The Most Haunting Score?- Page 2

[elvenprincess971]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 1:57am

Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story.

Just saw it.

I'm still thinking about it.

[galindagirl2]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 1:59am

The Phantom of the Opera and The Woman in White
Scarlet Pimpernel ranks up there for me as well..

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 3:27am

I agree about Cats! Don't everyone hate on Cats!

Also, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and A Light in the Piazza

[broadway_socialite]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 3:33am

Nine, Titanic, Passion, and Parade

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:57am

I think there are a lot of songs that are haunting in Spring Awakening like "Touch Me" and "Those You've Known"

Sweeney has quite a few haunting songs to it as well.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 6:31am

SECRET GARDEN.
very stirring and amazing. especially "How Could I Ever Know."

SPRING AWAKENING has its haunting moments.

[All_For_Laura]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 7:01am

The Woman In White, Passion, Side Show. No doubt some of the best haunting scores!

[elvisitis1302]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 8:02am

-Sweeney Todd
-Passion
-Titanic
-Marie Christine
-Side Show

[JRybka]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 8:07am

RAGTIME has the score that haunts me to this day. When Marin Mazzie sings Back to Before it just soars and you know, like in life, one can never be what they once where and you just have to move forward in your life and learn. ***chills... just thinking about it***

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 9:13am

Passion is the most haunting score I have ever heard.

I agree with most of the above. I'd also add Hello Again, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Assassins, Follies, and A Doll's Life

The music for Thrill Me is quite haunting. The lyrics are among the worst I've ever heard.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 9:21am

Grand Hotel

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 10:08am

Great choice, Tom14850.

I don't know that I have an entire SCORE that haunts me. Overall shows have haunted me, but usually due to one or two scenes or songs... or the story itself. But not an entire score.

Lately, it's the scene from Grey Gardens at the end of "Another Winter in a Summer Town." Edie's line: "Coming, mother darling." I can't shake it.

I still remember Patti Cohenour singing "Moonfall" in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Very haunting.

Michael Crawford looking down over the lovers at the end of the first act of Phantom of the Opera.

Victoria Clark singing Fable.

Sweeney's recognition of his wife Lucy.

Betty Buckley's pitiful "dance" after the Jellicle Ball in Cats.

And the earliest one for me, from the first national tour of 1776... the Courier singing "Mama, Look Sharp."

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 10:13am

-ASSASSINS
-SECRET GARDEN
-SWEENEY TODD
-MARIE CHRISTINE
and RAGTIME (Ahh, the ending. *shivers*)

[sidjones09]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 10:17am

The most haunting for me is without question SWEENEY TODD. While other shows have some haunting songs, from the first note to the last, that score gives me chills. But I will also second FLOYD COLLINS. 'Daybreak' from that show is one of my favorites in all of musical theatre.

[alicia_11212]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 10:34am

Just because I've seen it recently and it's on my mind, I'd say definitely ELEGIES: A SONG CYCLE. Especially the last 3-4 tracks.

[twogaab2]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:15am

Piazza

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:25am

one answer? Sweeney Todd.

Most recently, Spring Awakening.

Floyd Collins over Piazza...Heart an' Hand...too much.

Updated On: 3/12/07 at 11:25 AM

[keen on kean]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:44am

SWEENEY now and forever. (Sorry about the mixed theater reference.)

[singingbackup]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:47am

Secret Garden
Sweeney
The ending of Evita
The ending of West Side Story

[CurtisTaylorJr2]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:52am

Bernarda Alba

[RevolutionaryCostume]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 12:51pm

Definitely CATS.

I would also agree with SWEENEY and throw out the second act of GREY GARDENS.

~Jacob.

[LeaGirl]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 1:15pm

For me personally?

Nine (an obvious choice, given my avatar, but I never get tired of that score)
Secret Garden (which could have been a childrens show but ended up being one of the prettiest things I'd ever seen or heard...)

And parts of "Parade" - the trial scene with all those little girls going "He calls my name, I turn my head.."

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 1:19pm

phantom.
sweeny todd.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 1:23pm

"Secret Garden (which could have been a childrens show but ended up being one of the prettiest things I'd ever seen or heard...) "

Agreed.

The part where the children are singing "Mistress Mary.. Quite contrary.." when all Mary's close people in her life in India are dying is so haunting, as is "How Could I Ever Know" and "A Girl In A Valley."
I just LOVE Secret Garden [and not just cause I was in it!]

Me and my fellow DREAMERS in Secret Garden. [kinda creepy]

Updated On: 3/12/07 at 01:23 PM

[Sant]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 2:07pm

Haunting as "you'll be humming the songs long after you're done with the cd"?

In that case RAGTIME.