The "nine o'clock number"- Page 2

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 10/5/15 at 5:25am

Thanks, Snarker, that was our conclusion, too. And we worked on each line as if it were the Rosetta Stone (the original, not the on-line language course), but could never invent a through-ilne that made any kind of sense. I may have cost my friend the part because she sang the song really, really well.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/5/15 at 6:28am

The title song in La Cage aux Folles might perhaps exemplify a 9 o'clock number.   It does for the first act finale - I Am What I Am - exactly what an 11 o'clock number does for the finale ultimo:  rousingly primes the audience for the tour de force to come. 

[Steve C.]

Posted: 10/5/15 at 6:42am

Imo, I think "This Time Next Year/ The Perfect Year" from Sunset Boulevard are a good example of what you mean. They're both combined at the end of the first act, one happy, the other slightly darker. 

[artscallion]

Posted: 10/5/15 at 7:19am

All this mention of Millers Son makes me wonder why no one has mentioned A Weekend in the Country as a good example of a 9 O'Clock number. Unless I missed it.