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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?

Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 8/31/13 at 6:30pm

A 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.

Your 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?

Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 8/31/13 at 10:42pm

I actually reeeeally love that song.

Your 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?

Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 8/31/13 at 10:48pm

Well I think limiting this "category" to only 5 songs is a losing situation to begin with.

Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 9/1/13 at 1:35am

I'd say, "Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat."

Your 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)

Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 9/1/13 at 9:05am

"Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat"

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Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 9/1/13 at 12:13pm

I 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.

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Your 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.

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Your 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.

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Your 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!

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Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 9/1/13 at 9:32pm

The title song from 70, Girls, 70.

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Your 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....

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Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 9/3/13 at 1:30am

Does "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!

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Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 9/3/13 at 1:49am

I 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

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Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 9/3/13 at 7:04am

In what I think is a musically weak show, Memphis Lives in Me is a great number.

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Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 9/3/13 at 7:18am

HOME from THE WIZ.

#20

Your favourite 11 o'clock number

Posted: 9/3/13 at 8:44am

"Once Before I Go" in THE BOY FROM OZ.

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Your 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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