if you could see ONE performer performing ONE song from a show that they were in...what would it be?
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)
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)
Yes, along with many other big named females on Broadway. It seems sort of like a rite of passage for the Broadway actress nowadays...
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!
we're not following directions here...
performer....song...=)
Oh, Glitz Lighten up. I don't follow directions too well.
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.
Idina- Take me or Leave Me
Adam Pascal- One Song Glory
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Gertrude Lawrence -- "The Sage of Jenny"
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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
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.
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ummmmmmmmmmmmmm
Angela Lansbury - The worst pies in London
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"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.
Patti Lupone..."With One Look" from "Sunset Boulevard"
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
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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"
Jennifer Holliday- And I Am Telling You (I'm Not Going)
:)
also, Kristin Chenoweth- My New Philosophy
(saw her understudy )
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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.
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Alan Cumming-I Don't Care Much
Broadway Star Joined: 5/8/04
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