Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances

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Sondheim-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)

Updated On: 8/13/16 at 11:45 AM

Sondheim-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

Updated On: 8/12/16 at 11:52 AM

Sondheim-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

Sondheim-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

Sondheim-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.

Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances

Posted: 8/12/16 at 12:46pm

buhbuhbilly 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
"

Yup that's probably my favorite performance of the song. Everything about it is brilliant. What an artist Stritch was.

Sondheim-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

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

Sondheim-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."

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

Sondheim-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.

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Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances

Posted: 8/12/16 at 4:54pm

Elaine Stritch's "The ladies who lunch". Iconic performance.

#11

Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances

Posted: 8/12/16 at 6:52pm

Judy Dench- Send in the Clowns. She puts the fury into the poignant .

#12

Sondheim-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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Sondheim-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).

Updated On: 8/12/16 at 07:26 PM

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Sondheim-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!

"

#15

Sondheim-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.

#16

Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances

Posted: 8/12/16 at 10:41pm

Bernadette Peters singing "Johanna."

#17

Sondheim-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

#18

Sondheim-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

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

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Sondheim-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

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Sondheim-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!

Updated On: 8/13/16 at 02:08 AM

#21

Sondheim-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

#22

Sondheim-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

#23

Sondheim-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"

#24

Sondheim-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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#25

Sondheim-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.

They/them. "Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."

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