Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed "I'm Still Here"?
Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed "I'm Still Here"?
#1Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed "I'm Still Here"?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:01am
I know Christine Baranski, Carol Burnett, Earth Kitt, Shirley MacClaine, Ann Miller, and of course Elaine Stritch all have....but what about Chita Rivera? Liza Minnelli? Barbra Streisand? Barbara Cook? Bette Midler? Patti LuPone? Betty Buckley? Bernadette Peters?
I ask because I was gather cliping to edit into a mix, but have only found the ones mentioned above...
--Aristotle
#2re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:03am
Streisand performs the song (with alternate lyrics to poke fun at her persona) in a medley on her Barbra: The Concert DVD.
Barbra Streisand "I'm Still Here" (Medley)
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#2re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:27amI don't think that Angela Lansbury has ever performed it.
#3re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:46am
I wish Liza would perform "I'm Still Here".
This makes me want to listen to her disco version of "Losing My Mind".
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#4re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:47am
There's foootage out there of Eartha Kitt singing it when she replaced Dolores Gray in the awful 1987 London production.
Updated On: 7/24/09 at 12:47 AM
#5re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:59am
"awful" production????
Respectfully disagree with you 100%.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#6re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 1:01amNancy Walker gives a FANTASTIC performance on the Scrabble album.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#7re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 1:06amI just can't abide the changes to the book and the alternate songs, Times. I just can't. I CAN'T!
#8Which theatre greats still play scrabble?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 1:06amI am still recovering from Christine Baranski's performance.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#9Which theatre greats still play scrabble?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 1:07amHonestly, Carol Burnett's is nothing to get moist over, either.
#10Which theatre greats still play scrabble?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 6:44am
Did Bea Arthur ever get to sing it? 
--Aristotle
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#11Which theatre greats still play scrabble?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 7:23am
Don't know about Ms Arthur, but you would surely think at some point she had. Polly Bergen sang it in Follies, and though it was never recorded, it was on the Drama Desk awards and the Tonys.
They're both here.
Updated On: 7/24/09 at 07:23 AM
#12Which theatre greats still play scrabble?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 7:38am
I love Nancy Walker's version. I think it's my favorite.
Millicent Martin sang it in Side By Side Sondheim
#13Which theatre greats still play scrabble?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:43pmLiza has to sing "I'm Still Here." She was born to sing it.
#14Which theatre greats still play scrabble?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:28pmI know that at the end of Bea Arthur solo album she says "I'm not going to sing "I'm Still Here?"!
#15Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:32pm
"I just can't abide the changes to the book and the alternate songs, Times. I just can't. I CAN'T!"
"Respectfully disagree with you 100%."
Keep it to the appropriate thread people! 
Updated On: 7/24/09 at 02:32 PM
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#15And I Am Tellin' You, I'm Still Here
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:27pm
"Honestly, Carol Burnett's is nothing to get moist over, either."
Yes, she misses it in some places. For example, she falls back on one of her goofy comedy routines when she sings "I've gotten through Herbert and J. Edgar Hoo-woo-ver"
Not a theater person, but I've always wanted to hear Tina Turner sing it. Not only has she lived it, but the fierceness of her voice would highlight the toughness of overcoming and coming out on top.
#16Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:29pmPut me down as a fan of the Nancy Walker version, too!
#17Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?
Posted: 7/25/09 at 12:10am
I'm still waiting for Ruth Buzzi's version.
Or Charro.
"Good tiyngs an' bad tiyngs, I seen deng all ang my dear ... iyng thtill here! Goo-chi-goo-chi-goo-chi!"
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#18Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?
Posted: 7/25/09 at 12:22am
"He say, 'Lady, aren' you hooooozis? Wow, what a looker you were!' So I tell heem 'I no hoooozis! Can hoooozis do the cuchi cuchi cuchi!' "
#19Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?
Posted: 7/25/09 at 6:39amThat's hilarious. I'm want it to happen now. Charo first, then if all else fails, Googie Gomez's version.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#20Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?
Posted: 7/25/09 at 8:14amKatie Holmes will be performing it "live" on Hell's Kitchen next week. Can't wait!
#21Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?
Posted: 7/25/09 at 8:42am
Hell, I want the whole damn album:
CHARO GIVES MEESTER STEBEN SONGHINE
A LEETLE CUCHI-CUCHI! YES? NO? MEBBE?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#22Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?
Posted: 7/25/09 at 1:09pm
With some lyric changes, why not have some males tackle it
John Mc Martin
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#23Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?
Posted: 7/26/09 at 12:35pm
My friend David rewrote the lyrics and sang it at his 40th birthday party. That's so totally gay, but I love it so much.
And PJ, I laughed so hard at the Charo album. I wish we could show her this thread. I feel she would love it.
Official documents in Murcia, Spain (where she was born) and the United States indicate she was born in 1941, but Charo insists she actually was born in 1951, a claim that has been upheld in court (see below).
The performer has said in past interviews that her parents allowed her to falsify her age to appear to be older after marrying 66-year-old band leader Xavier Cugat when she was 15.[2] Further complicating the question is the fact that contemporary press reports gave her age at marriage as 21,[3][4] an April 1966 column on the wedding plans stated she was 20 and Cugat was 60,[5] and columns less than two years before the marriage refer to her as Cugat's "18-year-old protegée"?which, if she was falsifying her age, would have made her actually 13 at the time.[6]
In October 1977[7] ? the same year in which Charo filed for divorce from Cugat and became an American citizen ? a United States court upheld the 1951 birth year as official, with the performer providing a sworn statement from her parents in support of her claim.[8] Commenting on the disputes over her age, she has said that the public's disbelief could prove advantageous: "But if people really believe I'm older, that's fine. Don't be surprised if I come out with my own cosmetics, a new energy bar and maybe some vitamins."
That's from Wiki, so take it with a grain, but when I heard she had legally had her birth certificate changed I loved her even more. I really want to go to Hawaii to see her perform.
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