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Your favourite overture?
ShoshanaFan92
Swing Joined: 7/23/06
#25re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:45pm
Cats.
A Little Night music.. its amazing
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LoringsGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/04
#26re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:58pmI'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?
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#27re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:10amThe Nightmare Before Christmas overture is actually really good.
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#28re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/14/07 at 3:33amI 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.
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Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#29re: Your favourite overture?
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
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MrsVampyre
Stand-by Joined: 8/26/06
G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#31re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/14/07 at 9:24am
The Flying Dutchman, or maybe Rienzi
amazing overtures
#32re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/14/07 at 9:39amGypsy and Follies--fantastic!
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#33re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:06pm
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#34re: Your favourite overture?
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
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#35re: Your favourite overture?
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.
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#37re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/14/07 at 10:16pm
While not technically an overture, the Carousel Waltz
Curtains
Annie
#38re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/15/07 at 12:57amthe 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.
#39re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/15/07 at 12:59am
Gypsy. Duh.
Also love Light in the Piazza and Merrily.
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amalou
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/07
#40re: Your favourite overture?
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.
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#41re: Your favourite overture?
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
#42re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/15/07 at 7:56amThe Overture from the film version of West Side Story
#43re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/15/07 at 8:09am
What paradox_error and DrakAngel said.
No one likes the overture to Candide?
MrsVampyre
Stand-by Joined: 8/26/06
#44re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/15/07 at 3:37pmHow could I have forgotten.. 3 of may favoirtes?? The Producers, Hairspay, and DoReMi??
#45re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:04pmGypsy, The Light in the Piazza, Chicago.
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#46re: Your favourite overture?
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.
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#47re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:14pmNight Music, Piazza, Candide, and Phantom (even though I don't like the show, I have to admit I LOVE the overture)
#48re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:45pmGypsy, Candide, and (my guilty pleasure) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
JasonM12480
Broadway Star Joined: 3/17/05
#49re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:35pmI'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.
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