Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#1
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)
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#2
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
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#3
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#4
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#5
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#6
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.
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#7
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
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#8
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."
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#9
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.
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#10
Posted: 8/12/16 at 4:54pm
Elaine Stritch's "The ladies who lunch". Iconic performance.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#11
Posted: 8/12/16 at 6:52pm
Judy Dench- Send in the Clowns. She puts the fury into the poignant .
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#12
Posted: 8/12/16 at 7:14pm
Bernadette Peters singing "Not A Day Goes By", I especially love watching the 80th birthday concert performance.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#13
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).
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#14
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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Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#15
Posted: 8/12/16 at 10:22pm
Carly Simon's version of "Not A Day Goes By" from her exquisite album, TORCH.
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#16
Posted: 8/12/16 at 10:41pm
Bernadette Peters singing "Johanna."
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#17
Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:04pm
Cleo Laine - I Remember from EVENING PRIMROSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1yQgnKBR5w
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#18
Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:11pm
Marin Mazzie - Losing My Mind
Donna Murphy - Losing My Mind
Bernadette Peters - Goodbye for Now
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#19
Posted: 8/13/16 at 1:36am
Raul Esparza "Being Alive" at the Tony awards...damn.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virv-1o2KjE
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#20
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!
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#21
Posted: 8/13/16 at 12:56pm
Audrea Mcdonald doing Somewhere from West Side story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEsV2FbkqMo
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#22
Posted: 8/13/16 at 2:13pm
Unworthy of your Love John Barrowman and Ruthie Henshall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPBhLu3P4_s
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#23
Posted: 8/13/16 at 3:08pm
I have a real soft spot for Laura Benanti's tender rendition of "So Many People"
Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#24
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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Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances#25
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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