Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed "I'm Still Here"?

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Which 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...

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

re: 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)

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 7/24/09 at 12:03 AM

re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:27am

I don't think that Angela Lansbury has ever performed it.

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re: 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".

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

re: 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

re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:59am

"awful" production????

Respectfully disagree with you 100%.

re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 1:01am

Nancy Walker gives a FANTASTIC performance on the Scrabble album.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

re: Which theatre greats HAVEN'T performed 'I'm Still Here'?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 1:06am

I just can't abide the changes to the book and the alternate songs, Times. I just can't. I CAN'T!

Which theatre greats still play scrabble?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 1:06am

I am still recovering from Christine Baranski's performance.

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#10

Which theatre greats still play scrabble?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 1:07am

Honestly, Carol Burnett's is nothing to get moist over, either.

#11

Which theatre greats still play scrabble?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 6:44am

Did Bea Arthur ever get to sing it?

#12

Which 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

#13

Which 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

"Love the Art in Yourself. Not Yourself in the Art." -- Stanislavski

#14

Which theatre greats still play scrabble?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:43pm

Liza has to sing "I'm Still Here." She was born to sing it.

#15

Which theatre greats still play scrabble?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:28pm

I know that at the end of Bea Arthur solo album she says "I'm not going to sing "I'm Still Here?"!

#16

Which 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

#17

And 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.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

Updated On: 7/24/09 at 03:27 PM

#18

Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?

Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:29pm

Put me down as a fan of the Nancy Walker version, too!

#19

Which 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!"

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#20

Which 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!' "

#21

Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?

Posted: 7/25/09 at 6:39am

That's hilarious. I'm want it to happen now. Charo first, then if all else fails, Googie Gomez's version.

#22

Which BWW greats still have the needle stuck?

Posted: 7/25/09 at 8:14am

Katie Holmes will be performing it "live" on Hell's Kitchen next week. Can't wait!

PEACE.

#23

Which 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?

#24

Which 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

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#25

Which 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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