Since you can never get enough Audra (at least I can’t), here’s a really fun performance of the veryobscure song “10,432 Sheep” from the just-as-obscure 1950 musical comedy film West Point Story, starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Doris Day:
Have you seen Tony and Grammy-Award winnerAudra McDonald on the ABC television series “Family Practice“? Her character on the show is fairly one-dimensional, but still, I’m sure she’s getting paid much more than she ever did for any of her Broadway roles.
Back on track – here’s Ms. McDonald performing “The Glamorous Life” from A Little Night Music:
Even though it is only in the film version, I think this may be my favorite thing to come out of A Little Night Music (the plot of which I don’t care for), and one of my favorite Sondheim songs. And who better to sing it than Audra? She seems to have a special connection with songs about children – see also “I Won’t Mind” – and of course her singing is just fantastic.
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I agree, the stage version gives a more ironically comedic look at it, but the film version is, as you said, heartbreaking. She pretends that she’s proud of her mother not being ‘ordinary’ when all she wants is to be with her.
But Audra still brings it home.
C'est aussi l’incarnation visuelle de textes, une dimension esthétique et littéraire complétée par l’interprétation des acteurs. #LT5 years ago
«Une pièce de théâtre, c’est quelqu’un. C’est une voix qui parle, c’est un esprit qui éclaire, c’est une conscience qui avertit» Victor Hugo 5 years ago