Putting it Together- Page 2

[wildcat]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 10:15am

I love the arrangement of "Back in Business" as sung by the Julie Andrews cast. Very jolly!

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 10:19am

Yes! - and where is Rachel York's version of that song from Assisins about the gun? (I'm flu-ish right now so can't remember the name of the song!)

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 10:50am

I only saw the MTC production. While I could take or leave the piece as a whole, the cast was superb, and Julie Andrews owned that audience. She was whatever is beyond radiant. One of the biggest thrills I've ever had at the theater.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 10:56am

Saw both the MTC and the Broadway productions. MTC was better, in my opinion. Julie Andrews was terrific, and Rachel York was simply phenomenal. The Broadway company was also great, with Burnett, Hearn, and Henshall all doing great work.

[hannahshule]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 11:08am

redhotinnyc- you're thinking about the "Gun Song" it's on the second CD. It's two songs before "the miller's Son." Speaking of which, I liked the orignal better, mostly because of Rachel York's performance. I love her rendition of "Lovely" especially when she does the coloratura-type part. Her whole performance is so funny and cute. I also like Julie Andrews, although I must admit, it took some getting used to. Ont he whole, I love Putting it Together!

Updated On: 4/13/05 at 11:08 AM

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:12pm

hmmm that's kinda funny. between PUTTING IT TOGETHER and ELEGIES, it would appear that John Barrowman is turning out to be England's American answer to America's American Michael Rupert. I'd never noticed they were so close in type before. I think Barrowman should do CITY OF ANGELS then FALSETTOS, and Rupert should do SUNSET BLVD opposite maybe Barbara Cook or Stritch.

to keep it somewhat on topic, Bronson Pinchot was atrocious.

[Plum]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 1:44pm

I rather like my recording of Putting it Together, but I don't bother to think of it as a book show- to me, it's just another Sondheim revue, and I'm fine with that. Julie Andrews and Rachel York are sensational and totally outshine the men. (Though I might be prejudiced by the fact that I bought the CD the day after I saw Dessa Rose, and Julie Andrews is, well...Julie Andrews.)
Updated On: 4/13/05 at 01:44 PM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 1:53pm

Convinceme2 - I loved Julie in that show - and being just a few feet away from one of my idols was a real thrill - it prompted me to write to her and she wrote back - a letter I will always cherish. Rachel's coluratura part of Lovely is so much better than Ruthie Henshal's - I just love Rachel's voice in general, and her acting is quite good also.

[hannahshule]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 5:40pm

her acting's incredible!

[Justice]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 6:42pm

Just to add in my Opinion, I prefer Rachel York's performance to Ruthie Henshall. (The Miller's Son and Lovely are two of the greater songs...not to mention Every Day a Little Death) I also like Durang, and can't stand Pinchot. If I had to choose one to listen to, I would definately say the original. I'm not even crazy about the DVD.
Rachel's character was a ditzy blonde, and worked well with the songs. Ruthie was just plain boring, and very uncomedic.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 7:25pm

If it wasn't obvioius already, I love Putting it Together. I have the DVD with Carol Burnett et al, but I've only heard some of the songs from the recording with Julie Andrews (through the glory that is accubroadway).

I love Ruthie Henshall, so even if her performance wasn't fantastic in this, it went unnoticed by me. Carol Burnett was hysterical, but I always skip her Ladies Who Lunch. It just grates on me, for some reason. John Barrowman was... well... he was nice to look at. George Hearn, like Ruthie Henshall, can do no wrong, with me, so I enjoyed his performance too. I feel like I'm in the minority, but I really enjoyed Bronson Pinchot (is it just the lighting, or does he have tears streaming down his face towards the end of Being Alive?) too.

Highlights:
Lovely
Back in Business
There's Always a Woman
Being Alive
Putting it Together

[hannahshule]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 7:37pm

hehe, one of my favorite parts is during the Game Sequence (on the recording) right before the Miller's Son. Rachel's laugh is so funny, she sounds so different then she does now.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 9:32pm

Does the CD have Rachel York Singing "Sooner or Later"????????

[jmnpublications]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 9:52pm

BB18,

Yes, Rachel York does sing SOONER OR LATER on the PIT CD. Yet another great rendition from her.

lc

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 10:06pm

well, she doesn't quite get it as a solo as it was in the Broadway version. Rachel's "Sooner or Later" is interjected with a few other songs for the first musical sequence in act one...

[Glebb]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 10:10pm

I enjoyed the Broadway production a lot. Never saw Julie.
The night I saw PUTTING IT TOGETHER Barrowman sneezed while they were all facing upstage waiting to sing their solos. When it was Ruthie's turn to face the audience and sing she first faced JB and imitated his sneeze. The whole cast broke up laughing and never quite recovered, for the rest of the show. Carol almost fell to the floor in a fit of laughter.

[hannahshule]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 7:00am

You can hear an uninterrrupted version of Rachel singing "Sooner or Later" on her new CD