Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
#0Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 1:33am
What do you guys think are the most emotionally-charged ensemble numbers? Numbers with an energy that just pushes them forward and makes the audience merge with the actors emotionally?
My thoughts:
Something Just Broke - Assassins
Louder Than Words - Tick, Tick BOOM!
#1re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 1:36amFinale B from RENT comes to mind.
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#2re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 1:36am
I'm sure everyone else will say it, and I wish I could be more creative, but the only one that comes to mind at this time is the finale of Les Miz. That's all I got, and I wish it wasn't what everyone else will say. But I DID get it first!
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#5re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 1:45amIf you ment just pure energy, not just emotion, than one of the most energizing numbers I've ever done was "Light of the World" in Godspell. Also, "We Dance," and "Comedy, Tonight" were big pump-up numbers. pretty much any great opening song done well will have enormous amounts of energy.
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
#6re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 1:45am
We are Decended - Dessa Rose
No One Mourns the Wicked - Wicked
BwayBoy25
Leading Actor Joined: 6/19/05
#7re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 1:54amaudition from 42nd street comes to mind...
lvpblues
Broadway Star Joined: 2/18/04
#8re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 1:56am
"Till We Reach That Day" - Ragtime
"Godspeed, Titanic" - Titanic
"Make Our Garden Grow" - Candide
"Oklahoma!" - Oklahoma!
"Impossible Dream" - Finale - Man of La Mancha
futurewinnerbud
Understudy Joined: 2/23/04
#9re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:39am
the finale of Titanic
One Day More- Les Meserables
Fall of Saigon- Miss Saigon
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#10re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:42am
To be completely different:
"Chasing the Whos" from "Seussical: The Musical"
#11re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 6:30amThank you to lvpblues and futurewinnerbud for suggestion numbers with emotion behind them.
Albin
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
MojaniD
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/05
#13re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 9:56am
Till We Reach That Day from Ragtime always brings tears to my eyes (even sometimes when I listen to the CD).
You'll Never Walk Alone (finale) from Carousel, gets me every time.
BwayBoy, I have to agree with you on the opening number of "42nd Street". I've been known to get choked up during that number!!
pndmnd
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/04
#14re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:22am
Facade from Jekyll and Hyde
Falling in Love With You (I don't know if that's the real title--the Act I finale of All Shook Up).
#15re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:02am
"can't help falling in love" and "heartbreak hotel" from ASU
"one day more" from Les Miz
"another day" from Rent
"give peace a chance" from Lennon
My avatar: Yummy, no?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#16re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:07amThe Glory from The Civil War
#17re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:10amSecret Garden finale. Also, big number, not so much with the lump in the throat factor is "Light at the End of the Tunnel" from Starlight Express
#18re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:18am
Anatevka from Fiddler
A Part of Us from Once on This Island
IveGottaBeME
Leading Actor Joined: 1/15/05
#19re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:53amjust saw Carousel the other day and "You'll never walk alone" was greatttt.... Also, Another day from Rent.
#20re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:53amThought of another one..."Reach Right Down" from Starmites-the Musical! Obscure, much
#21re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:58amWalk Him Up the Stairs - opening and closing of "Purlie" (Not the current production). It just gave me goosebumps.
#22re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 12:03pmGoodnight Saigon - Movin' Out
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#23re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 12:26pmThis isn't all ensemble, but it's most of them - "Take a look, Lee", the scene and following song from Assassins. I get drawn in by their pleas and emotionally overwhelmed, and then...the gunshot brings me back to reality. It's actually quite scary.
Derek
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/03
#24re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 12:28pm
"I Know Where I've Been" - Hairspray
"March of the Witch Hunters" - Wicked
Everything from Les Miz
The Finale from Phantom of the Opera
"We Beseech Thee" - Godspell
"Pray" - Once on This Island
"Brotherhood of Man" - How To Succeed
noahrp3
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/05
#25re: Most Emotionally Charged Ensemble Numbers
Posted: 7/30/05 at 12:28pm
What I Did For Love- A Chorus Line
I love this song!
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