Most beautiful scores?
Most beautiful scores?
Most beautiful scores?#1
Posted: 8/14/10 at 4:46pm
I was just thinking on this today, because I'm nerdy that way:
What do you think are the most beautiful scores ever written for musicals?
My immediate thoughts would be Sunday in the Park with George, The Light in the Piazza and A Little Night Music. While I'm not saying they're necessarily the BEST scores ever written (well, I think Sunday might be), I think they are most adequately served by the word "beautiful".
What are your thoughts, you clever, knowledgeable people?
Most beautiful scores?#2
Posted: 8/14/10 at 4:49pm
I agree with your three and would add:
Most Happy Fella
Brigadoon
Carousel
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Most beautiful scores?#2
Posted: 8/14/10 at 4:56pm
Miss Saigon I'd say right now, but tomorrow it might be something different
Of the newer musicals Love Never Dies has an incredibly beautiful score. I hope they get the staging right and that it gets to Broadway.
Updated On: 8/14/10 at 04:56 PM
Most beautiful scores?#3
Posted: 8/14/10 at 4:59pmphilitalia, I agree with you about the score of Love Never Dies. It's just a shame that the book is...what it is.
Most beautiful scores?#4
Posted: 8/14/10 at 5:04pmIndeed, and it took 4 people to mess it up like this
Most beautiful scores?#5
Posted: 8/14/10 at 5:21pm
The lyrics are pretty bad, too.
Anyway, my contributions would be Passion and My Life With Albertine.
Most beautiful scores?#6
Posted: 8/14/10 at 5:22pmFiddler On The Roof has some pretty beautiful songs (Sunrise Sunset, Sabbath Prayer etc)
Most beautiful scores?#7
Posted: 8/14/10 at 5:23pm
I agree with Fiddler, Sunday, Light in the Piazza and Night Music.
La Cage also has a beautiful score
Most beautiful scores?#8
Posted: 8/14/10 at 5:24pm
Passion (Sondheim) is just breath-taking
Violet is a great score
Most beautiful scores?#9
Posted: 8/14/10 at 5:33pmAlso: KISMET, SHOW BOAT, THE NEW MOON, DEAR WORLD & THE KING AND I
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Most beautiful scores?#11
Posted: 8/14/10 at 5:45pmI think Into the Woods has some songs that could be described as beautiful- Stay with me, Children will Listen, On the Steps of the Palace. Also, Loosing My Mind in Follies is quite beautiful. I know they're not full scores, but just thought I'd throw them out there. I agree with Sunday in the Park with George and Light in the Piazza especially.
Most beautiful scores?#12
Posted: 8/14/10 at 5:47pmOh, South Pacific and Passion definitely. Also Ragtime as well.
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Most beautiful scores?#13
Posted: 8/14/10 at 6:04pmThe Secret Garden... one of the most hauntingly beautiful scores I can remember.
Most beautiful scores?#14
Posted: 8/14/10 at 6:21pm
I will suggest a few
Cirque Du Soleil: Quidam
The Threepenny Opera (especially the famous instrumental suite)
Children of Eden (it's a shame the lyrics are often insipid, because a lot of the music is nice)
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Most beautiful scores?#15
Posted: 8/14/10 at 6:45pmmusicalfan3, you don't have to be apologetic for saying Into The Woods is a beautiful score. I would agree with that. I think there are some really wonderful songs in that show. Not to be obvious but West Side Story would have to be near the very top of outstanding scores. I personally am a Company guy myself. I also have very nostalgic feelings about Annie as a score. I think that has beautiful songs. "Tomorrow" is kind of like the "Hey Jude" of showtunes. It's been burned into our brains with soooo many crappy versions that it's easy to forget that it is actually a really wonderfully constructed little tune.
Most beautiful scores?#16
Posted: 8/14/10 at 7:23pmI agree with Sunday in the Park, A Little Night Music, and Light in the Piazza. I think Phantom of the Opera has some beautiful music as well. Beautiful in a different way than the first three, but beautiful no less.
Most beautiful scores?#17
Posted: 8/14/10 at 7:27pm
She Loves Me is a lush and lovely score. I can smell the soaps and perfumes while I listen to it.
The Baker's Wife has some of the most beautiful songs, and Patti LuPone sounds amazing on the original cast recording.
As was already mentioned, Kismet is a marvelous and grandly beautiful score as is Magdelena, an earlier work by the Wright/Forrest team. It has a spectacular studio recording where Judy Kaye provides some impressive vocals alongside some amazing orchestrations. They also made a beautiful original score for Kean.
Do I Hear A Waltz? is gorgeous, I feel. The Gay Life is another lovely 1960s score, and has a wonderful Viennese sound. Highly recommended. I also think another Barbara Cook musical, The Grass Harp, has some beautiful soaring melodies.
I think the original London cast of Children of Eden is beautiful but the Papermill recording is lacking in the beauty department.
Dare I say Les Miserables? Chess? The duet "You And I" is excruciatingly beautiful as are "I Know Him So Well" and "Someone Else's Story."
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Most beautiful scores?#19
Posted: 8/14/10 at 7:53pmI wanna add Caroline, or Change to the list. I think some parts of it are breathtaking, especially when it gets into trios or duets. I also love the orchestrations
Most beautiful scores?#20
Posted: 8/14/10 at 7:59pmRegina and Juno, how could I forget!?
Most beautiful scores?#21
Posted: 8/14/10 at 8:03pmOh, I'd also like to add Floyd Collins
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Most beautiful scores?#22
Posted: 8/14/10 at 8:05pm
Amour has to be up there, right?
City of Angels
Candide
My Fair Lady
Metro is none too shabby for a Rock/Pop show, but much easier to appreciate if you listen to the original Polish version which flows better.
The original songs for Taboo are lovely, especially Stranger in this World, Pie in the Sky, Guttersnipe, and Petrified.
Most beautiful scores?#23
Posted: 8/14/10 at 8:31pmI think Pippin has some lovely songs.
Most beautiful scores?#24
Posted: 8/14/10 at 9:07pm
IMO:
Light in the Piazza
Carousel
A Little Night Music
They are exquisite - just incredibly beautiful scores (well, except the "Clambake" song . . .haha).
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