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Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
#25re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 5:32pm
[QUOTE]I thought Warlow played Valjean once. [/QUOTE]
Not that I'm aware of, he recorded Enjolras on the Complete Symphonic Recording though - is this what you're thinking of?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#26re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 6:00pm
I have heard Aaron Lazar do a version of Bring Him Home that I fell in love with right then and there.
Believe it or not, The rock band OK GO does the confrontation song from Les Miserables as something to entertain the crowds if a guitar string breaks and they need time to fix it.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
parkopjen
Swing Joined: 11/15/05
#27re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 6:12pmI can't believe I forgot "I Feel Pretty" by Little Richard.
#28re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 6:54pmBernadette Peters doing "Johanna."
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#29re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 7:19pmA Change In Me (from Beauty and the Beast) done by Susan Egan.
#30re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 7:48pmCan't believe no one has mentioned Norm Lewis' cover of Before the Parade Passes By from his new album - it totally rocks!
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#31re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 8:48pmScrewdriver did an awesome cover of "Tomarrow Belongs to Me"
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#32re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 10:58pmMarianne Faithfull singing selections from Threepenny Opera, with the Frank MacGuinness lyrics. I particularly love her "Mack the Knife".
I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)
#33re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 11:02pmAlso, Nina Simone's "Pirate Jenny".
Clara Petacci
Swing Joined: 3/23/09
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#35re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 11:40pm
This category seems kinda loose--unlike pop or rock songs, every Broadway song is kinda a cover at least sung by anyone but the original cast...
But some pop/jazz/rock covers that come first to mind...
The Zombies "swinging" version of Summertime
Nancy Wilson's covers of I've Got Your Number and Loving You (the first is on a 60s album the later on a 90s one)
I do love some of Dionne Warwick's Bacharach produced Broadway covers from the 60s--her Somewhere is awesome (it somehow cleverly uses Cool as coutnerpoint to the verses and give sit a jazzy feel), also a fan of her My Ship, As Long as He Needs Me and Where Can I Turn To.
I know people love or hate them but the Pet Shop Boys are avowed Sondheim fanatics and I think their covers have all been done with taste--Losing My Mind produced by them for Liza (she claimed she didn't know the song before they presented it to her! how odd), Somewhere, they've done some obscure bside covers of Weill (What Keeps Manking Alive), If Love Were All and Sail Away by Noel Coward, etc.
I adore Boris Midney's Disco Evita album (aka Festival!) and am so glad i have it on CD. Yes I love eurodisco and Boris Midney (who's one of the few disco producers who could be called Avant Garde) toned down his eccentricities for this album that Stigwood commisioned from him when Evita came to Broadway, but it's shockingly good. If you like disco... (unlike say the disco Sweeney Todd which is only good as a curio)
If we're talking musical theatre stars who didn't do the songs on stage I love Debbie Shapiro Gravitte's Water under the Bridge (but that's hardly a Sondheim standard--still so much better than Liza's earlier recording) and Judy Kuhn's What can You Lose ****s all over Madonna/Mandy's.
#36re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/23/09 at 11:42pmAh! I forgot about Simone's Pirate Jenny! I listened to it on the Watchmen soundtrack in a record shop (yeah, they still exist...for now) and it's the kinda performance that paralyzes you for the entire number. It's just so intense and perfect.
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#37re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/24/09 at 12:44am"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" covered by Ingrid Michaelson :) this cover really makes me happy :) Love her :)
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#38re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/24/09 at 5:05am
Check out Michael Ball's latest album ( MICHAEL BALL - PAST AND PRESENT), a retrospective of his 25 year career, spanning his years in musical theatre ( at the West End and on Broadway), on the concert stage, and in the recording studio.
The track list includes The Impossible Dream, Being Alive, Stranger in Paradise/And This is My Beloved, Gethsemane, The Boy from Nowhere ( Matador), Loving You ( Passion), Sunset Boulevard, This is The Moment, Tell Me It's Not True ( Blood Brothers), Not While I'm Around, and The Winner Takes It All. The others were sung by him when he appeared on the shows themselves ( Love Changes Everything, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, All I Ask Of You, and You Can't Stop the Beat).
Michael also released two other musical theatre albums in the past ( The Musicals and Centre Stage).
#39re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/24/09 at 10:05am
EponineThenardier, you beat me to it! I love Laura Michelle Kelly's "Losing My Mind."
I also like Peabo Bryson's "Pretty Women."
~Steven
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#40re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/24/09 at 10:26am
Believe it or not, The rock band OK GO does the confrontation song from Les Miserables as something to entertain the crowds if a guitar string breaks and they need time to fix
I looked up OK GO and Les Miserables, thus finding this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UHRYScJK0Y
And this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSxq-JCrLag
I'm glad someone else mentioned Simone's "Pirate Jenny", my other favorite cover is by a German indie band called Slut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=texPM67ue40
They also cover Die Moritat von Mackie Messer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdaGpJNVODQ
I can't forget Me First and the Gimme Gimmes covers of "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Science Fiction Double Feature". :)
Also, Amanda Palmer's rendition of "I Don't Care Much" from Cabaret. Some may say her voice isn't that great, but I think it shines on a song like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvLW_EOe9s
And I don't know if it counts (it probably doesn't) but might as well throw it in - Raul Esparza's "Defying Gravity".
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
Updated On: 3/24/09 at 10:26 AM
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
joeybiltmore1
Leading Actor Joined: 2/22/05
#41re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/24/09 at 10:30am
Blondie's "Follow Me" from CAMELOT.
Byron Abens
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/08
#42re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:34pmJanis Joplin's version of "Summertime."
#43re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:49pm
I cannot get enough of Jason Danieley's As Long As She Needs Me, based on As Long As He Needs Me from Oliver. It's my favorite song on his solo album.
I also love I Know Him So Well by John Barrowman & Daniel Boys as well as Barrowman's I'd Rather Be Sailing. And last but not least: There's A Sucker Born Every Minute from Barnum by Raúl Esparza (check the YT link) and Lucky To Be Me from On The Town by Howard McGillin.
Raúl goes Barnum
#44re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:59pm
Ella Fitzgerald's "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered."
Truth be told, her rendition of "Mack the Knife" from her Berlin concert (in which she botches the lyrics and turns the number into a brilliant scat display) may be my favorite recorded piece of anything ever.
"If there's any answer maybe love can end the madness,
Maybe not, oh but we can only try..."
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#45re: Favorite Covers of Songs from Musicals
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:28pm
Liz Callaway singing ?
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair (South Pacific)
Sleepy Man (Robber Bridegroom)
Our Time (w/ Ann Hampton Callaway ~ Merrily We Roll Along)
I Got the Sun In the Morning (Annie Get Your Gun)
One Boy (Bye, Bye Birdie)
Marry Me A Little (Company)
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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