Jennifer Leigh Warren sings "How Blessed We Are" from BIG RIVER

Pretty brilliant. And I totally agree with your above statements on the quality of Big River. This song was always one of my favorites (and there are so many good songs).
PS - she was also one of the original Urchins in Little Shop of Horrors (off-bway). - but you probably knew that already.

So would I, Tazzy.

The summer I worked with Marin Mazzie, I got to sing that song in a cabaret show. She left our theatre not long after that to replace Patti Cohenour as Mary Jane Wilkes in the Broadway company of "Big River." And Marin got to sing that song (with Dan Jenkins and Ron Richardson).

So very cool.

I always thought that song could be a BIG country hit too. Get the right people to record it, and it could be magic.

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Yep. She was in the original "Little Shop."

I used to see Jen at Equity auditions in New York, back then. I met her a couple of times through Marin, as well. I wouldn't call her a "friend" by any means. An "aquaintance" from two decades ago, more likely. But I can tell you that I'm a huge fan!

There was nothing showy about her number in Big River. Her characer sings it at a funeral, after all. She just stood there on that stage, in a plain black dress... and devastated everybody in the theatre, night after night.

It was magic.

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Very nice! Thanks for posting that.

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