Sondheim-Favorite Artist Song Performances

[broadwaysfguy]

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

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

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

[Jordan Catalano]

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

[buhbuhbilly]

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]

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.  

[ljay889]

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

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

[artscallion]

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

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

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."

[The Other One]

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]

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

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

[sabrelady]

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

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

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 7:14pm

Bernadette Peters singing "Not A Day Goes By",  I especially love watching the 80th birthday concert performance.

[jo]

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

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

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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[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 10:22pm

Carly Simon's version of "Not A Day Goes By" from her exquisite album, TORCH.

[Hest882]

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

Bernadette Peters singing "Johanna."

[morosco]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:04pm

Cleo Laine - I Remember from EVENING PRIMROSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1yQgnKBR5w

[binau]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:11pm

Marin Mazzie - Losing My Mind

Donna Murphy - Losing My Mind

Bernadette Peters - Goodbye for Now 

 

 

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 8/13/16 at 1:36am

Raul Esparza  "Being Alive" at the Tony awards...damn.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virv-1o2KjE

 

[CarlosAlberto]

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

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 8/13/16 at 12:56pm

Audrea Mcdonald doing Somewhere from West Side story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEsV2FbkqMo

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 8/13/16 at 2:13pm

Unworthy of your Love  John Barrowman and Ruthie Henshall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPBhLu3P4_s

[NOWaWarning]

Posted: 8/13/16 at 3:08pm

I have a real soft spot for Laura Benanti's tender rendition of "So Many People"

[johnstp]

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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[CindersGolightly]

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.