How many musicals end in "I Do" ?
How many musicals end in "I Do" ?
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#0How many musicals end in "I Do" ?
Posted: 6/22/06 at 11:50pm
Okay, so I'm listening to iTunes, and it's on shuffle, and I hear these four songs in a row:
Act Two Finale from Spamalot
I Do, I Do... from Mamma Mia!
It's Your Wedding Day Finale from Wedding Singer
I Do, I Do In The Sky from Drowsy Chaperone
Regardless of why it happened, it did, and I couldn't help but think that SO many musicals end not only with a wedding, but with the words "I do." I don't mean that the last two words ever spoken have to be those two, but pretty darn close to the end. Any other musicals make blatant use of the term in their closing song?
(Also, would it be proper to say: How many musicals end in "I Do?" or with the ? after the "". This what I get for sleeping through high school English.)
#1re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 10:18amActually, The Drowsy Chaperone ends with a touching reprise of "As We Stumble Along", but if you're talking about the show with in a show, yes "I Do, I Do in the Sky" ends with "I do" and ends the show.
#2re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 10:34amSweet Charity sort of ends that way.. With "I Love to Cry at Weddings" but after that there is a reprise of "Bravest Individual".
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#3re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 11:05amI never noticed how many shows had a wedding in it until April. For spring break I saw 5 shows, Barefoot, Drowsy, Wedding Singer, Mamma Mia, and Spamalot, not relizing all of them had to do with weddings until that week.
schlitze
Swing Joined: 4/25/05
#4re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 11:20am"Lil' Abner" ends in a wedding, although I think technically Abner says "I does" instead of "I do." The Dogpatch vernacular and all.... :)
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#6re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 2:28pmLi'l Abner doesn't care much for you either.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#7re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 2:31pmWell, no one ever actually says "I do" in Spamalot.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 2:32pmGuys and Dolls, Cinderella, and Anything Goes are the only ones off the top of my head.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#10re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 2:53pm
Light in the Piazza, Little Women, and Jekyll & Hyde also end in weddings.
In Oklahoma! the actual wedding doesn't take place at the end, but it's the event that goes throughout the end.
Les Miserables' wedding is almost at the end.
Beauty and the Beast either ends in a wedding or a ball.
If we're talking shows that have weddings in them...so many! Brigadoon, Fiddler on the Roof, Once On This Island, Sound of Music, Miss Saigon, and Avenue Q just to name a few.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#11re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 3:02pmWoman in White ends in a wedding! No "I do" though
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#12re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 3:16pmAvenue Q doesn't end in a wedding--The wedding is towards the end of the first act.
JustChillin8908
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/06
#13re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 3:20pm
"Avenue Q doesn't end in a wedding--The wedding is towards the end of the first act."
That's why she said "If we're talking shows that have weddings in them"
Updated On: 6/23/06 at 03:20 PM
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#14re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 3:25pm
Thanks JustChillin.
BTW--she, not he 
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#15re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 3:29pmI don't remember an "I do" in Guys and DOlls
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#16re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 4:06pmThe Last 5 Years obviously has a wedding...
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#17re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 4:16pm
JEKYLL AND HYDE almost ends with a wedding.
HELLO, DOLLY! technically ends with an implied wedding - or several implied weddings to be.
OKLAHOMA! ends with a wedding, or atleast a wedding party.
There's a wedding in THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
GUYS AND DOLLS ends with a wedding of sorts, though not a ceremony.
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW all happens because of a wedding.
There is a wedding, though we don't see it, in THE THREEPENNY OPERA.
They may or may not be an implied wedding(s) after the finale of THE PAJAMA GAME.
There's a nice wedding ceremony and reception in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#18re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 4:33pm"All Shook Up" (sort of) ends with a wedding.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 6/23/06 at 04:33 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#19re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 4:35pm
Robber Bridegroom ends with a wedding.
Oklahoma! ends on Laurey and Curly's wedding night.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 6/23/06 at 04:35 PM
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#20re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 4:54pm
ALL the old musicals of the 20's and 30's ended in weddings, God bless 'em...
TT
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BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#22re: How many musicals end in 'I Do' ?
Posted: 6/23/06 at 6:45pmYeah the "I Do"s in The Last Five Years are gorgeous. The harmonies just soar.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
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