For the 10th in the series of Who Sang It Better, I’ve decided to look at the musical that first introduced me to musical theatre. Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat was the first show I ever saw and since then I’ve not really left a theatre auditorum! Any Dream Will Do therefore seemed a fitting choice for this post.
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I thought that lockdown provided the perfect time to continue my ‘Who Sang It Better’ series. In thinking which song to look at I was shocked (and frankly disappointed with myself) that it had taken me this long to look at this song! Performed by so many of our musical theatre greats I have picked out a few of the
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It is the show that everyone is talking about…although not always for the right reasons! One thing people do seem to agree on however is the beauty of the song, ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ In the musical the song is sung by Jenna, who is pregnant by her abusive husband. The song is about self refection, looking back on
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The next in the series of ‘Who Sang It Better’ is none other than the iconic song ‘Burn’ from the hit musical Hamilton. Burn comes in Act 2 when Hamilton admits to an affair in a public pamphlet in order to save his career. The song is sung by his wife, Eliza. First up is Philipa Soo who was the
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As Long As He Needs Me… Having looked at Memory, Defying Gravity, Gethsemane, Music of the Night & Bring Him Home the next obvious musical theatre song to have a look at has to be As Long As He Needs Me from Oliver. The number As Long As He Needs Me comes when Nancy expresses her love for her boyfriend
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Who Sang It Better I’ve previously looked at Memory, Defying Gravity, Bring Him Home, Gethsemane and Music of the Night in this series and I thought it was about time to add to the list the classic song from Blood Brothers….’Tell Me It’s Not True.’ Tell Me It’s Not True is sung at the end of the show by Mrs
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Music of the Night… Having looked at Memory, Defying Gravity, Gethsemane, & Bring Him Home the next obvious musical theatre song to have a look at has to be Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera. The number Music of the Night comes when the Phantom finally gets Christine to his lair beneath the Opera house and begins
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Who Sang It Better – Memory In my last of ‘Who Sang It Better’ posts I looked at Andrew Lloyd Webbers, Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar. I thought I would therefore turn my attention next to a female song by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Memory is the most famous song from Cats. It is sung by Grizabella and the song is
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Who Sang It Better – Gethsemane As some of you may know I perform in amateur dramatics shows….. the song choice is therefore fitting as I am performing in Jesus Christ Superstar this week. The song from Jesus Christ Superstar I’ve chosen is Gethsemane. This comes at the point in the show where Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane
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Who Sang It Better – Defying Gravity As my look at Bring Him Home went down so well I have decided it is now time to look at an iconic female song and what better than Defying Gravity from Wicked. For those of you unfamiliar with the show the song comes at the end of Act 1 when Elphaba finds
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