Showstoppers
Showstoppers
#0Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 5:05pm
I'm putting together a revue for a local theatre company of Broadway "Showstoppers". I have a few ideas already, but I wanted to get your opinions!
Thanks!
"I don't wanna see that!" -Aunt Sassy (as played by Valerie Cherish) on Room & Bored
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#1re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 5:06pmIf you can find someone who can sing it, "And I Am Telling You (I'm Not Going)" from Dreamgirls is the queen of all showstoppers.
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capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#3re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 5:09pm
"Gimme Gimme" - Thoroughly Modern Millie
"Run, Freedom, Run" - Urinetown
"Suddenly Seymour" - Little Shop of Horrors
"Cabaret" - Cabaret
"Lullaby of Broadway" - 42nd Street
"Seasons of Love" - Rent
"If I Were a Rich Man" - Fiddler on the Roof
"All That Jazz" - Chicago
"No Good Deed" - Wicked
"Everything's Comin' Up Roses" - Gypsy
"Rose's Turn" - Gypsy
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judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#4re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 5:45pm
Always True To You- Kiss Me Kate
Brush Up Your Shakespeare- Kiss Me Kate
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#5re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 5:51pm
we both reached for the gun
those were the good old days
lullaby of broadway
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#6re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:07pmMost of the great eleven o'clock numbers are included. "Rose's Turn"/"Everything's Comin Up Roses", "Cabaret", "Hello Dolly"
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#7re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:13pm
The Wizard and I or Defying Gravity-WICKED
We Can Do It- THE PRODUCERS
Roses Turn- GYPSY
Music of The Night- POTO
You Cant Stop The Beat- HAIRSPRAY
just a few ideas
TheaterGeek91
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#8re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:36pm
We're in the Money- 42nd Street
I pretty much think tap goes over big if you have the dancers.
lostwallflower
Leading Actor Joined: 2/20/04
#9re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:50pm"The Impossible Dream" - Man of La Mancha
"I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber. Please don't take me to the pickle farm."- Brak
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 7:06pm
This Is The Moment _ Jekyll & Hyde
Deep In The Night - Inner City
Poster Emeritus
#12re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 7:10pm
Blow Gabriel Blow- Anything Goes
Tonight Quintet- WSS
Sit Down You're Rockin the Boat- Guys and Dolls
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
Ruth Sherwood
Leading Actor Joined: 10/4/04
#15re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 9:00pm
The ones not already stated:
"Forget About the Boy"
"100 Easy Ways"
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
-Stella Adler
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#16re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 9:06pm"Lullaby of Broadway" and "42nd Street" are always hits! (if done well)
gravity87
Featured Actor Joined: 8/4/04
#17re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 9:13pm
"Blow Gabriel Blow"-Anything goes
"Anything Goes"-Anything Goes
"Defying Gravity"-Wicked
"This is The Moment"-Jekyll and Hyde
"All that Jazz"-Chicago
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
"No Day but Today"
"New York New York"
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mizzie
Featured Actor Joined: 9/30/04
#18re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 10:10pmCabaret....Many Les Miz songs....I think that Big Spender is a good one, when done well. I second "Close Every Door"- it will have the hair stand up on anybody's arms. If you can find someone to do a major Wicked song, grab them. Gimme Gimme is amazing too!
#19re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/18/04 at 10:37pmOf all of these so called showstoppers, there is only one of them that I actually saw stop a show. It was "And I Am Telling You" from "Dreamgirls". After the song there was a standing ovation and the show had to stop for a while until the audience settled back down. Most of the songs listed in this thread are great but very few of them ever really stopped a show.
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Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#20re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/19/04 at 7:25am
What about THE ULTIMATE show-stopper of ALL Broadway history... "Hello, Dolly!"
'Dolly' used to get so many encores when performed that in the interest of time, a limit was placed on the number of encores the song could have.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Fan Of Stage & Screen
Swing Joined: 10/19/04
#21re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:01am
Hey, Look Me Over from WILDCAT.
Getting Married Today from COMPANY.
I love the musical score from WILDCAT. It's fun and entertaining.
Julie Andrews did a wonderful rendition of Getting Married Today in PUTTING IT TOGETHER.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:12ampab - I have a tendency to agree with you. Although, 'Once Before I Go' stopped The Boy From Oz the night I saw it - but I think that was all about Hugh, not the song.
#23re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:26am'Back to Before' from Ragtime completely stopped the show when I saw it London
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#24re: Showstoppers
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:00pm
Plus the ones I already mentioned:
One- A CHORUS LINE
Dont Cry For Me Argentina- EVITA
My Strongest Suit- AIDA
Beauty and the Beast- B&TB
Before the Parade Passes By- HELLY DOLLY!
The Speed Test- TMM
What Is This Feeling?-WICKED
Finale (Dancing Queen & Mamma Mia if Im not mistaken)- MAMMA MIA!
Somethings Coming-WEST SIDE STORY
100 Ways to Lose a Man- WONDERFUL TOWN
Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'-OKLAHOMA!
The Sound Of Music- THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Footloose (Finale)-FOOTLOOSE: THE MUSICAL
Once Upon A Time- BKLYN
On The Street Where You Live- MY FAIR LADY
Shall We Dance?- THE KING & I
Seasons of Love or La Vie Boheme-RENT
Some People-GYPSY
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