The Most Haunting Score?- Page 3

[evadiva]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:04pm

OMIGOSH YES PARADE YES YES YES!!!!!!

The dissonant Parade theme in the background, the funeral song "It Don't Make Sense," the sound of the young girls singing and that amazingly freakish Hey YEAHHHHHH song with the simple awesome clapping (title escapes me).

Floyd Collins - "Ballad of Floyd Collins - simple, appealing folk song with the darkest lyrics and Jesse Lenat's voice is the f***in s***!!!!!! Also "I Landed On Him," "The Carnival" and the dream sequence. Gosh - it's all so beautiful, dark and creepy eerie.

People write Floyd Collins off - but it's SO AMAZING. The first time I listened, I was on the couch in the dark after I read about the story -which is disturbing enough on it's own. Just knowing the outcome as you listen to the score - you just want so bad for Floyd to...... I won't give it away.

LISTEN TO IT.

PS - My definition of haunting is achingly beautiful, somewhat dark and very moving.

[pemberlee]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:12pm

Sweeney
Ragtime
Piazza

All give me chills.

[evadiva]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:15pm

I'm sure I'm breaking some kind of law - but what te h*** -

Listen to songs from Floyd Colins.


http://www.myspace.com/floydcollins (has a L5Y song in error)


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[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:17pm

Sweeney, Passion and parts of Ragtime (especially "Til We Reach That Day" and "Coalhouse's Soliloquy")

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:21pm

Haunting to me is something that is dark, and brooding without being obvious about it. I think Phantom is too obviously trying to be haunting. It just comes off as 80s power ballads instaed of haunting.

I think Titanice is haunting. The fact that these people are singing these songs and stuff and sailing to their deaths is just heartbreaking.

Not sure how Piazza is haunting, but to each their own.

[littlechavela2]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:22pm

I'd say phantom, and see what i wanna see...both are a little creepy...it's a good creepy though

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:26pm

Nine
Passion
In Trousers
The Cradle Will Rock

Everything Kurt Weill has ever written; particularly, The Threepenny Opera and Lady in the Dark.

Opera: Eugene Onegin (I can't get through the final scene without crying), Jenufa, La Traviata, A Streetcar Named Desire

[devonian.t]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:29pm

Probably a Bill Finn- Elegies, I guess. I cried- buckets.

Passion a close second.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:31pm

-Definitely agree with parts of "Carrie." I heard "And Eve was Weak" a long time ago and I still can't get that last verse out of my head.
-"Parade"
-"Passion"
-Parts of "Grey Gardens"

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 5:33pm

1. The Secret Garden
2. Sweeney Todd
3. Parade

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 6:06pm

"Passion." No contest as far as I'm concerned.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 6:16pm

SWEENEY TODD, PASSION, and PARADE immediately come to mind.

[teka21]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 7:09pm

Left Behind and Whispering from Spring Awakening-
so powerfully poignant and haunting.

[fossemoves]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 2:59pm

HANDS DOWN: Secret Garden, but definate honorable mentions to Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Parade, & Showboat.

[Jmoss7602]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 3:25pm

I would have to agree with "The Secret Garden" or " Phantom"

[BDavis0092]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:09pm

Sweeney Todd and parts of Les Mis.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:22pm

Secret Garden, Floyd Collins, and I definitely think parts of Grey Gardens and Spring Awakening are haunting.

By the way, is there a recording of William Finn's Elegies? I know a few of the songs but would really love to get the recording if one exists.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 4:46pm

It's Spring Awakening for me.

[bandit964]

Posted: 3/15/07 at 11:18pm

SUNSET BOULEVARD

[theactorsociety]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 12:02am

Woman in White has some creepy parts

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 12:14am

Grey Gardens
Light in the Piazza
Passion
Sweeney Todd

[jo]

Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:26am

Much of the music of ALWebber is quite haunting --

*Sunset Boulevard ( I saw the Australian production documentary and hearing Hugh Jackman humming SURRENDER was very haunting. So were songs like With One Look and As If We Never Said Goodbye)

*Woman in White ( Hauntingly romantic)

*The Beautiful Game ( although probably more poignant than haunting)

*Some of his songs in other musicals ( Memory from Cats, Don't Cry for Me Argentina from Evita, Chanson D'Enfance and orchestral versions of Love Changes Everything and Seeing is Believing from Aspects of Love, Angel of Music from Phantom of the Opera, Tell Me on a Sunday, Whistle Down the Wind, etc).

I agree about PASSION,too -- sweepingly romantic and haunting.





Updated On: 3/16/07 at 08:26 AM