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#26

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:32am

heres what stands out to me at 1:29am:

omigod you guys, in the heights, no one mourns the wicked, good morning balitmore, sound of music, oh what a night in french from jersey boys.

#27

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:47am

prologue: ragtime

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#28

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:19am

Well, I think Sondheim has written some pretty amazing opening numbers for his shows. Company, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, and Into The Woods come to mind.

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<-----Bernadette Peters and Alexander Hanson in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

Send in the clowns...Send in the crowds!

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#29

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:36am

Ragtime - Ragtime
Twenty Million People - My Favorite Year
God I Hope I Get It - A Chorus Line
All That Jazz - Chicago

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#30

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:52am

For me it's a no-brainer: Ragtime
Then: Titanic

#31

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 8:58am

30/90 - tick, tick... BOOM!

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#32

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 10:25am

Will-O-Mania - Will Rogers Follies
Doing Good - Superman
24 Hours A Day - Golden Rainbow
Ragtime - Ragtime

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#33

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 10:41am

I really love the In the Heights opening number as well as Tarzan. The show sucked but the opening number certainly gave me hope going into it.

#34

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 10:41am

In The Heights.

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#35

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 10:43am

into the woods prologue always makes me happy

"attend the tale of sweeney todd!!!"

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#36

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:08pm

Ragtime - "Prologue"
Sweeney Todd "Prelude: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd"
Parade - "The Old Red Hills of Home"
Titanic - really, the whole opening sequence! It's a bunch of songs
In the Heights - "In the Heights"
Evita - "A Cinema in Buenos Aires" and "Requiem for Evita"
Miss Saigon - "Overture" - I'm probably going to be the only person to list this, but I looove the orchestrations in the overture

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#37

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:09pm

"Call On Dolly" Nothing sets the tone of a show better!

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#38

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:24pm

Movies Were Movies - Mack & Mabel

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#39

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:09pm

Guess that show by it's opening #:
In
Now/Later/Soon
Spring of Next Year
If A Girl Isn't Pretty
Happiness
Magic To Do

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#40

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:47pm

King of Broadway-The Producers
Good Morning Baltimore-Hairspray
Oh My God, You Guys-Legally Blonde
Hard Knock Life-Annie
I Hope I Get It-Chorus Line
Tradition-Fiddler

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#41

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 3:12pm

BLOOD BROTHERS
makes the hairs stand up on my neck, that wonderful choral beginning,the saxaphone..... Liverpool back drop, Mrs Johnstone 'Tell me its not true, Say its just a story'....the sinister narrator. 'So did you hear the story of the johnstone twins........ Wonderful....especially the late brilliant Stephanie Lawrence.

#42

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 3:21pm

I was going to say King Of Broadway but technically opening Night is the opening #.

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#43

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 3:27pm

Circle of Life - The Lion King
Overture - The Phantom of the Opera
Overture - Gypsy
Prologue - Into the Woods
Omigod You Guys - Legally Blonde

#44

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 3:42pm

CIRCLE OF LIFE from THE LION KING

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#45

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 3:46pm

Wicked.

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#46

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:19pm

I'm going to be a nerd and say "It's Your Wedding Day" from The Wedding Singer. There was something about the high energy of the music and the curtain coming up as the choreography was already going on that just started you off with such a high...

#47

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:25pm

"Ragtime," Ragtime
"Prologue," Little Shop of Horrors
"God I Hope I Get It," A Chorus Line
"Try To Remember," The Fantasticks

And, though technically comprised of several individual numbers, the first 15 minutes of "On the Twentieth Century."

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#48

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:33pm

Wilkomen from Cabaret, I Hope I Get It from A Chorus Line and I've always liked The Prologue from Into the Woods

#49

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 5:42pm

There are many great opening numbers but my all-time favorite would definately be "All That Jazz"

#50

re: favorite opening number

Posted: 6/22/08 at 7:00pm

"I Ain't Down Yet" as sung by Tammy Grimes and her brothers in THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN(1960). It was a rousing number and a great Act One opening. Unfortunately, Act Two was downhill all the way; you could say that it sank.

Also, I don't think that overtures should be considered as "opening numbers". Most overtures are great IMO, even overtures to flops.

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