The “born to bay, I’ll be may” thing came as a direction from the music director according to Betty Buckley. She dumped that pronunciation halfway through her run on Broadway, because she realized in sounded so dumb and she didn’t care what the MD thought anymore. Apparently it originated with Glenn Close and her inability to sing the “e” vowel openly and powerful enough to get a full sound. The clip you hear of her here is from the revival where she finally sang it correctly.
Thank you for this wonderful compilation! I, too, wish I could find Susan Dawnn Carlson!!! On a different note, it's interesting to see how wildly the tempos vary. It's hard to believe that LuPone and Endsley were even in the same production!
Patti lupone is the only one who sang it in the original key. All others sang it in the key that was lowered for Glenn close. I did like Betty Buckley, and Dianne Carroll.
