Your Favorite "Long" Song- Page 2

[3bluenight]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 2:13am

re: goodbye my love

I did indeed mean to include the Journey On section.

It's interesting, Lot's Wife wouldn't qualify as an extended musical sequence according to The Day Off definition. I love love love Caroline and Lot's Wife is certainly (to me) the apotheosis of the score, character and themes. But it's not really an extended musical sequence (of course neither are some of my other selections).

To that end, I would add
Bride's Lament sequence, The Drowsy Chaperone
War is a Science -> Glory The "war sequence", Pippin
The Trial Sequence, Parade

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 2:20am

I'll add to the soliloquy votes (especially as performed by James Snyder). Of similar ~7 1/2 minute length, I also love defying gravity.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 2:26am

I'll agree with "Chrysanthemum Tea", but would also add the wonderful "Broadway Melody Ballet" from Singin' In The Rain and "More" from GHOST which, whilst short on the cast recording, is quite long in the show.

[dented146]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 2:53am

I also love Soliloquy but if five minutes is long enough I'd also add Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered.

[Urban]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 8:32am

Even though it is only about sevenish minutes long, mine is "The Next Ten Minutes" from "The Last Five Years".

[wicked1492]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 9:52am

@DeenaJones Exactly! There are so many songs in GHOST when she's sad about him dying to chose from! I think I was talking about "Rain/Hold On" or "Suspend My Disbelief/I Had A Life," neither of which are great songs, I just think Caissie and Richard sound stunning and they're both exceedingly long, one is over 6 minutes, the other over 9.

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 11:36am

Off the top of my head:

Soliloquy - Carousel
Someone in a Tree - Pacific Overtures
The Day Off - SITPWG
La Vie Boheme/I Should Tell You - RENT (Collectively about 10 minutes long)
The Opening of Grand Hotel
The entire Montage of ACL. Seriously, not just cuz I played the role, but Gimme the Ball always pumps me up. I Love it!

[dreaming]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 11:46am

Prologue to Into the Woods
Meadowlark
The opening to Sunday in the Park With George (I think it's called Sunday in the Park With George)
Soliloquy
Ragtime opening/Prologue
Don't know if this counts, but they start as 2 solos that continue into point/counterpoint: Come to My Garden/Lift Me Up
Wilkommen

[mallardo]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 12:35pm

"Men" from Nick & Nora.

[Sinfonian4life]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 12:46pm

2 pages and "Defying Gravity" hasn't been mentioned. Thought for sure it would have been by now. hehe
My vote is Prologue from "Into the Woods".

[Kad]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 12:47pm

Also, "Springtime for Hitler". The whole sequence.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 1:08pm

"Please Hello," hands down!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 2:28pm

No Weekend in the Country love?

I love the whole "bench scene" version of If I Loved You from Carousel.