favorite opening number
favorite opening number
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#1favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:01pm
what is everyones favorite opening number from a musical mine would have to be the Prologue from Into The Woods and good morning baltimore.
Updated On: 6/21/08 at 03:01 PM
#2re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:04pm
I havnt seen it yet, but I think Altar Boyz
edit: Wilkommen from Cabaret
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
Updated On: 6/21/08 at 03:04 PM
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#3re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:09pm
either Epiphany from Bare or Untitled Opening Number from Title of Show
edit: adding The Ballad of Sweeney Todd to my list
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
Updated On: 6/21/08 at 03:09 PM
#4re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:09pmI like Skid Row/Downtown a lot. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd is great. Omigod You Guys is great too. Might get hate for this but No One Mourns the Wicked. Also, O What A Beautiful Morning is a fantasatic song.
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#5re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:10pmProbably "This Side of the Tracks" from The Great American Trailer Park Musical.
"Get mad, then get over it." - Colin Powell
#7re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 3:54pm
"Belle"
and the beginning of "The Drowsy Chaperone"
"I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!"-Funny Girl
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#8re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:28pmI thought the opening number in the Lion King was amazing.
KFTC!!!!!
#9re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:34pm
"In the Heights" -- IN THE HEIGHTS
"I Hope I Get It" -- A CHORUS LINE
"Try to Remember" -- THE FANTASTICKS
I'll probably think of more.
#10re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 5:41pm42nd Street with the curtain going up and all those tap dancing feet going wild.
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#13re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 5:56pmGet out your tap shoes, Francis!
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#14re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 7:14pm
In the Heights
Come Look at the Freaks
Wilkommen
Mama Who Bore Me (I love how you can feel the heat of the lights as she starts to sing.)
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#15re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 7:23pm
Circle of Life, from "The Lion King."
Still the most incredible 6 minutes I've ever spent in a theater.
BillyE
Stand-by Joined: 5/3/08
#16re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 7:28pmNot For the Life of Me, Thoroughly Modern Millie
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#17re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 9:06pm
Storybook - Scarlet Pimpernel (SP2-SP4) (Just a good song!)
I Guess It Was 5 A.M./Let's Have Lunch (Sunset Blvd.)
Prolouge/Auction/Overture - Phantom of the Opera
#19re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 9:43pm
"Willkommen" - Cabaret
"All That Jazz" - Chicago
"The Circle of Life" - The Lion King
"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'!" - Oklahoma!
"Overture" - The Phantom of the Opera
FuturePenny2
Stand-by Joined: 12/13/07
#20re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 9:56pmDef. has to be Good Morning Baltimore from Hairspray i love it soooo much ahha
He's so nurturing! - Penny Pingleton, Hairspray
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#21re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:00pmI also like "Comedy Tonight" and "Tradition."
#22re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:08pm
"There You Are" from The Mystery of Edwin Drood
"In" from Carrie
"I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line
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#23re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:12pm
The Carousel Waltz
42nd Street! Oh, God, when I was 8, it blew my mind!!
Chorus Line
Fiddler on the Roof
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#24re: favorite opening number
Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:16pmThe opening of SITPWG is my all time favorite! Especially in the revival where George begins to sketch the world around him. The projections are beautiful!
