# What are your favorite moments in musical theatre? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859 "2003-03-08T05:12:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/41 "2004-03-22T13:47:56Z")
Most romantic: “Shall We Dance” from **The King and I** , when the king says “We do it again.” Most Chilling The final line in “If You Could See Her With My Eyes (The Gorilla Song)” in **Cabaret**. Extremely scary, because you’re seduced into thinking like a Nazi. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/42 "2004-03-22T18:31:04Z")
I love the “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” number from _Kiss Me, Kate_. ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/43 "2004-03-22T18:44:41Z")
Wow, quite a few… **Les Mis** The entire barricade scene. Brilliantly staged and unforgettable. **Gypsy** Rose’s entrance, and “Rose’s Turn” **RENT** “Christmas Bells”… I’ve seen the show eleven times, and pick a different character to follow each time. and **Wicked** “…nobody in all of Oz, no Wizard that there is or was is ever gonna bring me down…” ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/44 "2004-03-22T19:42:05Z")
More: _Into the Woods_, the Witch’s heartrending sobs during “Children Won’t Listen,” as she sings “From someone you love… to someone you lose…” _Whistle Down The Wind_, as Swallow departs the house to sing the title song the first time. _Gigi_ and the whole staging of “The Night They Invented Champagne.” _Carousel_: Billy’s “Soliloquy.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/45 "2004-03-23T01:33:56Z")
The _Bells of St. Sebastians_ number from _Nine_. I’m a total sucker for a good _kyrie elaison_. I agree with whoever said “virtually all of 1776”, but particularly “Yours Yours Yours” and “He Plays the Violin”- both of them very intelligently erotic numbers. ---
**Author:** ![ThatGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ThatGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/46 "2004-03-23T04:16:19Z")
oh yes glad somebody mentioned “Wicked”…“defying gravity” always gives me goosebumps ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/47 "2004-03-23T07:24:16Z")
_One Day More_ from Les Mis sends chills up my spine and gives me goosebumps…and just about all of Les Mis. But _Master of the House_, man, it just doesn’t get any better than that, especially when the whole theater winds up clapping and cheering along. I think those two got the biggest applause during the show we went to. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/48 "2004-03-23T16:42:14Z")
My two favorite **Les Mis** moments are both deaths: Eponine’s and Gavroche’sThere are some chills for ya. Particularly when [spoiler]They pull eponine’s body away, and Marius reaches for her, but is pulled back by his friends.\*\* Don’t know if they always do that bit, but I just noticed it the last time I saw the show. I’m not a **Rent** fan really much at all, but I always found it gleefully ironic that Roger’s song about how he can’t write a song is way better than the sappy song he eventually comes up with. Some of you already hit some good **Into the woods** ones, but my favorite is the song No More. I love the show, but it’s metaphor for life as a fairy tale can get a bit strained at times. Not during No More. That’s where it shines. Beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/49 "2004-03-23T16:48:29Z")
sigh… spoiler boxes aren’t really worth the effort when you screw up the coding, are they? Oh well… I guess most people who haven’t seen, read, or heard the story of Les Miserables won’t be reading this thread anyway… ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/50 "2004-03-23T16:53:59Z")
Wow, folks. I guess I’m alone in this one. The bottle dance in **Fiddler on the Roof.** Amazing, amazing, amazing bit of choreography. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/51 "2004-03-23T20:19:00Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Javert’s suicide in LES MIS (the way he drowns in the “light” as the bridge ascends.) I love Les Mis and I realize the limitations of the stage, but that part of Javert’s Suicide when he’s wirthing around in the light…it struck me as more silly then it should have been. I can imagine rehearserals. Javert: So you want me to jump off the bridge and writh around on the floor and pretend I’m drowning? Right… ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/52 "2004-03-23T22:27:04Z")
The part in **Miss Saigon** where Ellen sings - “it’s alright now I’m with you We’ll get through this We’ll pull though All I want in my life Is you” I get shivers every time I hear it. In **Evita** where Peron says - “I’m trying to point out that you are dying” The entire song “Lily’s Eyes” from **The Secret Garden** And basically all of the touring version of **Jesus Christ Superstar** that came through Calgary last summer. It’s not my favorite (though I know every word) and I got the tickets cause they came as part of a package with Miss Saigon. It was the most fantastic show I had ever seen. The production was beyond amazing. You could practically feel the sparks between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and every interaction Jesus and Judas had was breathtaking. During the Gethsemane scene Judas breaks away from the crowd and he and Jesus embrace - the power in that one moment! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/53 "2004-03-23T22:53:38Z")
UC Riverside did a production of _The Rocky Horror Show_ earier this season. They did an amazing job, but the floor show, specifically, made my jaw drop. I’ll second _Brush Up Your Shakespeare_ and “I’m only Aldonza, the whore,” from _Man of La Mancha_. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/54 "2004-03-24T16:29:41Z")
The Rum-tum-tugger (sp?) is a curious cat … From ALW’s Cats. Though these days does the Cats musical count as furry porn? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859/55 "2004-03-27T23:59:40Z")
Les Miz: “Let others rise to take our place until the earth is free!” I could listen to Anthony Warlow sing that line all day. In “One Day More” when they start waving the huge red flag. Depends on the production and the actor playing Grantaire, but after Enjolras dies, when Grantaire runs to the top of the barricade and gets shot. So much more powerful since I read the book. The opening of _Songs for a New World_. The climax of “Dangerous Game” from _Jekyll & Hyde_. That song is sex. Also sex is in “Where’s the Girl” from _The Scarlet Pimpernel_, the last time Chauvelin sings “Come again” etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-moments-in-musical-theatre/159859.md?page=2)