie soundtrack

Updated On: 5/14/07 at 07:04 PM

Posted: 5/14/07 at 7:24pm

Can this be anything without singing? Mostly it seems to be dance breaks--as is mine, but I assume overtures don't count as we have 1000 threads for that already

If Tick Tock counts--I love it. Clasic David SHire (I know there were some hurt feelings about Sondheim bringing him in instead of their dance arranger) But since it's ALL an instrumental I'm not sure if should count

Cool and so much of WSS

Still if Tick Tock counts then I gotta add in Charity's Rich Man's Frug.

--and back to Sondheim I dunno if he wrote it all or was helped by his dance arranger but I *adore* the Cookie Chase balle from Whistle apparantly Herbert Ross' choreography was equally wonderful and it's too bad we don't have anything left from it but the music. I especially love near the end when it starts sounding like a circus band playing one of Tchaikovsky's great ballets.

Follies--the All Things Great and Beautiful underscore at the opening is scary, melancholy, beautiful, nostalgic, and perfect. I hate that the London version completely deleted it.

Sondheim has a few minor bits of underscore that I think count that are gorgeous to me--especially from Into the Woods and Passion which are both scored by Tunick with so much delicacy--and the whole DInner Room music (all recorded on the RNT CD) for A Little Night Music which captures thrillingly that magical twilight feel, in music

Debatably a musical but I love in Porgy and Bess when Bess finally goes off and we suddenly egt this aggressive pounding reprise of "There's a Boat that's Leaving Soon..."

(And I have to admit to kinda digging the Jellicle Ball arrangement too...)

[ActualReality2]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:09am

The dance break in "Another Pyramid" from Aida!

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:35am

in Cassie's dance in The Music and The Mirror- I love the instrumental breaks!

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:50am

Another vote for 'Snuff that Girl' from Urinetown.

'Welcome Home' from the original London Martin Guerre, even though it is shorter on the CD than it was on stage.

The orchestrations for all of the dance music in West Side Story are fantastic

'Ich Gehor nur Mir' from Elisabeth and its end of Act One reprise for the sheer spine-tingling power!

Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:19am

I preferred the orchestral breaks in THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA to anything that was sung or spoken in that show

Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:34am

Love the one in chorus line in the begnning and cassies dance in "Music and the Mirror"