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[Nettik]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 6:16pm

Heather Laws.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 6:34pm

No love for Julie Andrews?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 6:39pm

I think not. It's not bad, but it's very slight.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 6:56pm

"I think not. It's not bad, but it's very slight."

Hmm. What do you mean by that?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:03am

I remember thinking Heather Laws was fantastic in the revival but none of it translated to the recording, IMO. Katie FInneran was perfection in the NY Phil concert.
Based on recordings, of course Beth Howland, but Veanne Cox is a close second.

[AC126748]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:06am

1. Cox
2. Howland
3. Finneran
4. Kahn
5. Laws
6. Jane Pfisch (Laws' understudy in the Broadway revival)

I found Sophie Thompson embarrassing.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:07am

"Hmm. What do you mean by that?"

It's slow, a little vocally strained and airy, and I think she makes some obvious or easy -- maybe too on-the-nose -- choices.

Comparatively speaking. It's a strong field.

Though I do like her "Amen!" quite a lot.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:08am

Ahh OK, fair enough :)

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 3:09pm

BETH HOWLAND...and a very close hilarious second to MADALINE KAHN...

i firmly believe the original is almost always the best version...

signed the SONDHEIMMANIAC

[musicaltheatreman2]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 7:14pm

Alice Ripley!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI9jQ95Nalc&feature=related

[ksbergslien]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 10:38pm

I love Alice's best, too. After her, Katie Finneran's.

[djb]

Posted: 9/6/12 at 1:07am

Sondheim himself has stated that he thinks the "greatest performance" of this song was by Veanne Cox.