Favorite Opening Numbers- Page 4
Favorite Opening Numbers
#76re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 8/22/05 at 11:46pmThe audition in 42nd Street, and Into The Woods
theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#77re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 8/22/05 at 11:51pm
i was just in a production of Seussical and Oh the Thinks You Can Think is now one of my favorite opening numbers,very energetic
another vote 4 Into The Woods
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#78re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 8/22/05 at 11:58pm
clasically speaking a good opening= "Another Op'nin' another show"
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i agree with heart and music from a new brain.
cant help but say defying gravity for a 1st act ending
Dont rain on my parade- also a good act 1 ending.
seasons of love act 2 opening.
#79re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 8/23/05 at 12:14amI think that "Let the Sunshine In" from HAIR would make great Act One Finale.
"I need to know that someone out there cares...Are you there?"
#80re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 8/23/05 at 12:47amI love FootlooseOn Any Sunday from Footloose, but it's not all that great without great choreography. I also vote for Wilkomen from Cabaret!
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BwayBoy25
Leading Actor Joined: 6/19/05
#81re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 8/23/05 at 12:53amthank god i finally found some people with audition from 42nd street...makes me shiver every time
hear the beat...
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#82re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 8/23/05 at 12:57am
There's a lot of great opening numbers...
Dreamgirls opening sequence
"God I Hope I Get It" from Chorus Line
The opening sequence of Once on this Island
AIDA and that whole sequence (hmm, I'm sensing a trend...)
Ragtime's opening
Hairspray's Good Morning Baltimore
Eeeeeeyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaannnnnddddd aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiyyyyyyaaaaaammmmmmmm teeeeeeeelllllliiiiiinnngg yyyyooooooouuuuuuuwwwaaaahh...
#83re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:02am
Yay for Search!
I hope I get It- Chorus Line
Company- Company
Everybody's got the right- Assassins
Let's Have Lunch- Sunset Boulevard
Chain Gang Song- Les Miz
Comedy Tonight- A Funny Thing Happened...
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd- Sweeney Todd
Oh what a Circus- Evita
Heaven on their minds- JCS
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
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#84re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 2:07am
I really like the 42nd street opening
Act I Finale Wicked most def.
#85re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:53am
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1.) The Opening of "The Phantom of The Opera"
2.) "Old Red Hills of Home" sounds like it was an AMAZING Opening for PARADE
3.) The ending of PARADE
4.) The end of the 1 ACT of Les Miserables
"ONE DAY MORE"
5.) The end of ACT 1 of WICKED "DEFYING GRAVITY"
6.) The end of ACT 1 of DREAMGIRLS "AND I'M TELLING YOU"
7.) The opening of AIDA "EVERY STORY"
8.) The opening of THE LION KING "CIRCLE OF LIFE"
9.) The opening of PIPPIN "MAGIC TO DO"
10.) The opening of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#86re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:19am
All That Jazz - CHICAGO
Prologue & Overture - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Ragtime (Prologue) - RAGTIME
Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats - CATS
What Do You... / It Sucks To Be Me - AVENUE Q
Circle Of Life - THE LION KING
Little Shop Of Horrors - LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
#87re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:25am
Ragtime is my all time favorite....
Sweeny Todd comes in a close 2nd.
Then we got Cabaret
The list goes on and on and on.....
Jack: For your information, most people who meet me do not know that I am gay.
Will: Jack, blind and deaf people know you're gay. Dead people know you're gay.
Jack: Grace, when you first met me, did you know I was gay?
Grace: My dog knew.
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#88re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:34am
OPENING NUMBERS:
Belle - Beauty and the Beast
Twenty Million People - My Favorite Year
What Do You Do With a B.A. in English/It Sucks to Be Me - Avenue Q
Rock Island - Music Man
Jolly Good Time - A Christmas Carol (Menken/Ahrens)
I Hope I Get It - A Chorus Line
Four Jews In a Room Bitching - March of the Falsettos
Welcome to Falsettoland - Falsettoland
We Start Today - Baby
Old Red Hills of Home - Parade
We Dance - Once On This Island
Can't Wait - Big
Life Is Happiness Indeed - Candide
Alma Mater - Grease **both versions**
Good Morning Baltimore - Hairspray
ACT ONE FINALES:
If I Can't Love Her
Fine, Fine Line
Wells Fargo Wagon
The Story Goes On
Cross The Line
We Go Together
Big, Blonde, and Beautiful
One Day More
Defying Gravity
And I Am Telling You
Little Shop Of Horrors (Finale Act One)
some else I can't think of at this time
I'm sorry my brain is fried...
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
Updated On: 4/4/06 at 09:34 AM
#89re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:48am
Opening Numbers
Ragtime - Ragtime
Wilkommen - Cabaret
Prologue - Into the Woods
All That Jazz - Chicago
Old Red Hills of Home - Parade
Company - Company
Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd
Prologue - Les Miserables
I Hope I Get It - A Chorus Line
Magic to Do - Pippin
Little Shop of Horrors - Little Shop of Horrors
Everybody's Got the Right - Assassins
Act One Finales
Till We Reach That Day - Ragtime
One Day More - Les Miserables
A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd
Morning Glow - Pippin
Defying Gravity - Wicked
If I Can't Love Her - Beauty and the Beast
And I Am Telling You - Dreamgirls
Sunday - Sunday In the Park With George
There are just so many amazing numbers out there! But these are the ones that never fail to give me chills 
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Updated On: 4/4/06 at 09:48 AM
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#90re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:01am
Fav. Opening numbers:
-Magic To Do (Pippin)
- No one Mourns the Wicked (Wicked)
-Prologue-Tower of Bable (Godspell)
-Seussical
-The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)
-Company
-God Morning Baltimore (Hairspray)
-All That Jazz (Chicago)
-The Kid Inside (Is There life after High School?)
-Jellicle songs For Jellicle Cats (Cats)
-The Beautiful Game
-I Hope I get it (A Chorus Line)
-Rent
Fav.finale act 1:
-Defiyng Gravity (Wicked)
-Sunday In The Park With George
-Ever After (Into The Woods)
-Comfort and Joy (bat boy)
-Children Of Eden
-If I Can't Love Her (Beauty & The Beast)
Fav. Opening Act 2:
-Season of Love (Rent)
-Masquerade (The Phantom Of The Opera)
-Thank Goodness (Wicked)
-Generation (Children Of Eden)
-Come Follow the Band (Barnum)
-Kitch (Elisabeth)
#92re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:34am
Show Openers:
"RENT" from...Rent lol
"I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line
"Willkommen" from Cabaret
"Aquarius" from Hair
"Circle of Life" from Lion King
Act I Finales:
"La Vie Boheme" from Rent
Act II Openers:
"Seasons of Love" from Rent
"One by One" from Lion King
#93re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:48amMost definately "20 Million People" from MY FAVORITE YEAR. that show needs more attention than it gets...
"I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards."
— Peter Brook
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#94re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 11:35am
ACT 1 Finales:
Till We Reach That Day - RAGTIME
My Own Best Friend - CHICAGO
Defying Gravity - WICKED
If I Can't Love Her - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
There's A Fine Fine Line - AVENUE Q
ACT 2 Opening Numbers:
Rüffhausin' Mit Schuffhausen - DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
I Know A Girl - CHICAGO
Masquerade - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Why Do I Love You - SHOW BOAT (Hal Prince's revival)
#95re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:38pm
Having recently heard it for the first time, I really like the opening to Dreamgirls. I'm guessing the "opening" of that show ends after "Move."
I love when the Dreamettes overlap the Stepp Sisters where they sing "Move, move, move, move" over "I'm looking for something baby"
"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs."
-RuPaul
zannadont
Stand-by Joined: 2/13/06
#96re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:41pmOh the Thinks you can Think - Seussical and it can apply to any theme
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#97re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:54pmI'm going to third the Assassins opening number, but I think my favorite is "Scrap" from the Full Monty, which no one has mentioned. Maybe it's too specific to the show.
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firescape
Stand-by Joined: 2/27/06
#98re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 1:08pm
I am not quite sure if this would be considered an opening number or an overture because i cant really remember specifically what follows it but I thoroughly was thrilled with the opening to the Ill-fated "Dance of the Vampires." I was very impressed with how they opened that show. Probably one of the show's only saving music quality was its overture.
I think an amazing 1st Act closer is Alive from Jekyll and Hyde.
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#99re: Favorite Opening Numbers
Posted: 4/4/06 at 1:46pm
"I'm going to third the Assassins opening number, but I think my favorite is "Scrap" from the Full Monty, which no one has mentioned. Maybe it's too specific to the show."
I second Full Monty, I forgot to say it. Thanks for reminding me.
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
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