Your favourite overture? — Page 3

#51

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 7/15/07 at 7:11pm

Carousel Waltz.

Also, the one for Candide.

#52

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 7/15/07 at 7:11pm

In no particular order:

Candide
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Beautiful Game
Spamalot
Hello Dolly!
The Pajama Game
Phantom of the Opera
Sunset Blvd.

#53

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 7/15/07 at 8:33pm

I love the overture for La Cage aux Folles

---

http://two-sails.blogspot.com/

#54

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 12:20am

Gypsy

Night Music
Piazza (CD version at least)
Annie
Promises, Promises
They're Playing Our Song (Entr'acte.. which should be the Overture)
Follies

#55

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 12:54am

MAMMA MIA

#56

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 1:04am

Gypsy and Oklahoma

---

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis

#57

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 1:10am

legally blonde, the little mermaid, wicked,anything goes come to my mind and standout for me.

#58

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 1:17am

Perhaps the most thrilling overture to play and/or listen to is the INCREDIBLE overture for MACK AND MABEL. :) It's probably the best thing about the entire show!

#59

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 1:18am

I submit the overture to "Dear World" for consideration!

---

"I seem to have wandered into the BRAIN load-out thread... "
-best12bars

"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
-skibumb5290

#60

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 1:30am

Did anybody mention Sweet Charity's overture? I am deeply in love with it!

---

"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" -Family Guy

#61

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 4:53am

Light in the Piazza and Gypsy

#62

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 5:11am

Gypsy!

#63

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 5:58am

Titanic
Mamma Mia

Updated On: 3/18/08 at 05:58 AM

#64

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 9:18am

Defentially The Producers overture. When I heard it on the CD for the first time, I was amazed.

---

He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.

#65

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 9:20am

The first 2 notes of Les Mis always give me goosebumps

The lights go down, and I sit there smiling, waiting for those 2 notes

---

You don't go to the dragon without a present - Mark Rylance

#66

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 9:40am

Jesus Christ Superstar (revival & 1994 London productions)

Love how it integrates all the major themes/melodies of the show and puts you right into Heaven on their Minds.

#67

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 9:47am

Mamma Mia
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Little Night Music

---

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

#68

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 9:48am

LES MIZ
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
PIAZZA
DRS
CURTAINS
JSC- if it's done right
CATS

---

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

#69

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 10:11am

GYPSY

#70

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 10:28am

gypsy. hands down.

---

"Those You've Known And Lost Still Walk Behind You"-Spring Awakening

#71

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 10:40am

I agree with TheActr97J about DEAR WORLD - it's a great overture
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
LI'L ABNER
FOLLIES
NO, NO, NANETTE
CRAZY FOR YOU
SWEEET CHARITY (Original Ralph Burns Orchestrations)
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
DUDE: THE HIGHWAY LIFE
GYPSY is the natural favorite on this board, as well it should be
THE ROTHSCHILDS
SHE LOVES ME Prelude
CANDIDE (duh)

And it's not an overture, but if you've ever heard the Curtain Call/Exit Music from CARRIE on Broadway...I have a weak spot for it, in all it's 1988 glory, terribly cheesy, as it sounds like it's from a mid-80's award ceremony, but it certainly makes Carrie sound like a hit.

---

<---- You can see the crazy in her eyes. ;-)

#72

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 10:52am

1. Merrily We Roll Along
2. Mack & Mabel
3. Gypsy

#73

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:37am

I enjoy The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and Thoughly Modern Millie overtures.

#74

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 12:22pm

The Phantom of the Opera and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

---

Would I rather be feared or loved? Um, easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.- Michael Scott, The Office

#75

re: Your favourite overture?

Posted: 3/18/08 at 12:26pm

GYPSY -- the greatest Broadway overture ever written.

Followed by:
CANDIDE
ON THE 20TH CENTURY
FUNNY GIRL
SOUTH PACIFIC
MACK & MABEL (OK, it's really the entr'acted, I know, but it's damn good!)