Your favourite overture?- Page 2

[ShoshanaFan92]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:45pm

Cats.
A Little Night music.. its amazing

[LoringsGuy]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:58pm

I've always enjoyed the overture over the opening credits of the film version of ANNIE. That big, brassy fanfare-ish intro leading into Aileen Quinn's vocals on "Tomorrow", and then finishing off with "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here." Didn't Ralph Burns do the arrangements?

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:10am

The Nightmare Before Christmas overture is actually really good.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 3:33am

I have to admit that since I saw the show, the opening guitar chords of "Love Is What I Do" from "The Wedding Singer" has been haunting me.

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 9:04am

CURTAINS
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
LEGALLY BLONDE
THE PRODUCERS
SEUSSICAL (which is actually the Entr'acte in current productions)
SHE LOVES ME
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (can't beat a vocal quintet singing with a Mendelssohn-size orchestra)
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
OKLAHOMA!
WICKED
CITY OF ANGELS

[MrsVampyre]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 9:15am

The Frogs
La Cage Au Folles
Mame

[G_Schlozinski2]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 9:24am

The Flying Dutchman, or maybe Rienzi
amazing overtures

[Blue-Eyed Wonder]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 9:39am

Gypsy and Follies--fantastic!

[Lori2]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:06pm

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:07pm

GYPSY
GOLDILOCKS (Smaxie, isn't the whole score wonderful--I saw the show twice when I was a teenager. Elaine Stritch was great.)
WILDCAT
I HAD A BALL(Guilty pleasure)
Any Jule Styne overture, except for SUGAR.
ALL AMERICAN

Updated On: 7/14/07 at 12:07 PM

[Smaxie]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 5:57pm

Goldilocks is indeed a very enjoyable score, and it also has a truly funny script. The book resolves itself in about two seconds in the final minute, but otherwise, I think it's a really solid '50s musical comedy. And that Overture is a winner. I love when an Overture starts off like a house on fire, and the Goldilocks Overture really begins with a bang, with that furioso version of "The Pussy Foot".

Left off a particular favorite Overture on my earlier list: the '71 No, No, Nanette has spectacular orchestrations throughout by Ralph Burns and dance arrangements by Luther Henderson. The Overture is just beautifully crafted, culminating in a gorgeous version of "Tea for Two," with one of the two pianos going nuts with triplet runs up and down the keyboard. I always listen to that moment in admiration and awe. In terms of its sound, I think the '71 Nanette is the gold standard of what a big, splashy Broadway musical should sound like.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 6:22pm

A Little Night Music!!!!!!

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Posted: 7/14/07 at 10:16pm

While not technically an overture, the Carousel Waltz
Curtains
Annie

[onbroadwaynow]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 12:57am

the light in the piazza has the most beautiful overture that i have ever heard. It does everything an overture is suppose to, which most do not.

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 12:59am

Gypsy. Duh.

Also love Light in the Piazza and Merrily.

[amalou]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 1:00am

the Pirate Queen
the Scarlet Pimpernel
Thoroughly Modern Millie

The opening for Dracula was perfectly creepy as well. Quite enjoyable.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:59am

The Sondheim Scrabble Concert/Sondheim: A Musical Tribute Overture...It was arranged by Jonathon Tunick, and at nearly 12 minutes it's INCREDIBLE!
Gypsy - no contest
Funny Girl
A Little Night Music

[Dark_Angel]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 7:56am

The Overture from the film version of West Side Story

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 8:09am

What paradox_error and DrakAngel said.

No one likes the overture to Candide?

[MrsVampyre]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 3:37pm

How could I have forgotten.. 3 of may favoirtes?? The Producers, Hairspay, and DoReMi??

[thejcm]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:04pm

Gypsy, The Light in the Piazza, Chicago.

[KChenowethfan]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:12pm

Like everyone else, I will say Gypsy and the Light in the Piazza and add a vote for Funny Girl.

I have to admit I really like the Wicked overture also- thought it was better musically than a lot of the rest of the score.

[vfd88]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:14pm

Night Music, Piazza, Candide, and Phantom (even though I don't like the show, I have to admit I LOVE the overture)

[mymother_thequeen]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:45pm

Gypsy, Candide, and (my guilty pleasure) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

[JasonM12480]

Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:35pm

I'm truly surprised no one has mentioned the fantastic overture to "Man of La Mancha". This is one of the best overtures in all Broadway history, in my opinion.