Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Your favourite 11 o'clock number
aussieskates
Swing Joined: 12/14/08
#1Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 8/31/13 at 5:33pm
On this basis, I always wondered why there was never a category at the Tony Awards for best song.
Anyway, here are the top five listed by the Village Voice:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2011/04/the_five_best_1.php
What are your favourites?
JBroadway2
Swing Joined: 5/2/13
#2Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 8/31/13 at 6:30pmA Tony award for best song would seem kind of redundant to me with a category for best score. I know the Academy Awards has a best song category, but that's different because the people who win best score Oscars win for background music as opposed to a collection of songs.
#2Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 8/31/13 at 10:35pm
This article, as has been discussed before, was a low point in Michael Musto's time at the Voice. "Fly Away?" Really?
#4Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 8/31/13 at 10:47pm
I don't think it's a bad song either. But compared to "I'm Going Back", "Fifty Percent", "Another Winter in a Summer Town", or even "I'm a Brass Band", just to name a few?
#5Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 8/31/13 at 10:48pmWell I think limiting this "category" to only 5 songs is a losing situation to begin with.
#6Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/1/13 at 1:35amI'd say, "Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat."
#7Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/1/13 at 1:46am
"Lament" from Evita
"No Good Deed" from Wicked
"Rose's Turn" from Gypsy (...duh)
"Being Alive" from Company (esp. from Doyle's production)
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#9Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/1/13 at 12:13pmI know that I'm showing my age a bit, but "Shall We Dance" from "The King and I" has always been one of my favorite 11 o'clock numbers, especially the point at which Anna and the King take each other in their arms and begin to dance around the stage. And I happened to see Yul Brynner do this for the very last time, at the closing performance of the revival he was in not long before he died, when everyone knew how sick he was. After the curtain calls, the cast sang "Auld Lang Syne" on stage, and there was not a dry eye in the house.
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
#10Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/1/13 at 7:28pm
And already we have two entirely different definitions of "11 o'clock" number, just as we did in the previous thread on the subject.
Could the powers-that-be here decide whether an 11 o'clock number carries the old meaning (a big production or novelty number halfway through Act II that wakes up the audience and keeps them awake during the denouement)?
Examples (notice that some don't even involve the main character):
"Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat" (probably the clear winner)
"Oklahoma!" (perhaps a more substantial example)
"Tap Your Troubles Away"
"That's How Young I Feel"
"Drop That Name" (BELLS ARE RINGING)
Or is it the more current (and Musto) definition meaning a highly emotional song by the lead character corresponding to the same character's "I want" number early in Act I?
"Rose's Turn"
"Fifty Percent"
"Meditation II" (SHENANDOAH)
"Being Alive"
"I'm Going Back to the Bonjour Tristess Brazier Company"
(As has been noted before, shows used to start at 8:30, so 11 now falls in a different place in most shows than it did 40 years ago.)
I'm sorry to play school marm, but I don't see the point in comparing "Sit Down..." with "Being Alive". They are both great songs, but they serve completely different purposes.
#11Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/1/13 at 7:31pm
Not necessarily your age, RaisedonMusicals. I used to teach musical theater and I ALWAYS used that scene (clip from the movie, of course) to illustrate Hammerstein's idea of the integration of elements.
No other song I know moves so perfectly from speech to singing to dance as the emotions of the scene heighten. The King even begins by chanting his lyrics until they get more personal.
A lesson to all of us who write musicals: rarely has a writer done so much with so little than Hammerstein (in general as well as) in that number.
#12Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/1/13 at 8:39pm"Shall We Dance?" is a spectacular moment. Why did I not mention it earlier?! I love it!
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#14Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/2/13 at 12:27am"A Woman Must Never Grow Old" - RIVERWIND.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#15Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/3/13 at 1:30amDoes "What I Did For Love" count? An 11 o'clock number is usually something up beat isn't? That's why I ask if that song counts!
#16Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/3/13 at 1:49amI think "Gimme Gimme" is one of my recent favorites. I also love "Lot's Wife," "All The Wasted Time," "Rose's Turn," and, if we can agree that the eleven-o-clock number can be the final song, "How Glory Goes."
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
frazer
Understudy Joined: 5/6/11
#17Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/3/13 at 7:04amIn what I think is a musically weak show, Memphis Lives in Me is a great number.
bobs3
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mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#20Your favourite 11 o'clock number
Posted: 9/3/13 at 12:05pm
Betrayed from the Producers
Hold me in Your Heart and/or Soul of a Man from Kinky Boots
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