Awesome (theatre): Difference between revisions

* [[Carousel/Awesome|Carousel]]

* [[Cirque Du Soleil/Awesome|Cirque Du Soleil]]

* [[In the Heights/Awesome|In the Heights]]

* [[Next to Normal/Awesome|Next to Normal]]

* [[Passing Strange/Awesome|Passing Strange]]

* [[The Phantom of the Opera/Awesome|The Phantom of the Opera]]

* [[Spring Awakening/Awesome|Spring Awakening]]

 

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* ''tick, tick...BOOM!'': Louder Than Words. And what Jon says before the song:

{{quote| Jon: The tick, tick...BOOMS are softer now. I can barely hear them and I think if I play loud enough, I can drown them out completely. }}

** In particular, the last two lines, "[[Calling the Old Man Out|No wizard that there is or was]] / Is ever gonna bring me down!", never fail to give this troper the shivers.

*** Possibly one of then best CMOA's in musical theater period.

** Would this fit here? OH well, I'm putting it here anyway. The Stage version of RENT. Finale B (which is [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] in itself), at the very end. Singing along, and then suddenly, everyone looks stage-right... and on runs Angel, who joins in singing. When this troper saw RENT, he knew perfectly well that it was coming, and he still burst into hysterically joyful tears.

*** At the very end of the final Broadway performance, the original cast coming out and singing "Seasons of Love" with the final cast is worth the price of the DVD alone.

** "Is Anybody There?"

** The final scene between John and Abby.

* The end of act one in [[The Producers]]. This troper was going along thinking "This is the biggest Tony winner in history? Sure it's funny, but a lot of stuff is straight from the movie and the songs aren't really that catchy." Then we hit that moment and I got it. Since it tragically wasn't replicated in the movie, I'll spell it out: Max has gotten back from his trip to "Little Old Lady Land" having raised two million dollars, and declares that now they can put on the show. Everyone else gets the news, resulting in brief reprises of ''every single song from the first act'' that all start overlapping until finally everyone just repeatedly shouts "Bialystock and Bloom!" then all hum the chorus of Springtime for Hitler (which doubled as the original film's title theme). Such an incredible expression of pure joy as you're completely wrapped up in the story and feeling that joy right along with everyone, despite knowing that some of them are just getting screwed over. It's helped by everyone managing to get a happy ending.

* In [[Guys and Dolls]], Sky Masterson sings [[Crowning Music of Awesome|what may be the best song ever written for a musical]] about how badly he needs to win a round of craps (it's [[Better Than It Sounds|cooler in context]]). He does, in what's implied to be one roll.

* The end of "Gethsemane" from Jesus Christ Superstar...

{{quote| "Take me now, before I change my mind!"}}

* The finale of ''Pacific Overtures,'' "Next!" turns all of Japan's history from the Meiji Restoration to the present into a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the ''entire country.''

* [[In the Heights]], Sonny and Graffiti Pete get two. First at the end of Act One during the song Blackout, Sonny tries to protect the corner store from looters. Graffiti Pete uses his Roman candles to fend off the mob. Towards the end of the play, Sonny {{spoiler|hires Graffiti Pete to paint a mural of Abuela Claudia on the graffiti-defaced corner store grate. The mural convinces Usnavi, who disliked Pete before, to stay in Washington Heights.}}

** Benny standing up to Kevin deserves a mention.

** Not only that, Björn is an atheist. And even so, the song sends shivers down the spine of [[Longfellow|this atheist troper]].

* Floria Tosca of [[Tosca|the eponymous opera]] starts out as a not especially likeable, vain sort of character. She spends the first Act simply being jealous of her revolutionary boyfriend's supposed new lover (actually a fellow revolutionary in disguise). Having found out the truth, with her boyfriend being tortured in the next room, Tosca gets some much meatier characterisation. The villain [[Scarpia Ultimatum|demands a night of lovemaking in return for only pretending to execute the boyfriend]] and giving Tosca plus one free passage out of the country. Defeated, Tosca agrees - and then realises she's completely alone with the villain and in possession of all she needs. She takes several instantaneous levels in badass, defends her virtue and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-QA2ndeQWk stabs the villain in the chest, proclaiming "This is Tosca's kiss!"] Crowning moment of awesome, indeed.

** Scarpia singing "Tosca, you make me forget God!" while ''a choir belts out the Te Deum in the background''. Though Scarpia is a [[Complete Monster]], the whole "Tre sbirri, una carozza" aria almost pushes him to [[Magnificent Bastard]] territory. The aria's ''just that awesome''.

* ''[[Thirteen]]'''s crowning moment of awesome is {{spoiler|when Evan calls Brett, the [[Jerk Jock]] who he has been jumping through hoops to please so that he will come to his Bar Mitzvah a "bully and a jerk" and realizes that the [[Cool Losers]] Archie and Patrice are his real friends.}}

* [[Godspell]]'s ''Alas For You''- the scene where [[Badass Preacher|Jesus rebukes the Pharisees]]. Just ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4UrJDHyAo listen]''.

* Riverdance has undergone many changes from the original and its first New York production, and not all are improvements. However, every incarnation of Trading Taps will have at least one jaw-dropping display of footwork; if nothing else, the sight of a man pirouetting across a stage, on point, ''in tap shoes'', ensures its entry here.

* Why isn't ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' on here?? This show has plenty of them.