Name: Being Alive by Rick Light
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: Dolores Gray sings being Alive at the Chelsea Country Cousin London

Music for the acclaimed new podcast, SERIAL, from the creators of This American Life. 

01 Bad Dream (the Theme)

This is the song by Velma's agent in "Chicago", "Ten Percent", which was cut after the out of town tryout of the original production in Philadelphia. Wonderful period orchestration, though it's been performed with more variety in several studio recordings, including by Fred Ebb. Music by John Kander. Remastered and cleaned from a live soundboard tape. Performer unknown, with Chita Rivera in the dialogue interlude. Introduced by Mary McCarty in character. 

"Ten Percent" Kander Ebb "Chicago" Cut Song Live Philadelphia Cleaned

Gary Krawford on the closing night of the original national tour of "Company" with Julie Wilson, singing "Being Alive". Remastered; dubbed from a video apparently. Krawford acts it, and is very needy, frustrated, which certainly illuminates the song in a different way. Kudos. 

Gary Krawford "Being Alive" Sondheim "Company" National Tour Remastered

Read more about this track here: http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/weblog/2012/05/sound_blog_songs_for_a_new_wor.php

from Songs for a New World (1995)
Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Julia Murney: vocal
The Adelaide Art Orchestra (JRB, conductor)
Roger Butterley: acoustic guitar
Randy Landau: acoustic bass
Georgia Stitt: piano
Recorded by some crazed showtune queen with a crappy tape recorder, Adelaide Festival Hall, Adelaide, South Australia, 6/16/03

Stars and the Moon (Julia Murney & orchestra)

Dolores Gray sings being Alive at the Chelsea Country Cousin London

Being Alive

In May of 2012, the Metropolitan Museum of Art requested permission from PS Classics to include “Broadway Baby” in an upcoming compilation disc. Because the track on the New Broadway Cast Recording includes brief reprises of other tunes, Jayne Houdyshell kindly went back into the studio to record a new solo ending.

Broadway Baby (Jayne Houdyshell solo version from Follies - New Broadway Cast Recording)

Beautiful ballad from Sondheim's first professional show, SATURDAY NIGHT.
Alex Samaras, voice
D'Arcy Myronuk, piano
James McEleney, bass
Morgan Childs, drums.
Arranged by Bobby Hsu
From the album CITY OF STRANGERS
www.sondheimjazzproject.com

So Many People

The Act 2 climactic number from the new Broadway-bound Harold Arlen musical ONE FOR MY BABY, directed and choreographed by Scott Thompson and arranged-orchestrated by Fred Barton.  Anika Noni Rose, Carolee Carmello, Mary Bond Davis, and Lauren Kennedy.

Stormy-Man

"Close enough to singe your soul" is how The New York Times described the new production of PASSION, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and bookwriter James Lapine's 1994 Tony Award-winning Best Musical. The Daily News hailed it as "a feast for the eyes and ears," while The Wall Street Journal predicted, "It will be a long time before we see another staging that speaks so eloquently to the mysteries of the human heart. It will move you to the marrow." Directed by the innovative John Doyle, who has been celebrated for his revelatory reinterpretations of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Company, the Classic Stage Company production of PASSION, the first fully-staged New York revival of a work that has grown in both critical and popular esteem to become what many consider to be Sondheim’s deepest and most powerful evening of musical theatre, stars Judy Kuhn as Fosca ("impeccable and compelling" – Associated Press) and Ryan Silverman as Giorgio ("a performance of risk-taking, unconditional emotional commitment" – The New York Times), performing under the baton of Rob Berman to new orchestrations by longtime Sondheim collaborator Jonathan Tunick. The New York Daily News proclaimed “Musical theater scores don’t come more glorious!” Now PS Classics, home to a dozen Sondheim discs, is proud to preserve this new PASSION in an expansive two-disc set. 

Being Alive

Rick Light

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