favorite opening number

#1

favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:01pm

what is everyones favorite opening number from a musical mine would have to be the Prologue from Into The Woods and good morning baltimore.

Updated On: 6/21/08 at 03:01 PM

#2

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:04pm

I havnt seen it yet, but I think Altar Boyz
edit: Wilkommen from Cabaret

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Updated On: 6/21/08 at 03:04 PM

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Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:07pm

Updated On: 5/3/09 at 03:07 PM

#4

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:09pm

either Epiphany from Bare or Untitled Opening Number from Title of Show
edit: adding The Ballad of Sweeney Todd to my list

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Updated On: 6/21/08 at 03:09 PM

#5

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:09pm

I like Skid Row/Downtown a lot. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd is great. Omigod You Guys is great too. Might get hate for this but No One Mourns the Wicked. Also, O What A Beautiful Morning is a fantasatic song.

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#6

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:10pm

Probably "This Side of the Tracks" from The Great American Trailer Park Musical.

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#7

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:25pm

In The Heights from In The Heights

#8

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:54pm

"Belle"
and the beginning of "The Drowsy Chaperone"

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#9

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:28pm

I thought the opening number in the Lion King was amazing.

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#10

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:34pm

"In the Heights" -- IN THE HEIGHTS
"I Hope I Get It" -- A CHORUS LINE
"Try to Remember" -- THE FANTASTICKS

I'll probably think of more.

#11

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 5:41pm

42nd Street with the curtain going up and all those tap dancing feet going wild.

#12

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 5:44pm

I've always enjoyed the GYPSY overture

#13

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 5:46pm

"All That Jazz" from Chicago.

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#14

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 5:56pm

Get out your tap shoes, Francis!

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#15

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 7:14pm

In the Heights
Come Look at the Freaks
Wilkommen
Mama Who Bore Me (I love how you can feel the heat of the lights as she starts to sing.)

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#16

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 7:23pm

Circle of Life, from "The Lion King."

Still the most incredible 6 minutes I've ever spent in a theater.

#17

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 7:28pm

Not For the Life of Me, Thoroughly Modern Millie

#18

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 9:06pm

Storybook - Scarlet Pimpernel (SP2-SP4) (Just a good song!)
I Guess It Was 5 A.M./Let's Have Lunch (Sunset Blvd.)
Prolouge/Auction/Overture - Phantom of the Opera

#19

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 9:19pm

Ragtime.

#20

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 9:43pm

"Willkommen" - Cabaret
"All That Jazz" - Chicago
"The Circle of Life" - The Lion King
"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'!" - Oklahoma!
"Overture" - The Phantom of the Opera

#21

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 9:56pm

Def. has to be Good Morning Baltimore from Hairspray i love it soooo much ahha

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#22

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:00pm

I also like "Comedy Tonight" and "Tradition."

#23

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:08pm

"There You Are" from The Mystery of Edwin Drood
"In" from Carrie
"I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line

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#24

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:12pm

The Carousel Waltz
42nd Street! Oh, God, when I was 8, it blew my mind!!
Chorus Line
Fiddler on the Roof

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#25

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:16pm

The opening of SITPWG is my all time favorite! Especially in the revival where George begins to sketch the world around him. The projections are beautiful!