New musicals with overtures

[Albin]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 5:34pm

Just curious. How many of the new musicals this season
The Frogs
Dracula
Brooklyn
Good Vibrations
All Shook Up
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Light in the Piazza
Spamalot
Little Women
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,

have traditional overtures?

[noahrp3]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 5:37pm

of what i know, only spamalot, DRS, and Little Women (i ahven't heard or seen all of them so this is just the one's i know)

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 5:42pm

Piazza has one.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 5:44pm

The Frogs has its opening "fanfare." Not exactly a traditional overture, but it's close...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 5:44pm

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Spamalot do, as well.

[Thenardier]

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

Dracula has opening music which was cool - dripping blood sounds, vampires chanting, the whole shebang!

[Jon]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 5:51pm

Spamalot has a short overture. It was longer when I saw the show in Chicago - with a few laughs as it "quoted" famous pieces of popualr and classical music.

Posted: 5/11/05 at 5:51pm

Brooklyn doesnt, it has like 10 seconds of music then the show starts besides it has no intermission.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 5:55pm

The Frogs - Opening Fanfare
Dracula - Vampire Chanting and "scary" music with thunder
Brooklyn - no
Good Vibrations - no
All Shook Up - Yes (combo of Jailhouse Rock and All Shook Up, I believe)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Yes
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Yes
Light in the Piazza - Yes
Spamalot - Yes
Little Women - Dunno
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, - Dunno

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 5:57pm

To finish yankeefan's list:

Little Women: Yes
Spelling Bee: No

[BJC899]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 7:48pm

Little Women has one but it's only around a minute long. I used to get bored at traditional shows with 3 minute overtures, but now I miss them

[Plum]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 8:40pm

Wow; I somehow suspected that fewer recent shows would bother with overtures. I remember taking a lifetime theater-deprived friend to Gypsy, and she completely didn't understand why the orchestra was playing but nothing was happening. I told her to wait for the trumpet solo. :)

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 9:29pm

Plum - you are so right about the Gypsy overture - I love the trumpet part... Accuradio has a whole channel devoted just to overtures - it's where I get my fix

[i*heart*fame]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 9:36pm

Little Women's overture is essentially just playing I'd Be Delighted, with a tiny bit of extra music, however, an overture nonetheless.