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Your favourite overture?

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#75re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 12:39pm

Candide
Gypsy
My Fair Lady

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#76re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 12:59pm

I love the opening to Les Miserables

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#77re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 1:07pm

Jesus Christ Superstar's overture is my favorite.

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#78re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 2:55pm

Obscure but worthy:
The Grand Tour
Barmitzvah Boy
Prelude: A White House Cantata (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue)
Ballroom
Windy City

I wouldn't disagree with those who've already posted:
Mack & Mabel
Merrily We Roll Along
Annie

Over-rated:
Gypsy

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#79re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 3:12pm

I really love Merrily We Roll Along, The Light in the Piazza, and 1776

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#80re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 3:15pm

Phantom of the Opera
Little Mermaid

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#81re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 4:26pm

The Pirate Queen. I just thought it was really beautiful.

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#82re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 4:29pm

ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

I can' t believe no one mentioned this one. Best one ever.

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#83re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 4:36pm

Hands Down...Candide!

The best overture.

Followed by Gypsy.

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#84re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 10:41pm

I love MAME.
Also PIAZZA, TITANIC, all rodgers and hammerstein, MILLIE.

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#85re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 10:49pm

Gypsy
South Pacific
Mame
Updated On: 3/18/08 at 10:49 PM

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#86re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 10:57pm

In no specific order:
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Light in the Piazza
The Pirate Queen
Young Frankenstein

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#87re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:00pm

The first time you hear that GYPSY overture...Oh, it blew me away.

I guess it's not REALLY an overture, but the CAROUSEL waltz.

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#88re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:05pm

I must add A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

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#89re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:08pm

Gypsy
Candide- The best of all possible overtures. Aside from Gypsy.
A Little Night Music- Reminds me of Beethoven's sixth symphony. Gorgeous.
The Light in the Piazza- so beautiful.

There was a Sondheim tribute concert in Millenium park a few years ago that had the coolest overture- literally a conglomeration of every Sondheim show's main themes, beautifully arranged and performed.

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#90re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:14pm

The Color Purple
Funny Girl
Gypsy
The Phantom of the Opera

And even though it's not an overture, the Ragtime Symphonic Suite from the cast recording.

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#91re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:22pm

There are so many great ones, but I must agree with all those who said Light in the Piazza. When I hear it, I want it to go on and on. It really captures the feeling of the time and place.

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#92re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:41pm

Gypsy, Merrily, Piazza, Nine

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#93re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:52pm

Gypsy's makes me cry.

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#94re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:57pm

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#95re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/19/08 at 12:25am

Gypsy
Show Boat
Funny Girl
Merrily We Roll Along
Sweet Charity
Candide
Carousel
Miss Saigon
South Pacific

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#95re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/19/08 at 12:25am

Not bashing it because I like it to, but does the overture to The Color Purple sound like the theme music of the Oscars to anyone else? Like if you play it and gradually turn it down and say "Ladies and gentlemen, your host...Jon Stewart"...it kind of works?

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#97re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/19/08 at 12:28am

Put me down for

On the 20th Century too.

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#98re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/19/08 at 10:51am

allofmylife - that last post is a bit redundent.

Gypsy
opening of CARNIVAL
Mack and Mable
Phantom of the Opera

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#99re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/19/08 at 11:17am

Gypsy
Funny Girl
Camelot
South Pacific
The Producers
Little Mermaid

You learn to play the straight man, the lines become routine - never really saying what you mean - but i know the scene will change :)

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