The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13

[ClapYo'Hands]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#1

Posted: 4/25/11 at 6:46am

Day 13. A song that made you love a musical from the first note.
Updated On: 4/25/11 at 06:46 AM

[CockeyedOptimist2]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#2

Posted: 4/25/11 at 9:22am

"Overture" from The Light in the Piazza

[(8) :D]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#2

Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:17pm

'Move' - Dreamgirls

[dreaming]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#3

Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:20pm

Hmmm...this is tough. I actually LOVE the overture from "Phantom of the Opera" and I do love the show.

I also loved the first words in "Sunday in the Park With George" (as well as the show itself).

[mallardo]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#4

Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:23pm

"Queenie Was a Blonde" from LaChiusa's Wild Party.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

[Musical Director 109]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#5

Posted: 4/25/11 at 3:52pm

Opening chords of the "Carousel Waltz"

[givesmevoice]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#6

Posted: 4/25/11 at 4:08pm

The Overture to Fanny had me hooked immediately.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[bwayfan7000]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#7

Posted: 4/25/11 at 4:11pm

The Overture of Promises, Promises really grabbed me the first time I heard it. Such a different sound than I'd really heard before, and such fun.

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

[bwayphreak234]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#8

Posted: 4/25/11 at 4:57pm

Overture from Phantom of the Opera.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[sdsm2006]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#9

Posted: 4/25/11 at 5:59pm

Definitely "Overture" - Promises, Promises. It really sets up the style and sound of the show.

I'd also say that "Prelude" - Next to Normal is pretty damn incredible.

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts..." ~Jaques - "As You Like It" Act 2, scene 7

[bwayrose7]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#10

Posted: 4/26/11 at 4:32pm

Definitely the overture from Phantom of the Opera. Also love the prologue from Beauty and the Beast, although I already loved the movie when I saw the show.

[EarthLuau]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#11

Posted: 4/26/11 at 9:24pm

"Prelude" from Next to Normal

[canmark]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#12

Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:28pm

Overture to Oklahoma! and Oh, what a beautiful mornin'

Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)

[BwayTday]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#13

Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:31pm

I'll go with "Prelude" from Next to Normal as well. Combined with the stage lights at that moment it is completely entrancing.

[BwayLover]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#14

Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:47pm

The opening notes and then "again!"...can't be beat. "I Hope I Get It" from A CHORUS LINE had me hooked from the first few seconds!

"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "

[Select a Member Name]

The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 13#15

Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:52pm

"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" from Sweeney Todd

"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim