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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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!
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.