Most of the end of WSS with all of the groups singing the differing parts at once. Just before the last part of Defying Gravity when she yells, "It's MEE!" and rises until the end. No Good Deed Finale of Wicked The end of the dream sequence in Oklahoma for some reason. Octet from Piazza Various parts in Phantom
- "Something Wonderful" in THE KING AND I. The song is just that amazing!
- the finale ("So if you care to find me...") of "Defying Gravity"
- Act I finale of RAGTIME ("Til We Reach That Day")
- overture of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
- "Prima Donna" from TPOTO when it is well performed and you can hear the harmonies and all the different voices and melodies. It sounds like a mess at first but once you get the hang of it, it is really like a conversation and the melodies are so brilliantly overlapped.
Defying Gravity from Wicked Prologue, Epilogue, Ephiphany, and A Little Preist from Sweeney Todd Everybody's got the Right and Take a look Lee from Assassins
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.
42nd Street when the whole cast comes tapping down those stairs at the end to the strains of (what else?) "42nd Street", in complete unison and the crowd is clapping so loudly, you can't tell anymore if its the tapping or the applause.
Plus I get goosebumps no matter what show I go to when the curtain starts to rise...
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
chitty flying angels death in rent the end of cabaret the first few bars of phantom the pillowman
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
Phantom- the first few bars of the Overature. "Music of the Night"- when it's performed well
Rent- The first few bars of "Seasons of Love" Very specific, but personal to me- the lyric "to people living with, living with, not dying from disease" from Boheme B "I'll Cover You" Reprise
Les Mis- Javert's Suicide
Ugh, I know there are others, but my mind is blank right now. Perhaps it's because I've been seeing mostly comedies lately.
Confrontation - J/H - With Cuccioli Freedoms Child - The Civil War The Glory - The Civil War Deep in the Night - Inner City - Linda Hopkins Make Them Hear You - Ragtime Music Of the Night - POTO
Gosh. There are many. But here are some... "Fable" from Light in the Piazza "Until We Reach That Day" from Ragtime Pretty much all of Sweeney(especially Not While I'm Around) "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" from the revival of Cabaret The Finale in Into the Woods "Loving You" from Passion "Move On" from Sunday
I'm sure there are more, but I'll be here all day.
-jess-
"I think every actor on the stage should have a shirt that says,'believe it or not-I'm doing my best.'" -Alan Rickman
in Phantom right after Point of No Return: "Anywhere you go let me go too/Christine, that's all I ask of..." right before the mask is ripped off.. gets me everytime
There's 1 part in "You Can't Stop the Beat" i love too much, and it's all because of the bass: "you can try to stop the paradise we're (::smack side of thigh, loud drums:: ) dreaming of"... i just love how much energy is pumped into that
Two scenes do it for me in Jersey Boys: 1) When Bob Gaudio (Daniel Reichard) talks about a tune popping into his head & says, "the whole world exploded" and the Four Seasons start singing "Sherry"...
2) When Tommy DeVito (Christian Hoff) gets kicked out of the band & Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young) says, "What happens to the group?"
defying gravity circle of life lots in Les Mis(though i've only seen the concert thing from PBS, but i'm excited because i'm seeing it in boston in february)
also, Hunyak's death in Chicago,i'm not sure why, but it does
When I played Anthony this summer in Sweeney Todd, we had a 50+ cast, and in the finale, after all of the killing and I burst through the door with Johanna. And then eventually the cast filled the stage and we started the ballad.
During the part when all the parts are different right before "There!", and everyone is singing some variation of "Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle, inconspicuous..." and the music just builds to this huge crescendo. I always got the biggest shivers.
Definitely from "So if you care to find me..." in "Defying Gravity (WICKED).
The Finale of LES MIZ always does it for me, once the stage is full and they're slowly marching forward. But also the end of "One More Day" at the close of Act I, with similar staging... and "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables". "Bring Him Home" from LES MIZ. Actually, many moments in LES MIZ.
The Act I Finale of ALL SHOOK UP when the entire cast literally fills the theatre with their voices as they sing, "Can't Help Falling in Love."
"Music of the Night" from Phantom (actually the only thing I like about Phantom.)
At the end of LENNON, the monologue delivered by Chuck Cooper as one of the policemen who arrives at the scene a couple of minutes after Lennon's murder. When he says, "It's John Lennon...and there's blood everywhere...do you know who you are...yeah." It hits you that this is something that really happened to a real person that many people love, not just an invisible person described in newspaper print.