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@overture-contest
Bracket!!
The bracket is ready, here it is!
The first round of voting will come out soon, and will last for a week. Since there are so many polls to be done in the first round I will stagger them so four come out per day, once a day.
Round 2, Poll 2
Which overture do you prefer
The Producers
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Propaganda for The Producers:
It's a big, classic overture which could totally pass for a Golden Age show if it wasn't written in 2001! Nobody does overtures like this anymore - except, apparently, The Producers. I was going to provide a timestamp for the best part until I realized I couldn't decide on a best part. Just listen to it!!
Propaganda for Die Entführung aus dem Serail:
None submitted
Feel free to rb with any additional propaganda and I will rb it here.
Round 2, Poll 1
Which overture do you prefer
Newsies
Notre Dame de Paris
Propaganda for Newsies:
Just listen to the lone trumpt start this off and then how it builds and falls. It's just so ✨️✨️✨️
trumpet. bwaa.
Propaganda for Notre Dame de Paris:
None submitted.
Round 1 is Complete!!
Updates:
Newsies advances
Notre Dame de Paris advances
The Producers advances
Die Entfuerung... advances
Chicago advances
Guys and Dolls advances
Mamma Mia! advances
Gypsy advances
Beauty and the Beast advances
The Nutcracker advances
Dracula (Wildhorn) advances
Cats advances
Spies are Forever advances
The Music Man advances
Tanz der Vampire advances
Phantom of the Opera advances
The next round will be:
Newsies vs. NDDP
The Produces vs. Die Entfuerung...
Chicago vs. Guys and Dolls
Mamma Mia! vs. Gypsy
Beauty and the Beast vs. The Nutcracker
Dracula (Wildhorn) vs. Cats
Spies are Forever vs. The Music Man
Tanz der Vampire vs. POTO
Please submit any additional propaganda for any of these via ask or message before 12pm EST tomorrow
Round 1, Poll 4
Which overture do you prefer
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Ranked: A New Musical
Propaganda for Die Entführung aus dem Serail:
None submitted.
Propaganda for Ranked, A Musical:
None submitted.
Feel free to rb with any additional propaganda and I will rb it here
Die Entführung aus dem Serail advances to the next round!
Round 1, Poll 3
Which overture do you prefer
The Producers
Die Fledermaus
Propaganda for The Producers:
It's a big, classic overture which could totally pass for a Golden Age show if it wasn't written in 2001! Nobody does overtures like this anymore - except, apparently, The Producers. I was going to provide a timestamp for the best part until I realized I couldn't decide on a best part. Just listen to it!!
Propaganda for Die Fledermaus:
I'm submitting this because it was one of the first pieces I played with a full orchestra. I have many good memories from it :) (also it was fun to play, even from a viola perspective).
Feel free to rb with any additional propaganda and I will rb it here
The Producers advances to the next round!
Round 1, Poll 2
Which overture do you prefer
Notre Dame de Paris
Sweet Charity
Propaganda for Notre Dame de Paris:
None submitted.
Propaganda for Sweet Charity:
The Sweet Charity overture is so good it's absurd. It starts out slamming down that absolutely iconic Big Spender riff then goes straight into the musical equivalent of pure dopamine. It's such a good combination of classic and unique - that section with the guitars!! and it flows so wonderfully it's like floating around on clouds made of sugar.
Feel free to rb with any additional propaganda and I will rb it here.
Notre Dame de Paris advances to the next round!
Round 1, Poll 1
Which overture do you like better
Newsies
A dzsungel könyve
Propaganda for Newsies:
Just listen to the lone trumpt start this off and then how it builds and falls. It's just so ✨️✨️✨️
trumpet. bwaa.
Propaganda for A dzsungel könyve:
A dzsungel könyve' is my favourite musical ever. The musical is about Mowgli trying to find his place in the world. He can't stay in the jungle because he's a human, but he can't stay with humans because he's from the jungle, so in the end he's stuck somewhere in the middle ("A human among wolves, and a wolf among humans. Then what am I?" he says as his last speaking lines, this is not a happy musical). The 'Nyitány' ('Overture') is an indicator that everything humans need is provided by nature, they depend on it. The song is a prayer to the gods of nature (river, wild, fire and wind). It starts out simple with a few instruments and a single person praying but then steadily builds up (and it always makes me shiver when I listen to part where the music really kicks in), then it ends with the simple few instruments and a single person praying part.
Translation: God of the River, be a merciful lord, Your water lessens my thirst in the night, God of the Wild, be a merciful lord, The meat of the young deer lessens my hunger.
God of the Fire, be a merciful lord, The flames and light give me warmth, God of the Wind, be a merciful lord, Don't strike my home today.
(The 'Finálé' ('Finale') has this and an alternate version of 'Nyitány' in it, bracketing the whole musical.)
Feel free to rb with any additional propaganda and I will rb it here.
Newsies advances to the next round!
remember to go back and vote in the earlier polls if you haven’t already!!
New Poll 2:
Which overture do you prefer
A Little Night Music
The Nutcracker
Redoing the Addams Family vs. Mamma Mia and Little Night Music vs. Nutcracker polls because I accidentally set them to one day instead of one week.
Links to originals
Propaganda for The Addams Family: Literally every night putting this on the booth crew would all dance along to this it was great. It gets
Note: This was originally going to be Much Ado About Nothing (1993), but that is a film, so it had to be disqualified and replaced. Propa
New Poll 1
Which overture do you prefer
The Addams Family
Mamma Mia!
Round 1, Poll 12
Which overture do you prefer
Cats
Camelot
Propaganda for Cats:
None submitted.
Propaganda for Camelot:
From the lost era of Broadway, when men were men, women were women, and overtures were three minute medleys of all the best tunes in the musical Also the march at 2:24 rocks and you cannot convince me otherwise
Feel free to rb with any additional propaganda and I will rb it here
@prxckedradiolove
CATS HAS THE BEST OVERTURE IN MUSICAL HISTORY!!
IT IS SO UNIQUE AND AVACOTIVE PLSSS GIVE IT A LISTEN
Round 1, Poll 12
Which overture do you prefer
Cats
Camelot
Propaganda for Cats:
None submitted.
Propaganda for Camelot:
From the lost era of Broadway, when men were men, women were women, and overtures were three minute medleys of all the best tunes in the musical Also the march at 2:24 rocks and you cannot convince me otherwise
Feel free to rb with any additional propaganda and I will rb it here
All round 1 polls are out now!!!!
Go vote!
Round 1, Poll 9
Which overture do you prefer
Merrily We Roll Along
Beauty and The Beast
Propaganda for Merrily We Roll Along:
None submitted.
Note: The submission called for the overture from the 2017 film Beauty and the Beast, but since film overtures are not allowed, I switched it to the stage musical version.
Propaganda for Beauty and the Beast:
it's,, beauty and beast. u can practically sing along with the overture lol
Feel free to rb with any additional propaganda and I will rb it here
Merrily is one of the last real classic overtures. Sondheim and Tunick blend the songs from this show in a varied, swinging overture that expertly uses all the textures of the orchestra. This is the overture that convinces you that overtures aren't boring.
Also, listen to the original recording. It has a bigger orchestra, and it has the extra "Rich and Happy" section cut from later recordings.
Round 1, Poll 16
Which overture do you prefer
Anything Goes
The Phantom of the Opera
Propaganda for Anything Goes:
It's just so fun and sounds so quintessentially musical-y and overture-y
Propaganda for Phantom of the Opera:
It's the Phantom of the Opera overture. It's THE overture. It needs no introduction. It's a 27-piece orchestra blasting your eardrums off while a giant haunted chandelier levitates over the the Majestic Theatre and the pipe organ rattles the audience in their seats.
When the full orchestra pauses for a moment then soars in with that melody, is possibly the best thing ever put to stage. I think you could invent books full of new adjectives to describe the experience of listening to the Phantom overture.
It is one of the most iconic, most well known overture, showcases all the music that will be playing perfectly, and is paired with the rising of the chandelier
Round 1, Poll 15
Which overture do you prefer
Tanz der Vampire
My Fair Lady
Propaganda for Tanz der Vampire:
Still one of the best overtures I've ever heard.
Propaganda for My Fair Lady:
none submitted.
