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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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| 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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