Most Beautiful Score you have ever heard- Page 2

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 11:05pm

The majority of responses on this thread are truly, mind-bendingly, numbingly end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it frightening. The end is near.



Margo Channing
Aged In Wood, NYC

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 11:10pm

The Light in the Piazza and Carousel

Updated On: 4/10/06 at 11:10 PM

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 11:56pm

Les Miserables is my number one.

Honorable Mentions:
Taboo
The Last Five Years
Godspell
West Side Story

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:03am

Hunter, while I might agree with you on certain choices expressed, I now beg you--I am BEGGING. Please give us an example of what you consider to be a beautiful score. You wasted two or three minutes of your life to read the thread and post a reply, so waste another 5 seconds to add that "Such and such is clearly the most beautiful score ever". You don't even need to back the statement up.

As for my personal opinion, since I bothered to reply at all, I think it's hard to single out the most beautiful score ever because so many scores split me down the middle (for example I think Carousel has some great songs, but then it has some less than beautiful songs).

As far as a total score goes, my vote definitely goes to Piazza. Its main concern is sounding pretty, and it does that magnificently. It hardly ever sounds like showtune music and sounds beautiful most of the time (sure, it has the atonal "Aiutame" but you'll live).

There are parts of Floyd Collins that are lacking, but the parts that excel more than make up for it. "How Glory Goes" is an utterly transcendent song. That song along makes Floyd Collins one of my favorites, but luckily it also has "The Riddle Song", "Daybreak", and others.

An unconventional choice: I think the music to Camelot is really gorgeous. Enumerate the show's flaws if you will, but the music is just beautiful.

Also: Showboat, Porgy and Bess, Sunday and Sweeney and Passion... lots!

[Unmasked05]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:03am

1.) The Phantom of The Opera

2.) Hello, Dolly

3.) Dreamgirls

4.) THE WIZ..the movie soundtrack is BEAUTIFUL !!!!

5.) The Scarlet Pimpernel

6.) West Side Story

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:09am

Hello, Dolly is beautiful? I'm all about opinions but come on man :P

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:09am

Passion

[Unmasked05]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:17am

Like I actually like the score to Hello, Dolly !

I really do think its beautiful. Carol Channing isn't on every song and the 1994 Cast Recording of the Overture is AWESOME.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:26am

Porgy and Bess

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:33am

Aida (the opera)

[jasonf]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:43am

Margo - I was thinking Porgy and Bess also - I never know if that really counts as a musical or an opera though...

Then again, the subject is just "score"...

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 1:02am

West Side Story or Carousel or any score if it is being sung by Audra McDonald or Liz Callaway (I swear, they make everything sound beautiful!)

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 1:08am

Agreed InfiniteTheatreFrenzy

[pandajen14]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 1:14am

I just love Sweeney Todd- some songs aren't so much "beautiful" as they are genius, but others, like the "Johanna" quartet, are lovely.

A Little Night Music (because I'm on a Sondheim kick at the moment) has some gorgeous songs, especially "Every Day a Little Death".

I'm also going to agree with Porgy and Bess, Cabaret, and Ragtime.

And I don't want to get any grief about this, but I do think Les Miserables has a consistantly beautiful score. "Bring Him Home" and "Stars" come to mind.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 2:15am

Ragtime in terms of pure lush melody.

In terms of overall effect of the music on the story, I'd say Sunday In The Park with George.

Updated On: 4/11/06 at 02:15 AM

[FoscasBohemianDream]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 2:22am

Nice avatar, Ms.Buffy
The score that touches me the most is Passion, just because I found the love story has such a beautiful transition, the songs truly get to me, and the intensity of the emotions have no comparison in any other show, in my opinion.

[DG]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 2:29am

If we're talking just out-and-out beauty, I'll go with THE KING AND I.

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 4:25am

Most Happy Fella
Porgy and Bess
West Side Story

(non-Broadway)
Amahl and the Night Visitors

(recent)
The Light in the Piazza

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 7:48am

Parade
Sunday in the Park With George
Ragtime
Caroline or Change
The Light in the Piazza
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Songs for a New World

[Janki]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 8:25am

Bjorn and Benny (Abba) has written "Kristina fran Duvemala", soon to open on Broadway...and that is whithout a doubt the most beautiful score ever written

[peggyandvelma]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 8:36am

I'll add West Side Story and also throw in the LOTR film scores. Whoa.

[tabbynyc]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 8:37am

Phantom & Les Miz

[bdwybug55]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 8:41am

Light in the Piazza
Passion
West Side Story

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 8:44am

Gotta be ALNM

[Sant]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 10:48am

THE KING AND I
RAGTIME
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA