Your Favourite performances?
Your Favourite performances?
#1Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/8/13 at 11:16am
Basically, I am always looking for new musical theatre performances to watch/listen to, and I always find myself resorting back to a few of my favourites so I was hoping to find a few more to listen to! It doesn't matter if it is a song everyone knows but is performed incredibly, or a little known song, that you just love! Also it is a fun way of trying to get to know people better if people explain why they love it, and maybe have battles between people if different versions of the same song are posted! And if I really love the performance it may even make it to my iTunes playlist!
Post away!
#2Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/8/13 at 11:38am
The first ones that come to mind are Patti LuPone's Rainbow high, Elaine's Memory, Judy Garland's Ol Man River and Battle Hymn of the Republic, Liza's New York New York and Maybe this time, Sutton's Anything Goes.
There are many more, I'll post them later.
Updated On: 4/8/13 at 11:38 AM
#2Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/8/13 at 12:05pm
One of my favorites is Adrian Lester's "Being Alive" from the Donmar Warehouse's COMPANY that was aired on British television (and often is around on YouTube). It might not be one for the iPod, as it is so plainly connected to his emotions and he's stunning to watch work his way through the song.
Also, seriously, Michael Jeter's dancing in the GRAND HOTEL Tony performance. Just joyous.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#3Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/8/13 at 12:12pm
Marin Mazzie's Back to Before from Ragtime(thrilling vocal performance that perfectly brings out the emotion)
Aaron Tveit's Aftershocks and I'm Alive from Next to Normal(chillingly eerie)
James Snyder's Soliloquy and If I Loved You from Carousel (not recorded except in excerpts posted on youtube by Goodspeed Musicals)(about the most perfect singing i've ever heard)
Norm Lewis' You Should Be Loved from Side Show (beautiful and powerful)
Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley's Leave me Alone from Side Show (powerfully sung and beautifully acted vocally)
Kerry Ellis' Some Else's Story from the Chess concert in Royal Albert Hall - beautifully sung rendition of a lovely song
Josh Groban's Anthem from the same Chess Concert - powerful and beautiful
Brian Stokes Mitchell's The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha - his performance is the only one of that song (which I have always loved) that actually made me well up.
Liz Calloway's Meadowlark (available on youtube from a concert) - beautifully sung rendition of a beautiful song.
David Gallagher and Josie De Guzman's I've Never Been in Love Before from the 1992 Guys and Dolls cast recording - lovely performance of lovely song.
Edited to add: and love love love the video of Chester Gregory performing I Could Be That Guy from Sister Act (although I prefer the vocal rendition on the cast recording). But the video beautifully captures the whole costume change and staging that made that song so funny and poignant at the same time.
Updated On: 4/8/13 at 12:12 PM
#4Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/8/13 at 12:17pmOh, and Raúl Esparza's "Franklin Shepard, Inc." from MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG about 10 years ago in DC. Absolute bravura performance.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#5Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/8/13 at 12:37pm
Patti Lupone's "Meadowlark" from The Baker's Wife
Eden Espinosa's "Meadowlark" from The Baker's Wife
Alan Cumming's "I Don't Care Much" from Cabaret
Philip Casnoff & Dennis Parlato's "No Contest" from Chess
Norbert Leo Butz's "Great Big Stuff" from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Norbert Leo Butz's "If I Didn't Believe In You" from The Last 5 Years
Gavin Creel's "I Want to Make Magic" from Fame
John Cameron's Mitchell's "The Origin of Love" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Sam Harris "Use What You Got" from The Life
Kelli O'Hara's "The Beauty Is" from The Light in the Piazza
Mary Testa & Jason Graae's "Rita's Confession" from Lucky Stiff
Michael Rupert's "Father to Son" from March of the Falsettos
La Chanze's "Waiting for Life" from Once on this Island
John Rubenstein's "Extraordinary" from Pippin
Bernadette Peter's "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" from Company
Lauren Pritchard's "Blue Wind" from Spring Awakening
Brian d'Arcy James "At The Fountain" from Sweet Smell of Success
Danny Burstein's "Need to Know" from Weird Romance
Jerry Colker's "Angry Guy" from 3 Guys Naked From the Waist Down
Audra McDonald's "See What I Wanna See" from See What I Wanna See
JBC2
Chorus Member Joined: 5/4/12
#6Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/8/13 at 12:39pm
Julia Murney's "Nobody's Side" from Chess.
Philip Quast and Anthony Warlow's duet "Lily's Eyes" from Secret Garden.
Teal Wicks' "Eiffel Tower" from The Blue Flower.
#7Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:59pm
Robert Lambert "All I Need is the Girl" - 1989 Gypsy revival
Elaine Paige "Nobody's Side" - Chess
Judy Kuhn "Someone Else's Story" - Chess
John Barrowman and Daniel Boys "I Know Him So Well" - Chess (Music Music Music)
Liz Calloway "Meadowlark" - The Baker's Wife (The Story Goes On)
Dorothy Loudon "You Could Drive a Person Crazy/Losing My Mind" - Company/Follies (Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall)
Ruthie Henshall "This Time Around" - Peggy Sue Got Married (Pilgrim)
Betty Buckley "Surrender" - Sunset Boulevard
Patti LuPone "With One Look" - Sunset Boulevard
Rhonda Coullet "Sleepy Man" - The Robber Bridegroom
Debbie Gravitte "Santa Fe" - Newsies (The Alan Menken Album)
Patti LuPone "Anything Goes" - Anything Goes 1988
Elaine Paige "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" - Anything Goes 1989
Ruthie Henshall "I Got Rhythm" - Crazy For You 1993
Sally Mayes "A Trip to the Library" - She Loves Me 1993
Vicki Lewis "Shoeless Joe From Hannibal Mo." - Damn Yankees 1994
David Carroll "Love Can't Happen" - Grand Hotel
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#8Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/9/13 at 8:21am
John Barrowman and Daniel Boys "I Know Him So Well" - Chess (Music Music Music)
Somehow I've missed this entirely. Thank you for adding that one. This is an amazing version!
CalebMeyer
Understudy Joined: 8/1/12
#9Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/9/13 at 8:38am
I'm gonna try to only list ones that haven't been mentioned already:
Barbara Cook "Will He Like Me?" - She Loves Me
Barbara Cook "Who Are You Now" - Funny Girl (from her first live at Carnegie Halle CD)
Liza Minnelli "Sing Happy" - Flora, The Red Menace
Cleo Laine "Anyone Can Whistle" - Anyone Can Whistle
Angela Lansbury "Kiss Her Now" - Dear World
Audra Mcdonald "The Glamorous Life" - A Little Night Music (movie)
And pretty much everything Kelli O'Hara has ever sung :)
#10Your Favourite performances?
Posted: 4/9/13 at 9:07am
Andrea McArdle, Look What Happened To Mabel - Mack & Mabel
Rachel York, I Hate Men - Kiss Me Kate
Judy Garland, Just In Time - Bells Are Ringing
Judy Kuhn & Larry Kert, Tonight - West Side Story
Alice Ripley, You Have To Be There - Kristina
I will also second the aforementioned rendition of Shoeless Joe by Vicki Lewis.
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