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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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes indeed. Thank you! ;-)
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