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Lengthy Opening Numbers that Do and Don't Work...
#50re: Lengthy Opening Numbers that Do and Don't Work...
Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:45pm"Twenty Million People" from MY FAVORITE YEAR is my favorite. I also think the rest of the score is fantastic, but was let down by a horrible book.
#51re: Lengthy Opening Numbers that Do and Don't Work...
Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:49pmOh yeah! West Side Story has brilliant opening! I also agree with how ineffective the beginning of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was. I know they rewrote the opening song for the tour but it was not much better.
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
poodleboy2
Swing Joined: 5/16/06
#52re: Lengthy Opening Numbers that Do and Don't Work...
Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:59pmI like "Comedy Tonight" opening for "A Fummy Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum". It always stands out in my memory.
#53re: Lengthy Opening Numbers that Do and Don't Work...
Posted: 6/28/07 at 3:45pmI very much agree with GRAND HOTEL, Smaxie.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#54re: Lengthy Opening Numbers that Do and Don't Work...
Posted: 6/28/07 at 5:00pm
i loved the opening of the Wedding Singer... infectious song and choreography... other i like
Hairspray
Tarzan
Little Shop of Horrors
Coolness_
Understudy Joined: 6/11/07
#55re: Lengthy Opening Numbers that Do and Don't Work...
Posted: 6/28/07 at 5:49pm
I love the opening to Aida. Just Brilliant!
The Wedding Singer has a great opening number too.
A Chorus Lines opening is a bit long but then again the whole show is like an hour and a half of dancing. What do you expect?
The Producers opening I just plain didn't like.
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#56re: Lengthy Opening Numbers that Do and Don't Work...
Posted: 6/28/07 at 6:51pm
Deena Jones you PMed me aboutt my Closer to Heaven comment on this thread and I can help you out--but you can't accept PMs it says back, so I dunno how to get a hold of you....
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