| re: St Bridget - throwaway |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:15 pm EDT 07/06/17 |
| In reply to: re: St Bridget - throwaway - BroadwayTonyJ 05:23 pm EDT 07/06/17 |
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Two good examples, but I would think of the "Carousel Waltz" sequence as the opening number of Carousel. Anyway, I think of "You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan" as being part of "Mister Snow."That's how it is in the piano-vocal score (or at least the old one) and in the current licensed script.
What about the "Bobby Bobby" sequence in Company?
Do we think of "The Pajama Game" as being separate from "Racing With the Clock" or do they together make up one full opening number?
Then there's "I'm Like the Bluebird" in Anyone Can Whistle, which we don't even hear complete until the third act.
And since the OP started with Jerry Herman, what about the little bit commonly called "Call on Dolly" (but listed just as "Opening Act I" in the score) but rarely listed as a separate number in programs (or at least not in programs for the Broadway productions of the show)?
And there's the offstage chorus "Once in the Highlands."
If you don't count "Runyonland" (often cut way down nowadays to the point that it barely exists) I'd say that "Fugue for Tinhorns" counts. It's short. It's really just a throwaway number, albeit a famous one. |
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