Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

#1

Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/4/04 at 11:20pm

What are some renditions of musical theater songs that you love, sung by performers who didn't originally sing the role?

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#2

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/4/04 at 11:22pm

Bernadette Peters singing "Being Alive"

#3

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/4/04 at 11:22pm

"I Found Me a Wonderful Guy" - Sutton Foster (although she did play Nellie one time at the Pittsburgh CLO)

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#4

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/4/04 at 11:32pm

YES!
Bernie's Being Alive
Bernie's Broadway Baby
:)
-d.b.j-

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#5

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/4/04 at 11:33pm

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better with Bernadette Peters is just awesome!

I also love Susan Egan singing anything - Cabaret, Nothing, etc. I could go on forever.

And does my (pathetic) rendition of Gimme Gimme count? Just checking .

Updated On: 9/4/04 at 11:33 PM

#6

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/4/04 at 11:55pm

Yes, definitely Peters' "Being Alive". Also her rendition of "Unexpected Song".

Lea Salonga's "On My Own" has become, for me, the definitive version.

I also love Judi Dench's "Send in the Clowns".

Colm Wilkinson's "Music of the Night" is much, much better than Crawford's.

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#7

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/4/04 at 11:57pm

Dominique Roy's Out Tonight. Much better diction than Daphne Rubin-Vega, and I love her voice. I also actually believed she was nineteen.

#8

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/4/04 at 11:58pm

mostly anything done by Audra on either of her first two albums.
Matt Bogart - Proud Lady/Being Alive
Jason Graae - Applause
Bernadette - Being Alive
Billy Porter - And I'm Telling You...
Norm Lewis - With So Little To Be Sure Of/Who Could Be Blue?
Lillias White - I Am Changing
Liza Minnelli - Some People
Lea Delaria - I Can Cook Too

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#9

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 12:01am

count me in on Bernie's Being Alive!

#10

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 12:04am

Michael Ball's "You'll Never Walk Alone"

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#11

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 12:26am

Ooooh, also Michael Ball's "Losing My Mind". It's stunning. I've always felt the song should be done by a man.

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#12

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 1:14am

Bernadette's 'Being Alive'
Dorothy Loudon's 'You Could Drive a Person Crazy/ Losing My Mind'
George Hearn's SWEENEY TODD
Nathan Lane's 'Comedy Tonight'
Liza Minnelli's 'Some People'
Mandy Patinkin's 'Something's Coming' (Don't ask me why?)
Topol's 'If I Were a Rich Man'
BSM and Marin Mazzie's KISS ME, KATE
Bernadette's 'Not A Day Goes By'
And though it is certaintly not better than Garland's, I like Patinkin's 'Over the Rainbow' more than anybody's rendetion but hers

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Updated On: 9/5/04 at 01:14 AM

#13

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 1:17am

Patti Labelle - Over The Rainbow

#14

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 1:30am

Blue Wizard--didn't Bernadette sing Unexpected Song originally? In Song and Dance?

I second all the Bernadette songs, esp. Broadway Baby.
Linda Eder's Impossible Dream

#15

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 1:56am

Priest-a few comments.

When did Mandy sing Something's Coming and WHERE can I listen to it?!?!

Absolutely agree with Hearn, Bernadette (both), and BSM and Marin.

I prefer Somewhat Overindulgent to Mandy's Over the Rainbow.

#16

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 2:00am

"I'll emphasise most every word, and twitter like a little bird, to prove...I'm...HAAAP-PYYY. someWHERE O-ver the rainbow, watch me cry! Are you watching me cry, mother???"

He sang 'Something's Coming' on his album EXPERIMENT.

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"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

Updated On: 9/5/04 at 02:00 AM

#17

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 2:10am

My brother just named our dog Mandy.
The dog is female, but still.
Every time I see that dog I'm going to HAVE to start singing The Day Off.

#18

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 2:58am

Oooh nice...

"Being Alive" - Bernadette
"Not a Day Goes By" - Bernadette
"No One is Alone" - Bernadette
"Broadway Baby" - Bernadette
"Sooner or Later" - Bernadette
"Johanna" - Megan Mullally (and Bernadette, but I think I prefer Mullally's)
"If I Loved You" - Barbra Streisand
every Maureen song in Rent - Maggie Benjamin
every Mimi song in Rent - Karmine Alers
"Glitter and Be Gay" - Kristin Chenoweth
"Getting Married Today" - Madeline Kahn

#19

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 3:11am

"Glitter and be Gay" - Kristin Chenoweth
"Don't Tell Mama" - Susan Egan
"The Story Goes On" - Susan Egan
"The Miller's Son" - Emily Skinner
"Being Alive - Bernadette Peters (I think was the first song I ever heard her sing)

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#20

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 3:44am

Send in the Clowns - Streisand
Over the Rainbow - Streisand
This is the Moment - Donny Osmond
Where is Love - Liz Calloway and Billy Porter
I Have Dreamed/We Kiss in a Shadow/Wonderful - Streisand
Somewhere - Streisand

#21

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 3:45am

You know, I have this gnawing feeling you (DGrant) hate Streisand.

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#22

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 3:53am

Shira - she's one of my favorites, along with kd lang, Patsy Cline and, of course, Judy.

#23

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 4:06am

Debora Munk's "The Ladies Who Lunch"

#24

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 4:06am

DGrant- She makes anything sound amazing.

Updated On: 9/5/04 at 04:06 AM

#25

re: Favorite renditions of songs sung by other performers.

Posted: 9/5/04 at 4:14am

Very true J-Pill. I'll need to check out her rendition of "If I Loved You".

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