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Round 2, Poll 2

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

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Round 2, Poll 1

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.

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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

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Die Entführung aus dem Serail advances to the next round!

Round 1, Poll 4

Propaganda for Die Entführung aus dem Serail:

None submitted.

Propaganda for Ranked, A Musical:

None submitted.

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The Producers advances to the next round!

Round 1, Poll 3

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).

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Notre Dame de Paris advances to the next round!

Round 1, Poll 2

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.

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Newsies advances to the next round!

Round 1, Poll 1

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.)

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remember to go back and vote in the earlier polls if you haven’t already!!

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New Poll 2:

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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

New Poll 1

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Round 1, Poll 12

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

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Round 1, Poll 12

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

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All round 1 polls are out now!!!!

Go vote!

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Round 1, Poll 9

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

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Round 1, Poll 16

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

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Round 1, Poll 15

Propaganda for Tanz der Vampire:

Still one of the best overtures I've ever heard.

Propaganda for My Fair Lady:

none submitted.

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Round 1, Poll 14

Propaganda for Dog Man the Musical:

dogman the musical goes so hard i’m not kidding

Note: (00:00-01:52)

Propaganda for The Music Man:

None Submitted.