Incredible Acoustic/Unplugged Versions of Showtunes

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 5/8/16 at 1:29pm

Curious about members favorite acoustic or unplugged versions of well known versions of show tunes

been listening to Jeremy Little's version of "If I Only Had a Brain" and love the acoustic interpretation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn-Y3P6M1FQ

[Nettik]

Posted: 5/8/16 at 4:16pm

Not specifically Broadway, but The Lennings' cover of "You're the One That I Want" is divine.

[veronicamae]

Posted: 5/8/16 at 4:43pm

I don't know a lot of them, but Eden Espinosa doing Gravity/Defying Gravity gave me chills when I heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbL1ymFdHu0

[John Adams]

Posted: 5/8/16 at 5:33pm

Barbra Streisand's version of Tomorrow from her "Songbird" album.

Liz Callaway's version of I'll Know/Somebody Somewhere from her "Anywhere I Wander" album.

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/8/16 at 6:26pm

Rachel Bay Jones (Catherine in the Pippin revival) has a wonderful CD of these, called Showfolk.

 

Not quite unplugged, but The Manhattans do an amazing Seventies Motown version of "Tomorrow."

[UnwoundFantasies]

Posted: 5/8/16 at 7:13pm

Not acoustic, but Kelli O'Hara did an a cappella performance of "To Build A Home" with the NY Times In Performance and it is stunning.

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 5/8/16 at 8:03pm

I wouldn't classify Streisand's rendition of "Tomorrow" unplugged. It was great, but she never does anything unplugged...always produced to near perfection.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 5/8/16 at 8:21pm

Mine is Sara Ramirez singing How Could I Ever Know from the Secret Garden.  

https://youtu.be/GnxrFUZeF-M