History Main / TheSongBeforeTheStorm

* "Savages" from Disney/Pocahantas. Even overlaps with MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber.

* "Savages" from [[Disney/Pocahantas]]. Even overlaps with MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber.

* "Making Christmas" is this for TheNightmareBeforeChristmas. All the cast save for Sally, are preparing christmas presents that are pure NightmareFuel right before Jack's takeoff as Skeleton Claus.

* "This Day Aria" from the Season Two finale of MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.

* The Act One finale of ''{{Urinetown}}''. Just for extra emphasis, it goes into slow motion.

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** "Notes (Reprise) - Twisted Every Way" could apply as well (this song is called "We Have All Been Blind - Twisted Every Way in the movie version, as "Notes (Reprise)" was cut from this version).
* "Comfort and Joy" from ''Bat Boy: The Musical''
* In ''Vanities'', "I Can't Imagine" plays this straight, but its reprise, "The Argument" is a song ''during'' the storm (the breakdown of the characters' friendship).
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* "One Day More" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''.

* "Tonight" from ''WestSideStory'' is one of the classics, setting up for the big rumble that changes everything.

** "Notes (Reprise) - Twisted Every Way" could apply as well (this song is called "We Have All Been Blind - Twisted Every Way in the movie version, as "Notes (Reprise)" was cut from this version).
* "So They Say" from DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog. Dr. Horrible prepares his [[spoiler:Death Ray]], Captain Hammer sings about [[spoiler:doing the weird stuff]] and Penny sings about her future.
* A light-hearted, waltzy version appears in ''ALittleNightMusic'': "A Weekend in the Country".

* "Luck Be A Lady" from ''GuysAndDolls''.
* "Walk Through the Fire" from the {{Buffy}} musical episode "Once More, With Feeling".
* Brigadoom from {{Lexx}}. It's really almost more of a Backstory Musical, but it does also fill this role because it sort of pumps them up as well by showing them the history of how Kai fought so hard in the past and how he shouldn't let that go to waste and they all must once again struggle valiantly to defeat new Big Bad Mantrid rather than running.
* "Voldemort is Going Down" from ''AVeryPotterMusical''.
** "No Way" in the Sequel, in which [[spoiler:Draco finally gets to be a part of a 4 part harmony]].
* "Teardrop" by Massive Attack at the end of the first season of PrisonBreak, a night before the breakout.
* "Comfort and Joy" from ''Bat Boy: The Musical''.
* ''MoulinRouge'' has [[{{Queen}} "The Show Must Go On".]]
* ''NotAnotherTeenMovie'' parodies this trope with the song "Prom Tonight".
* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' has the Fogg's Asylum sequence. As the final confrontation looms, the chorus asks "Who could see how the road would twist?" as the lunatics escape to echo the Beggar Woman's CassandraTruth across the city.
* The fanmade [[http://www.pwmusical.com/ Phoenix Wright - The Musical]] features a song called Tomorrow's Trial, taking place the night before the final faceoff between Phoenix and Von Karma.
* "It's Time" from The EvilDead Musical. The gist of the song is that Ash has decided it's time to man-up and kick a whole mess of ass. In the next few scenes, he kills things that are immortal.
* "Making Christmas" is this for TheNightmareBeforeChristmas. All the cast save for Sally, are preparing christmas presents that are pure NightmareFuel right before Jack's takeoff as Skeleton Claus.
* ''{{Godspell}}'' subverts it with "On the Willows", which is light and soft, but the lyrics talk about the coming sacrifice as one by one the apostles say goodbye to Jesus after Judas has been exposed. Heartwrenching if done properly.
* "I Hope I Get It" from AChorusline.
* Though it was a CutSong, "We'll Have Tomorrow" from LittleShopOfHorrors would have been a perfect example of this.
** The start of "Suppertime Reprise (Sominex)" could count, but the storm sort of starts in the middle of it.
* In the {{Musical Episode}} of {{Even Stevens}}, there's "Sixth Period", in which the two lead characters of the show express their fears about their upcoming classes.

* ''JeffWaynesMusicalVersionOfTheWarOfTheWorlds'' has "Eve Of The War" and the first part of "Horsell Common And The Heat Ray", covering the lead-up to the violent first contact with the Martians.
* In ''Hairspray'', before the main characters crash the set of the nicest kids in town, Motormouth Maybelle sings "I Know Where I've Been" as a reminder of how much is at stake.
* In ''TheLionKing'', Scar sings "Be Prepared" before the stampede.

-->--''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]'', "One Day More"

* "One Day More" from ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]''.

* ''SweeneyTodd'' has the Fogg's Asylum sequence. As the final confrontation looms, the chorus asks "Who could see how the road would twist?" as the lunatics escape to echo the Beggar Woman's CassandraTruth across the city.

* In Hairspray, before the main characters crash the set of the nicest kids in town, Motormouth Maybelle sings "I Know Where I've Been" as a reminder of how much is at stake.
* In TheLionKing, Scar sings "Be Prepared" before the stampede.

So the Climax of the musical is about to begin. Something may happen {{At The Opera Tonight}}, or fate and destiny could be working to bring the characters together for some sort of final showdown. Either way, the writers find it that it's important to remind us just how important what is happening is. So they introduce a song to bring everything dramatically together. A classic example of this type of song seems to be cutting between the heroes doing a Hero Song and the villains doing their Villain Song, as they each do their own particular preparations.

* The Act One finale of ''{{Urinetown}}''. Just for extra emphasis it goes into slow motion.

** The song is actually called "La Resistance (Medley)"

** "No Way" in the Sequel, in which [[spoiler: Draco finally gets to be a part of a 4 part harmony]]

* The fanmade [[http://www.pwmusical.com/ Phoenix Wright- The Musical]] features a song called Tomorrow's Trial, taking place the night before the final faceoff between Phoenix and Von Karma.

* "I Hope I Get It" from AChorusline

** They start of "Suppertime Reprise (Sominex)" could count, but the storm sort of starts in the middle of it.

* ''MoulinRouge'' has "The Show Must Go On".

-->--''{{Les Miserables}}, "One Day More"''

* "One Day More" from ''{{Les Miserables}}''. [[MostTriumphantExample Enough said]].

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* "Brand New Day" from ''DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' is a one man example of this.
** Possibly. "So They Say" happens to be a better example. Dr. Horrible prepares his [[spoiler:Death Ray]], Captain Hammer sings about [[spoiler:doing the weird stuff]] and Penny sings about her future.

* ''{{Godspell}}'' subverts it with "On the Willows", which is light and soft, a calm reprieve as Jesus prays in Gethsemane and the disciples sleep.

* "One Day More" from ''{{Les Miserables}}''. Enough said.

* "It's Time" from The EvilDead Musical. The gist of the song is that Ash has decided it's time to man-up and kick a whole mess of ass. In the next few scenes, he kills things that are immortal. SoYeah.