CAN YOU THINK OF ONE SINGER'S INTERPRETATION OF A SONG OF YOURS THAT REALLY WOWED YOU OR STARTLED YOU? That's happened a number of times. Julia MacKenzie in Side by Side by Sondheim in London, when she did "Broadway Baby", started it very tentative and quiet and timid and then suddenly opened up in a Wagnerian soprano - that was something that had never occurred to me, and it was stunning.
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WAS THERE A BROADWAY MUSICAL OF THE PAST FEW YEARS THAT YOU FELT WAS UNDERAPPRECIATED? [Boy George's] Taboo. I thought it was inventive, and I was touched by it, and I thought it looked good. All the way through I had a good time. And a few of the songs really moved me. I got involved in it - and it's not my kind of music.
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IS THERE A BROADWAY MUSICAL OF THE PAST, OTHER THAN YOUR OWN, THAT YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO SEE REVIVED? Oh, goodness. You're putting me on the spot. I don't know. Suggest a few. Maybe I'll agree or disagree.
O.K. I'D LIKE TO SEE ANTHONY NEWLEY'S STOP THE WORLD-- I WANT TO GET OFF. Hmm. No, that was not a favorite of mine.
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