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Favorite Overtures
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#50re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 4/29/06 at 4:53pm
"Then what is Phantom's overture? It IS a medley, there are many songs in that piece. "
No, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA's Overture is not a medley. It is the main theme (i.e. the title song's theme) first played by a church organ and then by the full orchestra. There are no other melodies from any other songs in the Overture.
ENTR'ACTE is a medley, including melodies of "Angel Of Music", "The Music Of The Night", "All I Ask Of You" and the title song.
"I'm not too familiar with the Cats overture, but if I recall it has that little theme noise that is repeated at the end of "Memory" and in other songs. So, it's a half medley."
The first half or so of CATS' overture is music which does not appear anywhere in the show's other songs (it is heard in "Jellicle Ball" in which basically the Overture is repeated). Then the second half of the overture is based on the final bars of "Memory".
Updated On: 4/29/06 at 04:53 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#51re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 4/29/06 at 5:18pm
Candide
Gypsy
South Pacific
The King and I
and
Promises, Promises
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#52re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 4/29/06 at 5:21pm
Damn Yankees
Guys & Dolls
All Shook Up
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Sweet Charity
#53re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 9:21am
West Side Story!
i love that transition from Maria into Dance in the Gym
its fantastic.
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
#54re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:01am
Light in the Piazza wins hands down - I was so disappointed when they shortened it in the theatre.
Witches of Eastwick
Candide
Follies Prologue (or medley? 
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#55re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 11:17am
Promises, Promises
Over Here!
Annie
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Funny Girl
Steel Pier
Sunset Blvd.
Mamma Mia!
#56re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 11:24am
Some of my favorites:
Gypsy (the ablsolute best!)
Fiddler
West Side Story
Sweet Charity
On the Town
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whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
IMissNYC
Stand-by Joined: 1/7/06
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AshleyBrownFan123
Broadway Star Joined: 3/24/06
#60re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 11:53am
DRS
Mamma Mia
Piazza
Les Miz
Let us milk the cow that is theatre-Monica Trausch
#61re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 12:08pm
GYPSY
BABES IN ARMS (includes: Where or When, Lady is a Tramp and My Funny Valentine!)
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
elmore3003
Leading Actor Joined: 3/31/04
GYPSY3
Swing Joined: 8/27/06
#63re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 1:07pm
It was so gratifying to me to have someone earlier mention the overture to GOLDILOCKS. I saw the show twice in 1958 and loved the score. It starred Elaine Stritch, Don Ameche, Pat Stanley, Russell Nype and Margaret Hamilton (the wicked witch of the West).The music was by Leroy Anderson and the orchestrations were by Anderson and the prolific and fabulous Philip J. Lang.Orchestrators rarely get the credit that they deserve.
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#64re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 1:39pm
Candide, WSS, On the Town, Wonderful Town. (I spot a theme)
Also: DRS, Full Monty, Gypsy, Spamalot, and POTO.
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
HeartandMusic
Featured Actor Joined: 6/11/06
#66re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 3:00pmMy favorite overture used to be when a guy would buy me Stoli martini....
" I wish that the stage were as narrow as a tightrope wire, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." -- Goethe (he wants you to go to my Myspace page www.myspace.com/jasonklemm
#67re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 3:04pm
Urinetown (if you haven't heard it, listen to it)
DRS
NYnativeinLA
Chorus Member Joined: 12/30/04
#71re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 4:40pm
Most repetitive, hackneyed, and overdone thread.
Alex, What is, " What is your favorite overture?"
" I wish that the stage were as narrow as a tightrope wire, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." -- Goethe (he wants you to go to my Myspace page www.myspace.com/jasonklemm
Kouji
Swing Joined: 5/16/06
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#74re: Favorite Overtures
Posted: 8/30/06 at 4:54pm
DRS
Tommy
Phantom of the Opera
Piazza
Les Miz
What the puck?!
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