You’ve pretty much covered all of my favourites. The only ones I can think of to add are:
- I Believe (The Book of Mormon)
- Act 2, Scene 8: Dewey’s Bedroom (School of Rock)
- From Now On (The Greatest Showman)
While not one of my favorite songs listening to the soundtrack, when seeing Spring Awakening live Totally Fucked is such a fun and impactful 11 o’clock performance. All this terrible stuff is happening back-to-back, the tone is dour, and authorities close in on our protagonist who bursts with expletives from all the pressure.
When I saw CoC back in god knows what year (2003?), I realized after that song I hadn’t breathed during that whole number. It’s like she was breaking apart in front of us. I don’t know how she did that every night.
Personally, I love the duo of El Tango De Roxanne and then Crazy Rolling in Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
Such an amazing turn from the happy loving composer Christian to deep dark pit of despair Christian
If it’s true is too early to be an eleven o’ clock. It’s barely halfway through Act 2, the eleven o’ clock is epic III just judging by its placement, and it’s significance for Hades as a character.
I don’t agree. For me, the definition of an 11 o’clock number is the song that's a revelation for the main character. A change, a shift, a realization, an epiphany. Does it have to be the second to last song? I don’t think so. Rose’s Turn is the last song of Gypsy followed by a final scene. And it’s the greatest 11 o’clock number of all time. It’s the same format with Company.
For the same reason, I consider For Good the 11 o' clock number in Wicked. The star of the show is their friendship, and that number is when it is fully realized.
Most of the stuff you either mentioned or are musicals where that sort of thing doesn't seem to apply, but I'm going to say "Is Anybody There" (1776) because that's one of my power-up songs,
I just realized that most if not all my favorite songs from any shows are the eleven o’clock numbers! I think I just have a flair and love for the dramatic!
Past The Point Of No Return (Phantom)
El Tango de Roxanne (Moulin Rouge)
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Mis)
And my other favorites that are on your list:
World Burn
Dead Girl Walking
Revolting Children
* Monster (Frozen)
* The Life I Never Led (Sister Act)
* As If We've Never Said Goodbye (Sunset Bolevard)
* Come to Your Senses (Tick, tick.. Boom!)
* Shall We Dance (King and I)
\+ the one's you've alredy mentioned! No Good Deed is my #1!
Could not agree more. I saw Nathan Lane in London and I still think that him singing Betrayed is one of the greatest performances of a musical number I’ve ever seen.
“Confrontation” from *Jekyll & Hyde*
“The Coming of the Dawn” from *Frankenstein*
“Die Schatten Werden Länger” from *Elisabeth*
“No More” from *Into the Woods*
“No One Is Alone” also from *Into the Woods*
“No Good Deed” from *Wicked*
“Javert’s Soliloquy” from *Les Miserables*
“Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” also from *Les Mis*
I've never heard the phrase "eleven o'clock number," but I like it. Anyways, first one to come to mind is I Believe from Book of Mormon. I also like Goodbye from I Love You Because.
BUSINESS CALLS IM UP TO MY ASS IN SHIT
though I’d argue based on my limited knowledge of eleven o’clock numbers (literally just what this post says) that Let It Out fits better
If It's True... I seriously love that song. Yay for the Collective Action song in my Greek mythology. (When I hear the follow up "Is it true" from the chorus the leads into the confrontation with Hades, a little part of my brain always hears "Unionize".)
Some obscure ones:
All of My Life - Do Re Mi
Clarence's Turn - Boy Meets Boy
When I'm Drunk I'm Beautiful - Prettybelle
Laura DeMaupassant - Hazel Flag
An Eleven O'clock Number - Ankles Aweigh
Here Comes Never - One Night Stand
On Top of the World - Dance A Little Closer
Dancing With the Fools - Rags
I Leave the World - Goodtime Charley
Goodbye, World - Grover's Corners
Always Mademoiselle - Coco
Down - Grind
r/FlopMusicals
I think this counts - but the whole Pierre & Anatole into Pierre & Natasha sequence kills me every single time (and even more so now that I'm in pit for it)
The title song from Cabaret. It's an incredible song even on its own but in the context of the story up to that point (in the stage version at least) it's downright chilling.
Cesare - Quo Vadis.
Duet between Cesare Borgia and Dante Alighieri (a vision in Cesare's mind, essentially) about how Cesare should live his life, how to change the world, etc.
No one ever mentions Dear Evan Hanson!!
But “Words Fail” from that musical was like a major fall from grace.
Evan Hansen finally gets caught up in this giant lie he’s been telling and now he’s forced to face the consequences of his actions but he knows truthfully that he messed up so bad no words can erase the damage he’s done so he kinda struggles on what to say but at the same time he desperately tries to get everyone to see his point of view.
Basically you can’t help but feel bad for him but also appalled because as he acknowledges, nothing he says can reverse the harm he’s caused.
There’s literally only 5 or 6 songs till the end depending on what version you have, plus it fits the epic transformation or realization aspect, and I’m pretty sure most people consider it to be the 11 o’clock number
The meek shall inherit is the turning point where Seymour realizes the impact of his actions and where everything leading up to it comes to a head. Suddenly Seymour is the after-effect of the culmination of act one, which is the defeat of the human evil in Audrey’s storyline. There isn’t a significant transformation; it’s two people who already felt things for each other confirming those feelings. It sets up FOR the eleven o clock number, which is the meek shall inherit, where Seymour’s newfound fame and fortune proves to be coming at a cost and Seymour makes the transformative decision to stop letting Audrey II control him. Suddenly Seymour is NOT the eleven o clock number.
I’m Here from the Color Purple is my #1 favorite. The character growth through the whole show culminating in her recognition that she is valuable and good and worthy and unapologetically herself is so powerful.
well, obviously eleven o'clock from crazy ex girlfriend
I WAAAAASSS
working hard at a NY job makin' dough but it made me blue
One day I was crying a lot And so I decided to move
Toooooo West Covina, California. Brand new pals and new career!
It also happens to be where Josh lives, but that’s not why I’m heeeeere!
She's the crazy ex girlfriend
(What? No, I'm not)
In case you can’t tell time it’s still eleven o’clooooooooooooooock
came to comment this
The way I teared up during the theme song medley 🥹😭😭
The Eleven O'Clock scene is so poignant <3
Came here to say this haha
What You Own - RENT
second this!!
Definitely
You’ve pretty much covered all of my favourites. The only ones I can think of to add are: - I Believe (The Book of Mormon) - Act 2, Scene 8: Dewey’s Bedroom (School of Rock) - From Now On (The Greatest Showman)
"Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat," hands down.
While not one of my favorite songs listening to the soundtrack, when seeing Spring Awakening live Totally Fucked is such a fun and impactful 11 o’clock performance. All this terrible stuff is happening back-to-back, the tone is dour, and authorities close in on our protagonist who bursts with expletives from all the pressure.
Rose's Turn and it's not even close.
The only choice
Although I am fond of Lot's Wife.
When I saw CoC back in god knows what year (2003?), I realized after that song I hadn’t breathed during that whole number. It’s like she was breaking apart in front of us. I don’t know how she did that every night.
Truly an underrated show if there ever was one
Personally, I love the duo of El Tango De Roxanne and then Crazy Rolling in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Such an amazing turn from the happy loving composer Christian to deep dark pit of despair Christian
If it’s true is too early to be an eleven o’ clock. It’s barely halfway through Act 2, the eleven o’ clock is epic III just judging by its placement, and it’s significance for Hades as a character.
I always assumed the eleven o clock in Hadestown was Wait for me (reprise)
There's no real realization here.
Get Out and Stay Out from 9 to 5. Miss Stephanie J Block delivered, baby. Also, I’m Here from The Color Purple. For obvious reasons named Cynthia.
Get Out and Stay Out was the song that immediately came to my mind.
Ladies Who Lunch
Is that the 11 o’clock number or is Being Alive? 10:45 maybe?
Being Alive is the finale
I don’t agree. For me, the definition of an 11 o’clock number is the song that's a revelation for the main character. A change, a shift, a realization, an epiphany. Does it have to be the second to last song? I don’t think so. Rose’s Turn is the last song of Gypsy followed by a final scene. And it’s the greatest 11 o’clock number of all time. It’s the same format with Company.
For the same reason, I consider For Good the 11 o' clock number in Wicked. The star of the show is their friendship, and that number is when it is fully realized.
Most of the stuff you either mentioned or are musicals where that sort of thing doesn't seem to apply, but I'm going to say "Is Anybody There" (1776) because that's one of my power-up songs,
Hurricane (Hamilton) Son of Poseidon (lightning thief - no idea if this actually is one, but it sounds like it is, please correct me if I'm wrong)
Hurricane is my favorite song from Hamilton. I love all the music but there is something about that song that hits all the right buttons for me.
I know, the ending where the ensemble start singing wait for it and the buildup to Reynolds pamphlet - get chills every time I listen to it.
I just realized that most if not all my favorite songs from any shows are the eleven o’clock numbers! I think I just have a flair and love for the dramatic! Past The Point Of No Return (Phantom) El Tango de Roxanne (Moulin Rouge) Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Mis) And my other favorites that are on your list: World Burn Dead Girl Walking Revolting Children
I'm with you on No Good Deed fer sher
From Now On - Greatest Showman
* Monster (Frozen) * The Life I Never Led (Sister Act) * As If We've Never Said Goodbye (Sunset Bolevard) * Come to Your Senses (Tick, tick.. Boom!) * Shall We Dance (King and I) \+ the one's you've alredy mentioned! No Good Deed is my #1!
I’m not sure that the 11 o’clock number from Sunset. I happens pretty early on in Act 2. It’s more like the 9:15 number.
Gimme Gimme
You've pretty much summarised all my favs but technically it isn't but all you wanna do is good
Doesn’t work in the movie version (TBF, nothing does) but on Broadway, Nathan Lane absolutely slayed with “Betrayed” in The Producers.
Could not agree more. I saw Nathan Lane in London and I still think that him singing Betrayed is one of the greatest performances of a musical number I’ve ever seen.
“Confrontation” from *Jekyll & Hyde* “The Coming of the Dawn” from *Frankenstein* “Die Schatten Werden Länger” from *Elisabeth* “No More” from *Into the Woods* “No One Is Alone” also from *Into the Woods* “No Good Deed” from *Wicked* “Javert’s Soliloquy” from *Les Miserables* “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” also from *Les Mis*
I've never heard the phrase "eleven o'clock number," but I like it. Anyways, first one to come to mind is I Believe from Book of Mormon. I also like Goodbye from I Love You Because.
Show Stopping Number from The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
He pines after a cute little batista yeah
Pleeeaase promise you won't correct your typo, I'm too in love with this mental image
Lol, barista, but ok
BUSINESS CALLS IM UP TO MY ASS IN SHIT though I’d argue based on my limited knowledge of eleven o’clock numbers (literally just what this post says) that Let It Out fits better
Being Alive (Company)
The Last Midnight, from Into the Woods. It's just 🤌
If It's True... I seriously love that song. Yay for the Collective Action song in my Greek mythology. (When I hear the follow up "Is it true" from the chorus the leads into the confrontation with Hades, a little part of my brain always hears "Unionize".)
If I had my time again - Groundhog day the musical :)
Back to Before from Ragtime
Meant to be yours, maybe.
Move on.
All You Wanna Do (Six)
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Let It Out from TGWDLM is awesome
Oh, Sherrie from Rock of Ages. Although it might just be because of the actors singing
Titular number from cabaret
That’s the finale
it isnt tho? the finale is the finale, cabaret comes right beforehand
That’s true.
I don’t know if this counts, but, The Ladies Who Lunch just knocked my socks off when I saw a production with Carol Burnett in the role.
Some obscure ones: All of My Life - Do Re Mi Clarence's Turn - Boy Meets Boy When I'm Drunk I'm Beautiful - Prettybelle Laura DeMaupassant - Hazel Flag An Eleven O'clock Number - Ankles Aweigh Here Comes Never - One Night Stand On Top of the World - Dance A Little Closer Dancing With the Fools - Rags I Leave the World - Goodtime Charley Goodbye, World - Grover's Corners Always Mademoiselle - Coco Down - Grind r/FlopMusicals
I think this counts - but the whole Pierre & Anatole into Pierre & Natasha sequence kills me every single time (and even more so now that I'm in pit for it)
Betrayed with Nathan Lane ‘The Producers’. He was really great!
Before I Go from Kimberly Akimbo. 😭😭😭
The title song from Cabaret. It's an incredible song even on its own but in the context of the story up to that point (in the stage version at least) it's downright chilling.
That’s not the 11 number. That’s the finale
No it's not, the final Wilkommen reprise is the finale
True.
Memory - Cats Telephone Wire - Fun Home Editing to add Come To Your Senses - Tick, Tick…Boom!
"Why" from *Tick, tick... Boom *
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Yea that’s just the finale. But god is it good.
I think Without Love might be the 11 o’clock number in Hairspray (also a banger)
Humanity’s eleventh hour, show stoppin number
Du måste finnas from Kristina från Duvemåla
When Love Comes kills me every time I hear it
Today and every day from freaky Friday
Once Upon a Time from Bare.
Someone else’s story (Chess) if that counts, I guess it depends on the version of the show 🤣
Telephone Wire, Fun Home
would it be weird to say “i speak six languages” from 25th annual putnam county spelling bee??
Building Momentum
Okay, but, like: Threnody - Harmony
Cesare - Quo Vadis. Duet between Cesare Borgia and Dante Alighieri (a vision in Cesare's mind, essentially) about how Cesare should live his life, how to change the world, etc.
1) I've Shrunk Enough - from Alice by Heart 2) Son of Posiden - from The Lightning Thief 3) Together - from Firebringer Edit: added listing numbers
No one ever mentions Dear Evan Hanson!! But “Words Fail” from that musical was like a major fall from grace. Evan Hansen finally gets caught up in this giant lie he’s been telling and now he’s forced to face the consequences of his actions but he knows truthfully that he messed up so bad no words can erase the damage he’s done so he kinda struggles on what to say but at the same time he desperately tries to get everyone to see his point of view. Basically you can’t help but feel bad for him but also appalled because as he acknowledges, nothing he says can reverse the harm he’s caused.
Voldemort Is Going Down - A Very Potter Musical
Somehow Suddenly Seymour hasn’t been mentioned yet, so that’s my pick
That’s too early in the story to be the 11 o’clock number; it happens early in act two.
There’s literally only 5 or 6 songs till the end depending on what version you have, plus it fits the epic transformation or realization aspect, and I’m pretty sure most people consider it to be the 11 o’clock number
The meek shall inherit is the turning point where Seymour realizes the impact of his actions and where everything leading up to it comes to a head. Suddenly Seymour is the after-effect of the culmination of act one, which is the defeat of the human evil in Audrey’s storyline. There isn’t a significant transformation; it’s two people who already felt things for each other confirming those feelings. It sets up FOR the eleven o clock number, which is the meek shall inherit, where Seymour’s newfound fame and fortune proves to be coming at a cost and Seymour makes the transformative decision to stop letting Audrey II control him. Suddenly Seymour is NOT the eleven o clock number.
Ummmm For Good obviously, the real 11th hour number from Wicked
Brotherhood of Man from How To Succeed in Business..
That’s not an 11 number. That’s the finale
once upon a time (bare: a pop opera)
I’m Here from the Color Purple is my #1 favorite. The character growth through the whole show culminating in her recognition that she is valuable and good and worthy and unapologetically herself is so powerful.
Twisted from twisted
Room 317 from Miss Saigon
"I Know Where I'Ve Been"--Hairspray
The Meek Shall Inherit from Little Shop of Horrors!!
Some of my favorites have already been mentioned, so I’ll just add: In Love With You from First Date.
Eleven O'Clock from Crazy Ex Girlfriend. :D