Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

[show2n2]

Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#0

Posted: 6/19/06 at 8:40pm

What are some good songs to use for an Opening number of a Revue/Showcase?

I did a search and found the Greatest Opening Numbers, but I was curious about songs that would work for a Showcase or revue of Musical Theater Songs.

I thought of a few:
Doors
Comedy Tonight
Another Opening, Another Show
There's No Business Like Show Business
Putting it Together
It's a Grand Night For Singing
Starting Here, Starting Now

Can you guys think of anymore?




Greatest Opening Numbers Thread Updated On: 6/19/06 at 08:40 PM

[ashley0139]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#1

Posted: 6/19/06 at 8:52pm

On this Night of a Thousand Stars
I Hope I Get It

"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

[show2n2]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#2

Posted: 6/19/06 at 8:54pm

Kewl. Thnx Ashley.

[Katurian2]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#3

Posted: 6/19/06 at 9:16pm

Lullaby of Broadway - 42nd Street
Willkommen - Cabaret

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

Updated On: 6/19/06 at 09:16 PM

[Kevo711]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#4

Posted: 6/19/06 at 9:21pm

In the three revues I have participated we opened with "I Hope I Get It", "Comedy Tonight", and "Another Opening Another Show"... which have all been listed...

[bwayboi4life42]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#5

Posted: 6/19/06 at 9:31pm

I agree with "Willkommen" from Cabaret and "I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line.

Also,
"The Opening" from And The World Goes 'Round. It's a mix between "Willkommen" and "And The World Goes ' Round", but it sends chills down my back everytime I hear it. The orchestrations are fabulous.

"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth." - Barbra Streisand

[dirty rotten guy]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#6

Posted: 6/19/06 at 9:31pm

"Give Them What They Want" from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels might be a fun one thats not as universally known.

"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"

[Unknown User]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#7

Posted: 6/19/06 at 9:35pm

Magic to Do - Pippin

[rufussars]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#8

Posted: 6/19/06 at 9:43pm

"Opening Night" is probably my favorite opening number. It sets a comically unexpected tone, which seems very appropriate for a revue. I've always taken to peppy curtain raisers that are rather brief.

...And so, there I was at the stage door for "Equus". The enthused avalanche of "Harry Potter" fans was literally pushing me into the barricades. As I was thrust face-first into Daniel Radcliffe's hat, I suddenly felt the thumb of a lanky gentleman behind me pressing firmly into my back. It was then that I realized that both of his hands had Playbills, and that both arms were outstretched in front of me...

[hypertruffle]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#9

Posted: 6/19/06 at 9:49pm

"There You Are" from Edwin Drood first comes in mind. Though I doubt that it'll work for a revue. Still check it out though.

"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve

[All_For_Laura]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#10

Posted: 6/19/06 at 9:50pm

Welll a very odd choice, but it works in my head.

"Come Look at the Freaks" From Side Show

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[Christopher_Acts]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#11

Posted: 6/19/06 at 9:57pm

Invocations and Intstructions to the Audience from "The Frogs" especially if you change the lyrics to match the ones in Putting It Together.

Hilarious.

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#12

Posted: 6/19/06 at 10:01pm

Company
All That Jazz

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[FoscasBohemianDream]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#13

Posted: 6/19/06 at 10:09pm

In the revues I've directed or been in, these are the opening numbers we've used:
"Let Me Entertain You"
"All That Jazz"
"Broadway Baby"
"Another Hundred People"
"One Night Only"
"Big Spender"
"Happiness" (Passion)
Updated On: 6/19/06 at 10:09 PM

[show2n2]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#14

Posted: 6/19/06 at 10:43pm

Thnx guys.

[singingshowgirl]

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?#15

Posted: 6/19/06 at 10:48pm

Magic to do from Pippin would work