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Opening Chorus
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Many a musical doesn't make the audience wait to hear the ensemble sing. So, it'll start the very first scene (possibly after a short prologue) with a Crowd Song. Often includes solo verses to help introduce the characters. See also the Opening Ballet. |
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The wordless hum of the chorus in the "Overture" to Blood Brothers. | |
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"The Heat is on in Saigon" from Miss Saigon. | |
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"High On A Hill" from The Desert Song. Hammerstein himself apologized for not writing good lyrics. | |
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"Hark, the hour of ten is sounding" from Trial by Jury. | |
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"Aquarius" in Hair | |
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The film version of RENT opens with "Seasons of Love'; the stage opening is just one guy singing. In a sense, this also applies to certain versions of the play where everyone sings it before the second act. | |
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The titular song of Ragtime. | |
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"Another Op'nin, Another Show" from Kiss Me, Kate. Although there's a fairly lengthy scene preceding it. |
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"Tower of Babble" from Godspell. | |
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The Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along originally started (and ended) with "The Hills Of Tomorrow." This Opening Chorus and the following scene were removed in revisions, making the title song the Opening Chorus. | |
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"Today is the Day" from Finale. | |
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Half-subverted in Avenue Q, where the opening song is a recording by (presumably) the original cast, played alongside an opening video. It parodies Sesame Street, what else can we say. | |
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"Wintergreen For President" from Of Thee I Sing. | |
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"I Wanna Be A Boy" from the film version of Teacher's Pet | |
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Spoofed in Spamalot, in which the chorus mishears the Historian's introduction and thus the show opens with a musical number about Finland (instead of England) until they're corrected. | |
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"After Today" from A Goofy Movie | |
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A semi-aversion in Thoroughly Modern Millie: The show starts of with Millie singing "Not for the Life of Me", a full song and a separate track on the CD, as a solo, but it segues directly into the choral title number. Interestingly, even though the tracks are listed separately on the original cast recording, if you listen to only the song "Thoroughly Modern Millie", you will still hear Millie sing the last note of "Not for the Life of Me". | |
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"Merano" from Chess, at least on the concept album and in most British productions. | |
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"Kids Just Being Kids" from The Fairly Oddparents: School's Out! The Musical | |
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"Tripping hither, tripping thither" from Iolanthe. | |
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"Madame Guillotine" in The Scarlet Pimpernel. | |
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In "Prologue/The Day I Got Expelled" from The Lightning Thief, the musical adaptation of the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the demigods bemoan their godly parent. | |
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"Twenty love-sick maidens we" from Patience. | |
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And the same for "Science Fiction\Double Feature" in both The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. | |
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"Won't it be a pretty wedding?" from The Grand Duke. | |
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Westeros: An American Musical: "King Robert Baratheon" has several characters take turns at telling the audience the story of how Robert became King. | |
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Steven Universe: The Movie opens with "The Tale of Steven", in which the Diamonds sing Steven's praises as the hero who brought peace to Homeworld. It's a deliberate homage to Disney's use of this trope. | |
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In the 2017 Broadway retool of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "The Candy Man" (a lift from the 1971 film adaptation of the source novel, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) is the opening number. Mr. Wonka himself sings the first verses as a solo, but after the bridge the ensemble joins in just because. | |
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"Search throughout the panorama" from Princess Ida. | |
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"Pour, oh, pour the pirate sherry" from The Pirates of Penzance. | |
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Newsies begins with "Carrying the Banner", as does the stage adaptation. | |
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"If you want to know who we are" from The Mikado. | |
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"Frozen Heart", sung by a group of ice harvesters. Technically, "Vuelie" was also this, as it was sung straight from the beginning - right when the Disney castle animation appears. |
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"Ring forth, ye bells" from The Sorcerer. | |
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"List and learn" from The Gondoliers. | |
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"Throughout the Night, the Constellations" from Thespis. | |
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"All That Jazz" from Chicago. | |
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"Fair is Rose" from Ruddigore. | |
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In Knickerbocker Holiday, "Clickety-Clack" is a typical opening chorus sung by Dutch Maidens washing the steps, though it's actually the second song in the show, the first being part of the long Opening Monologue. | |
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"Overture/Work Song" from Les Misérables, although it's only for the male chorus. | |
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Non-theatre example: Almost all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas start with an opening chorus, though a few aversions do exist. Usually cantatas that do not start with a chorus instead start with a Sinfonia movement (a completely instrumental movement). | |
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"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" from Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The movie adaptation omits this. |
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Little Shop of Horrors uses this trope with the prologue variation. | |
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Hamilton starts with "Alexander Hamilton," a song describing the first 19 or so years of Hamilton's life from his birth to his travel to America, told verse by verse by each of the other actors save the ones playing Angelica and Peggy/Maria. It ends with each actor briefly - and dramatically - stating their relation to Hamilton (deliberately written so that their statement applies equally to both characters for the actors who play more than one). | |
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The Prince of Egypt: "Deliver Us" is performed mostly from the perspective of the Hebrew slaves as a group, but there are a few solo moments provided by Yocheved and Miriam. | |
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"Ohmigod You Guys" in Legally Blonde: The Musical | |
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"Carrying the Banner" from Newsies. | |
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The third An American Tail movie started out with one as well, "We Live in Manhattan". | |
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"21 Jumbo Street" from Doug Live! | |
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Sole exception: The Yeomen of the Guard, which begins with Phoebe's song, "When maiden loves." Shortly after that, though, we get "Tower warders, under orders" with the full ensemble. | |
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Subversion: "An Opening For A Princess" doesn't open Once Upon a Mattress, despite its title and full ensemble participation; it's even the second song in the show, since the prologue already has "Many Moons Ago." | |
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Opening Chorus / int_cc22fae4 | |
Opening Chorus / int_d6f28828 | type |
Opening Chorus | |
Opening Chorus / int_d6f28828 | comment |
"We Saw The Sea" from the movie Follow the Fleet. | |
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Follow the Fleet | hasFeature |
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Opening Chorus / int_d716d915 | type |
Opening Chorus | |
Opening Chorus / int_d716d915 | comment |
Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto opens with a scene from when Cesare was an infant, with the chorus singing about the illegitimate child, the proof of sin. Cesare's father sings about their family and the position he aims for, and the chorus echoes him. The straightforward, traditional kingly sound to the music contrasts with the cardinal acknowledging his illegitimate children and saying the church is just another kingdom. Then, time skips to 1491, the teenaged Cesare enters, and introduces himself with a rock-styled solo that contrasts in every way. | |
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Opening Chorus / int_d716d915 | |
Opening Chorus / int_d8b36fad | type |
Opening Chorus | |
Opening Chorus / int_d8b36fad | comment |
"We sail the ocean blue" from H.M.S. Pinafore. | |
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H.M.S. Pinafore (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Opening Chorus / int_d8b36fad | |
Opening Chorus / int_e2716b52 | type |
Opening Chorus | |
Opening Chorus / int_e2716b52 | comment |
"I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line, though preceded by a somewhat extended dance sequence. | |
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A Chorus Line (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Opening Chorus / int_e2716b52 | |
Opening Chorus / int_e38778a5 | type |
Opening Chorus | |
Opening Chorus / int_e38778a5 | comment |
"Call On Dolly" from Hello, Dolly!!. | |
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Hello, Dolly! (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Opening Chorus / int_e38778a5 | |
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Opening Chorus | |
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"Bells Are Ringing" from Bells Are Ringing. | |
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Opening Chorus / int_e4b92885 | |
Opening Chorus / int_ebfefbc1 | type |
Opening Chorus | |
Opening Chorus / int_ebfefbc1 | comment |
"Cotton Blossom" from Show Boat, notable for having its opening lines Bowdlerised. Original lines: "Colored folks work on de Mississippi / Colored folks work while de white folks play". (The original original lines didn't use the words "colored folks.") Bowdlerised lines: "Here we all work on the Mississippi / Here we all work while the rich folks play". |
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Bowdlerise | hasFeature |
Opening Chorus / int_ebfefbc1 | |
Opening Chorus / int_fbc58609 | type |
Opening Chorus | |
Opening Chorus / int_fbc58609 | comment |
The Nightmare Before Christmas has "This is Halloween." | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
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Opening Chorus / int_fc2bd439 | type |
Opening Chorus | |
Opening Chorus / int_fc2bd439 | comment |
"In lazy languor" from Utopia, Limited. | |
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Opening Chorus / int_fc2bd439 |
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