Great guitar solos in Broadway musicals...

Here are my faves:

The intro to the JCS Overture (arguably the best of all time)
GODSPELL Finale
A CHORUS LINE during the Jazz dance
JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERA Exit Music
THE WILD PARTY's "Juggernaut"
Although it's not on the CD, sadly , there is a real face-melter in the dance break to "You Can't Stop the Beat" from HAIRSPRAY. The kind of thing that Marvin Hendrix would call his cousin Jimi about the new sound he was talking about. (JOKE!)

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well, i'll tell ya...off-broadway's 'love,janis' had the hottest lead guitarist i'd ever heard onstage...absolutely smokin!

Not a solo, but some performances of Wicked have a really *great* guitar moment during the flying sequence of Defying Gravity.

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Overature of JSC

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Although never on Broadway, the musical "THE FIX" has some nice guitar solos in it.

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During "Rent" in RENT, the interlude before Benny's "Allison, baby, you sound sad"

I agree, though, JSC's overture rocks.

I am a MAJOR Who fan and TOMMY is by far one of my all time favorite albums.

I have many problems with the musical version of the show ( I have accepted it for what it is and learned to like it for what it is realizing that it isn't the 1969 album)

That being said some of the guitar and drum bits were added in so it would be hard for me to enjoy them.

An example for both the drums and guitar would be the song Sensation. They have an added drum solo to be in the style of Keith Moon the Who's drummer and the guitar intro is something that is added in. There are things like this sprinkled around the entire score but those are two things that come to mind for me.

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Ooh, I have to agree with JCS and Juggernaut.

Just great.

i also like the guitars in "JUST SO" by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe as well.

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As much as I hate the show, FOOTLOOSE has some pretty lovely guitar solos.

I agree with JCS as well.

ALTAR BOYZ also has some nice guitar parts.

Well, there are symphonic metal bands.

And I think "Dance of the Vampires" should definitely count as a great show with awesome guitar solos, and a Wagnerian rock style (although I can't say the same for the dialogue).

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