Steve Dickman - I have. It WORKS!

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She really stands out.

i'm with you!

Love you.

Here here! Btw I quite liked what Dorothy Louden did with it at Carnegie Hall. "If that person was a... DRag..."

Nothing to do with the language or the specific words i just prefer the flow of the changed lyrics

well it had been 12 years

Almost 12 years after this comment lol

@@pontythython1901 LOL

Also the 12 years thing is no excuse--the three ladies remembered the full choreography for the 1990 reunion concert! ;)

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I actually come from Marriage Story.

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Wrote that like it's an inherently bad thing. Ain't it impressive when folks can play multiple instruments? And not all musicals need a huge orchestra.

It also feels you're trying to imply most modern musicals don't have a fully furnished pit and are forced to rely on actors to play instruments...if you gave a chance to shows like Hamilton, Hadestown and Come From Away, you'd hear that the pit is alive and well in contemporary Broadway, and that even without a fully fledged, traditionally codified orchestra, they can produce spectacular ambience and flair

She works regularly in the Cincinnati professional theatres.

@@mugmiso Thank you for the update.

"Showstoppers: The Best of Broadway" (You can see it here on KZfaq.)

I mean, specificity, what was this performance from?

"Showstoppers: The Best of Broadway" (You can see it here on KZfaq.) Here are the songs [copied from that video’s description]: 1. Everything's Coming Up Roses--Ethel Merman (Gypsy) 2. Quadrille--the American Dance Machine (Can-Can) 3. Get Some Cash for Your Trash--Nell Carter (Ain't Misbehaving) 4. You Could Drive a Person Crazy--Donna McKechnie, Pamela Myers, Susan Browning (Company) 5. You Made Me Love You--Debbie Reynolds (Irene) 6. Try to Remember--Jerry Orbach (The Fantastics) 7. Shriner's Dance--Chita Rivera and the American Dance Machine (Bye Bye Birdie) 8. Summer Loving--Barry Bostwick and Carol Demas (Grease) 9. Sleeping Bee--Diahann Carroll (House of Flowers) 10. Never Will I Marry--Anthony Perkins (Greenwillow) 11. All for the Best--Stephen Nathan and David Haskell (Godspell) 12. Mean to Me--Nell Carter (Ain't Misbehaving) 13. I Believe in You--Robert Morse (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) 14. Could I Leave You--Alexis Smith (Follies) 15. Charlie's Place--Donna McKechnie, Wayne Cilento, and the American Dance Machine (Over Here) 16. Little One New York--Chita Rivera and the American Dance Machine (Tenderloin) 17. Pretty Woman--Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd) 18. Send in the Clowns--Glynis Johns and Len Cariou (A Little Night Music) 19. Those Were the Good Old Days--Ray Walston (Damn Yankees) 20. They Say It's Wonderful--Ethel Merman (Annie Get Your Gun) 21. Lullaby of Broadway--Jerry Orbach and the entire company

@@jeff__w Thank you! 🙏🏾

@@sikandermallu My pleasure! 😊

In his book, Sondheim said that he regretted writing that line in the song, and that even at the time it was an outdated term.

Ed Miller black people use that term because we are allowed too, we changed the ending of that word to an a and use it as endearing term to only black people, when a term that is used to degrade you in an offensive manner, the only people who gain authority over it would be the people it’s used against, not every black person likes it but we are only ok with it being said as long as it’s by a black person, it can’t even truly offend you

Cant find anyone in the comments offended by it, yet so many people talking about them.

So was George Furth, who wrote the book for Company (and won a Tony for it.)

leetylr I know this comment is 4 years old but they most definitely did not

Sondheim wrote in his book that it was meant as the slur, and that he regrets writing it into the song.