Your Favorite "Long" Song

[GlindatheGood22]

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

[TotallyEffed]

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

Chrysanthemum Tea

[Unknown User]

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"

[Wynbish]

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

The Sweeney Todd finale is kinda one long song.

[wicked1492]

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

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

[Kad]

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

"Please Hello!"

[ChiChi]

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

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

[SingingChef]

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

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

[IdinaBellFoster]

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

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

[3bluenight]

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

[NotAnotherSN]

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.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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.

[trinbgvsu2]

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

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

[jv92]

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."

[3bluenight]

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

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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.

[3bluenight]

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?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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

Yes, exactly!

[Unknown User]

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!

[metropolis10111]

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

[donte7162004]

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

"My Boy Bill" from Carousel.

[japhun2]

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

Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen--simply the best!

[GlindatheGood22]

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.

[jv92]

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.

[beltingbaritone]

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.