Long live the music of Stephen Sondheim - May he Rest In Peace.

The man is a natural talent. dropped out of Juilliard and went to work, he can’t even read sheet music. He knows his voice even on those little falsetto notes, he’s so in control of that tone. His voice isn’t aging quite yet, It’s still the epitome of masterful.

Gosh. When he looks up at first, he seems so vulnerable! What an actor!

Mandy Patinkin has an immaculate voice, what a range, and filled with emotion...

I saw him do the original of this - God so many years ago. His voice in that live performance was flawless.

He’s still got it! And let me just say, even acoustically, the emotion of this song never fails to hit the heartstrings.

I don't think age has hindered his voice at all, if anything it is more refined. He is fantastic, even after his illnesses and it being 25 years later.

I just finished knitting a hat and my friend referred me here. No regrets, but now I want to start another hat!

This is a great example of how a Lyric tenor can naturally darken to something more dramatic. Mandy initially tried to sing this as if he was still 20/30s but when he releases his voice we hear the naturally matured and free timbre

I saw this live. Never forgot it.

it's 2020 and i am still obsessed with this!

So careful, so vulnerable, so calculated, all for that climax.... it gives you chills

This man is a national treasure

THANK YOU, STEPHEN SONDHEIM! Rest in Eternal Peace: and POWER. You gave us such UNTOLD RICHES. And thank you, Mandy Patinkin!

This made me cry! I love this!!! His voice + this song= perfection!!!!

Gosh he is just sublime. He knows his voice so well, he uses every note, every word, he feels them and uses them. His work in Secret Garden will always be my favorite.

No matter how many times I watch this, I always cry. Such a beautiful voice!

it's like, his high notes aren't the greatest, but his belt is AMAZING maybe even better than it was before

He has a marvelous voice!!

Simply breath taking- watching a master of his craft.

Tremendous version of the song yet again from Mandy Patinkin. Just amazing ~

That belt hit my soul in the face...

Nothing can beat Patinkin & Sondheim!🎶🎵

3:33 there’s no actual drawing but I still bawled at this part 😭

Rewatching everything Sondheim I can find, just rewatched Sunday 💞😢

Is it better to be the person witnessing a performance such as this, or the person preforming? I like my position as a witness! Bravo!!

Forever in my heart, Sondheim 💖

i'm crying omg this song is so beautiful🥺

Can there be a more perfect combination? The glorious Mandy Patinkin singing contemporary's greatest lyricist Stephen Sondheim. I play this over and over along with the rest of the score for Sunday in the Park with George. There is nothing better. Miss Sondheim deeply. Mandy, please keep singing.💗

Amazing acting

Wow! Just wow! Inigo Montoya is not only a brilliant swordsman, he is also a great singer!!!!!

I think that this song out of context is a lot deeper. If you think about it, in this context, the song can be read as an older man’s look back on the life he led as a younger man (and his regrets about it) and the devastation he still feels about the break up of a relationship. The “hat” could be seen as a metaphor for memory, as he tries to reconstruct what happened in the past and he’s “mapping out a sky” in his mind. He resolves himself to not exactly live in the past, but to acknowledge it and move past it.

Incredible

Reciting the Wisdom of A Facetious Modern Maestro. Rest In Peace, Stephen Sondheim.

2:59 ... chills

Brilliant.

When Mira left Saul in Homeland, I can hear him singing this in my head and it makes so much sense to me

My heart!

Nobody as good as Mandy Patankin!

Still absolutely brilliant.

再聽一下這個好好聽的聲音

Mesmerizing

Sempre bonito. Eternamente magro. Constantemente de preto... Perfeito! Perfeito! Perfeito!!!

bless him, age has not been kind to his top notes. but stil....this guy knows how to perform. wonderful to see.

This makes me cry because we babyboomers experienced live musicals and theater growing up.Our life was so enchanted with songs and dancing on stage.you can understand every expression and word..we had a great life...

Sounds the same!! So crazy

...where there never was a hat.

2:59 gives me chills everytime

Saul got pipes!

That voice

He sounds like Steve Barton.

❤️❤️❤️❤️

I can’t afford to see the show so can someone tell me what he’s supposed to be turning?

Fuck yes

I’m literally losing my mind over some of these comments, his high range is still very much intact, it’s still clear and pingy. I honestly don’t hear much difference between this and the original.

I love Mandy, but this pales in comparison to his original performance. His voice has obviously gotten deeper over the years and he's probably a good baritone, but tenor stuff has slipped out of his range. It happens to everyone.

😢😢😢😢

Mr. Patinkin despite his great talent must be a director's nightmare he never knows how to hold back.... it works some of the time... how did Barbra cope with him in Yentyl? Mind you she could have let him sing!

Mademoiselles... You and me, pal... Second bottle... Ah, she looks for me... Bonnet flapping... Yapping... Ruff!... Chicken... Pastry... Yes, she looks for me-good. Let her look for me to tell me why she left me- As I always knew she would. I had thought she understood. They have never understood, And no reason that they should. But if anybody could... Finishing the hat, How you have to finish the hat. How you watch the rest of the world From a window While you finish the hat. Mapping out a sky. What you feel like, planning a sky. What you feel when voices that come Through the window Go Until they distance and die, Until there's nothing but sky And how you're always turning back too late From the grass or the stick Or the dog or the light, How the kind of woman willing to wait's Not the kind that you want to find waiting To return you to the night, Dizzy from the height, Coming from the hat, Studying the hat, Entering the world of the hat, Reaching through the world of the hat Like a window, Back to this one from that. Studying a face, Stepping back to look at a face Leaves a little space in the way like a window, But to see- It's the only way to see. And when the woman that you wanted goes, You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give." But the women who won't wait for you knows That, however you live, There's a part of you always standing by, Mapping out the sky, Finishing a hat... Starting on a hat.. Finishing a hat... Look, I made a hat... Where there never was a hat

Criminal Minds anyone?

And to think, Barbra Streisand cast this guy as her costar in Yentl... and then didn't let him sing a single note. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He'd be easier to deal with if he'd get some therapy & get rid of the narcissism that ruins every performance.

Finishing the ha? Studying the ha? Will someone please tell Mandy to enunciate his Ts, please?