Favorite Instrumental Break — Page 2

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

Pretty much anything written by Leonard Bernstein.

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*prepares to be ridiculed and tortured*

I've always kinda liked the Jellicle Ball.

*runs and hides*

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.

I also like the dance break in Money from Cabret.

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.

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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...)

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

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