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darquegk
#1Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 4:24pm

The posting of Yoko Ono's reinterpretation of "Music and the Mirror" made me think... What is your favorite reimagining and reinterpretation of a show song?

 

I love the Motown slow-jam version of "Tomorrow" from Annie by The Manhattans, personally. And I've been trying for years to get an arrangement or transcription of the Joel McNeeley swing arrangement of "The Sadder but Wiser Girl" that Seth MacFarlane sings.

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#2Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 4:28pm

Janis Joplin's rendition of "Summertime"

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Mr. Nowack
#3Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 4:34pm

Does Nina Simon's soulful quodlibet version of "Little Girl Blue" count?

 

If not the disco remake of "Stranger In Paradise."


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CarlosAlberto
#4Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 4:47pm

Ann-Margret's rendition of "How Lovely To Be A Woman" from the 1964 Lp, "3 Great Girls", (the other two girls being Kitty Kallen and Della Reese) reeks of sex. I love it.

 

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#5Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 5:26pm

I can tell you my least favorite:

Glee's Rock n' Roll rendition of "The Rain in Spain"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8lRyzCfs4

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darquegk
#6Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 5:29pm

That one always made me think they had wanted to do a Me First and the Gimme Gimmes arrangement and didn't get the rights.

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ChildofEarth
#7Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 6:39pm

Glee did a version of Not the Boy Next Door that has to be the worst imagining of any showtune ever on the show. So shrill.

Updated On: 8/25/15 at 06:39 PM

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darquegk
#8Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 6:53pm

Isn't that not so much a reimagining or rearrangement as just a straight-up performance of the song by a countertenor with a highly divisive voice?

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gypsy101
#9Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 8:27pm

I never understood why the show tried to sell Chris Colfer as such a fantastic singer. Sure, he could sing high notes. But I never thought he was terrific. (I guess season 1 tried to do the same to Cory Monteith, but at least they eventually noted how he wasn't that good)


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Mr. Nowack
#10Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 9:36pm

JBroadway said: "I can tell you my least favorite: Glee's Rock n' Roll rendition of 'The Rain in Spain' 

 

That remains one of the worst injustices to musical theatre. I sat with my mouth on the floor then had to shut it off.


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#11Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:20pm

Folk Singer Phrank's "I Enjoy Being a Girl"


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Pippin
#12Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:23pm

1. Nina Simone singing "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" From Hair

 

2. Jennifer Hudson singing "Easy To Be Hard" from Hair

 

and 3. The Peddlers rendition of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" - it was featured in it's entirety on a "Breaking Bad" episode.


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darquegk
#13Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:34pm

The inexplicable Latin pop version of "Till There Was You" by The Beatles is kind of charming.

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#14Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/25/15 at 11:10pm

Is it bad to say I liked remix of Defying Gravity that Idina released a few years back?

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#15Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/26/15 at 12:24am

JBroadway said: "I can tell you my least favorite:

 

Glee's Rock n' Roll rendition of "The Rain in Spain"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8lRyzCfs4

 

That was actually kind of awesome.

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TheBoyFromNC
#16Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/26/15 at 4:59am

Jeremy Jordan did a terrific ballad-style arrangement of Under The Sea at a recent concert. (I can't find a link, sorry!)

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#17Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 9:06pm

The first one that came to mind was the multi-language "Popular" that Kristin Chenoweth did at her Coming Home concert. I thought that was a great way to bring some freshness to an overdone song.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's "I Won't Dance." That whole album actually is one of my all-time favorites.

I also do a mezzo-soprano rendition of the title song from Light in the Piazza- at Victoria Clark's encouragement, if you can believe it. I asked her if singing it down the octave was a cop-out, and she replied, "Not at all!"


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gypsy101
#18Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 9:34pm

"I also do a mezzo-soprano rendition of the title song from Light in the Piazza- at Victoria Clark's encouragement, if you can believe it. I asked her if singing it down the octave was a cop-out, and she replied, "Not at all!""

 

Wouldn't an octave down be more of a baritone rendition?


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#19Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 9:39pm

I hope not. Perhaps I just misused the terminology. A lower key, then?


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Scarywarhol
#20Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 9:41pm

Nina Simone, Pirate Jenny

Harry Nilsson, Mary Me a Little

And I'm sorry, but for some reason I love the Bobby Darin version of Mame. His usual thing but it's fun with that song. 

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gypsy101
#21Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 10:05pm

Ado Annie D'Ysquith said: "I hope not. Perhaps I just misused the terminology. A lower key, then?"

 

Yes! I'm a high tenor and I sing it 2 steps down from the original key.


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#22Favorite reimagining of a show song?
Posted: 8/29/15 at 12:09am

I have two: Rosanne Cash's very slowed-down version of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" really gets that the song is about yearning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jma6_Twd2tk

And Michael Jackson's "Morning Glow" is sweet and lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYsCYUV8O6g