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The Most Haunting Score?
elvenprincess971
Broadway Star Joined: 9/12/04
#25re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 1:57am
Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story.
Just saw it.
I'm still thinking about it.
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galindagirl2
Stand-by Joined: 12/22/06
#26re: The Most Haunting Score?
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..
#27re: The Most Haunting Score?
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
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#29re: The Most Haunting Score?
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.
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#30re: The Most Haunting Score?
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.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#31re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 7:01amThe Woman In White, Passion, Side Show. No doubt some of the best haunting scores!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#32re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 8:02am
-Sweeney Todd
-Passion
-Titanic
-Marie Christine
-Side Show
#33re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 8:07amRAGTIME 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***
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#34re: The Most Haunting Score?
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#36re: The Most Haunting Score?
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."
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#37re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 10:13am
-ASSASSINS
-SECRET GARDEN
-SWEENEY TODD
-MARIE CHRISTINE
and RAGTIME (Ahh, the ending. *shivers*)
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sidjones09
Leading Actor Joined: 1/4/07
#38re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 10:17amThe 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.
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alicia_11212
Understudy Joined: 2/11/06
#39re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 10:34amJust 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.
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#40re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:15amPiazza
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#41re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:25am
one answer? Sweeney Todd.
Most recently, Spring Awakening.
Floyd Collins over Piazza...Heart an' Hand...too much.
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Updated On: 3/12/07 at 11:25 AM
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#42re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:44amSWEENEY now and forever. (Sorry about the mixed theater reference.)
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/06
#43re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:47am
Secret Garden
Sweeney
The ending of Evita
The ending of West Side Story
CurtisTaylorJr2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/06
#45re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 12:51pm
Definitely CATS.
I would also agree with SWEENEY and throw out the second act of GREY GARDENS.
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#46re: The Most Haunting Score?
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.."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#47re: The Most Haunting Score?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 1:19pm
phantom.
sweeny todd.
"Those You've Known And Lost Still Walk Behind You"-Spring Awakening
#48re: The Most Haunting Score?
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]
![Me and my fellow DREAMERS in Secret Garden. [kinda creepy]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/ClumsyDude15/SECRET%20GARDEN/cholera.jpg){kind=link}
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
Updated On: 3/12/07 at 01:23 PM
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#49re: The Most Haunting Score?
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.
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