Favorite Overtures
Favorite Overtures
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#0Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 1:47amThere was a thread about this a long while ago, but that was October. What is your favorite overture? Updated On: 7/24/04 at 01:47 AM
#1re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 1:49amCandide, Camelot, NINE..........
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#2re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 1:52amGypsy has THE ultimate overture
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#3re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 1:52am
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Updated On: 7/24/04 at 01:52 AM
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#4re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 1:53amI usually skip over the overtures. I cant listen to a song where there is no singing.
Bohoboy
Understudy Joined: 5/9/04
#5re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 1:57amCandide should be on the top of the list... The FULL Merrily overture with the Tuba solo of Good Thing Going... gives me chills. Guys and Dolls has a nice overture... Gypsy's prepares you for Styne's best score.
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#6re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 2:09amGypsy's overture is outstanding....i love it. Nine's overture is cool too because its so unique with the "lalalalas"
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
broadwaybaby654
Featured Actor Joined: 6/21/04
#8re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 2:12amCandide...favorite to listen to, favorite to play.
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
Henry Miller
Leading Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 2:18am
CATS! - I never skip it... 
Plus, in performance it's so unique with all the cats running through the audience with the blinking lights. Not the way the current tour does it, but you know, the was it's supposed to be done....
#11re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 2:26am
Jesus Christ Superstar
Cats (the one and only thing I enjoy about this show)
Nine
You've gotta have heart AND music
Juliette Capulet
Featured Actor Joined: 5/28/03
#12re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 2:41am
POTO, CATS, WICKED, Mamma Mia!, Les Mis, JCS
Tendres Baisers,
Juliette Capulet
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 2:47am
My vote goes to Gypsy, hands down.
Triple Star -
Love your quote.
Updated On: 7/24/04 at 02:47 AM
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#14re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 2:53am
Gypsy. Genius.
Candide. Brillant.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 7/24/04 at 02:53 AM
#15re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 3:26amScarlet Pimpernel...whoever it was that said Wicked, Wicked hardly has an overture :)
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#16re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 3:41am
Chicago
Bells Are Ringing
Gypsy
JCS
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
#17re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 6:59amOf course I would like to add most of your choices to my list. (I knew this would happen). :)
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 7:50amCAMELOT, CAROUSEL, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH PACIFIC, MAN OF LA MANCHA, MY FAIR LADY, etc. -- most of the older musicals.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#19re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 8:18am
I made a CD with all the overtures and entr'actes of Broadway CDs I own. Here are my favorites:
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Producers
Urinetown
42nd Street
Oklahoma!
Gypsy
Wonderful Town
Phantom of the Opera
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Updated On: 7/24/04 at 08:18 AM
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#20re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 8:36am
Tanz der Vampire
Miss Saigon
Does Les Mis have an Overture?
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
-South Pacific
MusicalDirector109
Leading Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#21re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 8:41am
"Gypsy" - What a thrill!!!
"Funny Girl"
"Man of La Mancha"
"South Pacific"
"My Fair Lady"
"Candide"
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#22re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 8:45am
CANDIDE
MAN OF LA MANCHA
MAME
MY FAIR LADY
KISS ME KATE
DEAR WORLD
PROMISES, PROMISES
CAMELOT
....and when it was finally added...TWHM
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#23re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 7/24/04 at 8:54am
October? Gee, was it that long ago?
The APRIL 2004 Thread on Overtures!
Updated On: 7/24/04 at 08:54 AM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
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