Your Favorite "Long" Song- Page 2

[3bluenight]

Your Favorite #25

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

Namaste

[adam.peterson44]

Your Favorite #26

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]

Your Favorite #27

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]

Your Favorite #28

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]

Your Favorite #29

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]

Your Favorite #30

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.

"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times

[Theatreboy49]

Your Favorite #31

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!

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado

[dreaming]

Your Favorite #32

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]

Your Favorite #33

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

"Men" from Nick & Nora.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

[Sinfonian4life]

Your Favorite #34

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]

Your Favorite #35

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

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

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[Scarywarhol]

Your Favorite #36

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

"Please Hello," hands down!

[EricMontreal22]

Your Favorite #37

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.