Favorite Rendition of "Maybe This Time"

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Favorite Rendition of "Maybe This Time"

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:32pm

Whose rendition of "Maybe This Time" (besides Liza Minelli's) do you love best? And which CD of their is it on?

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#2

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:38pm

Natasha Richardson's performance of it onstage in the revival of CABARET is by far the best take on the song I've ever seen.

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re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:39pm

MB beat me to it.

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re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:39pm

um...Liza Minelli. lol- You can't beat it! I'm not even going to think of the others.

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Updated On: 2/5/06 at 10:39 PM

#5

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:39pm

On stage, yes, Natasha Richardson. However, vocally, you can't get any better than Liza.

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re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:41pm

We were told to take Liza out of the equation. But she da bomb!

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#7

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:47pm

Not the best, but I do give props to Teri Hatcher when I saw her in LA.

If I may say the worst was Melina Kanakarides on Regis one morning.

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#8

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:50pm

I agree with Undi. Susan Egan.

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#9

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:50pm

I thoroughly enjoyed Susan Egan's.

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#10

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:55pm

Didn't Meredith Viera butcher the song on THE VIEW? Or was that another helpless song from CABARET?

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re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 10:56pm

I have never seen a live performance of the song and I know we are supposed to take her out of the equation . . . but no one can out-do Liza vocally.

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#12

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:02pm

Jeez Spidey...I thought for sure you were going to say me. I'm very hurt.

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#13

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:05pm

I love Maria Friedman's rendition on the 1999 studio recording. But I'm sorry - I can't take Liza out of the equation! She is simply the absolute best.

#14

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:06pm

susan egan. all the way.

#15

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:06pm

Natasha Richardson.

#16

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:07pm

Favorite of the women who have played Sally: Susan Egan, no contest. That woman has a GORGEOUS set of pipes.

Favorite ever: Adam Pascal's, sung at Joe's Pub last November. Surprising. Unexpected. Maybe a little out of place, but BEAUTIFUL.

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#17

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:09pm

Heh, Em, I knew that was coming.

I've only heard Minelli's, Egen's, and Richardson's renditions, and Richardson's was my favorite. Her voice, while very imperfect, fits the song wonderfully.

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re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:11pm

I never expected it! It's one of my favorite songs ever, and suddenly, he was singing it with a Fender. It was one of the only times I've actually let out an audible squeal.

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#19

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:15pm

I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish...

...I had seen Rachel York perform it at the Broadway Cabaret Festival. She got RAVES.

*sigh*

#20

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:15pm

'Besides Liza'?

Why bother.

#21

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:17pm

Kitz, the version that immediately came to my mind was yours.

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#22

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:21pm

Because penguins have impeccable taste

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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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#23

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:40pm

You are def. runner up behind Liza you hottie you.

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#24

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:44pm

Spidey is now my VERY FAVORITE!

Why haven't we started The Official Anthony Warlow Love Thread yet?

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"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"

#25

re: Favorite Rendition of 'Maybe This Time'

Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:47pm

Oh, but we have. Check the board in just a few.

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