Being Alive
Being Alive
#0Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 2:45pmit has just surpassed "Advantages to Floating in the Middle of the Sea" as my current favorite Sondheim song. I love this song! I never fully appreciated it until i heard Patti sing it during Wall to Wall.
"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
#1re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 2:47pmI saw Patti do it live a dozen years ago or so at the Sondheim Celebration at Carnegie Hall.
TheBoyfromChi
Featured Actor Joined: 10/11/04
#2re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 2:47pmBernadette's version does it for me. What an amazing amazing song.
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#3re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 2:48pmmy jaw dropped, i mean, i had never heard the song sung with so much...gusto? it was breathtaking.
"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
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#4re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 2:53pmThere is a very well done version of it on Matt Bogart's album "Simple Song". Very well done indeed.
Blair
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/03
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 2:59pmI've been meaning to get that Sondheim at Carnegie Hall CD for quite some time now--just to hear Patti sing that song. I too absolutely love this song. Fantastic lyrics. Bernadette does a fine job with it on her Carnegie Hall CD.
#7re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:13pmAnything from Company is a favorite of mine. I have to say my favorite version of Being Alive is Patti's though. She gave me chills when she sang it at Wall to Wall. After Wall to Wall I had to go rush to my Sondheim Collection Box Set DVDs I got for Christmas and put in the Sondheim Carnegie Hall DVD and watch Patti sing the hell out of that song!
You're always sorry,
You're always grateful,
You hold her, thinking:
"I'm not alone."
You're still alone.
-"Sorry-Grateful" Company
-"Sorry-Grateful" Company
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#8re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:17pmthis is my all time favorite sondheim song of all time. very few things move me. this song did from the first time i heard it.
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#9re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 8:07pm
*Points to icon* I love the arrangement of it in Putting it Together, but Bernadette's version is an extremely close second.
I need to get the Carnegie Hall CD too...
#10re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 8:12pm
Sondheim Celebration at Carnegie Hall is fantastic!
Lucky you MEF, to have seen it live.
So many goodies that night. Ballad of Booth, Not Getting Married Today, Back in Business, Sooner or Later, Children Will Listen and yes - Being Alive. So glad I have it on video.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#11re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 8:51pmThe highlight of my night was Harolyn Blackwell's "Green Finch and Linnet Bird".
#12re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 8:52pm
Ah yes! I remember it well (on video).
How could I not have mentioned it?
Just so mamy goodies that night!
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#13re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 8:59pm'Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall' is one of my all-time favorite DVDs and I watch it at least once a week.
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GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#15re: Being Alive
Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:23pmYeah, that song is so amazingly beautiful and just perfect. It is perfection incarnate
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