if you could...

[glitzguy3]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 9:41pm

if you could see ONE performer performing ONE song from a show that they were in...what would it be?

[glitzguy3]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 9:46pm

mine would be

ok...i can't narrow it to one so....

liz callaway...story goes on (baby)

sutton foster...gimme, gimme (millie)

lea salonga...anything (miss saigon)

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 9:58pm

Sutton Foster...On My Own (Les Mis)
Kristin Chenoweth...My New Philosophy (You're a Good Man Charlie Brown)
Idina Menzel...Take Me or Leave Me (Rent)

[MusicPos2]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 9:59pm

Sutton Foster was in LES MIS?

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 10:06pm

Yes, along with many other big named females on Broadway. It seems sort of like a rite of passage for the Broadway actress nowadays...

[glitzguy3]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 10:07pm

let's get back to the question!

[Matt_G]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 10:09pm

Well, I would love to have seen the OBC of GYPSY and the OBC of WEST SIDE STORY. I can't narrow it down to one performer or one song from those!

Updated On: 5/22/04 at 10:09 PM

[glitzguy3]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 10:12pm

we're not following directions here...

performer....song...=)

[Matt_G]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 10:13pm

Oh, Glitz Lighten up. I don't follow directions too well.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 10:16pm

Ethel Merman: Rose's Turn

Way before my time and sadly not recorded anywhere on film because Gypsy ran way before Lincoln Center tapings and Rosalind Russel did the movie. But omigosh it must have been amazing.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 10:18pm

Idina- Take me or Leave Me
Adam Pascal- One Song Glory

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 10:54pm

Gertrude Lawrence -- "The Sage of Jenny"

Updated On: 5/22/04 at 10:54 PM

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 11:03pm

Ellen Greene-Somewhere That's Green
Angela Lansbury-The Worst Pies in London
Deven May-Apology to a Cow
Brent Carver-Why Don'tcha Come Up to My Office

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 11:11pm

HARD, HARD Question.

I would say....Barbara Streisand---"Don't Rain on My Parade". The song is one of the theater's best songs, In my opinion, and Barbara Streisand is just incomparable. She sounds amazing on that song, and to see her sing it live would be a dream. Updated On: 5/23/04 at 11:11 PM

[boborunstheshow]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 11:17pm

ummmmmmmmmmmmmm

Angela Lansbury - The worst pies in London

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 11:19pm

Streisand ~ Funny Girl ~ My Man

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 11:24pm

Show, you may know this, or you may not...

"My Man" isn't from the stage production of FUNNY GIRL.

It was used in the movie replacing a more subtle and effective song "The Music That Makes Me Dance."

Still, Babs singing "Man" live is thrilling.

J.

[little_sally]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 11:44pm

Patti Lupone..."With One Look" from "Sunset Boulevard"

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 5/22/04 at 11:56pm

Um, Heather and Adam in Elaborate Lives from AIDA, and like, any song from RENT with the OBC (ok fine, Daphne in Out Tonight and Adam in One Song Glory and Your Eyes).

That sound you hear is NuggetMonkeys weeping for my - uh, our - generation. jk

[lvpblues]

Posted: 5/23/04 at 12:03am

Barbara Cook - "Glitter and Be Gay"
Rebecca Luker - "Unusual Way"
Ethel Merman - "Rose's Turn"
Joan Diener - "Not Since Ninevah", "It's All the Same" and "Aldonza"

[Benzy92]

Posted: 5/23/04 at 9:24am

Jennifer Holliday- And I Am Telling You (I'm Not Going)

:)

also, Kristin Chenoweth- My New Philosophy
(saw her understudy )

[cabarethed]

Posted: 5/23/04 at 9:26am

Raul Esparza-- Franklin Shepherd Inc.

[magruder]

Posted: 5/23/04 at 9:50am

Streisand actually did sing "My Man" at her final New York performance of Funny Girl. Must have been something to see.

I'm going to go way off a limb here and say Inga Swenson in 110 in the Shade, performing either "Is It Really Me?" "Raunchy" or "Old Maid". Ken Mandelbaum at Broadway.com often refers to Swenson's performance as the best performance by an actress in a musical he's ever seen.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 5/23/04 at 10:06am

Alan Cumming-I Don't Care Much

[BROADWAYFAN3]

Posted: 5/23/04 at 10:35am

Michael Crawford Music of the Night