GREATEST MUSICAL THEATER HARMONIES...- Page 3

[Glinda's Candy]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 2:07am

Definitely "Down Once More/Finale" from POTO. I love the original cast recording, but I also LOVE the film soundtrack. Emmy Rossum sounds so funky when she sings "tears of HATE!". Chills every time...
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[Sant]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 6:43am

MOLLYLLOM: Yes there is a musical called MARTIN GUERRE. It is made by Boublil & Shönberg who also have penned LES MISERABLES and MISS SAIGON. MG is my favorite of these three shows. MG didn't make it to B'way, it toured the U.S. with Hugh Panaro in the title role, but never ended up on B'way.

One more addition to harmonies:

Love Is A Question Mark - TABOO

[wildcat]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 10:00am

There was another MARTIN GUERRE musical, written by Americans, that played regionally with Patrick Cassidy and Judy Kuhn but I've forgotten who wrote it.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 10:17am

Most of of my favourite moments have already been posted (Floyd Collins, Martin Guerre, most of Witches of Eastwick etc), but I have to mention the stunning harmonies in 'Perspective' and 'Trying not to notice' from The Woman in White.

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 11:52am

I agree with just about everything that was said!

I know one thing that hasn't been said that I LOVE--but makes me sound 10 is "No one mourns the wicked" from Wicked!

unnaturally ..."GREEN!!!" is beautiful and then of course all the "WICKED!"s

when you're in the theatre and the ensemble hits those..wow

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 3:42pm

Damn Yankess is not one of my favorite shows, but I love the harmonies in you gotta have heart

[InfiniteGirl]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 9:11pm

Adler and Ross kicked butt on the harmonies. Yes, I love Heart - but Two Lost Souls is my fave. So jazzy, cool, and tight!

[MrBungee7]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 9:20pm

I absolutely agree with "Riddle Song" from Floyd Collins and "The I Love You Song" from ...Spelling Bee. Beautiful. Also, Finn's Elegies has some amazing harmonies/round-like sequences, especially for the men (Monica and Mark, Joe Papp, Mister Choi and Madame G). Complex but fun, and I could listen to them for hours.

[musicman117]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 9:46pm

AIDA
Elaborate Lives
Written inthe Stars

City Of Angels
Any of the quartet pieces

A New Brain
Heart and Music

Chicago
My Own Best Friend
Class

Children of Eden
In Whatever Time We Have

Jekyll and Hyde
Take Me as I Am
In His Eyes

John and Jen
All of the duets

Litte Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
Suddenly Seymore

Parade
All The Wasted Time

The Civil War
With These Hands

And some composers who are very good with harmonies
Jason Robert Brown
William Finn
Henry Kreiger
Frank Wildhorn
Stephen Schwartz

[Ajax]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 6:46pm

I can see it from the fantasticks

[LightMyCandle125]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 7:23pm

i love this thread!

i agree w/ anything from ragtime (what a game, wheels), edwin drood (the choir in name of love), and the damn yankees revival (heart and near to you...i also like some harmonies in a man doesn't know).

i've stated this as my favorite musical theatre song EVER and i'm sticking to it. the harmonies in on my way from violet are exquisite. i just had to throw that out there.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 8:04pm

I have a lot, because I'm very indecisive.

Songs for a New World:
The New World
On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship, 1492
Hear My Song

Parade:
"He Calls My Name" (I don't think that's the name of the song, but it's that part...)
The Old Red Hills of Home
All The Wasted Time

Sweeney Todd:
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
The last chord in A Little Priest
Kiss Me

Company:
You Could Drive a Person Crazy

West Side Story:
One Hand, One Heart
A Boy Like That/I Have a Love

Les Miserables:
"Take my hand..." in the finale

Oklahoma!:
Many a New Day

Into the Woods:
No One is Alone
Ever After
Finale

Altar Boyz:
'Nuff Said

Triumph of Love:
Have a Little Faith

I'm gonna get shot for this, but...
Beauty and the Beast:
Belle
Human Again

Assassins:
Unworthy of Your Love
Everybody's Got the Right

These aren't necessarily the GREATEST, just my personal favorites, but that's what everyone else seems to be doing, so...
Updated On: 5/7/05 at 08:04 PM

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:00pm

City of Angels - any of the quartet stuff and With Every Breath I take reprise

A Chorus Line - At The Ballet

A Little Night Music - Now/Later/Soon

Ain't Misbehavin - Finale

Company - Side by Side by Side, Company

Damn Yankees (revival) - Near to You

Fiddler - Tradition

Floyd Collins - The Riddle

How To Succeed (revival) - Act I Finale, Rosemary, I Believe in You

Jekyll and Hyde - Your Work and Nothing More, In His Eyes, Take Me as I Am

Kiss Me, Kate (revival) - Another Op'nin', Another Show, Tom, Dick or Harry

La Cage Aux Folles - We Are What We Are, The BEst of Times, Son on the San reprise

Les Mis - One Day More!, A Little Fall of Rain, A Heart Full of Love

Purlie - The Harder They Fall, Walk Him Up The Stairs

Ragtime - Prologue, Finale, Wheels of a Dream, Sarah Brown Eyes

Sunday In...George - Color and Light

Sweet Charity - Rhythm of Life, There's Gotta Be SOmething Better Than This

The Fantasticks - It Depends On What You Pay, They Were You, Metaphor, Round and Round, I Can See It, Soon It's Gonna Rain

The Music Man - Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You?, Pick-A-Little/Goodnight Ladies

the Pajama Game - there One Was A Man, Racing With The Clock

POTO - All I Ask Of You

the Scarlet Pimpernel - Storybook, the Riddle, Into the Fire

Wicked - For Good, As Long As You're Mine

But my top three of ALL TIME

West Side Story - One Hand, One Heart ("Even death won't part us now")
Titanic - Godspeed Titanic (the whole thang)
Hello Dolly - Before the Parade Passes By ("Listen and hear that brass harmony...") It Only Takes a Moment (The choir part)

[kangaroo]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:04pm

Right now... I am loving the Little Women
Five for all forever...
After lovely Beth sings, the remaining four [Jo, Meg, Amy, and Laurie] sing this line together... and I just love the strange harmony. It love the line! I have no idea waht they are saying, becuase each time... I always concentrate on the awesome harmony.

~kangaroo

[MrBungee7]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:25pm

Thought of another... In Lippa's Wild Party, the tiny song "By Now the Room Was Moving" has these quick but completely amazing harmonies as the cast names the four main characters. The song is only like a minute, but I listen to it over and over.

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:37pm

A Boy Like That from West Side Story

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 11:06am

I love all those (sometimes unresolved) seventh chords in LaChuisa's Wild Party. His ensemble writing is excellent.

Sweeney Todd is so spectacular harmonically- particularly the madhouse scene, and the non-functional* harmony in the Sweeney Ballad. It sets up the mysterious atmosphere.

I love Cole Porter's harmonizations as well. They always match the lyrics so perfectly.

*By non-functional, I mean that the chords don't resolve in the conventional ways, not that it doesn't work for the listener.

[NYAgent]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 12:50pm

Chess- I know him so well.

Shenandoah- We Make a Beautiful Pair.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 1:02pm

Just remembered some more:
Miss Saigon-
I Still Believe
The Last Night of the World

Avenue Q-
"We could be/sitting in the computer lab..."

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 1:09pm

Pretty Women from SWEENEY TODD

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 1:29pm

D'oh! *Hits head* How did I forget Pretty Women?

[suzycat]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 2:20pm

Aida - A Step Too Far

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 3:38pm

Updated On: 2/7/06 at 03:38 PM

[eddiecantor]

Posted: 10/11/21 at 12:18pm

Reviving a very old thread to add "The Bells of St. Sebastian" from NINE.

[Dan6]

Posted: 10/11/21 at 12:36pm

Surprised no one has mentioned this one yet: the final verse of “Unlikely Lovers” from “Falsettos.” The four-part harmonies are so beautiful they bring tears to my eyes every time.