February 13th, 2012
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itsdlevy:

Since many of my friends were at Lincoln Center for Laura Benanti’s American Songbook concert while I was at Circle in the Square for Godspell, here’s Laura singing my favorite song from Godspell: Beautiful City. Uptempo. As God intended it to be.

lyrics for Beautiful City are here ETA: Corrected link, I wasn’t in a position to listen through right this second and apparently the lyrics were revised at one point. Thanks to itsdlevy for the correction.

lyrics for Day By Day are here 

I just love Laura Benanti’s voice to pieces. I’m not actually familiar with the Godspell score! But I like this a lot.

∞11:47 am, reblogged  by triangularisthepie ∩64
[Laura Benanti!] [theatuh] [music] [godspell] [stephen schwartz]
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    Beautiful City are here ETA: Corrected link,...a position to listen through right this...
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    Not at all, I’m just saying that the hope-for-humanity feeling comes across better to me in the ballad version. They’re...
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    Are you implying that emotions can only be genuine in ballad form? The song as originally conceived is about the high we...
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    the start of this made me cry…
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    Is it weird that I literally started crying when I heard this?
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    I love this song as a ballad AND uptempo. But sometimes when I try to do it as a ballad Hunter-style people get...
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