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#1

Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/12/05 at 5:04pm

What number or a moment from a musical really thrills and excites you?

- A LITTLE PRIEST (Sweeney) especially the last few measures of the song. Incredible.

- ACT 1 FINALE (CHICAGO) Roxie fainting, and Velma brings down the curtain with her AND ALL THAT JAZZ. This really excites me.

- The BIG SPENDER vamp that starts the Overture in SWEET CHARITY. It's so great watching the audience jump in their seats, then they bop their heads and dance to the beat - everyone's face looks so thrilled. The Orch really belts out these notes.

- YOU CAN'T STOP THE BEAT - Hairspray.



I'll add more later.
#2

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/12/05 at 5:11pm

The last note sung in One Day More, if done right.

In Spelling Bee when...

*SPOLIERS AHEAD!!*




...Barfee wins the bee.

*END SPOILERS*

Don't jump on me, but when Elphaba flies...gah, so thrilling. I was shaking a lot.
What the puck?!
#3

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/12/05 at 5:14pm

BURNING LOVE and C'MON EVERYBODY from ASU-so much fun and thrilling!

YOU CAN'T STOP THE BEAT from HAIRSPRAY

BIG SHOT from MOVIN' OUT- that was so amazing and excellent!
--Alex-- "They're singing, "Happy Birthday" You just wanna lay down and cry Not just another birthday, it's 30/90 Why can't you stay 29 Hell, you still feel like you're 22 Turn 30 in 1990 Bang! You're dead, what can you do?" --TTB
#4

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/12/05 at 5:14pm

When Chitty takes flight...

Call the show whatever you want, and let the critics beat it to death, but really, that is pretty magical..I mean, you can fly things from the wings, or from the flies, but really..the technology alone is magical.....and when she spins! AHHHh! FLY CHITTY! FLY!

Honorable mention: 42nd Street stair routine!

I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2

Updated On: 11/12/05 at 05:14 PM

#5

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/12/05 at 5:15pm

the Speedtest/Forget about the boy from Millie.
Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."

#6

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/12/05 at 5:40pm

Jennifer Holliday singing "And I Am Telling You" and receiving a standing ovation in the middle of the song.
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#7

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/12/05 at 5:47pm

I Little Women during "The Fire Within Me" when she sings, "How can that be lost forever?/How when I gave everything with all my heart?!" And the music swells and I saw the sheet covering the attic window and I nearly jumped out of my seat and yelled, "Rip it off!" But she did anyway and I got all these chills.

'Twas a great moment.
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#8

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 7:21am

- The whole THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA scene. That scene is just so brilliantly designed and pulled off.

- Also ALL THAT JAZZ and CELL BLOCK TANGO from CHICAGO.

- and the moment Elphaba starts to rise up in DEFYING GRAVITY.
#11

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 8:32am

"You Can't Stop the Beat"

"One Day More" from Les Mis. That is just an amazing scene. And the finale.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#12

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 8:54am

I agree with you Sant about The Phantom of the Opera scene, but I prefer when the chandelier raises up at the beginning.

Beauty and the Beast when the Beast turns into the Prince. I KNOW it's extremely soppy but I loved that moment; I'm a kid at heart.
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#13

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 8:56am

The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels number...the chemistry between John and Norbert in that is amazing.
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#14

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 9:39am

When Elphaba starts to fly in "Defying Gravity" in Wicked.

When the car starts to fly in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, both times.
#18

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 11:11am

For me, there's nothing better than the Finale of TPOTO. The entire scene just brings me to tears and gives me chills. I have no idea why it still does since I listen to it so often, but to me it is just incredible.
#19

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 11:12am

"The Fall of Saigon" from Miss Saigon...you just can't catch your breath.
"It's telling me to hold you tight and dance like it's the last night of the world."-Miss Saigon
#20

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 11:20am

These are the most exciting numbers & moments I've witnessed in a musical:

And I Am Telling You (Act I finale from Dreamgirls)
Music and the Mirror (A Chorus Line)
Defying Gravity (Wicked)
Grizabella ascending to the Heaviside Layer (Cats)
Sunday, as the painting comes together at the end of Act I (Sunday in the Park With George)
America (West Side Story)
Rose's Turn (Gypsy)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (On Your Toes revival)

EDIT: Crap! I forgot one of the best ever! I was lucky enough to see Yul Brynner in a revival of "The King & I." And the moment when he dances with Anna in "Shall We Dance" is electric and legendary. It certainly makes my list.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 11/13/05 at 11:20 AM

#22

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 11:38am

Defying Gravity- Wicked
You Cant Stop The Beat- Hairspray
C'mon Everybody/Burning Love- All Shook Up.
Cell Block Tango- Chicago
Circle of Life- Lion King.
#23

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 11:55am

It just occurred to me that my choice (Raul doing Petrified) isn't really exciting as it was moving. I shouldn't have posted here.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#24

re: Most Exciting Numbers/Moments From A Musical?

Posted: 11/13/05 at 1:31pm

"One Day More" from Les Mis
"The Rumble" in WSS
"La Vie Boheme" in Rent
"Wheels of a Dream" in Ragtime
"Little Priest" in Sweeney Todd
"Rose's Turn" in Gypsy
and yes, "Defying Gravity" from Wicked -- say what you will about the show, the first time I saw that scene, not a month after it opened, I was in awe, and couldn't stop smiling through the whole intermission.
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