The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

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The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:17am

My favorites are:


Elaborate Lives- Aida
Street Singer- Brooklyn
I Know Him So Well- Chess
Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts- Whistle Down the Wind

What can you add to the list?

#2

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:21am

A Little Priest~SWEENEY TODD

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#3

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:24am

Move On - Sunday in the Park With George

#4

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:25am

"All I Ask of You" - Phantom of the Opera
"Defying Gravity" and "As Long as You're Mine" - Wicked

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#5

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:27am

"Lily's Eyes"--Secret Garden
"In His Eyes"--Jekyll and Hyde
"I'll Cover You"--RENT
"See Me"--BARE

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:31am

What You Own - Rent
Elaborate Lives - Aida
All I Ask Of You - Phantom of the Opera

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:34am

class
my own best friend
nowadays
as long as you're mine
ah sweet mystery/ falling in love with someone

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:39am

I Will Never Leave You from Side Show

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#9

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:51am

"Some Enchanted Evening" gets pointage for being classic, I guess.
"You're The Top," maybe? Well, maybe not.
"With So Little To Be Sure Of".
"Barcelona".
"Lily's Eyes."
"All The Wasted Time."

And I'll think of more later.

#10

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 1:15am

I'd Give it All For You- SFANW

#11

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 1:19am

"Oh Happy We" from CANDIDE.

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#12

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 1:21am

The duet from West Side Story.

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 1:58am

Some are dittos...
I Know Him So Well -"Chess"
Move On -"SITPWG"
His Eyes -"J&H"
What You Own -"Rent"
I'd Give it All for You -"SFANW"
All the Wasted Time -"Parade"
The Next Ten Minutes -"TL5Y"
People Like Us -"TWP"
Unworthy of Your Love -"Assassins"
Everyday a Little Death -"ALNM"

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 2:01am

Despite the overwhelming number of god-awful songs in "Carrie," I think "And Eve Was Weak" and "Evening Prayers" are two of the most amazingly powerful, terrifying (the former) and beautiful (the latter) numbers to ever be sung.

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 2:06am

move on-sunday in the park
i will never leave you-side show
who will love me as i am-side show
id give it all for you-songs for a new world
the next 10 minutes-last 5 years
all the wasted time-parade

#16

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 2:07am

"My Friend" -- The Life
"He Can Do It" -- Purlie
"Faith In Myself" -- Dreamgirls
"Beautiful" -- Sunday In The Park
"One Hand, One Heart" -- West Side Story

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 2:18am

Ragtime is filled with AMAZING duets
*Wheels of a Dream
*Sarah Brown Eyes
*Our Children

Others that havent been mentioned:

*It's Best to Leave while I'm in Love~Boy from OZ
*My Child/ That Guy ~Blood Brothers
*Waltz for Eva and Che ~Evita
*Suddenly Seymour ~LSOH (yes I know the urchins do back up)
*Tango Ballad ~3penny Opera
*Three Bedroom House ~Bat Boy
*Parents and Children~Ruthless!

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 4:04am

"Wheels of a Dream"
"Sarah Brown Eyes"
"In His Eyes"

Are easily, in my opinion, the most powerful duets in Musical Theatre.

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 5:39am

I have to say "In His Eyes". For all the gripe about Wildhorn, that song is beautiful.

Vocally powerful, "Take Me Or Leave Me" from Rent.

"Are You There" from Bare is beautifully done.

"I Still Believe" from Miss Saigon. Understated. (Yet the song itself has been overdone)

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#20

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 6:20am

I agree with I Still Believe - one of the more overlooked songs from the Miss Saigon score IMO

Also
'Live with Somebody you Love' and 'If you still love me' from the revamped Martin Guerre (although the latter was unaccountably missing from the 1999 cast album)
Lily's Eyes - The Secret Garden
Not a Day goes by - Merrily we Roll Along
A Woman's Hands - La Cava
Past the POint of no Return - Phantom
Our Children - Ragtime

Also the 'Journey On' trio from Ragtime - I know it doesn't count as a duet, but I love it (although is it me, or does sound rather like Four Black Dragons from Pacific Overtures?)

#21

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 11:12am

Make Believe from ShowBoat
You Are Love from ShowBoat
Look For The Silver Lining from ShowBoat
Deep IN My Heart from Student Prince
Where Or When from Babes In Arms
I Wish I were IN Love Again from Babes In Arms
All At Once from Babes In Arms
Why Can't I from Spring Is Here
I've Got 5 Dollars from America's Sweetheart
And Love Was Born from Music In The Air
You're The Top from Anything Goes
All Through the Night frrom Anything Goes
Spring Is Here from I Married An Angel
This Can't Be Love from Boys From Syracuse
I Didn't Know What Time It Was from Too Many Girls

And lots of others!!!

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#22

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:07pm

I will never leave you -- sideshow

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#23

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 12:16pm

"Some Enchanted Evening" gets pointage for being classic, I guess.

Some Enchanted Evening is a duet? Since when?

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re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 2:22pm

without a doubt,... "Wheels of a Dream" !!!! "Ragtime" !!

#25

re: The Most Powerful Duets In Musical Theatre

Posted: 9/8/04 at 3:34pm

I think its Light My Candle, from rent...? no?

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