Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

#1

Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

#2

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

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

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"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

#3

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

Kewl. Thnx Ashley.

#4

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

Lullaby of Broadway - 42nd Street
Willkommen - Cabaret

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

#5

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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...

#6

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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.

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#7

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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.

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#8

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

Magic to Do - Pippin

#9

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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.

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...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...

#10

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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.

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#11

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

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...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...

#12

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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.

#13

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

Company
All That Jazz

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#14

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

#15

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

Thnx guys.

#16

re: Songs to Use for Opening Numbers?

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

Magic to do from Pippin would work