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WOW! I never ever get tired of hearing her sing.

I'm 70-adjacent and watching this with much different eyes and ears than even 10 years ago. Bittersweet. Deliciously bittersweet but still bittersweet. It's amazing to me the craft of Mr Sondheim's ability to evoke emotions - complex emotions. And made it look easy and made it memorable. Thank Dog for the miracle that is CZcams!

The chills of listening to and singing along to the original cast album for 40 years - and then actually seeing Roscoe sing these Beautiful Women (sorry) down those famous stairs. Oh! Most def one of the highlights of my life - I had to pinch myself. I shouted myself horse and didn't care one bit. I still get chills watching

Thrilling, just thrilling

I loveeeeeeee that little slither of As If We Never Said Goodbye. It kind of kills the pacing but I LOVE it.

Jeff Layton was a awesome veljean

Frances is the first Eponine. Like Crawford as the Phantom. She deserves the credit. The character was developed around her. Likewise, Salonga was not bad at all

SOOO BRILLIANT.. Saw this performance SEVERAL TIMES.... Ms Paige was B R I L L I A N T!

Wow, what a beautiful, powerful voice. Just listening with no video really makes you listen to his range and power.

For me there’s no one who performs this beautiful song better than Linda. No matter how many times I listen to it, I still get goosebumps every time. She is pure class

Flawless perfection! You can feel the heartbreak. An amazing tour de force! This performance touches me every time.

Johnny just rips the solo! Boston does that to ya

Lea is the best that ever be. Perfect but perfect

She tried real hard to sing it soulfully but looked very strained whereas the author and master sings it easily and the addition of Rosie Gaines made it even better! Id put Rosie up against Sinead any time and shed blow her out of the studio!

NY Times: "For theater lovers there can be no greater pleasure than to witness Bernadette Peters perform the show's signature number with an emotional transparency and musical delicacy that turns this song into an occasion of transporting artistry...[it's] an indelible moment in the history of musical theater." After reading this, I went twice, including the last show of the run with Bernadette...pure magic, and SS came out at the end of the show to say hi. If only there was a cast recording with her on it.

I'd never hate on anyone, but I have trouble agreeing with or seeing perspective of others here. Technically I think all is fine, but I just don't find the performance all that enjoyable. I feel their might be cultural prejudice here in me. But she got thru it and she is still here.

Too fast. Sounds like she and the band wanted to get home early. Still exciting to hear how she sounded in performance.

Would she have been known as Dame Natasha today?

Elaine belts it and does a good job. Check out Petula Clark singing it 6 months before her 90th birthday. Her version is different, but lovely. czcams.com/video/N-DkyuvKjzQ/video.htmlfeature=shared

So glad they added the original version back into this transfer.

Amazing!

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I hate to do this but… Everything’s coming up Cora! Everything’s coming up Lovett! (not Sondheim) Everything’s coming up Beatrice, THIS TIME FOR ME!

this might be my favorite thing ever it’s just tooo good

wow her voice is clear omg

LOVE Tim Nolen as Sweeney. I've been searching out his performances as Sweeney. My favorite Sweeney. He really gets the intensity and insanity of Todd.

Frances Ruffelle is the best eponine just like how colm Wilkinson is the best jean val jean

I think these concerts have done a real disservice to the show. Since they started doing these, people want the singers to sound as if they're singing a concert and not presenting a character. Luckily, Frances presents hers here. What made her special was her vocal ticks and odd pronunciations that gave her a sound of lower class to the higher class Cosette and Marius. She shouldn't sound "beautiful" but more like an Eliza Doolittle before her transformation. I remember when the first cast recording came out, this song stood out and was popular because she had such a unique voice.

I googled who was the best eponine, and francess came as the best, but ater watching her and lea salonga , I now disagree

The most wonderful Norma I saw. Elaine, Glenn and Petula all brought something different to the role, but only Betty captured the classy, seductive sex appeal of silent stars. The others were too cartoonish and ‘mad’ from the outset. Betty descended into madness. I saw Betty 5 times in London, she was magnificent each time. I also saw Patti who was not at ease in the role and seemed not fully formed - the show itself felt half baked when it opened which didn’t help. When the show closed for a short period and Betty arrived in London it was a total transformation, including a much more satisfactory finale. Thank you for this video, it has brought back many wonderful memories of family and friends I took to see her, as well as this amazing talent.

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Great song and singer!!❤️❤️❤️

She is magical

Incredible.

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I think she fucked this one up. She's a legend though.

Terrible, literally screams /growls the highs bc he can do it. I was cringing listening to it. His mid range it ok. Vibrato is overdone. Imho

I wonder how this was obtained.

Hot shoulders

No one does it better!

This is GOLD!

Lea's the best version I've ever heard 😭😭

Yessssss! Oh my God! Philip Casnoff! The greatest voice of all!

Cocaine much?

Favorite Sondheim song...what beauty!

THE LEGEND BEGINS.........💙 No one will ever match her.

Only Stephen Sondheim could turn the word “career” into a verb. And man, did he know how to write for woodwinds. And dear God Elaine Paige is incredible here!

I saw the captured live tour in Philly wow

I know im a man when I hear Janus

Wow, the first half of the song did not prepare me for the last third, astonishing. I saw her in NYC when she starred in Sunset Blvd. I made a pre,iose to myself if she ever performed in NYC on Broadway, I would go, and well, she did not disappoint. Every song she sang, she received a standing ovation, I have never experienced anything like that, and she was greater then I ever dreamed. or hoped. One of the highlights on my life.