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Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
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#25re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:36am
I have a little list of them, so bear with it.
Les Miz- Between "Red and Black" and "Do You Hear..." when Enjolras sings "They will come when we call."
Les Miz- "One Day More" right before the marching starts and Javert comes on..."the time is now, they day is here."
Les Miz- "Bring Him Home"...all of it
Les Miz- "Javert's Suicide" after he jumps and the orchestra kicks in with the "Stars" orchestration.
The Wedding Singer- "If I Told You" when the duet takes place at the end of the song. Stephen Lynch's voice just gives me chills at that moment.
Man of La Mancha- "The Impossible Dream" at the key change when sung by Brian Stokes Mitchell.
Spring Awakening- "Touch Me" from the moment Skylar starts his little thing through the end of the song.
OK, I think I'm done for now.
#26re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 12:16pm
-The very last "being alive" in BEING ALIVE (Company)
-The drum roll at the start of Cabaret along with "It's gotta happen, happen sometime, something's bound to begin! from MAYBE THIS TIME
-All of NO ONE IS ALONE (Into the Woods)
-The Lyrics from MOVE ON (Sunday in the Park with George)
-"To love another person is to see the face of God" (Les Miserables)
-When Eva is belting the parts at Act 1 such as "He supports you, for he loves you, understands you , is one of you! If not, how could he love m?" But only when it is done right.... (Evita)
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
#27re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 12:24pmAlthough this is certainly also due in part to the staging, the transition from Mary Louise Wilson's older Big Edie into Christine Ebersole's young Big Edie during "The Girl Who Has Everything" as the house splits and Christine is revealed... my god. What a moment.
#28re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 12:58pmOh I completely forgot the finale of "Song and Dance" where Bernadette has a meltdown, wondering what has become of herself. The spoken word parts from "What in the hell have I done?" are heartbreaking up to the final lines of "You don't know me!" It is thrilling. I only wished I had seen it.
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"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
seaweedjstubbs
Broadway Star Joined: 3/21/07
#29re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 1:33pmI love the end of You Can't Stop the Beat in Hairspray after the VonTussles sing their part and the music goes out and everyone's singing a cappella. That whole number is just an explosion of energy.
Action2
Understudy Joined: 2/21/07
#30re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 1:42pm
Once On This Island: The "oh Timoun" that the cast wails when she dies
West Side Story: The last phrase (sung well) of Maria
Rent: Reprise of I'll Cover You
#31re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 1:42pm"Petrified" from Taboo....every time I saw it, I got chills.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#32re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 1:50pmIntro to All The Wasted Time on Parade
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#33re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 1:51pmThe ending of 'Close Every Door' from Joseph. I love that!
LouieLovesTheater
Leading Actor Joined: 3/30/04
#34re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 3:10pm
I second Raphael's Evita "A New Argentina" belting parts (even though it's in Dutch, Pia Douwes version is incredible...what a great belt)
The one moment that beats all others for chill factor (which I interpret as goosebumps up the spine into your cheeks) is the finale of Sweeney Todd after the "There! There! There!" and the music swells into "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd"....ack...chills just from typing that. Everytime I've seen/heard the show that part just sends me a tinglin'.
#35re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 3:13pmMarin Mazzie singing "Back to Before" in RAGTIME...the first song to ever give me chills in the theater (and RAGTIME is still my all-time favorite Broadway show).
theperformer
Chorus Member Joined: 5/26/07
#36re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 3:21pm
"Fable" from Light in the Piazza - When she says "Just a painting on the ceiling..." I always get chills.
Grey Gardens - during "Another Winter in a Summer Town" when she says "refusing to wither...."
#37re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 4:24pm
i knwo where i've been, and for some reason, GMB reprise.
and. like seaweedjstubbs said, the end of YCSTB when everyones singing a cappella
also motormouth's solo in YCSTB!!! AMAZING!
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"Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
#38re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 5:01pmBack when I saw "Sunday in the Park with George" for the first time, before the cast album came out, I could just think of Mandy singing "made of flecks of light, and dark" and get chills.
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
mrslovett7
Leading Actor Joined: 3/18/06
#39re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 5:14pm
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (opening) from the San Francisco Philharmonic, the first time the orchestra explodes and the the chorus sings, "Swing your razor high, Sweeney!"
On that same recording Patti Lupone and George Hearn during the final scene. Especially, "Yes I lied 'cause I loved you! I'd be twice the wife she was! I love you! Could that thing have cared for you like me?"
The end of Point of No Return in Phantom when he a Christine sing, "The bridge is crossed to stand and watch it burn. We've passed the point of no return"
Phantom overture
On the Beauty and the Beast OBCR the last minute of Be Our Guest, when Gary Beach says "'til you shout" CHILLS
Sunday in the Park With George. During Sunday when Mandy Patinkin sings, "bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum" to Dot
Into the Woods, the Witch, "Careful the tale you tell, that is the spell. Children will listen"
Edwin Drood -the whole song Garden Path to Hell
The entire scor of Light in the Piazza
The Les Miz overture
~H*
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-Michael Cerveris
#40re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:54pm
All of Les Miz. "I Dreamed A Dream" is chilling when you think of the lyrics, as stagemom said. Also when Javert jumps off of the bridge, and the finale. It didn't give me chills, but made me cry, when Eponine almost kisses Marius in the revival, and then dies. It makes me cry every time. 
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
#41re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:06pm
The part of No One is Alone from Into the Woods that goes "Sometimes people leave you..." So beautiful.
In Wicked, when the whole cast joins for the first time in Emerald City, it's just a really lovely, exciting moment.
I know it isn't exactly the most beautiful moment, but towards the end of Pandamonium in Spelling Bee, when it all just kind of explodes into such energy and crazyness, I got chills out of sheer excitment.
TheaterAddict7652
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/06
#42re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:23pm
The notes the orchestra plays in "Being Alive" while Bobby is singing the very last "alive"
At the end of "Success" in Ragtime after Tateh says "I promised you America and little one, we will find it" when the music gets louder and a little faster and swells into "His Name Was Coalhouse Walker"
The very last orchestral part in "No One has Ever Loved Me" (Passion)- literally the last thirty seconds- from when it starts to play the orchestra part of "Happiness"
There's a lot I am not certain of...
jg4892
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/06
#43re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:30pm
The scene right before the light in the piazza, and that song
In Spring Awakening, when Ilse starts to sing the second "spring", Moritz puts his head on the microphone. I love it.
The W.A.N.D
Understudy Joined: 3/16/06
#45re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:51pm
Seconding the last notes of "Being Alive" TheaterAddict.
-When Raul (I'm using just his bobby because I've never heard anyone else do it this way) says "Mock me with praise" in "Being Alive" and pratically shouts the "Mock." Goosebumps.
- In The Last 5 Years in the middle of "Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You" when the cheerful, upbeat song switches to Jamie saying how he's moving out.
#46re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:58pm
The harmony at the end of "Follow Your Heart" from Urinetown, as well as Bobby's "awaaaaay" in "Run Freedom Run."
The reprise of "I'll Cover You" from Rent
Norbert singing "I think we still deserve a hand" during DRS.
Raul's performance of Being Alive.
The harmony between Big Edie and Little Edie during "Another Winter In A Summer Town.
"It's the smile you smile that counts, happy thoughts in large amounts, any problem you can trounce, you can bounce right back."--Donald O'Connor
#47re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:02pm"Another Winter in a Summer Toun" from Gret Gardens. It set me up to realy give me chills in the lst few second of the play.
#48re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:14pm
RENT: The harmonies in “Will I” get me every time…
SPRING AWAKENING: “Purple Summer”
TICK TICK BOOM: During “Johnny Can’t Decide” – I think it’s the combination of what he’s saying and the music that makes it so great… “I want to write music…I want to sit down right now at the piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning for the rest of my life.”
WICKED: I’m not sure why but during Dancing Through Life when Glinda first joins Elphaba to dance…the instrumental piano music gets to me.
#49re: Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills
Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:22pm
Clara's Interlude - The Light in the Piazza
Around the World - Grey Gardens
The Music and the Mirror - A Chorus Line
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
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