Marin Mazzie - In Buddy's Eyes 

@mmb1998 Resonance can't be judged on a recording. The wrong EQ settings or inappropriately set "gates" can totally destroy resonance, depth, color, etc. In a live room, poor acoustics could limit resonance.

love her

My two cents... singing is not about hitting the notes perfectly. If it were it would be boring. The emotion behind the voice is what makes the song fly. A couple of wavery notes, which I don't think are there, who cares. She sang is beautifully.

@AtLastOnTheGround You are my new best friend. I have ALWAYS thought Ripley is WAY overrated and I found her performance in Next to Normal to be nothing special. Mazzie...always magic.

Are any of you serious?A beautiful and intelligent performance.

@pudgeuncle have you seen Alice Ripley do it live?? because i did! It was stunning

@pudgeuncle well I don´t think Alice Ripley is overrated as well as Marin Mazzie! Both are hard working women who really worked on their voices and their acting! And they did good work! At least this is my opinion! :-)

She'd be the perfect Sally. I jope she gets to do it someday.

This version if great up until the last "In Buddy's Eyes..." I think it could've been a bit stronger.

I don't mean stronger as in louder, I mean stronger as in the note sounded very wavery.

still gorgious though

Well, yeah, she always has a lot of vibrato, but I'm not saying vibrato, I meant it sounds like she doesn't have as much control over her vibrato as in the rest of the song.

Oh, no, I'm not saying she was bad, I love this version, I was just saying that the last line was the only thing I thought could've been better. Marin Mazzie is incredibly talented and I'm personally a huge fan.

Barbara Cook please!

I don't care much for her version of this song but she is still wonderful.

@fludu1 I CERTAINLY did see Alice Ripley live but I can understand why you want clarification. There are so many people, particularly under 35, who rant and rave and they haven't seen the performances they critique. They lack total legitimacy when they say things like "Bernadette Peters is the greatest Mama Rose ever" and then it turns out that they are 19! I think Ripley is way overrated and I am stil stinging from her Little Shop performance. Thank God she was axed.

@samanthatirrell I saw Alice Ripley 3 months ago -- She was dreadful. Almost always flat, her vowels were hideous, and her acting was indulgent as fuck. Marin Mazzie has class and style... and TALENT.

Brilliant. And so much better than Bernadette Peters, whom I just saw in the Broadway revival.

Great technical singer, but she is too proper in her tone all the time. Doesn't come off as natural to me.