Favourite "Getting Married Today"?

[ClapYo'Hands]

Favourite "Getting Married Today"?#1

Posted: 9/3/12 at 7:05pm

I find myself re-obsessed with this song as of late and have been listening/watching many different performances of it.

I was wondering about you guys, do you have a favourite performance/performer of this song?



Updated On: 9/3/12 at 07:05 PM

[After Eight]

Favourite #2

Posted: 9/3/12 at 7:12pm

Beth Howland.

[Broadway Baby8]

Favourite #2

Posted: 9/3/12 at 7:18pm

Madeline Kahn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrRDrz53Q1E

"Be a Fountain, Not a Drain." --Rex Hudler

[ClapYo'Hands]

Favourite "Getting Married Today"?#3

Posted: 9/3/12 at 7:21pm

Love Kahn's. Her "I'm not well" is wonderful!

[ljay889]

Favourite #4

Posted: 9/3/12 at 7:25pm

Veanne Cox

[CurtainPullDowner]

Favourite #5

Posted: 9/3/12 at 7:38pm

Beth Howland set the bar pretty high on this one,
but Veanne Cox also hit it out of the park!

[CATSNYrevival]

Favourite #6

Posted: 9/3/12 at 7:45pm

Not sure which is my absolute favorite, but I do love Carol Burnett's performance in Putting it Together even though she slowed it down a little.

[GavestonPS]

Favourite #7

Posted: 9/3/12 at 8:21pm

Beth Howland, but Katie Finneran certainly breathed new life into the number. She was hysterical!

[EricMontreal22]

Favourite #8

Posted: 9/3/12 at 8:26pm

Beth Howland, even if I've heard that she had some trouble with the song live--but of course nails it on the cast album.

While I find a lot of the Roundabout recording kinda so so, I agree that Cox is brilliant on it.

[aasjb4ever]

Favourite #9

Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:17pm

Katie Finneran.

[coryografer]

Favourite #10

Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:27pm

Beth Howland gets my vote !!

[LYLS3637]

Favourite #11

Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:37pm

No love for Heather Laws?

Man-- between the tempo, articulation, and comedic timing; she's definitely my favorite!

"I shall stay until the wind changes."

[PalJoey]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#12

Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:55pm

If you've never heard it in Portuguese, this woman from the Brazilian cast more than nails it--and at triple the tempo:

http://youtu.be/mlI-AD5MNCY

Updated On: 9/3/12 at 09:55 PM

[PalJoey]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#13

Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:58pm

And, of course, this happened:
Sondheim teaches 'Not Getting Married' from Company

[ClapYo'Hands]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#14

Posted: 9/3/12 at 10:02pm

^^ The girl playing Amy there is marvellous!

[ClapYo'Hands]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#15

Posted: 9/3/12 at 10:21pm

I pretty much love all of the interpretations of this brilliant song, but I think my favourite has to be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sSauYZnxws

[MarkBearSF]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#16

Posted: 9/3/12 at 10:35pm

I adored Katie Fineran's version when I saw the movie and perhaps after seeing it again on DVD, her performance may change things, but, IMHO

Beth Howland - for the best "straight" version
Madeline Kahn - for a perfect demonstration of why we loved Madeline Kahn

[CurtainPullDowner]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#17

Posted: 9/3/12 at 10:59pm

That Brazilian Amy is FIERCE!
I love her growl.

I found Heather Laws rather poor and too obvious in her delivery.

[bk]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#18

Posted: 9/3/12 at 11:49pm

I prefer The Nightmare Trio's version - it's a hidden track on The Stephen Sondheim Album - the only version I ever listen to :)

[luvtheEmcee]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#19

Posted: 9/4/12 at 2:19am

Heather Laws doing all three parts by herself.

I also really dig the Brazilian recording of the song. I remember liking Katie Finneran's when I watched it, but thinking about it now, I can't remember what it was that I liked.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[jewishboy]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#20

Posted: 9/4/12 at 2:36am

Sophie Thompson from the Donmor cast. Her whole interpretation of Amy is wonderful, but her accent is kid of strange at times.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#21

Posted: 9/4/12 at 7:23am

I love Heather Laws' version, but I also love her whole performance and that whole production, which is an unpopular opinion.

But Veanne Cox nails it to the ground.

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[someone.else's.story2]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#22

Posted: 9/4/12 at 3:14pm

I love Alice Ripley's version from the Kennedy Center.

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ``oscar wilde``

[JRybka]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#23

Posted: 9/4/12 at 3:30pm

Madeline Kahn to be was the best. IMHO

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

[Mildred Plotka]

Favorite 'Getting Married Today'?#24

Posted: 9/4/12 at 5:59pm

Veanne Cox does all 3 parts on the recent Kritzerland concert release, too.

I listen to Howland's most often. Cox is close behind, though. I've never really enjoyed Kahn's rendition (as much as I adore her).

I was obsessed with the Brazillian Amy for a while. Need to listen to it again!

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"