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#26

The Last Great Overture

Posted: 5/16/17 at 1:40pm

PThespian, do you currently work at The Majestic with any regularity?

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#27

The Last Great Overture

Posted: 5/16/17 at 3:09pm

A Christmas Story has a lovely overture.

#28

darquegk wrote: ""It may be pastiche, but the full length album version of the Producers overture is pretty nice."

I asked: "In what way is that overture "pastiche?""

Chairinman replied: "It wasn't actually performed; just written for the album. The overture as performed on broadway was significantly shorter."

That's not the definition of "pastiche," though.

#29

The Last Great Overture

Posted: 5/16/17 at 4:12pm

I'd have to say The Drowsy Chaperone, which is wonderful in its own right, but the way it opened up in the original production was glorious.

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#30

The Last Great Overture

Posted: 5/16/17 at 4:52pm

Drowsy Chaperone of 2006 is really fun....in less then a second you have a really fun upbeat tempo that makes you feel right at home with an old fashioned musical

#31

The Last Great Overture

Posted: 5/16/17 at 6:05pm

Hate on it all you want, but I love the Mamma Mia overture. I remember being a teen sitting in the theater and it being so loud and catching me off guard and I was instantly excited!

#32

The Last Great Overture

Posted: 5/16/17 at 7:00pm

I've always enjoyed the overture from "Curtains".

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#33

The Last Great Overture

Posted: 5/16/17 at 7:39pm

I considered it pastiche because it seems designed to replicate the sound of a late 1950s, early 1960s Broadway overture of the Julie Styne/Jerry Herman kind, and succeeds in sounding "of the era" even Jew than the stage score at large does.

#34

The Last Great Overture

Posted: 5/17/17 at 12:28pm

RippedMan said: "Hate on it all you want, but I love the Mamma Mia overture. I remember being a teen sitting in the theater and it being so loud and catching me off guard and I was instantly excited!"

Haha, same. Other than sitting in the theater bit during my teen years. I was 25. :)

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