your favorite harmonies

#1

your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 10:44pm

What are some of your all-time favorite harmonies from shows? I actually have two fairly new ones:
The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee. When the three of them are singing together, it gives me chills. The harmony is just brilliant. And the three actors are also brilliant in it.
My other new favorite is in "At the Ballet" from Chorus Line. When they sing "up a steep and very narrow stairway to the voice like a metronome." The second time when they are singing the harmony (duh) not the unison. It sounds amazing.

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#2

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 10:45pm

anything in Tick Tick BOOM!

#3

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 11:19pm

The last verse of "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" from Company. Love the whole Andrews Sisters style...

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#4

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 11:23pm

Merrily We Roll Along
Finale B
Johanna- 2nd Act of Sweeney
Hills of Tomorrow
Ragtime- Prologue

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#5

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 11:32pm

Lately I've been loving the hamonies in The Color Purple's "What About Love?"

#6

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 11:36pm

I love the ending of "Our Prayer" from the Color Purple. Just how it ends is great (if only they would end it a cappella, then it would be more chilly) I love it!

#7

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 11:39pm

Also "Fran & Janie" from Is There Life After High School?

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#8

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 11:49pm

That short a cappella moment from "I Still Call Australia Home" from The Boy From Oz. Wow. Short, but great ensemble moment.

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#9

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 11:57pm

I loved the harmonies on many of the songs in The Color Purple in the theater. While still sounding good in the CD, they were intensified in the theater. I got many chills that night.

One of my favorites is from Avenue Q, in "I Wish I Could Go Back to College"... the part about the computer lab.

#10

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/25/06 at 11:58pm

* Sitting in the computer lab, 4 AM before the final paper is due * :)

#11

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:01am

finale of les mis

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#12

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Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:08am

The whole score of City Of Angels has INCREDIBLE harmonies. I can't express how amazing they are. (AMAZING Act 1 Finale too, where Stine and Stone have some subtle but great harmonies.)

#13

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:13am

"Prima Donna" from PHANTOM has great overlapping melodies, and all of the vocal arrangements from TOMMY are brilliant.

Also loved the vocal arrangements in LENNON, RENT, Smokey Joe's, ASSASSINS, and what gets me probably the most are the vocal arrangements to A NEW BRAIN. I just love those.

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#14

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:26am

A New Brain- "Heart and Music"
Parade- "This Is Not Over Yet"

The harmonies are so good they give me goosebumps when I listen to them.

#15

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:27am

There are quite a few good ones in A New Brain

#16

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:30am

Of course, they were by the fantastic Jason Robert Brown, baby.

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#17

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:30am

Very true!

#18

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:31am

christmas bells/another day/finale - rent

most of ttb

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#19

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:33am

I was just thinking about this. Can there be too many harmonies?

#20

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:59am

Any harmonies Jason Robert Brown has ever written, especailly for Songs for a New World.

#21

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:59am

Yeah...thats a good question. The reason I like harmonies so much is because they are rare and sometimes unexpected. So maybe if there were too many it wouldn't be as good. But then again Finn's and JRB's harmonies are GREAT! Tough question.

#22

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:47am

* "Prima Donna" from TPOTO has great harmonies in the end. As well as fantastic overlapping melodies!

* "What A Game" from RAGTIME

* "Bethlehem"/"Holy Fight" from MARTIN GUERRE

* there's a lot of fantastic harmonies in THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.

* "Eternal Youth Is Worth..." from SUNSET BOULEVARD

* "The Money Song" from AVENUE Q

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#23

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 9:01am

"For this is our song, that is too LOOONNNNGGGGG..."

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#24

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 9:10am

Prima Donna - POTO
Trying Not to Notice - WIW

#25

re: your favorite harmonies

Posted: 2/26/06 at 9:24am

I love all the barbershop quartet stuff from "The Music Man."