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#26

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 8:53pm

Beauty 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.
#28

re: 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

#29

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 9:40pm

South 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.
#31

re: 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)
#32

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 10:53pm

The Light in the Piazza!
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
#33

re: 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

#34

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 10:58pm

LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.
#35

re: 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?"
#36

re: 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.
#37

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 1:20am

it's a little bit of a cheat but... "Jerome Robbins Broadway" they put all that music together nicely.
#41

re: 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
#43

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:59am

I 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.
#44

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 6:49am

GUYS & 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.
#45

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 7:56am

I 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
#46

re: 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

#47

re: 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
#48

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:40am

I don@t generally like overtures, but Candide is stunning. Second- the vocal overtures from Nine.
#49

re: Favorite Overture?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 1:46pm

Gypsy
Sweet Charity
It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Superman!
#50

re: 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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