Liz Callaway sings MEADOWLARK from "The Baker's Wife"
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Liz Callaway sings MEADOWLARK from "The Baker's Wife"
Live in concert at Carnegie Hall
Liz Callaway is a Tony Nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer and recording artist. She made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Baby, and for five years, won acclaim as Grizabella in Cats. She has also starred in the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, and The Look of Love.
Off-Broadway she received a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in The Spitfire Grill (Playwrights Horizons), and also appeared in Brownstone (Roundabout), No Way to Treat a Lady, Marry Me a Little, and Godspell. Other New York appearances include the legendary Follies in Concert at Lincoln Center, A Stephen Sondheim Evening, Fiorello! (Encores!), and Hair in Concert. Liz recently starred as Norma Desmond in the Pittsburgh CLO production of Sunset Boulevard. Other regional credits include Venus in the Chicago Ovations! production of One Touch of Venus, in Elegies at Reprise! in Los Angeles, and Fascinating Rhythm at Hartford Stage.
Ms. Callaway has also established a major career as a concert and recording artist. The award-winning Sibling Revelry (created with sister Ann Hampton Callaway) was presented to great acclaim at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Boom!, a celebration of the music of the 60's and 70's, also created with her sister was recently recorded Live at Birdland, and is currently touring performing arts centers around the country. She had the pleasure of co-starring with Jimmy Webb & Paul Williams in their critically acclaimed engagement at Feinstein's in New York, and recently joined Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, and Stevie Wonder at Hal David's 80th Birthday Celebration Concert at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Her extensive US symphony work includes appearances at The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Ravinia, The Hollywood Bowl, as well as in concert with The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and The Boston Pops. Worldwide, she has performed in China, Australia (with Stephen Schwartz), Iceland, Estonia, France (Theatre du Chatelet, Paris), Slovenia, South Korea, and Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu where she premiered a new concert featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim.
Liz sang the Academy Award nominated song "Journey to the Past" in the animated feature Anastasia and is also the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves and The Return of Jafar. Other film work includes the singing voice of the title character in The Swan Princess, Lion King 2: Simba's Pride, Beauty and the Beast, and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.
She received an Emmy Award for hosting Ready to Go, a daily, live children's program on CBS in Boston. Other TV credits include In Performance at the White House, Inside the Actor's Studio: Stephen Sondheim, Christmas with the Boston Pops, The David Letterman Show, and Senior Trip (CBS Movie of the Week).
Liz has released four solo recordings: Passage of Time (PS Classics) as well as The Beat Goes On, The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On and Off-Broadway, and Anywhere I Wander, available at liztunes.com. Her numerous other recordings include Sibling Revelry (DRG), Boom! Live at Birdland (PS Classics), Unsung Sondheim, Lost in Boston, The Maury Yeston Songbook, Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan, Hair in Concert, and the complete recording of Allegro produced by the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization.
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Crystalline, emotional, powerful... BRILLIANT. While Patti and.Betty sing nice versions of "Meadowlark," nobody does it better than Liz Callaway. PERFECT!
The definitive version - clear, engaging, emotionally textured, vocally flawless storytelling.
You captured perfectly everything I would say about this performance, except it is now my absolute favorite performance of this song!
@@jerryedmonson5041 Thanks for commenting; so happy to have received the notification in my inbox, because my soul needed to be replenished by this bit of Liz' brilliance and humanity today. :)
leojbramble I love when the world works in harmony to help one another! ❤️
Just recently saw videos of Alice Ripley's staged performance and Betty Buckley's unique concert version, which are both very different and each amazing in their own ways, but this is still my favorite traditional performance of the song; just lovely.
No one can define a song like Patti LuPone, the originator of the character and the first to sing this song on stage. czcams.com/video/utxsw-Up9X8/video.html
“Fly with me my meadowlark” gave me chills.
0:44 this lead in to "sing" sends me everytime.
If you weren’t watching the video, you’d think it was a studio recording
I was very fortunate to be sitting front row center to witness this performance at Carnegie Hall. Liz Callaway's rendition was jolting! I felt every emotion she conveyed. Vocally and emotionally, Liz was pure perfection. What a talent! Side note: Liz's lovely mother sat behind me. I glanced at her after the number. She was teary eyed and beaming with pride.
That must have been one of the most beautiful moments of glorious sound. Ever.
@@kittmarie8285 oh that’s a voice you can FEEL. How could you not be moved
Holy shit...she outdid LuPone. Breathtaking.
That's not hard to do. Patti doesn't sing, she yells. Always.
@@carr0760 It baffles me how she managed to trick the world into calling her a great singer! She's a fabulous actress and has amazing stage presence, but the singing? No thank you, yelling everything while barely forming the words!
@@joshpyman9678 seriously. I don't understand it either.
@@joshpyman9678 do you people just not understand belting
Different takes - Lupone rarely head voice in the climax whereas Liz uses head voice
Lupone “yells” with full breath support and power so actually its a belt, not many can do that especially above D5 notes
Lupone belts an F5 in full voice and sustained later an E5. Liz is softer in her approach and sings in head voice which is less challenging
I love love love Liz Callaway. But the full orchestra behind her gives me goosebumps.
I think the comments section is unanimous in saying that this is the BEST VERSION of Meadowlark.. And I definitely agree! Damn, she meant every word -- and I mean EVERY WORD. For example, in 1:50, she sang "rough and tender"', and she enunciated it like well, it's rough and tender.. Great enunciation and interpretation, plus the orchestra complemented very well on top of this world-class performance! I applaud every single time she finishes the song and I can't even count how many times I've replayed it. LOL
The cleanest, and clearest rendition of this beautiful song!
Best version I have ever heard... stunning..
THIS is her song! I've seen her present it live a few times. Each and every time she brings chills and maybe a few tears. I know she is known for "Baby" "Anastasia" and so much more but THIS (in my opinion) is her VERY BEST!
came here looking for an audition song to use in a few weeks and left with TEARS
Good LORD! This is such a hard song to sing that not many people tell the story. I believed every word and she destroyed the vocals too.
This is truly superb.
I've been having this on replay for 2 weeks now. Liz Callaway's voice is so divine. Her rendition of this song gave me chills on end. Very delicate, her diction is impeccable and you just feel every word, every lyric. She deserves to be heard more.
This is the best version of the song. Definitely.
Holy crap...I have never heard anything so perfect
Proud to be a fan of both Patti and Liz.
NOBODY does it better. No one. Period
My god! That woman has a voice!
Liz Callaway... Broadway SUPERSTAR. It doesn't get better than her interpretation of "Meadowlark." And her voice... great. Just GREAT! Stephen Schwartz must be proud!
Such gorgeous colors. I believe her when she sings.
Such a beautiful song about justifying leaving your husband.
And thank god I did. The sun god and I now have two children and a happy life.
Best version ever
Liz Callaway is the finest singer we have on Broadway. YAY!
When I was a girl, I had a favourite story
Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind
Her voice could match the angels' in its glory,
But she was blind,
The lark was blind.
An old king came and took her to his palace,
Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid,
And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice and he prayed
"Sing for me, my meadowlark
Sing for me of the silver morning.
Set me free, my meadowlark
And I'll buy you a priceless jewel,
And cloth of brocade and crewel,
And I'll love you for life if you will
Sing for me."
Than one day as the lark sang by the water
The god of the sun heard her in his flight
And her singing moved him so, he came and brought her
The gift of sight,
He gave her sight.
And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendor
Of this beautiful young god, so proud and strong
And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender,
"Come along,
Fly with me, my meadowlark,
Fly with me on the silver morning.
Past the sea where the dolphins bark,
We will dance on the coral beaches,
Make a feast of the plums and peaches,
Just as far as your vision reaches,
Fly with me."
But the meadowlark said no,
For the old king loved her so,
She couldn't bear to wound his pride.
So the sun god flew away and when the king came down that day,
He found his meadowlark had died.
Every time I heard that part I cried.
And now I stand here, starry-eyed and stormy.
Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb,
A beautiful young man appears before me
Singing "Come
Oh, won't you come?"
And what can I do if finally for the first time
The one I'm burning for returns the glow?
If love has come at last it's picked the worst time
Still I know
I've got to go.
Fly away, meadowlark.
Fly away in the silver morning.
If I stay, I'll grow to curse the dark,
So it's off where the days won't bind me.
I know I leave wounds behind me,
But I won't let tomorrow find me
Back this way.
Before my past once again can blind me,
Fly away.
And we won't wait to say goodbye,
My beautiful young man and I.
I want Liz Callaway to play my mom in a movie. Just putting that out there to you God and the universe...
Brilliantly written. Brilliantly sung. Brava!!!
Shivers! So beautiful!
I can never get enough of you singing this song! like the mix in this performance better than some of the other orchestral versions where your voice is buried too far back. We want to hear you up front! So excellent! Thank you for sharing!
Thia is so perfect! She is either a robot or a beautiful alien!!!! Can't stop listening!
She is an ethereal force! Wow👏
I get Goose Bumps every time I listen to this wonderful rendition.
Oh, Liz Callaway...more working actress than star! AND I DON'T KNOW WHY!? She is is glorious.
Gives me chills every time. Such a talent.
Liz Callaway YOU SLAY ME! BRAVA! You are the one I tell my students to listen to! You got it figured out! xo
Best version I've ever heard of this song.
I just discovered Liz's rendition and am gobsmacked; absolutely stunning vocally combined with a thoughtful, nuisance's interpretation.
The Hamlet of theater songs. I'm not sure I personally would call hers definitive, but she is certainly up there with the best of them. Epic song, and she has the chops to do it justice. Thank you for sharing.
One of my favourite songs. Liz Callaway's Meadowlark is so beautiful.
Dang! What a voice!
What a song, what a performance. There's something at once accessible and epic about these pipes. It's a pretty remarkable vocal quality.
Perfection!
Wow, absolutely effortless amazing
WOW!!!!
wow just wow
Glorious!
Holy F. Ms. Liz, you rock!!!
Greatest singer, greatest song
This song makes me BAWL
Truly wonderful performance of this amazing song. Brava Liz Callaway, you had me in tears for all the right reasons!
Absolutely amazing. Maravilhosa!
Simply brilliant. I love your interpretation of this song.
When I was a girl l I had a favorite story
Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind
Her voice could match the angels' in its glory
But she was blind, the lark was blind
An old king came and took her to his palace
Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid
And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice
And he prayed:
"Sing for me, my meadowlark,
Sing for me of the silver morning,
Set me free, my meadowlark,
And I'll buy you a priceless jewel
And cloth of brocade and crewel
And I'll love you for life,
If you will sing for me."
Then one day as the lark sang by the water
The god of the sun heard her in his flight
And her singing moved him so
He came and brought her the gift of sight
He gave her sight
And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendor
Of this beautiful, young god, so proud and strong
And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender
"Come along.
Fly with me, my meadowlark,
Fly with me on the silver morning,
Past the sea where the dolphins bark
We will dance on the coral beaches,
Make a feast of the plums and peaches
Just as far as your vision reaches
Fly with me."
But the meadowlark said no
For the old king loved her so
She couldn't bear to wound his pride
So the sun god flew away
And when the king came down that day
He found his meadowlark had died
Every time I heard that part I cried
And now I stand here starry-eyed and stormy
Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb
A beautiful, young man appears before me,
Singing â??come, oh, won't you come?â??
And what can I do if finally for the first time
The one I'm burning for returns the glow?
If love has come at last it's picked the worst time
Still I know
I've got to go
Fly away, meadowlark
Fly away in the silver morning,
If I stay, I'll grow to curse the dark
So it's off where the days won't bind me
I know I leave wounds behind me
But I won't let tomorrow find me
Back this way
Before my past once again can blind me
Fly away
And we won't wait
To say good-bye
My beautiful young man
And I.
I stand in awe of you, Liz! The first time I heard you sing this song, I was hooked. Simply perfection! Thank you!
Beautiful!!
Absolutely lovely.....
the best
Omg.
Sooo beautiful
Sheer class .
Brava!
You don’t even need to search for the lyrics. Her rendition is so clear! Pattis version, you have to guess what the hell shes saying. Lol.
Anyone else come here from the Patti lupone video😂😂
Me! And disappointed. Patti is better.
@@daviddye6558 Patti doesn't even come close!
@@joshpyman9678 Patti sang like the character. Liz sang like a disney princess. Context and character matter.
@@rawr3122 ehh I’d argue Disney princesses sound like her. All the other princesses from the 90s were her theater contemporaries in that era. She for sure has a style, but she sang like this on Broadway long before Disney.
Patti is better and more emotional!
Perfection!!