Moment in a Musical That Truly Gives You Goosebumps — Page 3

Most of the end of WSS with all of the groups singing the differing parts at once.
Just before the last part of Defying Gravity when she yells, "It's MEE!" and rises until the end.
No Good Deed
Finale of Wicked
The end of the dream sequence in Oklahoma for some reason.
Octet from Piazza
Various parts in Phantom

- "Something Wonderful" in THE KING AND I. The song is just that amazing!

- the finale ("So if you care to find me...") of "Defying Gravity"

- Act I finale of RAGTIME ("Til We Reach That Day")

- overture of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

- "Prima Donna" from TPOTO when it is well performed and you can hear the harmonies and all the different voices and melodies. It sounds like a mess at first but once you get the hang of it, it is really like a conversation and the melodies are so brilliantly overlapped.

The opening of blood brothers, the finale of blood brothers and everything in the middle. Particularily the shoe song.

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Audra singing Anyone Can Whistle, last summer at the Ravinia production of the musical

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Updated On: 1/24/06 at 07:02 PM

Phantom- the first few bars of the Overature.
"Music of the Night"- when it's performed well

Rent- The first few bars of "Seasons of Love"
Very specific, but personal to me- the lyric "to people
living with, living with, not dying from disease" from
Boheme B
"I'll Cover You" Reprise

Les Mis- Javert's Suicide

Ugh, I know there are others, but my mind is blank right now. Perhaps it's because I've been seeing mostly comedies lately.

The "Judge's Return" in Sweeney Todd- YIKES!

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Confrontation - J/H - With Cuccioli
Freedoms Child - The Civil War
The Glory - The Civil War
Deep in the Night - Inner City - Linda Hopkins
Make Them Hear You - Ragtime
Music Of the Night - POTO

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Any of the killings in Sweeney (especially the last one). eee...

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in Phantom right after Point of No Return:
"Anywhere you go let me go too/Christine, that's all I ask of..." right before the mask is ripped off.. gets me everytime

There's 1 part in "You Can't Stop the Beat" i love too much, and it's all because of the bass: "you can try to stop the paradise we're (::smack side of thigh, loud drums:: ) dreaming of"... i just love how much energy is pumped into that

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of one's mentioned

defying gravity
circle of life
lots in Les Mis(though i've only seen the concert thing from PBS, but i'm excited because i'm seeing it in boston in february)

also, Hunyak's death in Chicago,i'm not sure why, but it does

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The trumpet solo in Gypsy's overture is unbelievable, especially in Peters' revival.

Definitely from "So if you care to find me..." in "Defying Gravity (WICKED).

The Finale of LES MIZ always does it for me, once the stage is full and they're slowly marching forward. But also the end of "One More Day" at the close of Act I, with similar staging... and "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables". "Bring Him Home" from LES MIZ. Actually, many moments in LES MIZ.

The Act I Finale of ALL SHOOK UP when the entire cast literally fills the theatre with their voices as they sing, "Can't Help Falling in Love."

"Music of the Night" from Phantom (actually the only thing I like about Phantom.)

At the end of LENNON, the monologue delivered by Chuck Cooper as one of the policemen who arrives at the scene a couple of minutes after Lennon's murder. When he says, "It's John Lennon...and there's blood everywhere...do you know who you are...yeah." It hits you that this is something that really happened to a real person that many people love, not just an invisible person described in newspaper print.

"If I can't Love Her" from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

The last part of One Day More (From "Tomorrow we'll discover..." until the end)

Will I? and Finale B from RENT

When Elphaba starts to fly in Defying Gravity

Almost all of the deaths in Sweeney

Till' We Reach That Day from Ragtime (Gets me crying sometimes)

I think that's it for now...

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