the reprise is better than the song....
the reprise is better than the song....
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the reprise is better than the song....#1
Posted: 6/23/11 at 4:52am
Fun game... name songs of which you prefer the reprise....
I'll Cover You reprise from RENT always kills me!
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the reprise is better than the song....#2
Posted: 6/23/11 at 6:07am
I Love reprises where they basically take the whole song again and change the context. I'll cover you is a great example.
In the musical Love Story which played in London the final song was a reprise of the first number called "What Can You Say". It was absolutely stunning. The reprise of Everything we Know in Love Story absolutely broke me to tears.
Some lighter examples, I love how Hello is reprised in Book of Mormon, and Take me to Heaven in Sister Act. Also the reprise of "The Last Time" in the musical of Lend Me a Tenor comes at the most perfect moment.
the reprise is better than the song....#2
Posted: 6/23/11 at 6:32am
Not a day goes by - Merrily we roll along
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
the reprise is better than the song....#3
Posted: 6/23/11 at 6:50am
Technically the full version of "Old Friends" is the reprise in Merrily
You also have "One" in A Chorus Line and the various reprises of "Moonfall" in Drood are all very interesting.
the reprise is better than the song....#4
Posted: 6/23/11 at 6:50am
I'll Cover You (Reprise) RENT
So In Love (Reprise) KISS ME KATE
Broadway Star Joined: 4/12/07
the reprise is better than the song....#5
Posted: 6/23/11 at 9:28am
"Some Enchanted Evening" from "South Pacific"
"I Am The One" from "Next To Normal"
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the reprise is better than the song....#6
Posted: 6/23/11 at 9:48amWith Every Breath I Take from City of Angels. Act I, it's a beautiful ballad. Act II, it's a heartbreaking duet leading to the inevitable conclusion of Stone's story.
the reprise is better than the song....#7
Posted: 6/23/11 at 9:49am"Mama Who Bore Me" from Spring Awakening
the reprise is better than the song....#8
Posted: 6/23/11 at 10:11am
Written In The Stars (Reprise) - AIDA
He Lives In You (Reprise) - LION KING
The Song That Goes Like This (Reprise) -SPAMALOT (Sure the first one's hilarious, but I personally love this one even more and crack up every time)
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the reprise is better than the song....#10
Posted: 6/23/11 at 10:51am
"With Ann/You On My Arm" from La Cage.
The reprise between George and Albin is much better than the original song Jean Michelle sings.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/09
the reprise is better than the song....#11
Posted: 6/23/11 at 10:52amHE WHISTLED AT ME from Starlight Express - in the original production. I absolutely love the Fairlight orchestrations in the reprise. So good in a very cheap 80s electronic way - just like the show.
the reprise is better than the song....#12
Posted: 6/23/11 at 12:27pmI've always preferred the second "Agony" from Into the Woods.
the reprise is better than the song....#13
Posted: 6/23/11 at 1:01pm
I Am What I Am from La Cage is technically a Reprise of We Are What We Are.
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the reprise is better than the song....#15
Posted: 6/23/11 at 1:47pmI'll second the Old Friends reprise in Merrily.
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the reprise is better than the song....#16
Posted: 6/23/11 at 1:55pm
Other than cutesy pastiche reprises - often by secondary, sometimes juvenile, couples when the original is sung by the leads - most reprises successfully build from, provide greater emotional impact, and enhance, often very poignantly, the nuance of the original exploration/hearing of the song.
Just one example: Fagin and Dodger's final exit in Oliver, reprising and, precisely as they leave the stage, profoundly underscored by "I Think I Better Think It Our Again" is extremely effective.
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the reprise is better than the song....#17
Posted: 6/23/11 at 2:37pm
"Alive" from jekyll and Hyde. The reprise adds a whole different section and its more exciting with the background chorus.
One night only from dreamgirls.
the reprise is better than the song....#18
Posted: 6/23/11 at 2:42pm
I ditto "He Lives In You" from The Lion King
"Sunday" from Sunday In The Park With George
the reprise is better than the song....#19
Posted: 6/23/11 at 3:20pm
"Sun and Moon (Reprise)" in Miss Saigon is one of my favorite theatre moments ever. Gut-wrenching.
Not that the original song isn't good, of course!
the reprise is better than the song....#20
Posted: 6/23/11 at 3:38pm
'The Other Side of the Tracks' from LITTLE ME.
Specifically thinking of the Faith Prince/Martin Short Revival here.....her reprise of this just shortly after the initial slower version is thrilling.
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/07
the reprise is better than the song....#21
Posted: 6/23/11 at 3:59pm
Elaborate Lives from Aida
The Letter from Billy Elliot
Off the top of my head.
the reprise is better than the song....#23
Posted: 6/23/11 at 5:11pm
Hairspray: Velma's Revenge in my openion is better then (The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs. now i know that this isnt techinally a Reprise but it basically is.
Cats: Memory Reprise over Memory.
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