Favorite Overture?- Page 3

[Colle]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:07pm

Overtures(in no real order):
Miss Sagion
Mamma Mia!(I wasn't expecting a strong sounding first few notes, then it got grovey)

Opening number:
Les Miserables, I am counting this as an opening because the introduction is short then it goes into "Look Down."
Lion King "Circle of Life."

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:23pm

Overture:
Young Frankenstein
Little Mermaid
Next to Normal(wish it was longer)

First songs:
Lion King

[pinoyonbroadway]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 4:07pm

Overture:
Candide Definitely
Gypsy
A Little Night Music
Nine
Carousel
Follies

First Number:
The Grand Parade (Grand Hotel)
The Story Of Chess (Chess)
The Advantages Of Floating In The Middle Of The Sea (Pacific Overtures)

[wickedlover94]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 6:55pm

Gypsy.

[wickedlover94]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 6:56pm

I would also say 42nd Street is classic. South Pacific is classic as well. Wicked's may be new but it's still one of my favorites.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 7:57pm

Gypsy
South Pacific
The Phantom of the Opera (it is the title song, but it's thrillingly executed)

[Smaxie]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 8:19pm

It's wonderful when a great score has a great Overture to match, as with some of the shows that have been mentioned. But when an orchestrator can create a fantastic Overture from lesser material, that's truly an achievement. Robert Ginzler and Sid Ramin, who did the orchestrations for Gypsy, later collaborated on Wildcat. The Wildcat score has its peaks and valleys, but that Overture starts like a house on fire and never lets up. No matter the quality of the show that followed, the Wildcat Overture sounds like it belongs to a hit.

[wickedlover94]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 8:20pm

If it's a title song I love "9 to 5"

[BroadwayBound92]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 8:47pm

Phantom Of The Opera and Man Of La Mancha. Of course, if Les Mis had an overture than I'm certain that I would've picked that one to.

[peerrjb]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:07pm

CANDIDE SWEET CHARITY ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
GYPSY FINIAN'S RAINBOW MAME MAN OF LA MANCHA

As for an opening song, I'd have to say that I've never heard/seen anything bring down a house like the Opening Sequence of TITANIC (at the second preview performance in 1997, no less). The rest of the show was still problematic... but those first 12 minutes or so were unlike anything I'd experienced.

[broadwayomgomg]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:42pm

I loathed the show but the opening number of Tarzan was so exciting. And then it went downhill from there...

[BroadwayKing09]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 10:38pm

West Side Story
Lion King
Chicago

[wickedlover94]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 10:40pm

WSS! I forgot WSS! Thanks.

[GoodbyeLoveRENT]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 12:54am

The Prelude to Next to Normal gives me chills. I absolutely adore it, but I wish it was longer.

[BroadwayBelle2]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 10:32am

GYPSY - of course
Sweet Charity
The Little Mermaid

[i am the one]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 11:13am

The Little Mermaid -- we're just talking overtures here!
Menken is fantastic, you cannot deny.