Most Wonderful Sound (Sugar Wiki)/Theatre

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Examples of the Most Wonderful Sound in Theatre include:

  • "DUUUUNNNNNNNNNNN... DUNDUNDUNDUNDUUUUUUUUUUNNN... DUNDUNDUNDUNDUUUUUUUUUUUNNN..."
  • The opening line and musical vamp of each act of Sondheim's Into the Woods: "Once upon a time! *BA-dit, dit, dit, dit, dit...*" Try playing that vamp in a room full of theatre people. See how many pipe up with "I wish..."
  • Highly conditional, but—for the actors, the sound of one lone person reacting to something onstage is SWEEEEET. (This Troper was stage manager for a production of Hamlet once, and one night was estatic to hear two people in the audience audibly GASP in shock when Queen Gertrude drank from the poisoned flask.)
  • The "drrrrrrrrr-brum-brum-brum" before the beginning of "Der Holle Rache" from Mozart's The Magic Flute sends chills down the spine if one knows what fury and high notes are coming.
  • The ending to Les Misérables is a reprise of "Do You Hear the People Sing" and it is the very definition of a crescendo. Goosebumps every single time.
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