favorite opening number
favorite opening number
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#1favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 7:58pm
what is your favorite opening number from a musical my
favorite opening numbers are from guys and dolls,kiss me kate
annie get your gun revival,ragtime,beauty and the beast and the
list goes on.....
Updated On: 8/15/07 at 07:58 PM
#2re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:31pm
Hmm, I have a few.
Ragtime
I Hope I Get It - A Chorus Line
It's Your Wedding Day - The Wedding Singer (shut up, it was fun)
Willkomen - Cabaret
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#2re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:33pm'Attend The Tale Of......'
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#3re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:33pmhttps://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=863752#2059895
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#4re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:34pmI like Good Morning Baltimore and The Ballad of Sweeney Todd.
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#5re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:40pmHmm...for me one of my favorites has to be the audition from 42nd Street. The curtain goes up just a bit and all you see are the legs of the dancers. They just tapping away and the curtain goes up all the way and there's just a great dance number to behold.
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Studmuffn520
Featured Actor Joined: 11/8/06
#7re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:47pmI agree Eris, I just did 42nd Street and god that number is my absolute favorite, at least to perform! I also love "Ragtime", "Tradition", "All That Jazz", and I count Follies' Prologue too. My list is also endless with waaaayyy too many to name.
#8re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:50pm
Ragtime - it was the first show I saw in NYC (I was a late bloomer)
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zooxanthellae
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/07
#9re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:55pm
I always love to Attend the Tale!
Also, "All that Jazz," and perhaps "Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)."
Updated On: 8/15/07 at 08:55 PM
#10re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:00pm...doesnt the threat title say 'opening' numbers ??
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
munkustrap926
Understudy Joined: 6/5/07
#11re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:05pm
I Hope I Get It - ACL
Jellicle Songs - CATS. I duno y, but i just love it.
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#12re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:12pmSome favorites are "Epiphany" from BARE, "We Dance" from Once On This Island, "A New World" frm Songs of a New World, the opening number to A Man of No Importance, "Greatest Record Store on Earth" from High Fedelity, and my all time fav. "Four Jews in a Room B*tching" from Falsettos
#13re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:18pm"Still Hurting" from THE LAST FIVE YEARS. The only opening song that can make me cry.
Tom148502
Featured Actor Joined: 5/21/07
#14re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 10:34pm"Comedy Tonight" from A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, as done by Zero Mostel and the original Broadway cast.
#15re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 10:40pm
TITANIC's opening number is my favorite.
It's like 10 songs, no stopping.
"In Every Age", "How Did They Build Titanic", "There She Is", "Loading the Inventory", "The Largest Moving Object On The Earth", "I Must Get On That Ship", "The First Class Roster", "Godspeed Titanic"
evadiva
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/06
#17re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 10:44pmLike I said on past threads - the 42nd feets
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Featured Actor Joined: 5/7/07
#18re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 11:01pm
Aquarius
Wilkommen
I Hope I Get It
Good Morning Baltimore
I think my all time favorite is No One Mourns the Wicked though, i teared up when i saw it live.
LoringsGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/04
#19re: favorite opening number
Posted: 8/15/07 at 11:04pm
The TITANIC opening is pretty awesome, musically.
"Twenty Million People" from MY FAVORITE YEAR
"Willkommen" from CABARET
"Every Story" from AIDA
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