Favorite Overtures- Page 4

[BreakingTheCircle07]

Posted: 9/2/04 at 8:56pm

....Forum
Merrily We Roll Along
West Side Story

and the ultimate
NINE!!!!!!

[Derek2]

Posted: 9/2/04 at 8:58pm

Guys and Dolls has a pretty cool Overture. As does How To Succeed. Its a shame though, both Wicked and Once On This Island could have such great Overtures...or even Entr'acts

[TheaterGeek91]

Posted: 9/2/04 at 9:27pm

42nd Street, Gypsy (#1)

[musicgal04]

Posted: 9/2/04 at 10:20pm

Candide(Absolutly the BEST overture ever, and the French horn part is amazing!), Wonderful Town, and West Side Story. There is definetly a Bernstein theme here.

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/2/04 at 10:51pm

Adding the OBC recording of BELLS ARE RINGING to my favorite overtures. (You can see my first picks on the first page of this thread.)

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 9/2/04 at 11:09pm

I've recently gotten addicted to the overture of ...Forum. It's really fun and catchy - perfect for casting the right mood for the show (I so wish I could have seen it...).

~Jessica

[leomaxfrank]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 2:34am

Candide and Gypsy..unoriginal i know..but it's the truth

[JohnnyTlover216]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 2:37am

Guys and Dolls,
Wicked!

[Gothrockboheme]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 2:46am

Aida. It's very brief, but it always makes me cry.

[badkarma719]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:31am

one I have yet too see listed that blew me away when I heard it and saw it on tour about 2 years ago

GEORGE M!

based on the music and life of George M. Cohan
(yankee doodle dandee, give my regard to broadway, only 45 mins to broadway, and many many many more)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 6:14am

Gypsy
Man of La Mancha
Mack and Mabel

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 12:16pm

Les Miz........in case you were wondering what I was going to say.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 12:41pm

Goes without saying:

Candide
Gypsy
Oklahoma
Carousel

But I can't believe no one mentioned one of the all-time greatest overtures in musical theatre:

ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY