1. Champagne- In The Heights, x111 2. A Way Back to Then- [title of show], x94 3. 96,000- In The Heights, x84 4. Fabulous Baby!- Sister Act, x83 5. Summer in Ohio- The Last 5 Years, x80
Followed by a lot of Hair.
I go through serious phases where I get a cast album (like In The Heights or Hair) and listen to them A LOT but then then I stop completely and just see the show repeatedly. Like I haven't listened to Hair of In The Heights in a long time. After Hair closed I started up again and it's a great summer album. But the In The Heights plays are all fro the first month I had the album.
I usually listen to my iPhone more than iTunes, but my number one spot is "Know Your Enemy" from American Idiot (suprised me) followed by "You Don't Know/I Am the One" from Next to Normal.
"DOWNTOWN" from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert "LEFT BEHIND" from Spring Awakening "SUNDAY" from Sunday in the Park with George "THE OLD RED HILLS OF HOME" from Parade
"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written." -Stephen Sondheim
"Up the Ladder to the Roof" EVERYDAY RAPTURE "A Call from the Vatican" NINE (Movie Soundtrack) "Anything Goes" ANYTHING GOES (Lupone Revival) "Dirty Rotten Number" DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS "The New World" SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
Epiphany - 2007 film soundtrack of Sweeney Todd (459) My Friends - Sweeney soundtrack (289) Everything's Coming up Roses - Bernadette Peters Gypsy (272) Rose's Turn - Bernadette PEters Gypsy (225) Epiphany - Sweeney OBC (220)
"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
My top one is Poor Sweet Baby sung by Nicky Crydon, with Franklin Shepard a VERY close second, and then 2 versions of Poor Sweet Baby by Pamela Myers following behind.
1. Da Doo Ron Ron - LEADER OF THE PACK (141) 2. Up The Ladder To The Roof - EVERYDAY RAPTURE (12 3. River Deep, Mountain High - LEADER OF THE PACK (100) 4. Hair - HAIR: 2009 REVIVAL (91) 5. Promises, Promises - PROMISES, PROMISES: OBC (75)
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