Your Favorite

[GlindatheGood22]

We all know 'em - those ten minute whoppers. What are some of your favorites?

Me:
Now/Later/Soon
Requiem for Evita/Oh What a Circus

[TotallyEffed]

Chrysanthemum Tea

[NorthManBway]

For sure the Prologue from "Into the Woods" and the medley that ends act one of Titanic "No Moon/Autumn"

[Wynbish]

The Sweeney Todd finale is kinda one long song.

[wicked1492]

The one from GHOST where she's sad about him dying.

[Kad]

"Please Hello!"

[ChiChi]

Not sure if this hits the "long" ten-minute type threshold, but I like "Lot's Wife"

[SingingChef]

Prologue of Into the Woods
Now/Later/Soon
Poor Child - Lippa's Wild Party

[IdinaBellFoster]

The Prologue of INTO THE WOODS is 11 minutes and 58 seconds of perfection.

[3bluenight]

I agree whole-heartedly about
Now/Later/Soon
Prologue Into the Woods

I would also add
Color and Light, Sunday in the Park with George
Loveland Sequence, Follies
Goodbye my love, Ragtime
pretty lady through the slaying, Pacific Overtures
Rock Island, The Music Man
The Riddle Song, Floyd Collins
The night duets, Caroline or Change
The Prologue/The Dance at the Gym, West Side Story

[NotAnotherSN]

The "Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen" montage in A Chorus Line. I can't even tell you how much I love that section of the show.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

I would consider Now, Later and Soon three different songs.

"Simple" from Anyone Can Whistle is a favorite of mine.

[trinbgvsu2]

I love "Shall I Tell You What I Think of You?" from The King and I.

[jv92]

I mean, "Soliloquy" isn't ten minutes, but it's about seven and a half, and it's probably my favorite, along with "Someone in a Tree."

[3bluenight]

Re: I would consider Now, Later and Soon three different songs.

I would too if they ended after Anne's song. But as they then morph into the counterpoint section, it really becomes a moment showing how they do belong together in some way - they are a family, it's just a little muddled at this point

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Well, technically, each song stops before the next begins (although the first two having finite endings while Anne's is interrupted by Henrik's cello) and the trio of reprises starts.

It just seems to me that those are a different kind of song(s) than something like the Into the Woods opening.

But no offense meant to anyone; it's just how I see it.

[3bluenight]

no no, i see what you're saying. that one interpretation could be that the trio is a reprise of the each song, just concurrently.

So you're thinking more along the lines of A Day Off as an extended musical scene?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Yes, exactly!

[Deena Jones]

Wicked1492 With You is not all that long... maybe 3 1/2 minutes.

My vote is for the opening number of Grand Hotel at over ten minutes and Dreamgirls opening act 2 - over 8 minutes!

[metropolis10111]

TOTALLY unpopular but I just have a soft happy place for the Jellicle Ball. The Finale for Der Glockner Von Notre Dame and Carpe Noctem from Dance of the Vampires

[donte7162004]

"My Boy Bill" from Carousel.

[japhun2]

Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen--simply the best!

[GlindatheGood22]

Someone mentioned Goodbye, My Love. That's one of the shortest songs in the show.

Anyway, can't believe I forgot to mention A New Argentina. Also LOVE Lot's Wife.

[jv92]

donte, "Soliloquy" is "My Boy Bill."

I think by "Goodbye, My Love", the admirer meant that short bit and the longer "Journey On" sequence that follows.

[beltingbaritone]

"Meadowlark" is the first song that came to mind when I read the title of this thread. However, in comparison to some of these other favorites, it seem's like a quick stroll in the park.

[3bluenight]

re: goodbye my love

I did indeed mean to include the Journey On section.

It's interesting, Lot's Wife wouldn't qualify as an extended musical sequence according to The Day Off definition. I love love love Caroline and Lot's Wife is certainly (to me) the apotheosis of the score, character and themes. But it's not really an extended musical sequence (of course neither are some of my other selections).

To that end, I would add
Bride's Lament sequence, The Drowsy Chaperone
War is a Science -> Glory The "war sequence", Pippin
The Trial Sequence, Parade