Most Iconic Broadway Performances of Songs

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 7:51pm

What are (in your opinion) some of the most iconic performances of Broadway songs? I'd say... (in no order)

Robert Goulet - If Ever I Would Leave You
Elaine Stritch - Broadway Baby
Elaine Stritch - Ladies Who Lunch
Merman - No Business Like Show Business
Patti LuPone - Don't Cry for Me Argentina
Elaine Paige - Memory

[Horton]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 8:00pm

Jennifer Holiday- And I am Telling You

[wonkit]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 8:25pm

Robert Preston singing "I Won't Send Roses" from MACK & MABEL. My absolute favorite song and performance at the moment since I just discovered it.

[Frank thebellhop]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 9:42pm

Tonya Pinkins- Lot's Wife
Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin- Move On
Christine Ebersol- Another Winter in a Summer Town
Carol Channing- Hello, Dolly!
Idina Menzel- Defying Gravity
Dorothy Louden- 50 Percent
Donna McKechnie- Music and the Mirror

I'm probably gonna catch flack for this but...
Raul Esparza- Being Alive

[luvcaroline]

Posted: 10/22/11 at 8:06pm

Streisand -- Don't Rain On My Parade
Gwen Verdon -- If They Could See Me Now
Joel Grey -- Wilkomenn
Original company -- Oklahoma
Stephanie Mills -- Home

[Katt1721]

Posted: 10/22/11 at 9:10pm

The Music & the Mirror - Donna McKechnie
Ladies Who Lunch - Elaine Stritch
Everything's Coming Up Roses - Ethel Merman
Finishing the Hat - Mandy Patinkin
Children Will Listen - Bernadette Peters
Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Patti LuPone
Cabaret - Liza Minnelli

I second the person above for Being Alive - Raul Esparza

[peerrjb]

Posted: 10/22/11 at 9:19pm

Barbara Cook - Vanilla Ice Cream
Barbara Cook - Gillter and Be Gay
Dorothy Collins - Everything she did in FOLLIES,- "In Buddy's Eyes' was truly amazing.
Gwen Verdon - Whatever Lola Wants
Zero Mostel - If I Were a Rich Man
Robert Preston - Ya Got Trouble
Hermoine Gingold - Liasons
Glynis Johns ( onstage, not the recording when she was sickly) - Send in the Clowns
Richard Kiley - I Am I, Don Quixote
Len Cariou - Epiphany
Angela Lansbury - The Worst Pies in London
Lotte Lenya - So What?
John Raitt - Soliloquy
Brian Stokes Mitchell (ok, it was "in concert") This Nearly Was Mine. THE.BEST.EVAH.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/23/11 at 10:36am

Love Peer's list, and would add:


Holliday - And I Am Telling You...
Streisand - People
Streisand - Don't Rain On My Parade
Streisand - I'm The Greatest Star
Martin and Pinza - Some Enchanted Evening
Lawrence and Brynner - Shall We Dance?
Merman - I've Got Rhythm
Merman - Everything's Coming Up Roses
Merman - Rose's Turn
Channing - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
Bailey - Before the Parade Passes By
Cariou and Lansbury - A Little Priest
Carroll - A Sleepin' Bee
Buckley - Memory
Lupone - Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Peters - Wherever He Ain't
McDonald - Mr. Snow
Preston - I Won't Send Roses
Hearn - I Am What I Am
Orbach and Company - Lullaby of Broadway
Orbach - Promises, Promises
Orbach - Her Face
Orbach - She's My Love
Alberghetti - Yes My Heart
Alberghetti - Love Makes The World Go Round
Carroll and Jeter - Let's Take A Glass..
Carroll - Anthem
Kuhn - Nobody's Side
Kuhn - Someone Else's Story
Kuhn - Heaven Help My Hert
Kuhn - Vanilla Ice Cream
Kuhn - Dear Friend
Andrews - I Could Have Danced All Night
Holloway - Get Me To The Church On Time
Holloway - I'm Getting Married In The Morning
Harrison - I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
Morse and Company - I Believe In You
Smith- Could I Leave You?
DeCarlo - I'm Still Here
Stritch - Ladies Who Lunch
Loudon - Little Girls
Loudon - 20%
McCardle - Tomorrow
Montevecchi and Company - Folies Bergeres
Murphy - Loving You
Rivera and Company - America
Rivera - All That Jazz
Newirth - All That Jazz
Gleason - Moments in the Woods
Hayes and Finneran - A Fact Can Be A Beautiful Thing
Rivera and Verdon - Nowadays
Wilkinson - Bring Him Home
Wilkinson - Who Am I?
Uggams - Being Good
Uggams - I Wanted to Change Him
Uggams - My Own Morning
Harris - Georgeous
Harris - What Did I Have That I Don't Have?


Updated On: 10/23/11 at 10:36 AM

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 10/24/11 at 10:48am

MUSIC OF THE NIGHT- THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA- Michael Crawford

The entire score of EVITA- LuPone and Patinkin

The entire score of THE PRODUCERS- Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick/the rest of the OBC

SUNSET BOULEVARD- title song- Michael Ball

As far as I'm concerned, no one can sing Florence/NOBODY'S SIDE like Judy Kuhn.

Updated On: 10/24/11 at 10:48 AM

[pinoyidol2006]

Posted: 10/24/11 at 11:56am

These are performances that were "iconic" (whatever that means) for me:
If I Were A Rich Man - Zero Mostel
Chita Rivera - All That Jazz
Julie Andrews - Sound of Music (Not onstage, but it's a showtune)
George Hearn - I Am What I Am
Elaine Stritch - Ladies Who Lunch
Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell - Wheels of a Dream (If henrikegerman can list songs from Chess, I might as well indulge myself)
Patti LuPone - Anything Goes (I know it was Merman's first, but LuPone is who I associate with this song)
Lea Salonga - On My Own
Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin - Move On
John Raitt - Soliloquy
Barbra Streisand - People and Don't Rain on My Parade
Sutton Foster - Not For the Life of Me
Jerry Orbach and Company - Lullaby of Broadway
Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel - All of Wicked, sadly enough.

Updated On: 10/24/11 at 11:56 AM

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/24/11 at 12:56pm

Pinoy, just so you know, I freely admit I was being self-indulgent, and btw, I'm not even a Chess fan, just a Kuhn fanatic.

[pinoyidol2006]

Posted: 10/24/11 at 1:03pm

So am I! and David Carroll. I kind of want to include "Love Can't Happen" on my list.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/24/11 at 6:13pm

Ertha - Monotonous!

Enjoy!
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