Favorite waltzes from musicals
Favorite waltzes from musicals
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#1Favorite waltzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 1:30am
Not necessarily instrumental, just songs noticeably in 3/4 time.
Beautiful Candy - Carnival
Embassy Waltz - My Fair Lady
Updated On: 12/28/14 at 01:30 AM
#2Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:19am
As I tried to think of waltzes to list, the first one to pop into my mind was, duh, the Thenardier Waltz, from Les Miz. There are few comical waltz numbers in musicals, but this one sure is.
Despite its generally lukewarm reviews, Love Never Dies received decent comments from reviewers for the music, which included several waltzes, most notably the title number.
I like the waltz interlude in POTO that spins off from the Masquerade number.
The Carousel waltz is quite impressive, as well.
I'm tempted to add the Grand March from the opera "Aida," but I'm worried that people might think I'm serious, and brand me a total idiot. 
-- Audrey
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#3Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:20amOh wow, how could I forget the Carousel Waltz?
degrassifan
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/08
#5Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:54am
The Grand Waltz - The Sound of Music
Embassy Waltz - My Fair Lady
Waltz for a Ball - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
#6Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 5:36am
The Grand Parade - Grand Hotel
Night Waltz - ALNM
Waltz for Eva and Che - Evita
....but the world goes 'round
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#7Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 7:46am
Waltz for a Ball- Cinderella
Embassy Waltz- My Fair Lady
I've Been Invited to a Party- The Girl Who Came to Supper
I'll See You Again - Bitter Sweet
Dancing- Hello, Dolly!
Where, Oh Where - Out of This World
Dubliner
Understudy Joined: 5/26/11
#10Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 11:05am"Real Live Girl (Uptempo)" from the revival of "Little Me." The original version featured a slow sotto-voce sand dance version, but the most recent revival did the number as a giddy uptempo comedic waltz instead.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#11Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 11:10am
Embassy Waltz
Carousel overture
Cinderella waltz
Night Waltz
Falling in Love with Love
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#12Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 11:14am"Do I Hear a Waltz" from Do I hear a Waltz...
#13Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 11:16am
"Governor's Waltz" from Candide
"Waltz" from Nine
"Night Waltz/Last Waltz" from A Little Night Music
"Carousel Waltz" from Carousel
Updated On: 12/28/14 at 11:16 AM
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#14Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 1:43pm
Breathe - In The Heights
You Should Meet My Wife - A Little Night Music
Carousel Waltz - Carousel
I Feel Pretty - West Side Story
The Paris Waltz - Candide
The Embassy Waltz - My Fair Lady
Sons Of - Jacques Brel is a live and well and living in Paris.
#15Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 1:47pm
Yes! Shall We Dance is a polka! How stupid of me!
I guess I don't have a favorite waltz from a musical!
Sucks to be me!
Carry on...
homeimp
Leading Actor Joined: 10/2/08
#16Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:57pmI have always liked I Don't Want To Know from Dear World, The Happy Time from The Happy Time, Kiss of the Spider Woman from KOTS, Look To The Rainbow rom Finian's Rainbow, Send In The Clowns from ALNM. There are many more.
#17Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/28/14 at 10:20pmLast Midnight- Into the Woods
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Nateholder
Swing Joined: 4/23/14
#19Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/29/14 at 12:51am
CarlosAlberto, don't feel bad about naming "Shall we Dance." It makes sense that a novice dancer would first learn to waltz, since it's relatively easy compared to other dances, including the polka. Also, I'll bet you got thrown off by the King's counting 1-2-3-and, but the "and" in this case, being a full beat, is actually "4." (I always think of "and" as a half beat, and 1-2-3-and SHOULD be a waltz under my definition).
Signed, Audrey, for whom a total inability to dance is one of the reasons that I didn't seek out a Broadway career.
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
#20Favorite walzes from musicals
Posted: 12/29/14 at 6:16am
The Laender - The Sound of Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QPxLkTHpdc)
The Grand Waltz - The Sound of Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnTxTz2ToZY)
Fan123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/30/08
#21Favorite waltzes from musicals
Posted: 12/30/14 at 6:16am
(A more musically literate person may be able to identify some of these choices as not being truly in 3/4 time.)
The Anastasia Waltz / Hand in hand
He plays the violin
Baubles, bangles and beads
Once upon a December
No one else
Isn't it?
Round and round
Poison in my pocket
Sibella
The slipper and the Rose waltz / When he (she) danced with me
Where I want to be
Irma la Douce / Valse Milieu
I'm not at all in love
Pretty women
A wonderful guy
If you can find me, I'm here
Honourable mentions:
Passeggiata
Quartet / other uses of that melody in Chess
Foolish to think
Love makes the world go round
I don't care much
Matchmaker
Wunderbar
Night of my nights
Inigomontoya
Featured Actor Joined: 6/24/07
#22Favorite waltzes from musicals
Posted: 12/30/14 at 7:09am
Leave you from Follies is in 3/4 tempo, no?
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