Favorite chorus numbers?

Posted: 8/21/12 at 6:16am

I love big company numbers. Especially the good ones. I need to add some to my ipod. And I'm not going to lie... I want to make a good suggestion to my choir group.

What are your favorites? I'm talking about the ones that just take your mind on a journey through a strange new world. (lol)

Mine are
Hairspray - Welcome to the sixties
Les Miserables - do you hear the people sing
Jekyll and Hyde - Facade
Phantom of the opera - Masquerade
Lion King - can you feel the love tonight
Hair - Aquarius
Sweeney todd - The ballad of sweeney todd
West side story - Gee, officer krupke

Staying away from WICKED and RENT

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 6:32am

Stay away from Lion King as well.

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 6:46am

We're in he Money - 42nd St

[Quiche2]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 7:40am

I always liked Be Our Guest.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 8:04am

Brotherhood of Man
Ragtime

And the ultimate "chorus number": Little Do They Know from The Act.

[HistoryBoy2]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 8:15am

The full company chorus of All the Things You Are is hard to beat.

[MKunkel]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:04am

Nothing can beat "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from "Hello, Dolly".

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:44am

"Loveland" from Follies.

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 3:06pm

King of New York from Newsies and Go Into Your Dance from 42nd Street.

[PositivelyEmerald]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 7:13pm

Kind of an odd one...

Requiem from Evita.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 7:38pm

Make Our Garden Grow

[SingingChef]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 7:56pm

Sunday
The Finale of The Secret Garden

[chris d]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 8:24pm

"Sunday" and "This is the Hour" and "Touch Me"

[tphiliboy152]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 11:47pm

Seize the Day - Newsies
Dancing Through Life - Wicked
Circle of Life - Lion King
Be Our Guest - Beauty and the Beast
Masquerade - Phantom
Raise Your Voice - Sister Act
Let the Sun Shine In - Hair
Aquarius - Hair

[Starship]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 11:48pm

Off the top of my head, "Be Our Guest," "Anything Can Happen," and "Hello, Dolly!"

[jv92]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 2:00am

"Make Our Garden Grown"

"Sunday"

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 2:21am

Though it's not a "chorus" number per se (though I guess in the context of the show, it is!); One from A Chorus Line.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 10:20am

"Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Nuttycracker Suite" (from THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE)
"Slap that Bass" and "I Got Rhythm" (from CRAZY FOR YOU)
"Rich Man's Frug" (from SWEET CHARITY -- both Bob Fosse and Wayne Cilento versions)
"Turkey Lurkey Time" (from 1968 PROMISES, PROMISES)
"The Dance at the Gym" (from WEST SIDE STORY)
"Let's Have Lunch" (from SUNSET BLVD.)
"When You're an Addams" (from THE ADDAMS FAMILY)
"Bushel and a Peck" (from the 1992 Broadway Revival of GUYS & DOLLS)
The Overture from the 2010 Broadway Revival of PROMISES, PROMISES

... countless others, too.

[castlestreet]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 10:25am

"Sunday", "She's No Longer A Gypsy" and the Finale from Billy Elliot- love them all!

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 7:14pm

"The Jet Set" from CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 7:37pm

"Guenevere" from CAMELOT. One of the few purely expository numbers that is a beautiful song and lyric in its own right:

In that dawn, in that gloom
More than love met its doom
In the dying candle's gleam
Came the sundown of a dream

[Quiche2]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 8:13pm

Another one I thought of: "Clandango" -- It was the original ADDAMS FAMILY opening number in Chicago.

[Jon]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 11:15pm

"Come Follow the Band" and "Join the Circus" from BARNUM.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/22/12 at 11:25pm

The end of the opening of Titanic. "Sail on, sail on" A soaring moment