I am still watching/listening to it on tape. I am loving her banter between songs. She is singing the Sondheim song, Glamourous Life, right now. I am in heaven!
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
I have to admit to not enjoying her duet with Patti Lupone. I would have loved to see them do anything OTHER than the Streisand/Garland "Happy Days/Get Happy" number. They should have tried to create their own moment, rather than copying an iconic one.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
She's singing "Bill" from SHOW BOAT, and the story that went with it was really cute.
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I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not...
"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
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I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not...
"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
she was just amazing! the only moment I did not like was the Patti duet. I wished she would've sang "my heart", but it was a spectacular evening. I wonder what she sang after the show went off the air.
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
I wish she would have sang My Heart as well. In all the press for the concert, it said she would be performing Neil Young, Adam Guettel and Rufus Wainwright - so did not do ONE of those composers.
I also find it very weird she didn't perform Build a Bridge on her special entitled, Build a Bridge. I know they used it as a metaphor for building a bridge between music theatre and pop - but still. Seems a bit odd.
But alas, I'm just happy Live from Lincoln Center decided to air this wonderful evening. I can't wait for New Years Eve!!
If anyone has a copy. i'd LOVE it. PM... s'il vous plait
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
"I Won't Mind" is apparently from a show called "The Other Franklin", written by Annie Kessler & Jeff Blumenkrantz. According to Jeff's website:
Lizzie is wife to William Franklin, who is Benjamin Franklin’s son. After years of desperately wanting a child, becoming pregnant and ultimately miscarrying, she learns that she will never bear a child. She sings the song to her godson (her best friends’ newborn) in the nursery, while everyone else is in the next room celebrating the christening.