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Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/24/13 at 9:18pm

Anyone watching? Her opening number (one of my favorite songs), "I Happen To Like New York" was...weird. She seemed like if she didn't finish the song in under 2 minutes, they'd cut her microphone off.

Updated On: 5/24/13 at 09:18 PM

Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/24/13 at 9:55pm

Good show from Audra. Seemed like she really warmed up, vocally and physically, in that second half hour.

I haven't heard a bad rendition of the Adam Gwon song ("I'll Be Here") yet, and her's just became one of my favorites.

Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/25/13 at 1:36pm

I caught the last 1/2 hour but had it dvr'd. That song she sang about 911 caught me off guard and had me in tears.

She was right about the hair thing!

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/25/13 at 2:55pm

I loved it!
You can watch it here

I like your imperturbable perspicacity.

Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/25/13 at 3:28pm

Audra is so inspirational! I love her! :)

Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/25/13 at 3:38pm

Just watching it now! She truly is stunning! And I have to agree about 'I'll be here', I first heard it a few days ago when doing some work, and it just stopped me in my tracks and I ended up crying my eyes out!

Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/26/13 at 1:28am

That Audra lady just knows how to tug at my heartstrings.

I like your imperturbable perspicacity.

Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/27/13 at 7:23am

It's a shame Live from Lincoln Center is only an hour long. They cut out "Stars and the Moon," "Edelweiss" and "Craigslistlieder" among other gems Audra sang at the concert. There was also a fantastic anecdote about a street performer Audra encountered in Cambridge during the ART tryout of "Porgy and Bess" before she sang "My Buddy" in the same key and octave as the male street performer, which was pitched for a soprano, that didn't make the broadcast.

Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/27/13 at 12:10pm

Sadly, it doesn't look like "Edelweiss" is there, but the PBS site has several of the other songs cut from the broadcast:
Audra McDonald "shorts"

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Posted: 5/28/13 at 7:12pm

Finally watching it now on the old DVR.

Audra is a national treasure. I'm so thoroughly enjoying this.

She makes it look so easy. And it ain't.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Posted: 5/28/13 at 7:49pm

Her Maybe This Time is mind blowing. I can't stop listening to it. Her desperation is really really striking. This might be my favorite rendition of that song, and that's coming from a diehard Liza fan.

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Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/28/13 at 8:33pm

How does she do that?

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Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/29/13 at 12:18pm

Her voice is insane, I don't know how she does it either but I'm glad she does. I loved that she sang "Gorgeous," one of my favorite showtunes. I've been listening to her rendition of "You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan"/"Mister Snow" nonstop since this came out, it baffles my mind to think what it must have been like to be in the audience in 1994 watching this girl turn into a legend in front of your eyes, her rendition of those songs hasn't been matched.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

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Audra in Concert on PBS

Posted: 5/29/13 at 4:26pm

Wow! I loved everything... including that stunning song from "Steel Pier". I'm not as familiar with that score, and her rendition was breathtaking.

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