Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
broadwaysfguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
#1Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:45am
A simple question...
Sondheim's amazing catalogue of songs have been interpreted by everyone from Streisand to Sinatra.
What are your favorite performances and interpretation of Sondheim songs by individual artists?
(most interested in artists that didn't originate the role and happy to hear any and all favorites)
#2Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:52am
to celebrate STREISAND'S tour..."PUTTING IT TOGETHER", from THE BROADWAY ALBUM...this to me is the best of both their worlds...here is the link...enjoy!
https://youtu.be/1uwV1Wf8tUo
#3Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:52am
Streisand's "Send in the Clowns" is the best I think it's ever been done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBkM0kuIAY8
#4Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:57am
Stritch performing "I'm Still Here" at the Sondheim Birthday concert is iconic. Y'all have seen it already but here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzmVYNItjU
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#5Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 12:06pm
Bernadette Peters' singing "Send in the Clowns" during the entire 1970s including the single tear drop at the end. On every TV appearance. Every. single. One.
#6Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 12:46pmbuhbuhbilly said: "Stritch performing "I'm Still Here" at the Sondheim Birthday concert is iconic. Y'all have seen it already but here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzmVYNItjU
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Yup that's probably my favorite performance of the song. Everything about it is brilliant. What an artist Stritch was.
#7Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 12:53pm
Audra McDonald's - The Glamorous Life. She's done it many times, including the 80th birthday celebration. But this particular rendition is absolute perfection.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x302ukt
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#8Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 1:10pm
Elaine Stritch singing "I'm Still Here," Donna Murphy singing "Losing My Mind" at the Wall to Wall Sondheim event, Jane Krakowski singing "Sooner or Later" in one of the Sondheim albums from the 90s, and Bernadette Peters' iconic rendition of "Not a Day Goes By."
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The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#9Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 2:13pm
Barbra's "Not While I'm Around" is just beautiful. I remember the term "rescuing it from obscurity" being used in a review. No argument on my end.
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#10Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 4:54pm
Elaine Stritch's "The ladies who lunch". Iconic performance.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#11Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 6:52pm
Judy Dench- Send in the Clowns. She puts the fury into the poignant .
#12Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 7:14pm
Bernadette Peters singing "Not A Day Goes By", I especially love watching the 80th birthday concert performance.
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jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 7:26pm
From EVENING PRIMROSE, the song lyrics were rewritten ( by Sondheim) to fit Barbra Streisand's second Christmas album --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7AVGleYNyE
Poignant and evocative!
EDIT : Lol - I forgot to mention the song title. It's I REMEMBER ( Sky).
#14Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 7:56pm
jo said: "From EVENING PRIMROSE, the song lyrics were rewritten ( by Sondheim) to fit Barbra Streisand's second Christmas album --
i love this thanks for posting i have never heard it before...STREISAND sings SONDHEIM better than anyone IMHO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7AVGleYNyE
Poignant and evocative!
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#15Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 10:22pm
Carly Simon's version of "Not A Day Goes By" from her exquisite album, TORCH.
#16Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 10:41pm
Bernadette Peters singing "Johanna."
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#17Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:04pm
Cleo Laine - I Remember from EVENING PRIMROSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1yQgnKBR5w
#18Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:11pm
Marin Mazzie - Losing My Mind
Donna Murphy - Losing My Mind
Bernadette Peters - Goodbye for Now
"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
broadwaysfguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
#19Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/13/16 at 1:36am
Raul Esparza "Being Alive" at the Tony awards...damn.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virv-1o2KjE
#20Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/13/16 at 2:08am
broadwaysfguy said: "Raul Esparza "Being Alive" at the Tony awards...damn.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virv-1o2KjE
Gawd! Do you guys not read the criteria?!! The performances have to be out of character...and not part of a show!
broadwaysfguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
#21Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/13/16 at 12:56pm
Audrea Mcdonald doing Somewhere from West Side story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEsV2FbkqMo
broadwaysfguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
#22Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/13/16 at 2:13pm
Unworthy of your Love John Barrowman and Ruthie Henshall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPBhLu3P4_s
#23Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/13/16 at 3:08pm
I have a real soft spot for Laura Benanti's tender rendition of "So Many People"
johnstp
Swing Joined: 6/14/16
#24Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/13/16 at 5:15pm
Nancy Lamott's medley of Good Thing Going and Not A Day Goes By, which I believe was just called, "Sondheim" on her album.
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#25Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Posted: 8/13/16 at 5:20pm
Annaleigh Ashford's performance of Another Hundred People, and Laura Benanti's performance of I Know Things Now are two that come to mind.
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