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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 5:23pm

I know a lot of shows have a fluffy song to open Act 2 as a way of warming up the audience and allowing people to get back to their seats.
And a lot of those songs are considered boring / pointless or songs to skip on the cast album

But what are your favourite Act 2 openers? Either legitimately good songs or guilty pleasures

Personally I love Strike That, Reverse It from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (mainly for its manic Marx Brothers energy). Also Poor Pirates from Spongebob slaps, thank you Sarah Barellis

Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 5:27pm

Masquerade from Phantom.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 5:31pm

'It's Hot Up Here' from Sunday in the Park with George

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup

Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 5:33pm

"God That's Good" from Sweeney Todd

"What Is Urinetown" from Urinetown

Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 5:33pm

Take Back Your Mink (Guys and Dolls)
I Didn't Plan It (Waitress)
Sunrise (In the Heights)
I Love A Piano (White Christmas)
Western People Funny (The King & I)
King Of New York (Newsies)
Crazy Little Huey (Memphis)
Prince Ali (Aladdin)
Lady Be Good (Nice Work)
Figidity Feet (An American In Paris)
Seasons Of Love (Rent)
Stepsisters Lament (R+H's Cinderella)
Farmer and the Cowmen (Oklahoma!)
Shipoopi (The Music Man)

Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 5:40pm

A tie between Hadestown’s Our Lady of the Underground and Hamilton’s What I’d Miss.

Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 5:45pm

"Too Darn Hot" - Kiss Me Kate

Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 5:45pm

Funny, some of the above posters are just reminding me how LOUSY many Act II openers actually are. Just from what's already listed, here are some numbers I feel are the very WORST ones in their shows:

Masquerade

It's Hot Up Here

Western people Funny

Fidgety Feet.

I'll just add my all-time MOST hated Act II opener from LA CAGE AUX FOLLES:
Masculinity!

Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 7:26pm

Elegance

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

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Posted: 9/24/21 at 7:56pm

"Give it some ZAZZ!"

Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/24/21 at 10:21pm

Definitely Sweeney Todd's God That's Good. You get sent out into intermission with the tease of Try The Priest, where finally, halfway through the show, the main conceit - the thing you came to see - is finally put in play. When you return from intermission, you're immediately presented with an unhinged cannibal orgy that builds to a sensational choral peak, at which point the audience climaxes and is then soothed by the Johanna quartet. It's a flawless use of the intermission format.

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/25/21 at 4:38pm

Obviously it’s down to personal taste but I rarely find Act 2 openers boring. I know most of them are pure filler (like Hygge from Frozen) but they’re also unapologetically fun

Another few favourites:
- Masquerade (Phantom)
- Oom Pah Pah (Oliver!)

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/25/21 at 4:41pm

Shocking that no one has mentioned “Side by Side by Side.”

“I am furious, but I am sailing.”

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/25/21 at 4:42pm

hava nagila

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Posted: 9/25/21 at 4:49pm

"City Lights" from THE ACT

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/25/21 at 4:57pm

The Revolutionary Costume for Today...Grey Gardens

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/27/21 at 5:39pm

Our Lady of the Underground is definitely at the top for me. (I said that just based on the soundtrack, but now say it even more since seeing Hadestown for the first time on Saturday). I especially love that they acknowledge the band members as part of the song.

you found your heart but left a part of you behind <3

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/27/21 at 6:00pm

stoptheworld38 said: "Our Lady of the Underground is definitely at the top for me. (I said that just based on the soundtrack, but now say it even more since seeing Hadestown for the first time on Saturday). I especially love that they acknowledge the band members as part of the song."

As an (amateur) musician an one time (college production) pit member, I always love it when the musicians are recognized (in addition to the usual gesture towards the pit during curtain call). (Its also why I'm one of those people who applauds at the end of the exit music).

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/27/21 at 7:15pm

I don't have a favorite, but the ones I like --

I Feel Pretty from West Side Story

You Did It from My Fair Lady

Thank Goodness from Wicked

I Never Want to Go Home Again from Gigi

Under Attack from Mamma Mia!

You're Never Fully Dressed from Annie

Paris Holds the Key from Anastasia

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 9/27/21 at 7:55pm

My favorites not mentioned yet:
Bui Doi (Miss Saigon)
Nobody (Bandstand)
Pharaoh Story (Joseph...)
A Step Too Far (Aida)
Forget About the Boy (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
When I Grow Up (Matilda) - unless you count "Telly" which I also enjoy...

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Favourite Act 2 Opening Numbers

Posted: 10/2/21 at 9:54am

"Steam Heat".

Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....

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