Showtune Saturday: “Honey Bun”

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes:

Welcome to Showtune Saturday, where I’ll share some great musical theater numbers from stage, screen, and recording.

Here’s “Honey Bun” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, performed by Reba McEntire and Alec Baldwin with the New York Philharmonic. Have fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsSnEkrcQic

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5 Responses to Showtune Saturday: “Honey Bun”

  1. Paleo Retiree's avatar Paleo Retiree says:
    July 5, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    Rousing! They did great. And a big hand for the chorus girls. I’m always amazed how much pleasure I get from watching the kids in the chorus. What a bunch of sexy, talented people they are. Is this from an “Encores” production?

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    • Eddie Pensier's avatar Eddie Pensier says:
      July 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm

      It’s a 2005 “Great Performances” edition from Carnegie Hall, one night only. The whole thing is on YouTube. I think I might like it even more than the Sher Lincoln Center production, also on YT. Brian Stokes Mitchell is a music-theater god.

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    • peterike2's avatar peterike2 says:
      July 7, 2014 at 2:47 pm

      Great point about the girl in the chorus. But of course its not surprising they are all so talented. The competitive winnowing process for making it to “Broadway” (used metaphorically) is as fierce as that for NFL quarterbacks. Thousands of young men and women set out every year to make it, and only a handful ever get on a top tier production, and fewer still break out and become front line stars like a Bernadette Peters or a Patti LuPone. That’s why even bad Broadway shows are usually “good” from a production standpoint. The talent levels across the board are amazing.

      I recently saw the revised “Les Miserables” and it was terrific. A very large cast in that one, and everybody shone (except maybe for the guy playing Javert). The Jean val Jean character was played by the understudy the day I went, and he blew the roof off the house and got roars during the ovation (which was standing-O for everybody).

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  2. Eddie Pensier's avatar Eddie Pensier says:
    July 12, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    Our blogging friend Sasha Castel reviewed a Sydney revival of SP from last year: http://sashacastel.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/south-pacific/

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