Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)
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Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#1
Posted: 12/3/14 at 9:20pm
Anna Kendrick - On the Steps of the Palace
Updated On: 12/3/14 at 09:20 PM
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#2
Posted: 12/3/14 at 10:04pmAnna sounds terrific!
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#2
Posted: 12/3/14 at 10:06pmShe knocked it out of the park!
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#3
Posted: 12/3/14 at 10:10pmFlawless. I LOVED her last note!!
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#4
Posted: 12/3/14 at 11:41pmI thought she sounded good but was surpised at the last note being a belt instead of head voice. Sounds amazing though.
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#5
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:38amAlthough I think Anna sounds terrific during the whole thing, I was so distracted by the lyric changes. I get that she's singing the song in the present tense, but as someone who knows the lyrics to Into the Woods like the back of my hand, changing "any guide" to "collide" was slightly jarring. And when she mentioned in an interview that the brought the whole song up a whole step, I figured she had no clue what she was talking about...I didn't think they'd actually done it. Great job to her!
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#6
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:54amShe sounds great. A few of the higher notes sound a bit iffy - she's definitely pushing herself - but it kinda works for the character and the song.
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#7
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:54amKeeping the song in past tense in the movie would RUIN, and I mean absolutely ruin, the flow of the story. It would be a jarring slam on the breaks. I hope they do this in the same way the shot the runaway scene in THE SLIPPER AND THE ROSE.
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#8
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:12amI was so curious I just checked on the piano, turns out she's only a half step higher than Kim Crosby and Jacqui Dankworth (since the Broadway revival has the weird ending with Lara Benanti going up a third for). I wasn't saying I disagree with the way they altered the scene itself -- her reflecting on this event in the film would be Boring -- my mind was simply surprised by the unknown, something that I don't often go into musicals with; any show I've seen I've usually heard dozens of time on the cast album, I like to save surprise for my television-watching. Did I hear that we will see Jack in the land of the giants and Little Red go into the belly of the wolf?
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#9
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:12am
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Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#10
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:14amGypsy101, it was also pretty jarring how she went back and forth from "You" to "I."
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#11
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:46am
"Or then what if I am what a prince would envision? But then how can you know who you are til you know what you want, which I don't, so then which do you pick?"
You're right, she's changing between you and I about twice a line. I'm surprised Sondheim didn't do a more consistent change...are we sure was this him changing the lyric and not some producer?
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#12
Posted: 12/4/14 at 4:04amCorrect me if I'm way off, but isn't she using "I" when specifically talking about her situation and then using "you" for the more broader, general (or everybody) sense?
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#13
Posted: 12/4/14 at 6:12am
@GiantsInTheSky2 Yes, you're correct that she is probably being grammatically correct, but the song's original point of view using "you," instead of both "I" and "you," was more pleasing to the ears, if only because there isn't a constant shifting in tense.
The song's happening right now! I'm talking about you. I mean me. You? Me. Both of us together.
She's out of our hair!
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#14
Posted: 12/4/14 at 10:27am
There is some video here too:
http://www.whatsonstage.com/video/first-look-at-anna-kendrick-singing-and39on-the-st_234.html
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#15
Posted: 12/4/14 at 10:32ami am on TEAM ANNA here...she did knock it out of the park!
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#16
Posted: 12/4/14 at 10:32am
The lyrical changes make perfect sense. She's using a general "you" because the idea is applicable to everyone. No tense is being changed.
IE: "How are you expected to choose between the chocolate cake and the ice cream? What if you want fruit, like I do? I don't know what to do!"
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#17
Posted: 12/4/14 at 11:02amThat is a mind-bogglingly good rewrite. It's so present and vital and in the moment...something I never thought the song could become.
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#18
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:29pmI. Love. This.
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#19
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:31pm
Me too!
I posted my love for this in the main thread.
I was very nervous after the fiasco that was Nine, but everything I've seen so far from ITW has me completely confident that they got it right.
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#20
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:38pm
I have a bunch of friends whose opinions I trust who've seen screenings and have had wonderfully positive things to say. I was offered tickets for the screening, but my Christmas night has been planned around this for so long that I actually went bonkers and turned them down.
Plus, I simply cannot be objective about INTO THE WOODS. It's meant to much to me in my life that even a bad production (and oh how I've seen bad productions) have reduced me to tears.
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Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#21
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:39pmThis is great. Anna sounds wonderful. Perhaps now people can move on from all the critical skepticism.
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#22
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:48pmIf Anna Kendrick isn't in the cast of the future WICKED film, I think I'm going to break my antique clock in anger.
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#23
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:53pm
That. Was. Brilliant. I was so nervous about hearing the last note but I absolutely loved it.
I'm the same way as you, SonofRobbieJ. This musical never lets me down and I'm simply reduced to tears every time I listen to it.
Anna Kendrick sings On the Steps of the Palace (Full Audio Only)#24
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:26pmI know that Anna said that she wants to do other stuff beside musicals, but she is definitely my pick for Glinda in the inevitable Wicked movie. In addition, she sounds phenomenal.
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