Favorite Showstopper- Page 2

[gumbo2]

re: Favorite Showstopper#25

Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:44pm

Dirty Rotten Number from DRS stopped the show for literally 5 minutes when I saw it. That song's a lot of fun.

[thejcm]

re: Favorite Showstopper#26

Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:47pm

"Downtown" from Little Shop of Horrors. When I saw it on tour this song blew the roof off the house. That last note always gives me chills.

"Out Tonight" from RENT. Though not "classic" I think this is the only song in the show that really rocks out and when Mimi ends in that pose facing Roger it's like you have to catch your breath.

"Petrified" from Taboo. If you know the song, this needs no explaining.

And "The Time Warp" from Rocky Horror. I was in this show a couple months ago and every night when we finished that song you could feel the electricity in the theatre.

"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs." -RuPaul

[jimmirae]

re: Favorite Showstopper#27

Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:04am

"Petrified" definately!
I forgot to mention 2 Eartha Kitt Pieces:
"Moving Uptown" - THE WILD PARTY
&
"Rahadlakum" - TIMBUKTU!

"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." - Elizabeth Taylor

[musicalsaregreat]

re: Favorite Showstopper#28

Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:11am

Everybody's Girl - Steel Pier

[ALWrules]

re: Favorite Showstopper#29

Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:40am

Soliliquy from Carousel
With One Look from Sunset Boulevard
Don't Cry for Me Argentina from Evita
Defying Gravity from Wicked
Do you Hear the People Sing? from Les Miz
Memory from Cats

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

[iliketheater]

re: Favorite Showstopper#30

Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:46am

"And I am Telling You" - Dreamgirls
"Easy as Life" - Aida
"No Good Deed" - Wicked
"America" - WSS
"Tonight" (quartet) -WSS
"Cabaret" - Cabaret
"The Last Midnight" - Into the Woods
"Home" - The Wiz

& so many more...

[Chrysanthemum62001]

re: Favorite Showstopper#31

Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:46am

Right now, it's "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd, and "A New Argentina" from Evita.

"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL

[inlovewithjerryherman]

re: Favorite Showstopper#32

Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:47am

"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls
"I Am What I Am" from La Cage Aux Folles
"Soliloquy" from Carousel
"Rose's Turn" from Gypsy
"I Got Rhythm" from Crazy For You
"So Long, Dearie" from Hello, Dolly!
Updated On: 12/14/05 at 12:47 AM

[DirtyRottenGirl]

re: Favorite Showstopper#33

Posted: 12/14/05 at 2:08am

Gimme Gimme definetly
Great Big Stuff-DRS
All For You-Seussical

[sidwich]

re: Favorite Showstopper#34

Posted: 12/14/05 at 2:52am

"My One and Only" from "My One and Only" was pretty cool. Tommy Tune had such visual flair.

"Trouble" from "The Music Man"

"One" from "A Chorus Line"... it's such an emotional climax.

"Luck be a Lady" from "Guys and Dolls"

Much quieter, but amazingly effective, "Send in the Clowns" from "A Little Night Music." Just so powerful.

[Eastwickian]

re: Favorite Showstopper#35

Posted: 12/14/05 at 5:25am

'Sit down, you're rockin' the boat' - Guys and Dolls. I just wish they'd record the current version in London as it has a far better arrangement than most of the other G&D recordings out there...

[tthomas76]

re: Favorite Showstopper#36

Posted: 12/14/05 at 6:56am

All That Jazz - Chicago
Roses Turn - Gypsy
Gimme Gimme - Millie
You're Timeless to Me - Hairspray
There are tons others but I'm at work.

[mandy2loveRB]

re: Favorite Showstopper#37

Posted: 12/14/05 at 11:26am

Agreeing with most of the lists above...

Suppertime
What I Did for Love

[jv92]

re: Favorite Showstopper#38

Posted: 12/14/05 at 5:09pm

I'm Still Here from Follies
Dirty Rotten Number from DRS
Rose's Turn from Gypsy

[Iluv2fly4594]

re: Favorite Showstopper#39

Posted: 12/14/05 at 5:39pm

Well,
Everything is Comin Up Roses-Gypsy
Defting Gravity-Wicked
Astonishing-Little Women
Lullaby of Broadway-42nd Street
The Phantom Of The Opera-the title is the song!!

[Katurian2]

re: Favorite Showstopper#40

Posted: 12/14/05 at 5:50pm

Dirty Rotten Numer- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Fine, Fine Line- Avenue Q
Defying Gravity- Wicked
We're in the Money- 42nd Street
Lullaby of Broadway- 42nd Street

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

Updated On: 12/14/05 at 05:50 PM

[mauriposa]

re: Favorite Showstopper#41

Posted: 12/14/05 at 8:11pm

La Vie Boheme. I could watch it over and over and over.

[nolatheatre]

re: Favorite Showstopper#42

Posted: 12/14/05 at 8:16pm

I Am What I Am from La Cage
Who Will Love Me As I Am from Side Show
Find Your Grail spamalot
Ol Man River Showboat
Anything You Can Do Annie get your gun

[bigrab1018]

re: Favorite Showstopper#43

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:18pm

Santa Fe from RENT

"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee

[bigrab1018]

re: Favorite Showstopper#44

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:18pm

just kidding

"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee

[YankeeGal#24]

re: Favorite Showstopper#45

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:29pm

Betrayed- The Producers
I Only Have Eyes for You - 42nd Street
We're In the Money- 42nd Street
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
Run and Tell That- Hairspray
And I Am Telling You - Dreamgirls

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

[CompanyGuy]

re: Favorite Showstopper#46

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:32pm

I agree with all these choices. But two are missing in my mind.

"Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd.
and....

"Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime.

[Flahooley]

re: Favorite Showstopper#47

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:32pm

I'm partial to the RAIN ON THE ROOF/AH, PAREE!/BROADWAY BABY sequence in FOLLIES.

[cathywellerstein]

re: Favorite Showstopper#48

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:41pm

"total eclipse" from Dance of the Vampires when it used to exist on Broadway.

[emo_geek]

re: Favorite Showstopper#49

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:52pm

Once Upon a time- brooklyn

"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999