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

[penECheery]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 5:32pm

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

[jimmirae]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 6:07pm

Hedwig standing up sans the drag and singing the Tommy Gnosis response of "Wicked Little Town"! WOW!!

[Sant]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 6:08pm

- "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.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 6:15pm

Defying Gravity from Wicked
Prologue, Epilogue, Ephiphany, and A Little Preist from Sweeney Todd
Everybody's got the Right and Take a look Lee from Assassins

[Matters]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 6:35pm

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

[YankeeGal#24]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 6:40pm

42nd Street when the whole cast comes tapping down those stairs at the end to the strains of (what else?) "42nd Street", in complete unison and the crowd is clapping so loudly, you can't tell anymore if its the tapping or the applause.

Plus I get goosebumps no matter what show I go to when the curtain starts to rise...

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:02pm

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

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

[zippyjen]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:03pm

chitty flying
angels death in rent
the end of cabaret
the first few bars of phantom
the pillowman

[starletta8]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:16pm

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.

[Lamc16]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:33pm

when Fantine sings "I Dreamed a Dream" in Les Mis--especially the part when she sings,

"But the tigers come at night---
with their voices soft as thunder..."

I LOVE IT!

[Katurian2]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:45pm

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

[jeremykushnier1fan]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:54pm

RENT, everything. Remembering when all the instruments start up at the begining of RENT.(plus Will I and I'll cover you (reprise))

"So if you care to find me..." in Wicked, Defy Gravity

Millie - "Gimme that thing called love, I want it, Here I am St Valentine..."

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:58pm

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

[anotherhundredpeople]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:13pm

Gosh. There are many. But here are some...
"Fable" from Light in the Piazza
"Until We Reach That Day" from Ragtime
Pretty much all of Sweeney(especially Not While I'm Around)
"Tomorrow Belongs To Me" from the revival of Cabaret
The Finale in Into the Woods
"Loving You" from Passion
"Move On" from Sunday

I'm sure there are more, but I'll be here all day.

[Gypsy2]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:32pm

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

[SmeagolxIsxSexy]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:35pm

Defying Gravity "so if you care to find me" till the end!

Mark and Roger's argument in Good-bye Love from Rent.

[zepka102]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:38pm

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

[rebels]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:45pm

Two scenes do it for me in Jersey Boys:
1) When Bob Gaudio (Daniel Reichard) talks about a tune popping into his head & says, "the whole world exploded" and the Four Seasons start singing "Sherry"...

2) When Tommy DeVito (Christian Hoff) gets kicked out of the band & Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young) says, "What happens to the group?"

Jersey Boys Blog:
http://www.jerseyboysblog.com

[LorelaiGilmore]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:50pm

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

[mauriposa]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 9:50pm

"Will I" from RENT. I can't even sing along because it moves me so much.

[PJ]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 10:04pm

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

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 10:08pm

Another personal one for me...

When I played Anthony this summer in Sweeney Todd, we had a 50+ cast, and in the finale, after all of the killing and I burst through the door with Johanna. And then eventually the cast filled the stage and we started the ballad.

During the part when all the parts are different right before "There!", and everyone is singing some variation of "Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle, inconspicuous..." and the music just builds to this huge crescendo. I always got the biggest shivers.

[My Name in Lights]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 12:02am

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.

[AnnaB]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 12:07am

"...but it was us baby, who were the lucky ones"

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 12:11am

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...