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Your favourite overture?
Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#77re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 1:07pmJesus 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
#79re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 3:12pmI really love Merrily We Roll Along, The Light in the Piazza, and 1776
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amalou
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/07
#81re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 4:26pmThe Pirate Queen. I just thought it was really beautiful.
"But I can tell you that Raoul, who was so handsome in "The Phantom," is now a drunken wreck."
#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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"If I could only do one thing before I died, it would be to swim with a middle-aged couple from Connecticut."- a dolphin
"If I could only do one thing before I died, it would be to swim with a middle-aged couple from Connecticut."- a dolphin
#83re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 4:36pm
Hands Down...Candide!
The best overture.
Followed by Gypsy.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#84re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 10:41pm
I love MAME.
Also PIAZZA, TITANIC, all rodgers and hammerstein, MILLIE.
zooxanthellae
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/07
#85re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 10:49pm
Gypsy
South Pacific
Mame
Updated On: 3/18/08 at 10:49 PM
pli1018
Broadway Star Joined: 4/16/07
#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
#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 11:05pmI 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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-My fault, I fear.
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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.
#91re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:22pmThere 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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Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/04
#92re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/18/08 at 11:41pmGypsy, Merrily, Piazza, Nine
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Amneris
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#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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Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/07
#95re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/19/08 at 12:25amNot 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?
"But I can tell you that Raoul, who was so handsome in "The Phantom," is now a drunken wreck."
#97re: Your favourite overture?
Posted: 3/19/08 at 12:28am
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On the 20th Century too.
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puppetman2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/2/08
#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
It Sucks To Be Me
Updated On: 3/19/08 at 10:51 AM
AvenueQPat
Stand-by Joined: 5/9/04
#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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