As illegal as this recording is, I’m glad you posted it as there are no other versions. Thanks! No one will ever come close to the OG, but I can’t help but admire and respect anyone who has tried. This is definitely a show I will make an effort to see in person whenever it returns.
It's ridiculous to change the lyrics. Extract the entire number if you're worried about offending some idiot. Most people who would go to this liked the show the way it was intended.
Was the first Broadway Show I ever attended. Sutton was out due to Covid, but her understudy was exceptional! Pretty sure Hugh Jackman got COVID a few days after, tho.
I was stoked to have found this and other recorded clips from their shows! What I'm wondering is why they never sing together (duet)? In other versions of this musical Harold and Marian sing the last part of the song together, but in this reprised version they don't. Anyone know why that is? Just curious.
Shipoopi was my favorite number in the original film: brilliantly choreographed, danced at a nearly maniac pace and delightful. This is good too, but….
Her vocals are beautiful. So pure and harmonious, brings peace and warmth to my heart. Everytime I hear this piece I don't know why I have a tear in my eye. They make a handsome couple. lol
We thought this show was pretty bad. My family knows every line by heart. Sutton was miscast. And we didn’t appreciate Jackman breaking character with his (dumb) little jokes.
I think Jackman is a really charismatic actor and very good natured man but his voice seems damaged. He has lost his vocal strength - especially the strength he had when he first did Oklahoma. It would have driven me insane if he broke character. It's not 'an evening with...' it's The Music Man. And yes Sutton is miscast. In fact if you were to ever flip the show and cast the lead as female she would be perfect casting!
i wouldn’t have been mad if they just cut shipoopi. like it’s not necessary by any means. why change the lyrics? anyone doing the music man should treat it like the period piece it realistically is. it is very dated but you don’t do something like the music man and make rewrites to make it seem relevant. if you can’t make an old text relevant in todays day, why are you doing that show? poor direction decisions all around with this whole production.
Just way too much vibrato, to the point of being annoying and distracting from a sweet, beautiful song. Shirley Jones’ tops this, but Beatles’ version may just be the best of all.
This version reinstates the patter which compliments Hill's earlier songs, and which I've only heard once before when Barbara Cook sang it during her famed Carnegie Hall Concert of the seventies. It wasn't included in the album, but later on the CD release. As Cook sang it then, it creates a splendid comic contrast to its emotional climax during the lyrical section. I've longed wondered if it was edited for the OBC recording, or was it one of the many rewrites that Cook spoke of during interviews...?
