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Favorite Overture?
#25re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/2/09 at 8:53pmBeauty and the Beast is one of my favorites. I really wish they'd record it at some point. Even if it was just for one of the foreign language cast recordings. There's so many you'd think someone would have thought to include it by now. Aida as well. It's shameful that they went unrecorded.
lvpblues
Broadway Star Joined: 2/18/04
#27re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/2/09 at 9:36pm
Mame, Gypsy, On the Twentieth Century, Promises Promises, Funny Girl, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Candide, My Fair Lady, The Light in the Piazza, High Spirits, Irma La Douce
Updated On: 8/3/09 at 09:36 PM
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#28re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/2/09 at 9:40pmSouth Pacific, West Side Story, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Also, the one from the Sound of Music film, though I'm not sure if they use that when it's staged.
#30re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/2/09 at 10:29pm
GYPSY
CANDIDE
HIGH SPIRITS
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
#31re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/2/09 at 10:53pmThe Light in the Piazza!
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
#32re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/2/09 at 10:53pm
opps Double Post
But The Pajama Game's is wonderful
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
Updated On: 8/2/09 at 10:53 PM
#33re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/2/09 at 10:58pmLIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#34re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/2/09 at 11:18pm
1) Sweeney Todd, ( The organ music, and the ballad that follows)
2) Gypsy
3) Wicked.
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
Byron Abens
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/08
#35re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 1:14am
The Prologue to City of Angels
Fade Out-Fade In (as well as just about every other Jule Styne overture).
Follies
A Little Night Music
And going more classical Carmen, The Magic Flute, The Barber of Seville, Cavalleria Rusticana.
snarkywannabedreamer
Leading Actor Joined: 2/12/09
#36re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 1:20amit's a little bit of a cheat but... "Jerome Robbins Broadway" they put all that music together nicely.
#40re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:37am
south specific
gypsee
Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek
#41re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:45amDrowsy Chaperone, loved the transition from record to full-orchestra, gave me goosebumps every time. :)
#42re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:59amI second the Carousel Waltz from "Carousel". I think that show has one of the most beautifuly orchestrated scores of all time.
I'll take the wind and soar.
SakeDad
Featured Actor Joined: 6/26/06
#43re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 6:49amGUYS & DOLLS (when done right) gets me everytime!
"God, I hope it's not a REAL emergency...I only brought one bottle of Vodka!"
That's my Diva Dog, Sake in the picture.
#44re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 7:56amI would add On The Town to those already mentioned.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#45re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 8:17am
A few favorites...
Goldilocks
Li'l Abner
Fiorello!
Tenderloin
Take Me Along
The Happiest Girl in the World
Bye Bye Birdie
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Little Me
The Gay Life
She Loves Me
Golden Rainbow
It's a Bird, It's a Plane (Overture and Entr'acte)
Sweet Charity
How Now, Dow Jones
A Mother's Kisses
No, No, Nanette
Irene
The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall
Grind
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 8/3/09 at 08:17 AM
#46re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 8:47am
Candide
On the Twentieth Century
Oklahoma
Carousel
Goldilocks
First Impressions
Urinetown
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#47re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:40amI don@t generally like overtures, but Candide is stunning. Second- the vocal overtures from Nine.
Huey's Pop
Featured Actor Joined: 4/19/05
#48re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 1:46pm
Gypsy
Sweet Charity
It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Superman!
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#49re: Favorite Overture?
Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:07pm
Overtures:
1. Gypsy
2. Curtains
3. The Phantom of the Opera
Opening Numbers:
1. 'I Hope I Get It', A Chorus Line
2. 'The Story of Chess', Chess
3. 'Company', Company
Then if I only had to pick one of each, I'd go with the overture from GYPSY, and the opening number from CHESS.
-- SDG
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