Parody of Sondheim's "I'm Still Here"
Parody of Sondheim's "I'm Still Here"
#1Parody of Sondheim's "I'm Still Here"
Posted: 12/4/09 at 4:42pm
I don't recall ever seeing this posted here....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt40nQGc1I4
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Updated On: 12/4/09 at 04:42 PM
#2re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/4/09 at 4:45pm
I still don't recall it being posted.
Do YOU want to post it?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#3re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/4/09 at 4:48pm
Unless it's the Shirley MacLaine version from POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (and, oh yes, that is a parody) then I'll pass as I'm sure it's that tired parody that went viral a few months ago.
Anyone know who wrote the new lyrics in the MacClaine version? I had heard it was Steve himself, but I'm not so sure.
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Updated On: 12/5/09 at 04:48 PM
#4re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/4/09 at 4:50pmI've edited my original post.
"We have enough youth -- How about a Fountain of Smart?"
________________________
"I'm not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#5re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/4/09 at 4:51pm
Is it I'm Still Queer? Because the very fact that the dude wrote a parody of a Sondheim song (from FOLLIES, no less) meant that the entire conceit was a house of cards, because no one would would ever have thought that was from a straight man.
Pgenere, I always thought Sondheim did the rewrites for that movie.
#6re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/4/09 at 4:57pm
Thanks for including the dead link! I'm sure everyone will love it! Lovely pink error message, though!
And, yes, PRS, doing a little research I found Steve DID, indeed, write the lyrics for the POSTCARDS parody version. It makes me love it a little more. I love how part of that scene used to be used in that highlights reel of the greatest film moments of all time they played before every movie at LOEW's in the 90s/early 00s.
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#7re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/4/09 at 7:32pm
Omg William Parry!!
I think he is the most underrated Sondheim-guy...(Sunday, Road Show, Passion, Assassins, Gypsy)
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#8re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/4/09 at 10:17pm
This one's even weirder: Jim Bailey doing Judy Garland doing "I'm Still Here" the way Judy would be doing it...if she were still here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MPBkApOQgA
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#9re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/5/09 at 12:04am
Shirley MacClaine
Sweets... its Shirley MacLaine. 
#10re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/5/09 at 12:15amokay that Jim Bailey, Judy Garland one is kind of brilliant.
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#11re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/5/09 at 9:18am
Loved both.
Inspiring me to write a sequel...
"I think La Cage and Liza are great...but I'm straight..."
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#12re: Parody of Sondheim's 'I'm Still Here'
Posted: 12/5/09 at 9:33amThanks for the links, DonlBee and PalJoey.
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