Amy Spanger - Come To Your Senses

[Sukiesingalong]

she is so obnoxious

[tyleroakley]

DIGGING IT!

[dalyem1]

amazing!

[mrhoyer]

She is amazing! As always.

But WHAT is the staging of this song??? Random and boring... shame on director.

But Spanger is brilliant.

[WendlaBergmann]

I feel like the actual CD recording doesn't do any justice to Amy's voice!

[PeaceLoveAndRENT]

i had no idea amy spangers sang this song! i loved her in the Wedding Singer :)

[TomCollinsgirl]

this song always gets me. This is my fav song of the show. Just like with RENT, u could feel Jonathon's pain and anger and heart in all these songs.

[MvyMkr]

I feel like Jonathan Larson had a unique talent to really put emotion to music...RENT for me is like a new emotional depth all of its own.

And this mucical was really all Jon...the music, the lyrics, and the script. Just trancendant!

[MvyMkr]

Don't like her on the soundtrack...but she seems very good here!

WHAT a song!!!

[koalaQT2484]

Amy Spanger = musical goddess

[dkgilmorejunkie]

i agree...come to your senses is one of my abs. favorite musical songs...and amy does it so well.

[apolloxx88]

Concurred

[samerz816]

What did you use for the cut? I need 16 bars and I can't seem to find a good cut for this particular song but I'd LOVE to use it!

[bruceagogox]

The last 16 bars of it is good, just act it really well because there aren't much words.

The last 16 where it starts "come to your senses"

[PhilippD100]

does the last minute have to be sooo extremly aggressive in your chest voice.. I little lighter sound would be better for sound quality of your voice and pronounciation. In the beginning it`s well done!

[SexiKittie]

how did your audition go with this song? (come to your senses?)

[TheQueenofBroadway]

I'm like obsessed with this song. I wish this show was still running. I would love to see it. I wish someone would do it.

[SentinelProductions]

Most amazing show... Cast... Performance... Ever!

I can't believe all of you hate it so much :(

[ShootingStarz12345]

Truly Amazing!

<3

[GeorgeSand78]

I feel like I am posting again after seeing this! I saw this amazing musical original cast. It was my first show in NYC. It is the most riveting in my memory. The way she held the last note was so amazing and then she took this gasp for air. She was so committed and all we could do was stare with our mouths gaping open'.

[MelancholyBaby21]

her performance is NOT in any way emotionless. She was DIRECTED to sit very still and relate the song very clearly and directly...It's a performance that, in its simplicity, could work on stage or film. They were going for realism and not theatricality is all.

[evancortez2]

I saw "Tick Tick Boom!" with Molly Ringwald and I thought Molly did a good job singing this song, but when I listened to Amy Spanger on the OST CD, I was blown away! She is awesome!

[champzboy]

i do not see this performance as lacking emotion. she certainly doesn't overact it and i respect that. she's a superb talent.

[jazzyspazzrawr]

Amy Spanger is awesome!! Gahh and she was on Pushing Daisies a couple weeks ago which is awesome. Love this song!

[joesmom1]

Personally, I think that Amy does a spectacular job. Also, it needs to be said that Karessa (whom she is portraying when singing this number) is not exactly meryl streep. It's implied that she is more pretty than talented and Amy MAY have made a choice as an actor to reflect that. Or she may be giving us the performance we might have seen IN SUPERBIA. I've never seen it, but it's a possibility. Mad props to Amy - she paved the way. The rest are just variations on HER work.

[squireleilani]

sorry, "this song was not in that performance" is what i meant to say

[squireleilani]

correct me if anyone knows better, but having seen the original workshop recording of superbia, this song was in that performance. Though I know it states in the script of Tick Tick Boom that this was a song from that show, it was probably just added in by the script writers after Jonathan's death. btw, superbia is one F'ed up show... really far out there

[dokter2p]

Tick.. Tick.. BOOM! Goes about a songwriter. Johnny, he wrote a show, SuperBia. And in the musical, this song takes place in the theatre where there is a workshop of Superbia. Amy sings this as Karessa, not as Susan.

[ImaginaryMikey]

You're so lucky you got to see Superbia in it's workshops! That must have been absoutly amazing to get to witness! What was so weird about it?? I really wish someone would find the script and put it on :-)

[ictwill]

...this is from Tick Tick Boom... The origional Off Broadway Production :p Even Though JL did write a show called superbia, I dont think it ever made it to YouTube...sadly...

[davespy81]

Yeah... Superbia has been completely lost. This song is the only part that's left.

[grdoxsme]

@davespy81 Well not that much... in the CD of Larson Sings Larson there's the song "One of These Days"... it was supposed to be the intro song for Superbia... and we can hear it in Jon's voice...

Greetings!!

[grdoxsme]

Responder a este vídeo... Oh and the Overture for Come to your senses (only heard on stage) I think it's part of the original Superbia's score...

[spieljawsfan]

This song, actually, was used in "tick, tick...BOOM!" It was originally from a play that was never produced called "Superbia." It was made by Jonathan Larson, but it was never produced because it was too strange for a play.

[louisawhat]

I like her articulation better than Kelly Carey, but I like Kelly's voice better.

[maxjenkins]

but i mean . . . look at his face. it's not.

[MuffinPriest]

That is Raul. The nose and everything man. Are there more videos of this?!

[theangelslove]

it's raul esparza. look at the original cast recording. that's his name. this is the original cast makes sense, no?

[maxjenkins]

this is joey mcintyre as jonathan

[ieatglue44]

No, it's Raul Esparza. I'm about 99% sure.

[windmillwacker]

A nice performance, but pretty emotionless. Bottom line, she's no Kelly Carey. THAT girl knows how to sing this song.

[kickinkuntry]

Whew are you kidding? Emotionless? Kelly did an ok job with it, but not at the level as Amy, and no where near better. Truly. Listen to Amy's voice. Amy is pitch perfect and quite powerful and FULL of emotion in this performance. There is no way to do this song without it. Especially to hit the notes and maintain them with full support. That is the difference from trying and succeeding. Amy did the later here. This is a rehearsed, relaxed, and an accomplished performance.

[windmillwacker]

We're going to have to agree to disagree here. I'm well versed in the mechanics of singing. I hear your point and see how it is reflected in Spangler's performance. My problem stems from your final point, she is too rehearsed and relaxed. The result is a flat, passionless (though technically correct)performance. I'd rather be in Kelly's audience enjoying an honest and deeper interpretation.

[YourFaceFacely]

I don't think it's fair to say that Amy's emotionless.I mean you can't see her for the most dramatic parts of the song,the bridge and the last verse.You can see her a little in the beginning when it'd be silly to start really emotional,obviously,and the very end where,I'd imagine, the actor would want to be "putting on a strong front" as the character,or something to that effect.The rest of the time her face is out of focus or white from the spot.I love Spanger<3,cept for her vibrato sometimes.

[ANTHONYRAPPISAGOD]

oh god i love this song

<3 tick tick boom

<3 Sherie Renee Scott (and of course Raul Esparza)

<3 JLarson

[bumumu]

this isnt sherie renee scott, its amy spanger

[ANTHONYRAPPISAGOD]

i know, i posted a reply to my comment saying just that, I had a momentary lapse of insanity, give me :)

(also I've been listening to Sherie Renee Scott all day)

But I ABSOLUTELY love Amy Spanger <3

[akaulanav]

Yeah shes hot. Did you see the Anthony Rapp show at the Ars Nova in NYC?

[ANTHONYRAPPISAGOD]

:( no. I live in London. I REALLY wanted to though!!!! grrr... did you see it?

I have met him though. best night of my life (Albinokid concert. *sighs*)

[akaulanav]

Haha ... it wasn't all that great ... but he was entertaining to watch - and he sings good :P

[worldcortwo]

fierce

[MovieBuffStarlet]

This girl needs to try out for Maureen...

[frankasaurous]

she was Maureen a few years ago.

[NPCADUDE1444]

you know that amy spanger right?

do i really have to keep going?

[hernangun03]

I saw this show, It was pretty good.

[elleonizle]

isnt he mouthing the words because it's all supposed to be him telling the story? cuhs it was originally a one man show. right?

[Skittles4Max]

He's mouthing the words because his character wrote the song.

And yes, it was originally a one man show.

[Randalina1]

You can't understand Kelly's belting, Spanger owns

[TheDuncanShow18]

You sing it Amy! I don't think Kelly Carey sounds any better than you do! You rock!

[jecafish]

Is he mouthing her words on purpose?

[tmhereford]

haha raul esparza mouthing the words along lol gorgeous musical :)

[Somethingtaylor]

KELLY CAREY NAILS HER ASS.. search Kelly Carey Come to your senses

[windmillwacker]

I second that emotion...

Kelly Carey owns this song.

[tweezas]

Beautiful

[wdcajun22]

Spanger rocks! but still not the best performance I've ever seen of this show> The Pegisus Theater in Chicago did the best TTB I've ever seen.

[peachyxoxo7]

this is such a beautiful song!!! i think she could've done a little more for the high belts, but other than that she completely sold it acting wize. she's incredible- i love it.

[sreeser1979]

Thank you thank you thank you...I have been looking everywhere for this. You're great.

[ANTHONYRAPPISAGOD]

I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH!

[broadwayboricua]

kinda wanna marry her

[broadwayboricua]

molly ringwald...gross

[soontobeonbroadway]

Well, I am close friends with Any and she is just incredible!

[tadwinkle]

I saw this show so many times off broadway and every single time she sang this, I had tears. It was just perfect. (Plus, Raul is adorable as Jonathan in it! The way he and Jerry Dixon look at each other is great.) When she sings, "Not only one sense, but use all five," I still cry just watching this. Yeah, she is wonderful.

[Rachster86]

i really love her but she sometimes goes off key or slightly above a note which annoys me. She's still amazing. love the show and the song!

[pointme2themic]

shes my favorite performer ever. seeing her live is a religious expirence. not to mention, shes the sweetest person alive, and so gracious. and SOOOOOOO talented.

[mtagz]

haha i know she lives the down the street from me she grew up in my town Newbury and went to the same school and had the same acting coaches and yah shes really great, and also very talented

[ecolt87]

she's amazing.

[ashia808]

i want to see her in the wedding singer!!!!

[ziggylu]

SHE IS REALLY AMAZING!

[spikssssss]

amy spanger is my lifeee. she is literally so incredible in every show..shes in the wedding singer right now and she absoloutley steals the show.

and shes got an incredible voice, not to mention, shes an AMAZING dancer.

[quinnams]

I love her voice. And I'm surprised I don't hear more women singing this for auditions. Thx for posting!!

[daphyn]

Oh, I know. She's my favorite (along with my four or five other favorites of course) Broadway singer. And I think it'd be an AWESOME audition song :)

[SamuelXavier427]

seriously? Where I'm from, EVERYONE sings this song

[lizzieshername]

@quinnams I'm guessing it's less used as an audition song because it's difficult for most women to belt that high and long, especially at the end.