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Post by FairyGodmother on Jun 30, 2021 21:50:37 GMT
I'll caveat this by saying that I'm very susceptible to a good crescendo! But which bit of musical that probably wouldn't make it onto the highlights album deserves recognition?
I was listening to the Original London cast recording of Phantom, and there's a bit in Notes/Twisted Every Way to the melody of Prima Donna where he sings
"Christine, Christine, don't think that I don't care/
But ev'ry hope and ev'ry prayer rests on you now"
and then there is an absolutely glorious run of strings, then falling brass underneath them. It only lasts about 15 seconds but it stops me in my tracks every time.
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Post by inthenose on Jun 30, 2021 22:14:15 GMT
"Hush now, do not be afraid of me" and the well scene in general from Les Miserables, particularly the orchestration from the Palace production.
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Post by stagebyte on Jun 30, 2021 22:17:08 GMT
I'll caveat this by saying that I'm very susceptible to a good crescendo! But which bit of musical that probably wouldn't make it onto the highlights album deserves recognition? I was listening to the Original London cast recording of Phantom, and there's a bit in Notes/Twisted Every Way to the melody of Prima Donna where he sings "Christine, Christine, don't think that I don't care/ But ev'ry hope and ev'ry prayer rests on you now" and then there is an absolutely glorious run of strings, then falling brass underneath them. It only lasts about 15 seconds but it stops me in my tracks every time. My absolute fave bit of phantom is the very same piece I’m also partial to this bit of dramatic entrance and door flinging in LND - don’t you think everyone should have their own entrance music? It’s so sad ALW’s getting so much flak for Cinderella his big orchestral pieces are sublime. He should stick to the high romance musicals |
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Post by richey on Jun 30, 2021 22:28:56 GMT
Don't know if you'd class it as insignificant but one of my favourite moments is in Jesus Christ Superstar, Pilate's "you innocent puppet" leading into the Superstar fanfare
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Post by dazzlair on Jun 30, 2021 22:35:05 GMT
Room 317 from Miss Saigon when Kim sings, "I feel walls in my heart, closing in. I can't breathe, I can't win." Tingles!
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Post by newyorkcityboy on Jul 1, 2021 10:11:30 GMT
Room 317 from Miss Saigon when Kim sings, "I feel walls in my heart, closing in. I can't breathe, I can't win." Tingles! Ooh, mine is where she sings ‘I still taste your kisses.’ Gets me every time. |
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Post by daisy24601 on Jul 1, 2021 11:43:17 GMT
The little bit of music in Wicked when Morrible gives Elphaba the train tickets then she sings "and there we'll finally be..."
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 1, 2021 14:03:42 GMT
West Side Story : that bit at the beginning of Tonight there’s the dialogue between Tony and Maria with the Maria theme in the background, then the last bit of dialogue he says “see only me” and she starts to sing “only you, your the only one I’ll see forever…”
Love ❤️
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Post by ceebee on Jul 1, 2021 14:12:44 GMT
The Louison reprise before the madness/burning scene in Martin Guerre. Never has an obituary to a scarecrow been so poignant.
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Post by Seriously on Jul 1, 2021 15:45:58 GMT
"I love flannel on a man" - Sunset Boulevard
"I have a letter monsieur, it's addressed to your daughter Cosette" - Les Mis
"There's a girl inside the woman, who's waiting to get free" - Blood Brothers
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jul 1, 2021 15:59:20 GMT
The gorgeous oboe reprise of Bring Him Home before the sewers scene in les miz
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Post by FairyGodmother on Jul 1, 2021 19:21:21 GMT
It’s so sad ALW’s getting so much flak for Cinderella his big orchestral pieces are sublime. He should stick to the high romance musicals Absolutely. The other bit I love in LND is the reprise of 'Til I Hear You Sing, just before he sings "And come what may/I swear somehow, some way". There's a timp roll, then the melody comes in for the orchestra first, and there are horns with a countermelody, and you can hear the timps underneath and you get the sweeping strings but the trumpets are with them as well and it just carries you along with it. |
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Post by robertb213 on Jul 1, 2021 22:00:58 GMT
The instrumental reprise of 'With One Look' that gorgeously leads into 'As If We Never Said Goodbye' in Sunset Boulevard 😍
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Post by Peter on Jul 1, 2021 22:16:10 GMT
The little statement of the ‘Eastwick theme’ by the piccolo during the overture of The Witches of Eastwick - though it was not captured on the London cast album for some reason (though is on the Australian promo and Czech cast album).
As for orchestral surges - the instrumental after Tell Me To Go from the original London cast recording of Martin Guerre stands out, even on an entire album of impeccably orchestrated swells
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Post by stagebyte on Jul 1, 2021 23:15:03 GMT
The little statement of the ‘Eastwick theme’ by the piccolo during the overture of The Witches of Eastwick - though it was not captured on the London cast album for some reason (though is on the Australian promo and Czech cast album). As for orchestral surges - the instrumental after Tell Me To Go from the original London cast recording of Martin Guerre stands out, even on an entire album of impeccably orchestrated swells Omg yes to the Tell Me To Go part. I’m loving I’m not the only sucker for an orchestral surge. This one is chef’s kiss Also adore the start of Heaven on their minds from JCS - the throbbing guitar up to Jesus! Then it just drops away to ‘Listen Jesus I don’t like what I see...’ an exciting start to a show. |
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Jul 1, 2021 23:32:54 GMT
I love Seth Rudetsky's series of deconstructions on YouTube and he has one episode on scales in different songs. There's a bit he talks about in Losing My Mind (shock horror I love a Follies song) where in the section with repeated lyrics there's a harp that just slowly climbs a scale in the background and that moment it resolves is so satisfying. Love stuff like that or a gorgeous swell like others have mentioned, a good build and resolution can't be beat.
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Post by karloscar on Jul 2, 2021 6:26:19 GMT
The ballet from Act 2 of Carousel where Louise meets the Barker is full of wonderful moments including a waltz theme based on part of the Soliloquy that doesn't get repeated anywhere else. Sublime!
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Post by Deal J on Jul 2, 2021 7:50:07 GMT
The bit at the end of 'Prima Donna' as they're all singing "once more" when it cuts them off and turns into a more menacing version of the Phantom's theme.
That took me by surprise the first time I heard it, and the orchestration of it still gives me chills.
I'm a huge fan of horror films, and so I was impressed at how here it's the music that unsettles the audience by suddenly removing the expected long crescendo and cutting it dramatically to something more menacing. Lovely stuff.
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Post by newyorkcityboy on Jul 2, 2021 10:32:04 GMT
Also: the little tune used for Christine’s entry in the Don Juan scene - ‘No thoughts within her head but thoughts of joy, no dreams within her heart but dreams of love.’ This beautiful melody is used a few times during the show but is not from one of the main songs.
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Post by daisy24601 on Jul 2, 2021 13:02:08 GMT
Every one of Rachel John's harmonies in Memphis.
The music becoming more dramatic on Fantine's line "you let your foreman send me away".
So many other in Les Miserables I can't even think!
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Post by max on Jul 2, 2021 13:18:30 GMT
The orchestral music that leads into 'High Flying Adored' in EVITA. It manages to be both romantic, and creepy as hell (bordering on sinister), which perfectly fits the ambivalent attitude towards its heroine.
Also from Evita: the harp with a dulcimer feel that leads into 'Hello and Goodbye/Another Suitcase...'
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The way the strings appear to laugh after Eva is insulted with "yet I gave up the sea, long ago" in 'Rainbow Tour'.
I could go on - so many in that show!
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Post by Peter on Jul 2, 2021 13:22:17 GMT
Also: the little tune used for Christine’s entry in the Don Juan scene - ‘No thoughts within her head but thoughts of joy, no dreams within her heart but dreams of love.’ This beautiful melody is used a few times during the show but is not from one of the main songs. Ah yes, on the subject of Phantom - that violin solo which picks up the piano accompaniment from the Don Juan rehearsal and ostinatos away under Christine’s short reprise of the title song, and then swells into another orchestral surge just prior to ‘Wishing you were somehow here again’. |
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Post by romeo94 on Jul 2, 2021 13:31:19 GMT
Carolee Carmello's line, 'I will speak for you Leo', from the original Broadway cast recording of 'This Is Not Over Yet' from 'Parade' breaks my heart every single time.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 2, 2021 13:49:23 GMT
Evita
Peron: “Are you here on your own”
Eva: “Yes, oh yes…”
Madonna delivered that line in a way that made it very obvious that she was a sure bet for the night.
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Post by ceebee on Jul 2, 2021 18:10:43 GMT
The introduction to the waltz/ball in Cinderella as the revolve takes the stage out into the audience. Even the haters must have enjoyed that moment...
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Post by inthenose on Jul 2, 2021 18:17:37 GMT
"there are doomed broken souls in a thousand asylums" - the Warlow J&H recording
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Post by FairyGodmother on Jul 6, 2021 13:21:26 GMT
The piccolo in Be Back Soon in Oliver is pretty amazing too (although if you're the poor person playing it I think it's more likely to elicit swearing than anything else!).
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Post by Being Alive on Jul 6, 2021 13:42:31 GMT
"We stand and stare, we speak of love, we feel the stars ascending" from Who I'd Be in Shrek
There's something about the momentary pause of silence and then BAM straight back in. Brian D'Arcy James' voice is also incredible.
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Post by crabtree on Jul 7, 2021 9:26:14 GMT
The moment in a Weekend in the country' from Night Music when all the threads finally come together, and there are usually bells. |
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