staylorellis:

Sesame Street, “Look, I Made A Splat”

myheartbeatscreams:

Passion - The Garden Sequence 

Pia Douwes as Clara in the Dutch production

youregonnalovetomorrow:

Audra McDonald sings “See What It Gets You” in Anyone Can Whistle at Ravinia.

scarlettwasalady:

Audra McDonald - Moments in the Woods. March 10, 2013

Bernadette Peters sings an adapted version of “Putting it Together” for the 66th Academy Awards.  I vividly remember watching this when it first aired.

“So In Love / Losing My Mind” as seen in No No Cosette

music/lyric Cole Porter / Stephen Sondheim

performance Rebecca Caine

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A great pairing, a great arrangement, and a great performance

“The Miller’s Son” as heard on Cleo Laine Sings Sondheim

music/lyric Stephen Sondheim

performance Cleo Laine

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I mean…

youregonnalovetomorrow:

Anna Kendrick & Claire Bloom in the 2003 NYCO production of A Little Night Music.

pricew:

“Johanna” from Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, arranged and performed by yours truly.

A rough, not-very-good recording of the arrangement I finished today. I’m going to try to get a clearer one at some point, but not tonight. Anyways, here you go. If you want to see the score, you can here. 

PRICE FTW!

jerbearinunderwear:

joshuaowen:

One final Shanna clip for the day.  A pretty impressive Sondheim and Adele mashup.

“Not A Day Goes By/Set Fire To The Rain”

Shanna Sharp & The Band

2012

This is a bit life altering. 

thebiblesay:

Could I Leave You from Follies, performed for Eartha’s 1990 concert album.

“The Glamorous Life” from A Little Night Music (1996 RNT Cast)

music/lyric Stephen Sondheim

performance Claire Cox (Fredrika), Judi Dench (Desiree), Siân Phillips (Mme Armfeldt), Stephen Hanley, Ernestina Quarcoo, Di Botcher, Tim Godwin, Morag McLaren

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This stirring rendition of “The Glamorous Life” not features a definitive Judi Dench but also incorporates the lovely film version of the song (which at this point is probably best known from Audra’s flawless rendition*).  This cast recording has inexplicably been out of print for years, and if there weren’t an internet, that would be a tragedy.

*in 2006 Audra sang a concert at Carnegie Hall, which I was fortunate enough to see (from the rear-rear mezz, which is essentially in the Bronx).  The promotional copy for the concert mentioned that McDonald would sing something from Night Music (this was before she sang it in her televised concerts, at least as far as I knew) and I TOTALLY CALLED that she was going to sing “Glamorous Life”, which made her eventual performance of that song all the more rapturous and lovely.

“Losing My Mind” from Follies (2012 Los Angeles cast)

music/lyric Stephen Sondheim

performance Victoria Clark, ANGELS FROM FUCKING HEAVEN

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Normally I queue audio posts for 2pm because in my mind that’s what I think I should do as someone whose blog is named me2ism.  HOWEVER, THIS IS IMPORTANT.  From the same recording that brought you such hits-of-the-past-90-minutes as “In Buddy’s Eyes” and “I’m Still Here”

couldileaveyou:

Barbara Walsh sings “Send in the Clowns” in the 2008 Baltimore Center Stage production of A Little Night Music.

Is it just me, or is there something evocative of Judy Collins’ take on it here?  And I mean that in the best of all possible ways.

itsdlevy:

According to Wikipedia, rampion is the flower that features in the Rapunzel story. I see what you did there, Steve.