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| Last Edit: Seth Christenfeld 11:45 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
| Posted by: Seth Christenfeld (tabula-rasa@verizon.net) 11:45 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - lanky 11:38 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| I may be wrong (and someone please correct me if I am), but I've been under the impression that what we know as the overture for Bye Bye Birdie was originally the entr'acte (much like that of Mack and Mabel). Seth, very possibly wrong |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:53 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Seth Christenfeld 11:45 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Yes, what is called the overture on the OBCR and the OLCR of Bye Bye Birdie was the entr'acte on Broadway. If Suskin is correct, it then became the overture in all later productions (by which I think he means starting with the North American tours and the London production, so the OLCR is correct in calling it the overture). The Mack and Mabel cast-recording overture was expanded from the entr'acte. It contains the original entr'acte, but goes on the past the end of that, which sort of faded out as the second-act action began. |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: allineedisthegirl 12:37 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 11:53 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| The overture on the OBC album was not used in the theatre. Act I and Act II both began with film sequences accompanied by (mostly) vamp music from All American Boy. db |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:19 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - allineedisthegirl 12:37 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| I was under the impression that the piece that was used as the overture on the cast recording preceded the accompanied film clips at the top of act two. Well, now I need to ask a few people I know who saw it if they remember it as you do. That's very interesting. Thanks for mentioning that. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:59 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - allineedisthegirl 12:37 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Act I and Act II both began with film sequences accompanied by (mostly) vamp music from All American Boy. ...which are now called Overture A and Entr'acte A in the licensed materials. Assuming the basic arrangements are the same as on Broadway, the Overture is indeed mostly based on "Healthy Normal American Boy" and "We Love You Conrad," though the Entr'acte plays more like a traditional compilation, with sections of "Put On A Happy Face", "One Boy", "An English Teacher" and "Kids." (The score also indicates various descriptions of what's supposed to be happening onscreen.) |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:27 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 11:53 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| And in terms of the rental materials for Birdie (and in the published score), there are 2 (very different) options for both the overture and the entr'acte - one that would accompany a film sequence (A), and one without (B). The overture on the OBCR/OLCR is what is now "Entr'acte B" in the materials. But, no indication that this could be used as the overture. (Which is odd given that often such materials are based on changes made for the tours.) Also, the Broadway recording adds some extra "we love you Conrad" vocals at the very end - the melody is played in the orchestra but there's no indication of added vocals at that point in the score. The London version is exactly as is in the score, with no vocals at the end. |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:35 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Chromolume 12:27 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Ah, I forgot that difference on the OLCR. My understanding, which I'm not positive is correct, is that the London recording uses the first national tour orchestrations, which are what was licensed. And if memory serves, this caused a bit of a problem when Encores! did the show, as they really wanted to use the true original Broadway orchestrations. I seem to think they found them. I probably should see if I can find any articles about this from the time, but I'm not feeling like doing that now. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:51 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 12:35 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| I seem to recall a quote in the Suskin book about Encores having used the original orchestrations for the first time since the original production. So I think they did find them. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 11:56 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 11:53 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| I was recently told my someone on this site, who says they saw the original Mack and Mabel, that what is heard on the OBCR as the overture WAS heard in the theatre as the overture. I was surprised because I had always heard the original production had no overture. I couldn’t confirm by googling. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:06 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - EvFoDr 11:56 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| I can only say that I think the person's memory is wrong, but I can't prove it. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:10 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 12:06 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Hello, Dolly originally had no overture - but I can't vouch for that same thing with Mack And Mabel. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:16 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Chromolume 12:10 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Yes, no Hello, Dolly! overture for the entire original run. On the youtube page from Sony Music Entertainment that has the overture created for the Pearl Bailey recording, someone wrote, "A show without an Overture is NOT A SHOW WITH DECENT MUSIC!" :) |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: lanky 12:17 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 12:16 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| That's certainly arguable. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:21 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - lanky 12:17 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| If you mean that it's arguably correct, I don't agree. But I don't think you mean that. :) It's just funny to me that this person seems to have meant it in praise of the Hello, Dolly! score, seemingly without realizing that the show originally had no overture, and that the overture on that page was created just for that recording. |
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| Overtures in general | |
| Posted by: BigM 09:28 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 12:21 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| I enjoy overtures on cast albums, but I don't much like them in the theater. It's too difficult, when you haven't heard the score before, to sort out a medley of tunes from the show on one hearing. My favorite overtures in the theater are very short ones, like the one for 1776; otherwise, I prefer a dynamic opening number to set up the world of the show. Someone once posted that if only more of Sondheim's show had overtures, they would have been hits. I felt like mentioning A Chorus Line and Fiddler, which presumably wouldn't have had such short runs if they'd been blessed with overtures. | |
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| re: Overtures in general | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:46 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: Overtures in general - BigM 09:28 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| I do like overtures in the theatre, at least if they're good ones. Some of the old shows have overtures that go on forever, and those very, very long ones were often cut down on the cast recordings. (I think that relatively few people know that the complete overture for The King and I has been recorded only four times, or at least I know of only four complete recordings of it: the Music Theater of Lincoln Center recording, the Munich cast recording, the Rodgers and Hammerstein overtures CD conducted by Mauceri, and the TER/JAY recording. I'm linking the overture from that 1964 Lincoln Center cast recording. It's more than 5:40, and Franz Allers takes some of it quite quickly, arguably a bit too quickly in places.) I think overtures suit some shows, and they don't suit others so much, and for the most part the original creative teams made the right choices for the classic shows, even if a few of the very, very long ones can perhaps be profitably cut down a bit in the theatre. I have a theory that the very long overtures — I'm talking about the ones that go on five minutes or even more — were that long so that shows could ostensibly start on time or nearly on time while giving latecomers a chance to get seated. I would love to hear the overture that was put together for Company, some of which, if we can trust Banfield's Sondheim's Broadway Musicals, ended up in "Tick Tock" when it was completely redone out of town. Some of the shows that did not have overtures did have entr'actes, although some of those were very workaday pieces. No one raves about the Fiddler entr'acte, for example, although some older shows have truly fantastic entr'actes. (South Pacific, Tenderloin and Superman have fantastic overtures and fantastics entr'actes.) I wouldn't mind if more Sondheim shows had fuller entr'actes, although I don't long for overtures on the Sondheim shows that don't have them. I do wish that the original version of the Sweeney prelude as it was heard in the theatre at the very beginning of the run had been recorded, instead of a shorter version. |
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| Link | King and I overture, or Anna's very long trip to Siam |
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| re: Overtures in general | |
| Posted by: lanky 09:08 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Overtures in general - AlanScott 06:46 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Re Mauceri's recording of the R&H overtures: the "Flower Drum Song" cut replaces "Like a God" with "I Enjoy Being a Girl." Liner notes say the change went in after 'Girl' became a hit. Do you know when the change went into performances? It wasn't there when I saw the show in June '59. I'm curious, too, about the idea that the song became a hit. I never heard it played on the radio, fwiw. Elvis was taking over. The number itself did get a big hand in performance -- Suzuki even nodded to acknowledge the ovation. (The only recording of a song from the show that made jukeboxes, at least as I recall, was Johnny Mathis' version of "Love, Look Away." FWIW, also: I like the revised overture. "I Enjoy Being a Girl" is, to me, a much better song than "Like a God" and the use of it really tops off a solid overture. |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: lanky 01:10 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 12:21 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Arguably wrong -- if there's such a thing -- especially in the case of "Dolly!". I remember a short item in the Times just before "Dolly" opened noting the show would have no overture. Champion was quoted as saying audiences talked right through overtures, not listening. Did "Carnival" ever have an overture? |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:10 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - lanky 01:10 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Oh, good. We agree. I mean, if it were true, then we'd have to say that Roberta, Carousel, Fiddler, Company, Cabaret and God knows how many other musicals don't have decent music. I can't find that Champion item but in the Carnival! pre-opening Times article it said that there was no overture in the usual sense, and Champion was then quoted with "They're dull." There was a pre-opening Times article on Hello, Dolly! that had quotes from Champion but nothing about overtures. |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: lanky 06:46 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 06:10 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Quite likely that I confused the two articles. Time and memory will do that. Now that you cite these, I do remember Champion's comment about cutting the overture from "Carnival." Was it rather unusual, or a departure, for a show not to have an overture at that time? Have to disagree with Champion, though, when he says that overtures are dull. Tell that to someone who just s saw "Gypsy." If audiences talk through overtures, the audience, not the overture, is likely the problem. Also, did "Dolly" have an overture at any time during its tryouts? |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:49 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - lanky 06:46 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Audiences did talk through overtures even then, at least if I can trust anecdotal evidence, including some of the great ones. But I like overtures, too, as I just posted in reply to BigM. It was unusual for a show back then not to have an overture. Not quite unheard of, but unusual. |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: lanky 08:59 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 06:49 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| I remember a letter to the Times Arts and Leisure section, probably appearing in the summer of '62, in which the writer complained of hearing "not one bar" from the overture to "Milk and Honey" at a then-recent matinee. Wanna bet you can find it, AlanScott? lol | |
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| LOL, yes | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:36 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - lanky 08:59 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| June 17, 1962, Very good. Funny letter. Thanks for pointing me toward it. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:22 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - lanky 01:10 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| But overtures aren't inherently meant ONLY to exist if the audience sits quietly through them listening. It's not only a chance for the audience and theater to settle down fully and *start* focusing on the world of the show, getting the outside world they just walked in from and their many other thoughts banished for a bit.. but ALSO, very usefully, it plants the seed in the brain and ear of what tunes will be coming later. This makes most scores immediately more "memorable" and "hummable" because when the audiences hears the actual song for the first time, in many cases, it is not the first time they've heard it. So it's not only satisfying in a different way they didn't know it would be (vs if it were entirely knew and their ear is wrapping itself around it for the first time while also needing to experience it and have it work in the moment and listen to/process the lyrics) but it's delivering on a little promise from earlier. I am not saying all shows should have overtures or that the ones that don't are missing something ... I like hearing music for the very first time as much as after getting a taste of it first. But I think the way musicals work with most audiences, I do think many shows without an overtures are at something of a disadvantage. Who knows. I love a great overtures. And I also love a grabbing opening number (which Sondheim relies much more on, and brilliantly, than overtures which he only ever used in Forum and Merrily of the shows he wrote music to, if I'm not mistaken... but Forum and Merrily have two of the greatest and most exciting and satisfying overtures I've ever heard. The other scores that have opening music all seem to be prologues more than overtures - ACW, ALNM, Follies). |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Ned3301 06:47 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Chazwaza 06:22 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Actually, A Little Night Music does have an overture. It treats at some full measure Remember, two strains of the Now-Soon-Later trio, and The Glamorous Life. Of course, it's vocal piece. And it was staged, which may suggest something other than an overture. But it does preview three of the show's numbers, again at some reasonable length. For all that, it's more of an overture than My Fair Lady's, which gives us two full-out refrains but really just a taste of You Did It first. |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:59 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Ned3301 06:47 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Oh I'm very aware of the "overture" in ALNM, ;) I guess it depends on what defines an Overtures. Follies and ACW whistle also have prologues that preview a few songs from the score... but they aren't considered overtures. Of course the Follies prologue is based majorly on a gorgeous song that was cut from the actual show... if "All Things Bright and Beautiful" was still in the show, would it be considered an overture? |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:56 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Chazwaza 06:59 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| It's easy to get confused about the overture in ALNM because some of the revivals, including the RNT production and the Broadway revival, have not done what was done originally. Both cut back on it to varying degrees, with the RNT production cutting it down to almost nothing and the Broadway revival breaking it up and . . . whatever it did. And also because there have been only two complete recordings of it (unless I've missed something), and neither used the original orchestration, and one of those recordings has never been issued on CD. And on the other, the soprano doesn't take the high note. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:54 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 05:56 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| So which recording uses the full overtures, even if not with the original orchestration? But why would they not use the orchestration used in their production? And is the overture performed in the 1990 NYCO production that was broadcast the full overture, and is it sung properly? |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:51 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Chazwaza 06:54 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| The only two recordings I know of the complete overture are these: 1. On the LP A Little Sondheim Music, performed by a group called the Los Angeles Vocal Arts Ensemble, issued on EMI Angel in 1984. The singers are accompanied by two pianos throughout the LP. 2. On the TER/JAY studio-cast recording, which used the orchestration employed in the 1989 Chichester Festival production, which moved to London, where it ran for four-and-a-half months. John Owen Edwards, one of JAY's regular conductors, conducted that production and created the orchestration (based closely on Tunick's), which was for 12 players. A percussionist was added for the recording. There is sometimes a misconception that the JAY recording is a cast recording of that Chichester-London production but it's really not, as the cast on the recording features only six or seven people who were in that production, depending on how you count them (the quintet, the Charlotte, and the Carl-Magnus, who switched to Fredrik for the recording). Yes, the complete original overture with the full orchestration was in that City Opera production. |
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| Didn't the ALNM Overture... | |
| Posted by: Dawson 08:21 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 07:51 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| ...contain bits and pieces written for another Sondheim musical that was ultimately discarded? | |
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| re: Didn't the ALNM Overture... | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:46 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: Didn't the ALNM Overture... - Dawson 08:21 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Not to my knowledge. For a time, Sondheim planned to include a waltz that he'd written back in the 1950s, when they were hoping to get the rights to Ring Round the Moon (which they again tried to do after Follies). That was to have been where "Night Waltz" ultimately was. A bit of the "trio" (as the term is sometimes used in classical sense as the middle, contrasting section of a dance such as a minuet) of that waltz ended up in the trio section of the "Night Waltz." Perhaps you're thinking of that? Anyway, all the music in the overture is from the show. | |
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| Yes, RING ROUND THE MOON was what I was thinking of. Thanks! n/m | |
| Posted by: Dawson 08:52 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Didn't the ALNM Overture... - AlanScott 08:46 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| re: Yes, RING ROUND THE MOON was what I was thinking of. Thanks! n/m | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:03 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: Yes, RING ROUND THE MOON was what I was thinking of. Thanks! n/m - Dawson 08:52 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Really, just a few bars from the trio of that "French waltz" ended up in the "Night Waltz." | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: StanS 01:59 pm EDT 06/27/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Chazwaza 06:59 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Is the "Chicago" overture not an overture? It is based on one song, "Loopin' the Loop", which was cut from the show. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:59 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - StanS 01:59 pm EDT 06/27/19 | |
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| I adore the Chicago overture but in many ways it is unique because it doesn't really give you much of the songs that will be in the show - actually, none of them. So I would think that doesn't really count as an Overture... except that an overture is not defined by being music in the show to come, just music before the show. But in musical theater, it is. So I would say that Chicago has a prologue more than an overture. Like Follies or 1776. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 09:32 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Chazwaza 06:59 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Chicago has an overture because that's what the writers named it. Same in 1776. In the same way, Follies has a prelude followed by an overture. That's what the writers chose to call these pieces. The "Fugue For Tinhorns" is not in any way a fugue, tinhorns or not. But no one's changing the title. |
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| SWEET ADELINE | |
| Posted by: Dawson 10:02 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Chromolume 09:32 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Then in Sweet Adeline, the overture is not a medley of the show's music, but rather a medley of hits from the 1890s (when the show takes place.) | |
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| The Fantasticks | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 11:15 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:15 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: SWEET ADELINE - Dawson 10:02 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| The overture to The Fantasticks is unrelated to any of the songs in the show. A few times the overture's theme is used as transition/incidental music in the course of the show, but it's never sung or developed further. | |
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| What about the overture to CANDIDE? n/m | |
| Posted by: Dawson 11:20 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: The Fantasticks - Chromolume 11:15 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| re: What about the overture to CANDIDE? n/m | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:49 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: What about the overture to CANDIDE? n/m - Dawson 11:20 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| The Candide overture does use some vocal themes from the show along the way, notably the fanfare-ish theme in "The Best Of All Possible Worlds" and of course "Glitter And Be Gay." | |
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| re: What about the overture to CANDIDE? n/m | |
| Posted by: StanS 12:47 am EDT 06/29/19 | |
| In reply to: re: What about the overture to CANDIDE? n/m - Chromolume 11:49 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Even more notably, the duet "Oh, Happy We", which takes up the entire 2nd theme area of exposition and recap of a sonata form. | |
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| re: What about the overture to CANDIDE? n/m | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:06 am EDT 06/29/19 | |
| In reply to: re: What about the overture to CANDIDE? n/m - StanS 12:47 am EDT 06/29/19 | |
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| Yes indeed. Thank you! ;-) | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: scoot1er 02:23 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - lanky 01:10 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| I saw the original. No overture. The audience enters with the curtain already up on a pretty bare stage. Pierre Olaf enters and begins playing Love Makes the World Go Round and slowly and magnificently, as only Gower Champion could do it, the carnival comes to live. A thrilling opening number. | |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" movie overture | |
| Posted by: schauspieler 12:14 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - Chromolume 12:10 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Was there ever a brassier, jazzier, more exuberant overture to a movie than this credit music following AM's sexy intro? I think I even heard a little bit of Strvinsky in there. One of my all-time favorites. | |
| Link | BYE BYE BIRDIE credits/overture |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" movie overture | |
| Posted by: StanS 02:16 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" movie overture - schauspieler 12:14 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Was there? Try this (you didn't say it had to be a musical) | |
| Link | Bernard Herrmann: Overture to North by Northwest |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" movie overture | |
| Posted by: schauspieler 02:27 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" movie overture - StanS 02:16 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| Of course. Fabulous | |
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