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Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
#25Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 10:58pmI love that no matter how fantastic she sounded, Patti still defers to the original. And how fast Stritchy put the kibosh on that one.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#26Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 10:59pmThat was a nice moment on both their parts.
Ariella
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#27Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:04pmAbsolutely wonderful. I loved seeing the six ladies onstage together.
#28Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:07pm
I love that no matter how fantastic she sounded, Patti still defers to the original. And how fast Stritchy put the kibosh on that one.
That was a fabulous moment for both of them.
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#29Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:08pm
That was such a great concert. Everything was basically perfect, especially when six of my favorite female performers sang six of my absolute favorite songs. I also loved the Follies-like entrances in the overture.
I just looked at the list of songs on the DVD, and I counted seven songs that weren't broadcast. This is quite disappointing, as I was looking forward to some of those specific ones. I guess they were cut for the broadcast so they could fit the interviews and parts where they ask for money into just two hours. I guess I'll have to get the DVD, then.
#30Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:10pmOoooo..which were cut in the broadcast?
"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
Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
bryan
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#32Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:10pmwow i cryed when they dis sunday.
#33Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:11pmI don't think anything was cut from the NYC/NJ broadcast. Where are you watching?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#34Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:15pmI thought "Something's Coming" was the only number that was cut for this broadcast?
jdtp12
Featured Actor Joined: 7/16/10
#35Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:18pmYea, my two hours was just the concert, no interviews or anything. Just the very end where they advertise the DVD before the full credits.
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#36Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:24pm
I was watching from Chicago, and they cut the following numbers:
Something's Coming
We're Gonna Be Alright
Don't Laugh
You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through
Growing Up
Theme from Reds with Pas de deux
So Many People
They had three or four breaks asking for money, each one interviewing someone different--the first one being Nathan Gunn, second Marin Mazzie, and third with Lonny Price. Each break was at least five minutes long. I was quite disappointed when I realized they were cutting some numbers from the broadcast. I find it quite odd that they did this in some places but not others.
Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#37Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:31pmwow must've been awkward when half the people who entered in the overture never sang..
#38Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:46pmI wasn't totally crazy for Ladies Who Lunch, but it was good. Stritch and Murphy blew me away. Loved Murphy's hair and loved watching LuPone taking in all of the other performances. Peters knows how to wring every bit of emotion out of "Not a Day Goes By". We are going into the last segment.
Just give the world Love.
#39Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:49pm
I may be attacked for asking this, but is ONLY a DVD being released or will there be a live recording for purchase of this as well?
Updated On: 11/25/10 at 11:49 PM
#41Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/25/10 at 12:00amI saw this wonderful program tonight on PBS in Missouri, and there were, indeed, pledge breaks. Although I did enjoy listening to Marin Mazzie and Mr. Price talk about the concert, I am upset that so much was omitted because of these breaks. I am staying up to watch the repeat at midnight, though. It was beautiful - especially loved the women in the last half. And then "Sunday", well, it is almost a religious experience. Beautiful.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#42Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/25/10 at 12:01am
Not a false note, now a false emotion, not a dry in my house.
I called my mom to remind her it was on. I had just received an email telling me how much she missed my brother and dad everyday. I had no idea Bernie was going to do Not a Day...needless to say I was a mess.
Also glad they skipped things like Broadway Baby and Send in the Clowns in favor of Glamorous Life and John McMartin singing The Road You Didn't Take, what a performance.
This was a classic to be treasured forever.
PEACE.
#43Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/25/10 at 12:04am
They were not listed in the rolling credits. Who were the performers who came out for the finale to sing?
I spotted Laura Linney and Paolo Montalban.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#44Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/25/10 at 12:09amYou guys got interviews during your pledge breaks? All I got was a lady with a lisp telling me I could buy a DVD worth $20 for $100 over and over again.
You gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? -BP.
#45Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/25/10 at 12:12am
I was wondering if a CD was going to be released also. You could hear the live performances in the background during a few of the breaks.
I too enjoyed the interviews. I was expecting something else for the finale but it probably sounded great in the hall. Unfortunately the begining was lost over the tv. But any evening of Sondheim music is a good night for me! I wish our PBS station was repeating it.
Also, maybe a stupid question, but did I hear or read that Peters has taken a real attachment to that song since losing her husband?
Just give the world Love.
#46Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/25/10 at 12:17am
"...did I hear or read that Peters has taken a real attachment to that song since losing her husband?"
I got that feeling from her performance.
"Who were the performers who came out for the finale to sing?"
I heard that they basically invited everyone from every show on & off Broadway at that time to participate in the finale.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#47Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/25/10 at 12:26am
"Also, maybe a stupid question, but did I hear or read that Peters has taken a real attachment to that song since losing her husband?"
I do like to think it is pretty genuine performance. But it seems like she has always had some kind of attachment (even if more so now)..since this is approx. the 5th time she has recorded it, with the 3 performances (recordings) before his death performed almost the same as the last 2 post-death.
"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
Updated On: 11/25/10 at 12:26 AM
#48Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/25/10 at 12:32amI does seem genuine. I think maybe my statement about her "wringing" emotion out of the song may not have been the right word. You can just tell it is emotional for her while singing it but she seemed to "snap back" when she sat down.
Just give the world Love.
#49Sondheim Birthday Concert on PBS tonight!
Posted: 11/25/10 at 12:40am
loved watching LuPone taking in all of the other performances.
I'm glad you mentioned this, because I've seen a lot of other people complain that she was trying to upstage the other performers. Like you, I thought she was just so taken with the other ladies' performances and never interpreted it as trying to upstage or perform along with them. (But I'm very biased. Also I know she often has no control over what her face is doing.)
Also, re: Not a Day Goes By, I know people here have said that they think the song reminds Bernadette of her husband, but I honestly thought some might be projecting a little (although whoever mentioned that John McMartin was reminded of Dorothy Collins when he sang turned out to be right). However, having watched her performance a few times, I would not be surprised if the song meant something different to her now than it did before her husband died.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Updated On: 11/25/10 at 12:40 AM
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