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The Last Great Overture
The Last Great Overture#26
Posted: 5/16/17 at 1:40pm
PThespian, do you currently work at The Majestic with any regularity?
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The Last Great Overture#29
Posted: 5/16/17 at 3:37pm
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.
The Last Great Overture#30
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.
The Last Great Overture#31
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
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The Last Great Overture#32
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!
The Last Great Overture#33
Posted: 5/16/17 at 7:00pm
I've always enjoyed the overture from "Curtains".
Updated On: 5/16/17 at 07:00 PM
The Last Great Overture#34
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.
The Last Great Overture#35
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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