great opening numbers
great opening numbers
Joined: 12/31/69
#0great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:04am
what is the best company opening number??????? Closer then ever "Doors" or maybe Brigadoon "Macconnachy Square" any other ideas????????
My class is looking for ideas for opening numbers, thought I would put it out there, that and I'm running out of ideas
#1re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:11am
(You may want to lay off the question marks)
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd- Sweeney Todd
I Hope I Get It- A Chorus Line
Little Shop of Horrors- Little Shop of Horrors
Ragtime- Ragtime
Food, Glorious Food- Oliver
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown- You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Tradition- Fiddler on the Roof
Company- Company
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
Updated On: 5/26/06 at 11:11 AM
M.Berger
Featured Actor Joined: 12/14/05
#2re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:14am
Opening Night - The Producers (very good)
The Avenue Q Theme - Avenue Q (not that good, quite short)
I'm the german Ethel Merman, don't you know... ;-)
#3re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:18am20 Million People- "My Favorite Year"
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#4re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:19amLil Abner has an excellent opening number. It starts off simple and has a big company finish!
#5re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:24amThe Hills of Tomorrow/Merrily..../Rich And Happy - Merrily We Roll Along
Just give the world Love.
#6re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:24am
"Comedy Tonight" from FORUM. (And a lesson on how turn a flp into a hit by changing the opening number.)
The opening tap routine in 42ND STREET.
The Carousel Waltz sequence in CAROUSEL.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#7re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:25am
The best opening number is musical comedy, clearly....has to be....."It's Today" from "Mame." It sets the tone and style for the entire show!
It comes right after Agnes sings "St. Bridgette" to little Patrick. They are all alone in the dark city of NYC. The moment she's finished singing, it goes right into a burst of jazz as the curtain rises onto Mame's elegant Beekman Place townhouse!
A brilliant, brilliant opening number!
#8re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:30amThere is nothing to say except HEAD DESK!!!!!!!!!!!
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"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"
"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"
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#9re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 12:21pm
"Hairspray" "Good Morning Baltimore"
"Saturday Night Fever" "Stayin Alive"
"Hello, Dolly!" - "I Put My Hand In" (theatre) and "Just Leave Everything to Me" (film)
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#10re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 12:29pm"There's No Business Like Show Business"? - Annie Get Your Gun...there's a reason that song is so famous.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#11re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 12:52pm
Now/Later/Soon from A Little Night Music, though it is not typical, is by far one of my most favorite opening numbers.
The Prologue from City of Angels is also a fabulous opening number.
I also think All That Jazz is quite good as well.
#12re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 12:58pmAs much as I didn't really like "Titanic", I thought the opening was incredible. The opening for "Ragtime" is also amazing.
". . . POP . . ."
#13re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 12:59pm
We have this thread about once a month but.. I'll say it again..
ALL THAT JAZZ.
#14re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 1:12pm
"All That Jazz" Chicago
"6 Months out of every Year" Damn Yankees
Arghh! Grammar pet peeve #1: your vs you're. "Your" is a possessive pronoun. "You're" is the contraction of "you are."
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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#15re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 1:14pmDefinitely "All That Jazz," and if not "Opening Night," "The King of Broadway."
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#16re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 1:25pmI also think "In" from CARRIE deserves an honorable mention.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 1:38pm
"what is the best company opening number??????? Closer then ever "Doors" or maybe Brigadoon "Macconnachy Square" any other ideas????????"
MacConnachy Square is hardly the opening number of Brigadoon. It follows "One in the Highlands" and the title song.
I think "Comedy Tonight" is certainly one of the best opening numbers.
#18re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 1:42pm
I HOPE I GET IT - A CHORUS LINE
FACADE- JEKYELL & HYDE
The overature to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
ALL THAT JAZZ - CHICAGO
CIRCLE OF LIFE from THE LION KING
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Updated On: 5/27/06 at 01:42 PM
Act4ever
Broadway Star Joined: 4/12/04
#19re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 1:42pm
I really enjoy all of Ahrens and Flaherty's opening numbers:
"Oh The Thinks You Can Think" - SEUSSICAL
"Twenty Million People" - MY FAVORITE YEAR
"A Man of No Importance" - A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
"Ragtime" - RAGTIME
"We Dance" - ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
-- I think they're all fantastic
I agree with the opening of TITANIC -- I think it's beautiful
"We are What We Are" - LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Updated On: 5/26/06 at 01:42 PM
#20re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 1:48pm
The Circle of Life - Lion King
No One Mourns the Wicked - Wicked
Oh the Thinks You Can Think - Seussical
Prolouge - West Side Story
Hello Dawley
Understudy Joined: 5/2/06
#22re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 1:59pmTry to Remember--The Fantasticks
Arghh! Grammar pet peeve #1: your vs you're. "Your" is a possessive pronoun. "You're" is the contraction of "you are."
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#23re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 2:47pm
All personal favroites...maybe not "Great" persay.
Another Openin' Another Show
New York New York
Christopher Street
No Business Like Showbusiness(AGYG revival)
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
#24re: great opening numbers
Posted: 5/26/06 at 4:44pm
Little Shop of Horrors
All That Jazz
Circle of Life
