Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Send in the Clowns

ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING SONGS I KNOW... from the Broadway show The Producers.
Stephen Sondheim actually wrote it to be performed by an actor, who can't really sing. Which is why the entire song can be spoken as it is here.
If you don't want the talk, skip the first 2 minutes

[[1]] Judy Dench acts the piece; live performance...
Here you'll see the English flourishes streisand talks about in the screen below ~



[[2]] This from the making of Barbra Streisand's Broadway Album 1986



[[3]] Timeless: live in Las Vegas 2000
Man, considering her career had been going 38 years, her voice is in stunning nick:
Ignore the silly opening sketch. Here Streisand makes the song more musical than you could ever imagine



Stephen Sondheim hat dieses Lied für einen Schauspieler, der nicht wirklich singen könnte, geschrieben. Hier (1) spricht Dame Judy Dench die Melodie. Und dann ~ Nr. (3) ~ was für eine Stimme! Hier bezaubert Streisand alles...
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10 comments:

  1. Dies und Das vom Neckarstrand23 June 2010 at 08:14

    Gledwood, ich liebe Barbara Streisand Sie ist und bleibt für mich eine große Entertainerin.
    Dir wünche ich einen gutn Tag - keine gesundheitlichen Probleme -
    LG Irmi

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  2. Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪23 June 2010 at 11:26

    I hate the song, my husband has a CD in the car he drives, and when he has "send in the clowns," I always tell him, "Why you turn it on?"

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  3. Gledwood23 June 2010 at 11:47

    IRMI: wir klingt "wie Barbra streisand"?!

    ANN: o dear. if you hate that song I'd imagine it would get v annoying indeed!!

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  4. Lone Grey Squirrel23 June 2010 at 14:51

    One of my favorites. I think the lyrics give deep insight into sadness. I seem to remember Liz Taylor singing this.

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  5. Gledwood23 June 2010 at 16:13

    Liz Taylor? That would be something to see. Liz Taylor is a crazy old bat. One of the few film stars I'd really like to meet

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  6. Reeny's Ramblin'23 June 2010 at 17:30

    Musicals make my skin crawl but loads of people love em'. Maybe I am the odd woman out.

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  7. Gledwood23 June 2010 at 17:54

    When I was little our family, including me, hated 'em. We watched Annie with all songs on fast forward! Which retrospectively is a shame as I really like Hard Knock Life, didn't Austen Powers put out a version..?

    I do know what you mean. They went out of fash bc of so many bad ones, with songs you could see had been shoved into the script (rather than "'organically' growing out of it") ~ and fucking dreadful songs at that!!

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  8. Gledwood23 June 2010 at 21:03

    O hi Ann I thought you were Ann in Oxford ~ you're the intrepid lady who squeezed under thousands of tonnes of rock to go on a homespun local caving expedition, I gave your link for that, it was classic! I can forgive you for hating Send in the Clowns now, haha ;-)

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  9. Syd24 June 2010 at 03:16

    I am not fond of musicals or the song since it is really sad. But Streisand is really good.

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  10. Gledwood24 June 2010 at 15:50

    Good musicals are really good. Bad musicals are TERRIBLE!!

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