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Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
#50re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 6/3/08 at 7:34amTo the Life Boats – from Titanic is one of my favorites.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#51re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 6/3/08 at 8:24am
"You're Just in Love" from CALL ME MADAM
"An Old Fashioned Wedding" from ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (1967 Revival)
"Rhythm of Life" from SWEET CHARITY (ruined in the Applegate revival)
"The Tea Party" from DEAR WORLD
#52re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 6/3/08 at 12:37pmHow the Other Half Lives and I Turned The Corner/I'm Falling In Love With Someone from Thoroughly Modern Millie.
#53re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:31pmdoes "a weekend in the country" from ALNM count?! i love that one
"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#54re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 6/3/08 at 3:24pmYes, it definitely does.
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#55re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 6/3/08 at 3:26pm
To the Life Boats – from Titanic
Don't you mean "Dressed In Your Pajamas In the Grand Salon"?
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#56re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 6/3/08 at 3:33pm
There are so many Sondheim examples that I can't think of just one.
I'm no the hugest Spring Awakening fan, but I love the one in Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind.
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#57re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 8/25/08 at 9:43am
can i also add in Sounds of Selling from She Loves Me
Yes you can. It counts.
Especially, the "What have I forgotten?" part.
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#58re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 8/25/08 at 7:26pm
Every single one in RENT gets to me...i think they're all amazing, especially christmas bells.
i'm also partial to the johanna reprise in sweeney todd, especially the movie one.
what about the next ten minutes from the last five years when jamie and cathy sing together? goodbye until tomorrow/i could never rescue you is so amazing it always makes me cry.
96,000 and Blackout are priceless...so much going on and yet it keeps you completely hooked.
And when the night has finally gone, and when we see the new day dawn, we wonder how we wandered for so long, so blind. The wasted world we thought we knew, the light will make it look brand new, so let it shine..."
--ntn
#59re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 8/25/08 at 7:34pmthe one that always gives me chills, though it is very brief. In Wicked during For Good near the end of the song. When Glinda and Elphaba are doing their last "I do believe I have been changed for the better." On "changed for the better" Kristin drops out of the unison into a fifth below the e idina sings, to an a. It is absolutely gorgeous. Especially when the A projects slightly louder.
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#60re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 8/25/08 at 9:38pmWho's That Woman- FOLLIES
#61re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 8/25/08 at 9:54pm
Blackout from In the Heights
The Proposal/The Night Was Alive from Titanic
My favorite however is the act one finale from Urinetown. Just amazing.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#62re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 8/25/08 at 10:09pmAre we forgetting the divine love that is the end to both Acts of "Into the Woods"?
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
#63re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 8/25/08 at 10:46pm
The ones I thought of were:
"Now/Later/Soon" from A Little Night Music
"Kiss Me" Quartet from Sweeney Todd
The Phantom/Christine/Raoul part in "Down Once More/Track Down this Murderer" from Phantom of the Opera
"Christmas Bells" from Rent
"96,000" from In the Heights
"Out of Fashion" from Taboo
#64re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 8/25/08 at 10:50pmDefinitely Now/Later/Soon in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. That is masterful.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#65re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 9/10/08 at 6:26pmI've been listening to She Loves Me a lot recently, so I'd have to add "I Don't Know His Name".
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#66re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 9/10/08 at 6:58pm
Mmmm, in LOVE with counterpoint. If I were to write a musical, it would be chock-full of it. Incidentally, 'contrapuntal' is the most beautiful word ever. Here are some of my favourites:
"Kiss Me/Ladies In Their Sensitivities" from Sweeney Todd
Twenty-nine million other songs by Stephen Sondheim, so I'm not even going to list them
"Sirens" from Jane Eyre (one of my favourite songs ever)
"Confrontation" from Les Miserables
"One Day More" from Les Miserables
"Prima Donna" from Phantom of the Opera (I know, I know)
"On The Rise" from Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog
"A Man's Gotta Do" from Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog
"If Only Quartet" from The Little Mermaid (have I mentioned yet that I'm pathetic?)
"Tower of Babel" from Godspell (even though I really can't bring myself to like that musical)
"Pick A Little Talk A Little/Goodnight Ladies" from The Music Man (I was a Pickalittle Lady, so I'll always love that song) as well as the "Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You" one
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#67re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 9/10/08 at 7:07pm
Not sure if anyone's said this yet, but...
"The Factory Girls / Come Up to my Office" from Parade, when he's finishing "Come up to my office" and then the factory girls start in again. Awesome, IMO.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
crc03772
Understudy Joined: 2/27/08
#68re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 9/10/08 at 7:43pmHeart and Music-A New Brain, especially the mid section where it's accapella...there's I think 7 parts...totally awesome!
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#69re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 1/30/09 at 1:17pm
SHREK has a lot of great moments for counterpoint in it, and they are:
Who I'd Be (great solo number turns into a fantastic trio from Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey)
I Think I Got You Beat (a gloriously funny 2-parter with Shrek and Fiona)
Travel Song (another gloriously funny one with Shrek and Donkey!)
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
Colle
Broadway Star Joined: 2/13/06
#70re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 2/3/09 at 9:50am
Some of my favorites:
"I Still Believe" from "Miss Saigon"
"One Day More" from "Les Miserables"
"The Book Report" and "Glee Club Rehearsal" from YAGMCB.
Another one from Shrek:"I Know It's Today."
I wish I have seen this show to make sure this one is contrapuntal, but from the clip I have heard I think it is: "I am Changing" from "Yoduk Story."
rich.hanson59
Stand-by Joined: 8/7/07
#71re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 2/3/09 at 6:58pmI'm not completely sure I know what this means, but is "The I Love You Song" from SPELLING BEE an example. I think it is but I'm not sure. I love that song so much.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#72re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 2/3/09 at 8:22pm
In HERE'S LOVE, Meredith Wilson took a song he had already written, IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS and added a new song PINE CONES AND HOLLY BERRIES.
It's simple and simply beautiful.
#73re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 2/19/09 at 12:16amThat one tiny bit in "You Gotta Get A Gimmick" from Gypsy. I don't know why, but I love it to pieces - it's so catchy and fun!
Merrily we roll along, roll along...
Pianist3912
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/07
#74re: Best contrapuntal moments in a show (or movie, or ANYTHING)
Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:46pmIn addition to all the ones mentioned, which I LOVE, I also adore the two-part counterpoint between Audrey/Seymour and the rest of the company at the end of "Downtown" from Little Shop of Horrors.
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