Patti is one of those people you feel like you can't even get to her level because she is a freaking GODDESS!.....but she is also one of those personalities that you feel like would be an awesome neighbor!
Watching a very elderly Elaine Stritch jump up and down while sing-screeching (I say it with love) “I’m still here! Look who’s here!” will never not make everything better.
I was so fortunate to see her do this live twice when Company was in the West End. That production was incredible and Patti got a standing ovation at the end of this song each time. She was so captivating and so powerful. It's a masterpiece of a performance.
I saw it twice too! I met her at stage door both times as well, I have her autograph. She was phenomenal. I was sitting on the front row right in front of her during one of the shows, she blew me away.
Spot on! Sondheim gives you, as an actor, so many layers. When you combine that with great musical theater actors like Lupone, who can find layers in any character/song, it’s a recipe for an amazing experience. That said, with that combination, what kind of influence can/should the director have? Again, thanks for the Sondheim 🙏
I see Patti, I click. This was great, per usual. And while I don't usually do the 'can you do' thing, I'd be super interested to hear your thoughts on Kristin Chenoweth's take on "Glitter and Be Gay". And there's bonus Patti, which is always a win.
Great review. Her best performance of this song was the staged concert with Neil Patrick Harris. She throws her drink into the audience. And the audience loved it. I would love to hear your interpretation of three songs: Stephanie J. Block - Holding to the Ground, Falsettos (strong woman performance). and/or What More Can I Say - Christian Borle (the first love song between two men written and performed on Broadway) and/or What Would I Do - Christian Borle & Andrew Rannells.
One thing that stood out to me on this viewing of that amazing performance is that Patti just planted herself in one spot, hands on hips, and didn't move (aside from a very few hand gestures) until those last "rise" notes.
Tbh imho Barbara Walsh’s version of Ladies Who Lunch was the best. This version with Patti just feels like Patti is singing while being Patti Lupone. Barbara completely disappears into the role and makes me believe her character is a real person.
You analyzed the wrong performance of hers. She performed this role on stage in concert, with the New York Philharmonic in 2011 and killed it. There’s a high-quality video of it on RUclips
Please can you do Move On, of Sunday in the park with George or Finishing the hat? Either the Original (Mandy,Bernadette) or the 2017 revival (Jake, Annaleigh) would be perfect. Im really new to the world of musical theater and ive just discovered this musical and im kinda obsessed with it, and with Company too, hell, with Sondheim.
I saw Patti in Company in the London West End last year. What came across in this number then was the character’s sadness. It was a deeply moving production made sharper by changing some of the genders of the characters.
Yay! I love this song and love Patti Lupone but I think Barbara Walsh's rendition is so perfect, much more nakedly angry & much clearer when she's talking about herself ("Here's to the girls who just watch") and then plummeting off an emotional cliff, making everyone uncomfortable.
What's your favorite Sondheim show? I have a perverse fondness for Sweeney Todd - I guess because I'm a born and bred NYer and we tend to be a bit strange. Favorite Sweeney? Mrs. Lovett?
Yes!! All are great but when I saw her rendition live... her “everybody laugh” sucked the air out of the room and from that moment on she just gripped you with this in a way that was unexpected and laser sharp. Amazing.
I've been from Eleine Stritch to Baranski-Streep-McDonald... Miss Lupone is outstanding, but no one nails this one better than Barbara Walsh....she embodies "the lady who lunches".
Loved this concert performance. This entire section was incredible. I’d love to hear your take on Marin’s “Losing My Mind” and Donna’s “Could I Leave You”. Polar opposites but from the same show.
Would kill to see your thoughts on, my queen, Bernadette Peters! Specifically her rendition of Not A Day Goes by from that same evening! Or her Roses Turn at the Tony Awards! Always have considered her a masterclass in acting though song and the chief interpreter of Sondheim!
Great video, as always! May I suggest (again lol) for you to review Ramin Karimloo and Hadley Fraser performing Bring Him Home from Les Mis? It was a very casual performance, and it's not professionally recorded, but their voices are incredible, as are their harmonies.
Like Seth Rudetsky, you’re so knowledgable, but your face still lights up as you listen to these clips. I love seeing the passion and love you have for musical theatre. It makes me love it that much more.
You're so close to getting to the acting heart of this character when you say @11:20 that she's going off on everything she hates. Yes. And the emotional weight of the song comes in that last verse when she realizes it's herself. With her failures and trying to keep up, and be a wife and "woman" she hates herself. It's why she tells Bobby to not get married. Remember, this show is about MARRIAGE, specifically your friends' marriages.
I would love to see you talk about each of the performers from this section of the concert, each of the “ladies in red’ were master classes in performance...
She is truly one of the greats!! And thank you for doing these. It's been many, many years since I've been in a musical and these bring back such great memories ❤️ Almost makes me want to get back out there and do some community theater again! 😀
Can you review Ben Forster's version of Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar? It's my absolute favorite version of this iconic musical theater song. ruclips.net/video/ZaUtSE2yWc8/видео.html
Sorry , i am a little late to your channel and videos , thanks for reacting to this , but i have a suggestion too , i think you can get many points about singing in relation to the audience and stage by comparing this performance to patti's performance on 2011 Company concert ( which is available on RUclips ) , which not only in my opinion is the absolute masterpiece performance of this song , but when you compare the two , you clearly can see how her emphesis on phrases change from audience who has came to celebrate sondhiem to the audience who is there to follow company's story ... it's a masterclass on it's own even without commentary , but i can see you be able to drive so many important points in that compression . anyway , keep up the good work Also Patti's " A New Argentina " on tony awards , can be a great vehicle for teaching Breath Control and High note pronunciations
I am sooo glad you reviewed Patti Lupone. Am a HUGE fan of hers. I actually flew to London years ago just for the weekend to see and hear her in Sunset Boulevard and her vocals were brilliant. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Elaine (STRITCH not Stirch) says she was shopping that after noon for something to wear, saw the red hat, thought it was cute and decided to wear it for the show. Never considered the lyric reference until Patti paused and gave it all back to Elaine. It was a joke, the way you trade someone you love. It was also a gesture of respect to honor the high bar that Elaine set.
I do hope you realise your face expresses all the emothion in the song. you really live it. I'll drink to that... Congratulathions from Portugal. I love Patty too.
Thank you- Patty is the Queen and we love her. Will you consider reviewing Bernadette Peter’s Time Heals Everything from the 1987 Tony Awards tribute to Robert Preston?
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For Sondheim songs I get stuck in my head, my top right now is Pretty Women. I just did a show of Sweeney Todd back in February with an amazingly wonderful and talented cast, but we sadly only had a single weekend of performances... then Covid-19 blew up. 😬 But yeah, Sweeney IMO is probably one of, if not Sondheim’s toughest show. The music in it is just bonkers! Back to Pretty Women, I think there’s something about the light bubbliness and prettiness of the melody that starkly contrasts much of the rest of the show that helps it simultaneously stand out and get stuck in one’s head perhaps. 👍
I have this marvelous neighbor who is usually sitting in front of my building as I'm off to the gym. When he asks me where I'm going I break into my rendition of Patti LuPone's 'Lady's Who Lunch' which tickles him to no end. May he RIP. He had the same look on his face that u have on yours when watching Patti sing this song. I think I've found a kindred soul!
A great tune, a great voice, a great performance, & a great moment in theater history. The presence of Elaine Stritch, who debuted the song, makes it all the more poignant.
While I love that you did this and your comments and analysis are great, it’s odd you’d use a concert performance for this video and not her performance from the Company staging with NPH. A lot of her motivation here was to honor sondheim and play to the space and occasion.
YES!!! I love sondheim!!! I so appreciate your videos. I wish id had these while i was actually training, you are truly invaluable to young theatre actors :)
I love these videos! I'm hearing a lot of new songs I'd never come across before. I would love to see you react to some Jesus Christ Superstar. I'd be very interested in your opinion of Ian Gillan vs some of the more trained actors who came after him.
thanks again. picking up on what you were saying about having to really understand the whole song/vehicle; i find it similiar to performing a monologue without having read the play.
I adore this ENTIRE production (Sondheim's 80th birthday bash), but I think Patti's version in the live recording of Company with Neil Patrick Harris was a better and more complete version (of course this was still a power house performance) Would also love to see you examine Donna Murphy's performance of Could I Leave You from this 80th birthday bash! She KILLED that song!
Love these videos. But, what's with some of the pronunciations? Am I wrong? Am I crazy? Have I been saying Sondheim's and Stritch's names wrong my entire adulthood?
The look on his face while watching this is exactly how I look every time I hear Patti Lupone sing. Sitting front row for Company on my 35th Birthday, I had this same look the entire show.
I’ve seen Patti live more than a dozen times and she never ceases to amaze me! She commands the stage, all eyes go to her and she just shines in everything I’ve seen her in. There is no one like her and I don’t think there ever will be.
I'd not seen this performance by Patti, personally I half expected it to be the concert version where she played alongside Neil Patrick Harris. You're critique is fascinating to watch. I wonder if you'd ever considered reacting to some of the older videos of Sondheim teaching his songs. It'd be interesting to see your thoughts. There's a playlist that has a few of them. Sondheim teaching Later and Not Getting Married is just amazing to watch even if they are a bit dated now: ruclips.net/p/PL2CB4E713CEBBC794
I was fortunate to be in the audience that amazing night. Every piece was a showstopper, each building upon the next. We kept thinking, "It can't get any better", but it did! Then the finale… seemingly all of Broadway processed down the aisles (it was a Monday, so Broadway was dark) singing "Sunday"- mind blowing, leaving not a dry eye in the house. Months later, watching the DVD, I was shocked to see myself in frame whenever they cut to Stephen; my seat lined up perfectly with the shot. In the clip at 1:40, I'm there with beard and glasses, two rows in front of Stephen and to his left. I just paged through the Playbill and Program from that night, bringing back so many memories. Before the concert I met Stephen, wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for all the music that has been the soundtrack to the highs and lows of my life. Thank you for this and all your videos, and for triggering such wonderful reminiscences!
thank you for this!! :) I adoro Patti! she's so great. And she's done this song in so many different ways already, but always with a handful of traits that are constant! just GOLD ! We need you to react to her more!! :)
If u think sondheim is difficult try some Vivaldi, Porpora or Broschi haahhaha And actually Joanna was not in the opera, she saw a symphony of Mahler (He never wrote an opera, at least not a popular one).
This was great analysis Marc Daniel. Your comments about taking each phrase separately and finding the character within each phrase I will take to heart. One of my favorite parts of the performance is seeing Elaine Stritch watch the song she is known for performed by Ms. Lupone. One of my least favorite parts of the performance is Ms. Lupone's (in my humble opinion) tendency to overplay the role -- which is hard with Joanne. But I think when she cruises through the "everybody dies" line and later with the repeated "Rise"s. I feel Joanne is very nearly defeated by the time the last "Rise" arrives -- but as you say that's my interpretation. I did get to see Ms. Lupone on Broadway in War Paint and she is magnificent -- even if she's only playing Patti Lupone.
Great reaction, I've always enjoyed your videos every time you upload, I hope you also react to Donna Murphy's performance of Could I Leave You during Sondheim's Birthday
I have the DVD of the behind the scenes making of the Orignal cast album of Company. If you have not seen it Marc that is something I think you would love. The recording of the Ladies Who Lunch was pretty intense with Elaine Stritch.
would you react to Lesley Garret and Michael Ball performing Phantom of the Opera together? Theirs is a slightly different take on the song and I'm interested to see what you make of it...
Patti LuPone just IS musical theatre. A legend through and through.
I was praying to God that this would be the performance you would react to, especially because Elaine Stritch was right there to enjoy it.
And stood up immediately!!
Patti is one of those people you feel like you can't even get to her level because she is a freaking GODDESS!.....but she is also one of those personalities that you feel like would be an awesome neighbor!
Please do Elaine's performance of I'm Still Here from this same concert.
Watching a very elderly Elaine Stritch jump up and down while sing-screeching (I say it with love) “I’m still here! Look who’s here!” will never not make everything better.
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I was so fortunate to see her do this live twice when Company was in the West End. That production was incredible and Patti got a standing ovation at the end of this song each time. She was so captivating and so powerful. It's a masterpiece of a performance.
I saw Patti LuPone in the West End she took the roof off. John Sivorn
I saw that performance, too. It was fantastic. I was so excited to see Patti Lupone in person!
I saw it twice too! I met her at stage door both times as well, I have her autograph. She was phenomenal. I was sitting on the front row right in front of her during one of the shows, she blew me away.
Spot on! Sondheim gives you, as an actor, so many layers. When you combine that with great musical theater actors like Lupone, who can find layers in any character/song, it’s a recipe for an amazing experience. That said, with that combination, what kind of influence can/should the director have? Again, thanks for the Sondheim 🙏
Its a great question Chris. And I touch on that in my recent Q&A video. ruclips.net/video/f5iQ_2XXKMg/видео.html
Please react to more from the red lady’s at the 80th birthday concert. All were so incredible.
My favorite of them was Donna Murphy singing Would I Leave You
@@thomasbradley4505 Donna was amazing! I'd also love to see a reaction to that incredible performance.
I agree i thought they were all brilliant
I see Patti, I click.
This was great, per usual. And while I don't usually do the 'can you do' thing, I'd be super interested to hear your thoughts on Kristin Chenoweth's take on "Glitter and Be Gay". And there's bonus Patti, which is always a win.
Great review. Her best performance of this song was the staged concert with Neil Patrick Harris. She throws her drink into the audience. And the audience loved it.
I would love to hear your interpretation of three songs: Stephanie J. Block - Holding to the Ground, Falsettos (strong woman performance). and/or What More Can I Say - Christian Borle (the first love song between two men written and performed on Broadway) and/or What Would I Do - Christian Borle & Andrew Rannells.
Yes Dennis that was her best performance of that
One thing that stood out to me on this viewing of that amazing performance is that Patti just planted herself in one spot, hands on hips, and didn't move (aside from a very few hand gestures) until those last "rise" notes.
And seeing Marin Mazzie sitting there looking like an actual goddess makes me sad.
Please react to Donna Murphy's "Could I Leave You." That's my favorite performance from that show
I just like Marc's videos before they even start playing... LOL cuz they're ultimately always full of quality, entertaining and educational tid bits.
Aww, thanks so much :)
Have you done any other Patti Lupone reactions? She’s such a powerhouse singer/performer. Thanks for your channel!
I love this performance so much, but I am throughly enjoying you enjoying her.
Please react on Donna Murphy's Would I Leave You. It is one of my favorite Broadway songs of all time.
I also love Barbara Walsh's rendition from the previous Bway revival.
Tbh imho Barbara Walsh’s version of Ladies Who Lunch was the best. This version with Patti just feels like Patti is singing while being Patti Lupone. Barbara completely disappears into the role and makes me believe her character is a real person.
You analyzed the wrong performance of hers. She performed this role on stage in concert, with the New York Philharmonic in 2011 and killed it. There’s a high-quality video of it on RUclips
She totally killed that performance
Please can you do Move On, of Sunday in the park with George or Finishing the hat? Either the Original (Mandy,Bernadette) or the 2017 revival (Jake, Annaleigh) would be perfect. Im really new to the world of musical theater and ive just discovered this musical and im kinda obsessed with it, and with Company too, hell, with Sondheim.
Move On gets me every time, as does We Do Not Belong Together
i love Mandy & Bernadette, they are perfect in sunday in the park with George!
I saw Patti in Company in the London West End last year. What came across in this number then was the character’s sadness. It was a deeply moving production made sharper by changing some of the genders of the characters.
My favorite version of Comapny is the Raul Esperanza version. Would you ever react to his take on Staying Alive?
I love his version. "Mock me with praise" just sends shivers down my spine when he hits that line.
That's a show I definitely walk down the street singing my head! And Raul singing Being Alive is just perfection!
Yay! I love this song and love Patti Lupone but I think Barbara Walsh's rendition is so perfect, much more nakedly angry & much clearer when she's talking about herself ("Here's to the girls who just watch") and then plummeting off an emotional cliff, making everyone uncomfortable.
You don't know how to pronounce Elaine Stritch's name?
What's your favorite Sondheim show? I have a perverse fondness for Sweeney Todd - I guess because I'm a born and bred NYer and we tend to be a bit strange. Favorite Sweeney? Mrs. Lovett?
I think Barbara Walsh did it better in 2006 sorry
I still think Barbra Walsh has the best rendition
Yes!! All are great but when I saw her rendition live... her “everybody laugh” sucked the air out of the room and from that moment on she just gripped you with this in a way that was unexpected and laser sharp. Amazing.
I've been from Eleine Stritch to Baranski-Streep-McDonald...
Miss Lupone is outstanding, but no one nails this one better than Barbara Walsh....she embodies "the lady who lunches".
Loved this concert performance. This entire section was incredible. I’d love to hear your take on Marin’s “Losing My Mind” and Donna’s “Could I Leave You”. Polar opposites but from the same show.
Patti LuPone over enunciating? Never heard of her
How about a little priest. Please and thank you
Would kill to see your thoughts on, my queen, Bernadette Peters! Specifically her rendition of Not A Day Goes by from that same evening! Or her Roses Turn at the Tony Awards! Always have considered her a masterclass in acting though song and the chief interpreter of Sondheim!
I do love her, so I'll have to look for that performance of hers from this show.
Her voice sailing over that Bossa Nova beat ...when she sings, "aren't they a gem..." A Wonderful and loving review of this performance.
“Elaine Stirch”?
Great video, as always! May I suggest (again lol) for you to review Ramin Karimloo and Hadley Fraser performing Bring Him Home from Les Mis? It was a very casual performance, and it's not professionally recorded, but their voices are incredible, as are their harmonies.
Like Seth Rudetsky, you’re so knowledgable, but your face still lights up as you listen to these clips. I love seeing the passion and love you have for musical theatre. It makes me love it that much more.
I’ve never seen that admiring eyes before u look like me when I watch her ❤️❤️ u captured my soul
Can you please do the Elain Stritch I’m still here performance
Elaine STIRCH? C'mon, Marc.
You're so close to getting to the acting heart of this character when you say @11:20 that she's going off on everything she hates. Yes. And the emotional weight of the song comes in that last verse when she realizes it's herself. With her failures and trying to keep up, and be a wife and "woman" she hates herself. It's why she tells Bobby to not get married. Remember, this show is about MARRIAGE, specifically your friends' marriages.
I love Patti but could you please do this song with Elaine Stritch.
I would love to see you talk about each of the performers from this section of the concert, each of the “ladies in red’ were master classes in performance...
Could you please do a review from her performance from the 2011 production?
She is truly one of the greats!! And thank you for doing these. It's been many, many years since I've been in a musical and these bring back such great memories ❤️ Almost makes me want to get back out there and do some community theater again! 😀
I wonder if he introduces himself on dates “Hello, I’m Marc Daniel Patrick, Musical theater coach!”
Can you review Ben Forster's version of Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar? It's my absolute favorite version of this iconic musical theater song. ruclips.net/video/ZaUtSE2yWc8/видео.html
Sorry , i am a little late to your channel and videos , thanks for reacting to this , but i have a suggestion too , i think you can get many points about singing in relation to the audience and stage by comparing this performance to patti's performance on 2011 Company concert ( which is available on RUclips ) , which not only in my opinion is the absolute masterpiece performance of this song , but when you compare the two , you clearly can see how her emphesis on phrases change from audience who has came to celebrate sondhiem to the audience who is there to follow company's story ... it's a masterclass on it's own even without commentary , but i can see you be able to drive so many important points in that compression . anyway , keep up the good work
Also Patti's " A New Argentina " on tony awards , can be a great vehicle for teaching Breath Control and High note pronunciations
Legendary performer! Legendary Song/Composer.
you should check out Patti Lupone as Yellow Diamond on Steven Universe
One of my absolute favorite performances from this legend. I just love her so much!
I am sooo glad you reviewed Patti Lupone. Am a HUGE fan of hers.
I actually flew to London years ago just for the weekend to see and hear her in Sunset Boulevard and her vocals were brilliant.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Elaine (STRITCH not Stirch) says she was shopping that after noon for something to wear, saw the red hat, thought it was cute and decided to wear it for the show. Never considered the lyric reference until Patti paused and gave it all back to Elaine. It was a joke, the way you trade someone you love. It was also a gesture of respect to honor the high bar that Elaine set.
That song I think is better done for Sondheim's birthday by the four actresses ....but I've only seen one play of his and not in person.....
Entertaining and astute analysis. Audra singing The Glamorous Life?
I do hope you realise your face expresses all the emothion in the song. you really live it. I'll drink to that... Congratulathions from Portugal. I love Patty too.
Thank you- Patty is the Queen and we love her. Will you consider reviewing Bernadette Peter’s Time Heals Everything from the 1987 Tony Awards tribute to Robert Preston?
Please react to Glenn Close performance of As If We Never Said Goodbye at the Royal Albert Hall
These are videos reacting to singers...
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YES I would love to see him react to Glenn Close’s As if we never said goodbye, one of her best performances of her!!!
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I'm in awe with Patti LuPone!!! Great analysis! Thank you for posting this.
Please react to Donna Murphy's Could I Leave You.
For Sondheim songs I get stuck in my head, my top right now is Pretty Women. I just did a show of Sweeney Todd back in February with an amazingly wonderful and talented cast, but we sadly only had a single weekend of performances... then Covid-19 blew up. 😬
But yeah, Sweeney IMO is probably one of, if not Sondheim’s toughest show. The music in it is just bonkers! Back to Pretty Women, I think there’s something about the light bubbliness and prettiness of the melody that starkly contrasts much of the rest of the show that helps it simultaneously stand out and get stuck in one’s head perhaps. 👍
For sure, very well said. Who were you playing in the show in Feb?
What is “biting on her words”?
Please do Donna Murphy's version of Could I Leave You.
I have this marvelous neighbor who is usually sitting in front of my building as I'm off to the gym. When he asks me where I'm going I break into my rendition of Patti LuPone's 'Lady's Who Lunch' which tickles him to no end. May he RIP. He had the same look on his face that u have on yours when watching Patti sing this song. I think I've found a kindred soul!
Aww, thanks for sharing.
A great tune, a great voice, a great performance, & a great moment in theater history. The presence of Elaine Stritch, who debuted the song, makes it all the more poignant.
While I love that you did this and your comments and analysis are great, it’s odd you’d use a concert performance for this video and not her performance from the Company staging with NPH. A lot of her motivation here was to honor sondheim and play to the space and occasion.
I truly enjoy your videos and adored the adoration on your face for our fierce Ms. Patti LuPone.
This is my most favorite version of this song. Not only is Patti a brilliant talent, she's a great human being.
YES!!! I love sondheim!!! I so appreciate your videos. I wish id had these while i was actually training, you are truly invaluable to young theatre actors :)
Thanks so much. appreciate that.
Please do "Send in the Clowns" by Judi Dench.
Ugh. Talk about a masterclass....
I love these videos! I'm hearing a lot of new songs I'd never come across before. I would love to see you react to some Jesus Christ Superstar. I'd be very interested in your opinion of Ian Gillan vs some of the more trained actors who came after him.
I will get to some JCS for sure.
The BBC Proms performance by Judy Dench just crushes me every time. Would love to see a reaction on that.
Judy Dench in anything crushes. Watching her die in Skyfall....the worst.
Nust do “I”m till here”from the same concert
Only JUST started the video but I’m really hoping Anna kendrick gets a mention
Btw I adore Patti, but this role was written for Elaine and NO ONE does the “Scream” like she does.
thanks again. picking up on what you were saying about having to really understand the whole song/vehicle; i find it similiar to performing a monologue without having read the play.
For sure. Very much so.
Thank you! Brilliant! Great reaction!
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Yes, we need more love for Linda Eder!!! ♥️
I adore this ENTIRE production (Sondheim's 80th birthday bash), but I think Patti's version in the live recording of Company with Neil Patrick Harris was a better and more complete version (of course this was still a power house performance)
Would also love to see you examine Donna Murphy's performance of Could I Leave You from this 80th birthday bash! She KILLED that song!
PATTI LU PONE I'M NOT WORRRTHHYYYY
❤️ great commentary ❤️
Patty is Broadway.
I'm going to visit my vocal coach on Tuesday. She's 98! And I'm singing this song. I've been studying with her since the mid 70's!
A great one would be Patti singing Meadowlark- just spectacular!!!
Love these videos. But, what's with some of the pronunciations? Am I wrong? Am I crazy? Have I been saying Sondheim's and Stritch's names wrong my entire adulthood?
The look on his face while watching this is exactly how I look every time I hear Patti Lupone sing. Sitting front row for Company on my 35th Birthday, I had this same look the entire show.
I’ve seen Patti live more than a dozen times and she never ceases to amaze me! She commands the stage, all eyes go to her and she just shines in everything I’ve seen her in. There is no one like her and I don’t think there ever will be.
I only was her in concert once, a few years ago in a small venue in San Francisco. Around 150-200 seats. She was incredible
Thomas Bradley.... She is wonderful!!
Patti. The queen
I'd not seen this performance by Patti, personally I half expected it to be the concert version where she played alongside Neil Patrick Harris. You're critique is fascinating to watch. I wonder if you'd ever considered reacting to some of the older videos of Sondheim teaching his songs. It'd be interesting to see your thoughts. There's a playlist that has a few of them. Sondheim teaching Later and Not Getting Married is just amazing to watch even if they are a bit dated now: ruclips.net/p/PL2CB4E713CEBBC794
I was fortunate to be in the audience that amazing night. Every piece was a showstopper, each building upon the next. We kept thinking, "It can't get any better", but it did! Then the finale… seemingly all of Broadway processed down the aisles (it was a Monday, so Broadway was dark) singing "Sunday"- mind blowing, leaving not a dry eye in the house. Months later, watching the DVD, I was shocked to see myself in frame whenever they cut to Stephen; my seat lined up perfectly with the shot. In the clip at 1:40, I'm there with beard and glasses, two rows in front of Stephen and to his left. I just paged through the Playbill and Program from that night, bringing back so many memories. Before the concert I met Stephen, wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for all the music that has been the soundtrack to the highs and lows of my life. Thank you for this and all your videos, and for triggering such wonderful reminiscences!
thank you for this!! :) I adoro Patti! she's so great. And she's done this song in so many different ways already, but always with a handful of traits that are constant! just GOLD ! We need you to react to her more!! :)
If u think sondheim is difficult try some Vivaldi, Porpora or Broschi haahhaha And actually Joanna was not in the opera, she saw a symphony of Mahler (He never wrote an opera, at least not a popular one).
Can you review Marin Mazzie’s performance of Losing my Mind from this concert?
I would love for you to react to something from Falsettos, specifically I'm Breaking Down or The Thrill Of First Love
Love this and Ms. Lupone, of course. But, I'd like to see you react and critique Audra McDonald.
This was great analysis Marc Daniel. Your comments about taking each phrase separately and finding the character within each phrase I will take to heart. One of my favorite parts of the performance is seeing Elaine Stritch watch the song she is known for performed by Ms. Lupone. One of my least favorite parts of the performance is Ms. Lupone's (in my humble opinion) tendency to overplay the role -- which is hard with Joanne. But I think when she cruises through the "everybody dies" line and later with the repeated "Rise"s. I feel Joanne is very nearly defeated by the time the last "Rise" arrives -- but as you say that's my interpretation. I did get to see Ms. Lupone on Broadway in War Paint and she is magnificent -- even if she's only playing Patti Lupone.
Great reaction, I've always enjoyed your videos every time you upload, I hope you also react to Donna Murphy's performance of Could I Leave You during Sondheim's Birthday
My favorite performance of this is Patti at the concert performance of company with NPH and the New York philharmonic
I like every video before I even watch it, I just want you to do every musical, and more females, please!
I have the DVD of the behind the scenes making of the Orignal cast album of Company. If you have not seen it Marc that is something I think you would love. The recording of the Ladies Who Lunch was pretty intense with Elaine Stritch.
Oh, I'd love to see it!
would you react to Lesley Garret and Michael Ball performing Phantom of the Opera together? Theirs is a slightly different take on the song and I'm interested to see what you make of it...