Someone once made a remark about how the 70s-90s were dominated by belters (Lupone, Peters, others) but the 90s onward has shown a great revival of soprano. Luker was probably the first of this newer line. Kuhn was a sometime soprano (very good) but she also sang belter roles (Chess). Judy Kaye was another great soprano who could also sing alto (Ragtime), but she did not fit traditional "soprano" roles. More recently we have seen Audra, Kelly O'Hara, Laura Benanti, Sierra Boggess, Melissa Erico, and others. Great to see that Luker is still active.
oh she really is, she was even classically operatically trained as a soprano, not a mezzo, she has said so herself, she just has a very versatile voice! :)
Love Rebecca. I was in Camelot with her in college. I was just a page and in the chorus. I had one line,”Yes, me Lady.” Rebecca was wonderful as Guinevere. Somewhere there must be a video.
Beautiful singing in one of my favorite musicals.Its Barbara Cook song but other marvelous sopranos sang it tooRebecca,Judy Kuhn,Kelli O Hara, now Laura Benanti.Im happy that we still have these kind of singers not onlhy the belters like Peters,Lupone,Sutton Foster or Idina Menzel.
My favorite version of this song., I have heard her sing Vanilla Ice Cream, esp the last part, reminds me of her singing Think of Me from Phantom., It was so good and funny, I wish it has a video of it.,
The last two times I saw Luker was in LITTLE DANCER and as a replacement fairy godmother in CINDERELLA. In the latter, she received the biggest hand of the evening singing a seldom performed Rodgers and Hammerstein gem THERE'S MUSIC IN YOU. Her voice was as pure and as strong as it had been years earlier in MUSIC MAN, NINE and MARY POPPINS. In fact I highly recommend giving C'est le Ballet from 2014's LITTLE DANCER: th-cam.com/video/XyOuzoq83T4/w-d-xo.html. Hopefully the show will someday get a Broadway production.
I too am a great Rebecca Luker fan, and have been obsessed with that rehearsal footage of "C'est Le Ballet" ever since it first went up here. I so wish that LITTLE DANCER would go forward, either to Broadway or somehow in some other form. Also, I don't know why it pleased me so much, but it did, to learn that Ms. Luker and Danny Burstein are married. I guess I just love and respect them so much as artists, and I like the idea of them happily together (none of my business though it is, really--I remind myself of some long-ago, star-struck movie fan, reading those old Hollywood fan magazines).
Sadly the marveleus Rebecca Luker died in December 2020 at 59 from a terrible desease. ALS She was a Barbara Cook and Julie Andrews discípule and happily there were and are great sopranos like Luker.From.her generation the late Marin Mazzie Victoria Clark Judy Kuhn Christine Ebersole Christine Andreas and younger sopranos like Audra Mc Donald Kelli O Hara Laura Benanti Laura Osnes Sierra Boggess etc.Happily there are still sopranos on Broadway
|A beautiful performance of song introduced by hers and Laura |Benanti s idollBarbara Cook.Now BENANTI; \ is doing this roleI love these Broadway sopranos very much:Cook,Luker,Benanti etc
Will he like me when we meet? Will the shy and quiet girl he's going to see Be the girl that he's imagined me to be? Will he like me? Will he like the girl he sees? If he doesn't, will he know enough to know That there's more to me than I may always show? Will he like me? Will he know that there's a world of love Waiting to warm him? How I'm hoping that his eyes and ears Won't misinform him. Will he like me? Who can say? How I wish that we could meet another day. It's absurd for me to carry on this way. I'll try not to. Will he like me? He's just got to. When I am in my room alone I write Thoughts come easily, words come fluently then. That's how it is when I'm alone, but tonight There's no hiding behind my paper and pen. Will he know that there's a world of love Waiting to warm him? How I'm hoping that his eyes and ears Won't misinform him. Will he like me? I don't know. All I know is that I'm tempted not to go. It's insanity for me to worry so. I'll try not to. Will he like me? He's just got to. Will he like me? Will he like me?
What production was this? I know of the original, the Judy Kuhn version, the Laura Ben. Version. And we mustn’t forget the Playwrights Horizon production with Sophie Hayden. So, where and when did Rebecca L do this?
Dang. Miss her so much ready.
One of our great leading ladies in the American musical theatre.
Dear Rebecca, rest in peace.
My eyes and ears have always informed me that Rebecca Luker was a lovely woman with a lovely voice. Her untimely death is such a sad loss.
This is heaven.
Yes indeed, and thrilled to hear from the glorious Melissa Errico. I do hope you've caught the two "Venus" numbers on this channel.
Says heaven herself.
So many things wrong with this world, and now this exquisite voice and lady leaves us. 😔
Rip Marveleus Rebecca Luker with her beautiful voice beauty and talent. She will be missed( 1961-2020)
The greatest voice on Broadway in my generation. Period.
the natural successor to Barbara Cook. Crystalline perfection.
Someone once made a remark about how the 70s-90s were dominated by belters (Lupone, Peters, others) but the 90s onward has shown a great revival of soprano. Luker was probably the first of this newer line. Kuhn was a sometime soprano (very good) but she also sang belter roles (Chess). Judy Kaye was another great soprano who could also sing alto (Ragtime), but she did not fit traditional "soprano" roles. More recently we have seen Audra, Kelly O'Hara, Laura Benanti, Sierra Boggess, Melissa Erico, and others. Great to see that Luker is still active.
So true, it's fabulous to see, we also have Megan Hilty and of course Kristen!!!!!!!
oh she really is, she was even classically operatically trained as a soprano, not a mezzo, she has said so herself, she just has a very versatile voice! :)
@Originals MLM archive :
@Originals MLM archive you should see the high notes she hit as Glinda in Wicked 😂
What a talent. She is absolutely missed.
Love Rebecca. I was in Camelot with her in college. I was just a page and in the chorus. I had one line,”Yes, me Lady.” Rebecca was wonderful as Guinevere. Somewhere there must be a video.
My god! She's so masterful!
A natural talent will win the most deadpan audience every time if they are treated to Rebecca Luker.
Listening to this, her ALS diagnosis breaks my heart!
Does a recording of the whole show exist? Her take on Vanilla Ice Cream must be exquisite!
she was amazing in Stros Music Man production& the most similar to Barbara Cook, shes very pure, she was great in SOM too
Beautiful singing in one of my favorite musicals.Its Barbara Cook song but other marvelous sopranos sang it tooRebecca,Judy Kuhn,Kelli O Hara, now Laura Benanti.Im happy that we still have these kind of singers not onlhy the belters like Peters,Lupone,Sutton Foster or Idina Menzel.
Cook had a lovely instrument but all of emotion of a paper towel.
Wow! Gorgeous, heartfelt singing. I hope I get a chance to see Rebecca in a show sometime in my life!
Unbelievably beautiful! She was a goddess!
She was such an incredible actor, so simple, honest
Exactly as someone else said, sublime! Just shimmering and trembling with emotion!
I'm so grateful for everything you have posted! Some of this stuff is so epic I have no words
Did you get to see her live (I'm sure you did)? I sat center orchestra for MUSIC MAN and went to DC to see PASSION and she was an absolute wonder
Thank you so much. Exquisite. But Rebecca Luker always is.
this is sublime
outstanding!
:-(
Perfection.
My favorite version of this song., I have heard her sing Vanilla Ice Cream, esp the last part, reminds me of her singing Think of Me from Phantom., It was so good and funny, I wish it has a video of it.,
The last two times I saw Luker was in LITTLE DANCER and as a replacement fairy godmother in CINDERELLA. In the latter, she received the biggest hand of the evening singing a seldom performed Rodgers and Hammerstein gem THERE'S MUSIC IN YOU. Her voice was as pure and as strong as it had been years earlier in MUSIC MAN, NINE and MARY POPPINS. In fact I highly recommend giving C'est le Ballet from 2014's LITTLE DANCER: th-cam.com/video/XyOuzoq83T4/w-d-xo.html. Hopefully the show will someday get a Broadway production.
I too am a great Rebecca Luker fan, and have been obsessed with that rehearsal footage of "C'est Le Ballet" ever since it first went up here. I so wish that LITTLE DANCER would go forward, either to Broadway or somehow in some other form. Also, I don't know why it pleased me so much, but it did, to learn that Ms. Luker and Danny Burstein are married. I guess I just love and respect them so much as artists, and I like the idea of them happily together (none of my business though it is, really--I remind myself of some long-ago, star-struck movie fan, reading those old Hollywood fan magazines).
Sadly the marveleus Rebecca Luker died in December 2020 at 59 from a terrible desease. ALS
She was a Barbara Cook and Julie Andrews discípule and happily there were and are great sopranos like Luker.From.her generation the late Marin Mazzie Victoria Clark Judy Kuhn Christine Ebersole Christine Andreas and younger sopranos like Audra Mc Donald Kelli O Hara Laura Benanti Laura Osnes Sierra Boggess etc.Happily there are still sopranos on Broadway
Exquisite.
|A beautiful performance of song introduced by hers and Laura |Benanti s idollBarbara Cook.Now BENANTI; \ is doing this roleI love these Broadway sopranos very much:Cook,Luker,Benanti etc
oh, love love love! she’s so good! do you have “vanilla ice cream” from this production?
Will he like me when we meet?
Will the shy and quiet girl he's going to see
Be the girl that he's imagined me to be?
Will he like me?
Will he like the girl he sees?
If he doesn't, will he know enough to know
That there's more to me than I may always show?
Will he like me?
Will he know that there's a world of love
Waiting to warm him?
How I'm hoping that his eyes and ears
Won't misinform him.
Will he like me? Who can say?
How I wish that we could meet another day.
It's absurd for me to carry on this way.
I'll try not to.
Will he like me?
He's just got to.
When I am in my room alone I write
Thoughts come easily, words come fluently then.
That's how it is when I'm alone, but tonight
There's no hiding behind my paper and pen.
Will he know that there's a world of love
Waiting to warm him?
How I'm hoping that his eyes and ears
Won't misinform him.
Will he like me? I don't know.
All I know is that I'm tempted not to go.
It's insanity for me to worry so.
I'll try not to.
Will he like me?
He's just got to.
Will he like me?
Will he like me?
What production was this? I know of the original, the Judy Kuhn version, the Laura Ben. Version. And we mustn’t forget the Playwrights Horizon production with Sophie Hayden. So, where and when did Rebecca L do this?
Do you happen to have a clip of Judy Kuhn singing this?
What key is this in?
Utter perfection. Better than Barbara Cooks? Maybe not, but...
I would take almost any version over Cook's. She couldn't act, in word or song. But the instrument was great.
@@richardmayora6974 Really?