Favorite Overtures

[singinswinga]

Favorite Overtures#0

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:29pm

What's everyone's favorite overture? Mine's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels or Merrily We Roll Along.

I know this groc'ry clerk...

[rainbowhigh]

re: Favorite Overtures#1

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:35pm

Candide, hands down.

"Peanuts and beer at 100 bucks a pop" -Patti LuPone

[AvEnUeQx]

re: Favorite Overtures#2

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:36pm

DRS :) definatly

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

re: Favorite Overtures#3

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:37pm

I really do love the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels overture.

[BNN]

re: Favorite Overtures#4

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:41pm

Sweet Charity, followed closely by Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Tick Tock

[Mr Roxy]

re: Favorite Overtures#5

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:53pm

Any Jule Styne or Jerry Herman overture

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[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: Favorite Overtures#6

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:55pm

MACK AND MABEL

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[Renthead#1]

re: Favorite Overtures#7

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:56pm

The Phantom of the Opera.

Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall

[slimandslam]

re: Favorite Overtures#8

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:58pm

I second rainbowhigh. Candide, without question.

[Enjolras77]

re: Favorite Overtures#9

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:59pm

1) Mack and Mabel
2) Subways are for Sleeping
3) Promises, Promises
4) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
5) Gypsy
6) The Pajama Game

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

[All_For_Laura]

re: Favorite Overtures#10

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:02pm

Follies Overture

Thoroughly Modern Millie Overture

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[2]

re: Favorite Overtures#11

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:14pm

"The Phantom of the Opera" overture gives me the chills every time!!

[Katurian2]

re: Favorite Overtures#12

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:15pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Phantom of the Opera

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

[H.Higgins]

re: Favorite Overtures#13

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:25pm

La Cage
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Phantom
My Fair Lady
Candide

[Brooks_Hatlen]

re: Favorite Overtures#14

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:27pm

Current Broadway? DRS
Of All Broadway? Gypsy


Others that I like: Over There and Brigadoon

[BluCat500]

re: Favorite Overtures#15

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:28pm

Piazza.

So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space

[SNLMedia]

re: Favorite Overtures#16

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:29pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, easily.

"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball

[Emcee4ever]

re: Favorite Overtures#17

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:30pm

Jesus Christ Superstar. :)

[greenegirl87]

re: Favorite Overtures#18

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:35pm

Piazza and WSS

"But now the air is filled with confusion. We replace care with illusion."

[mijofly19]

re: Favorite Overtures#19

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:38pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Phantom
Piazza

[YankeeGal#24]

re: Favorite Overtures#20

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:55pm

Gypsy and 42nd Street

"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys

[WiiCKED x3]

re: Favorite Overtures#21

Posted: 4/28/06 at 11:01pm

DRS &
Phantom

[GYPSY1527]

re: Favorite Overtures#22

Posted: 4/28/06 at 11:07pm

Gypsy

Honorable Mention:
La Cage Aux Folles
Wonderful Town
Hello Dolly

Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

Updated On: 8/30/06 at 11:07 PM

[Amysings]

re: Favorite Overtures#23

Posted: 4/28/06 at 11:12pm

West Side Story
Gypsy
Phantom of the Opera
Les Mis
Funny Girl

~ When I sing, I am taken to a place where nothing can harm me, God is there and life is just blissful. ~ AEF

[ALWrules]

re: Favorite Overtures#24

Posted: 4/28/06 at 11:58pm

This has already been discussed, but...
Mame (hands down the best)
Oklahoma
Guys and Dolls

Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine! -The Likes of Us