Your Favorite "Long" Song

#1

Your Favorite "Long" Song

Posted: 8/21/12 at 11:14am

We all know 'em - those ten minute whoppers. What are some of your favorites?

Me:
Now/Later/Soon
Requiem for Evita/Oh What a Circus

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#2

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 11:17am

Chrysanthemum Tea

#3

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 11:30am

For sure the Prologue from "Into the Woods" and the medley that ends act one of Titanic "No Moon/Autumn"

#4

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 11:41am

The Sweeney Todd finale is kinda one long song.

#5

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 11:58am

The one from GHOST where she's sad about him dying.

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#6

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 12:06pm

"Please Hello!"

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#7

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 12:18pm

Not sure if this hits the "long" ten-minute type threshold, but I like "Lot's Wife"

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#8

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 12:33pm

Prologue of Into the Woods
Now/Later/Soon
Poor Child - Lippa's Wild Party

#9

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 1:11pm

The Prologue of INTO THE WOODS is 11 minutes and 58 seconds of perfection.

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#10

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 1:54pm

I agree whole-heartedly about
Now/Later/Soon
Prologue Into the Woods

I would also add
Color and Light, Sunday in the Park with George
Loveland Sequence, Follies
Goodbye my love, Ragtime
pretty lady through the slaying, Pacific Overtures
Rock Island, The Music Man
The Riddle Song, Floyd Collins
The night duets, Caroline or Change
The Prologue/The Dance at the Gym, West Side Story

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#11

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 5:54pm

The "Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen" montage in A Chorus Line. I can't even tell you how much I love that section of the show.

#12

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 5:58pm

I would consider Now, Later and Soon three different songs.

"Simple" from Anyone Can Whistle is a favorite of mine.

#13

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 6:03pm

I love "Shall I Tell You What I Think of You?" from The King and I.

#14

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 6:06pm

I mean, "Soliloquy" isn't ten minutes, but it's about seven and a half, and it's probably my favorite, along with "Someone in a Tree."

#15

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 6:06pm

Re: I would consider Now, Later and Soon three different songs.

I would too if they ended after Anne's song. But as they then morph into the counterpoint section, it really becomes a moment showing how they do belong together in some way - they are a family, it's just a little muddled at this point

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#16

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 6:09pm

Well, technically, each song stops before the next begins (although the first two having finite endings while Anne's is interrupted by Henrik's cello) and the trio of reprises starts.

It just seems to me that those are a different kind of song(s) than something like the Into the Woods opening.

But no offense meant to anyone; it's just how I see it.

#17

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 7:50pm

no no, i see what you're saying. that one interpretation could be that the trio is a reprise of the each song, just concurrently.

So you're thinking more along the lines of A Day Off as an extended musical scene?

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#18

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 7:58pm

Yes, exactly!

#19

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 8:01pm

Wicked1492 With You is not all that long... maybe 3 1/2 minutes.

My vote is for the opening number of Grand Hotel at over ten minutes and Dreamgirls opening act 2 - over 8 minutes!

#20

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 8:24pm

TOTALLY unpopular but I just have a soft happy place for the Jellicle Ball. The Finale for Der Glockner Von Notre Dame and Carpe Noctem from Dance of the Vampires

#21

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 8:42pm

"My Boy Bill" from Carousel.

#22

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:22pm

Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen--simply the best!

#23

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:29pm

Someone mentioned Goodbye, My Love. That's one of the shortest songs in the show.

Anyway, can't believe I forgot to mention A New Argentina. Also LOVE Lot's Wife.

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#24

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:58pm

donte, "Soliloquy" is "My Boy Bill."

I think by "Goodbye, My Love", the admirer meant that short bit and the longer "Journey On" sequence that follows.

#25

Your Favorite

Posted: 8/21/12 at 11:19pm

"Meadowlark" is the first song that came to mind when I read the title of this thread. However, in comparison to some of these other favorites, it seem's like a quick stroll in the park.

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