Adelaide's Lament (Lisa Jennings)

[Rhinogradentian]

I live in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. This is technically not what I was looking for.

[ichigolover11able]

THAT WAS AMAZING. This really helped me with my audition for Guys and Dolls in my high school. They told me I did amazing. Hope I get the part! Thank you Lisa Jennings!

[mytch17]

Love it. X

[TheHippoduck]

My goodness!  She's amazing! Love it!

[Teller1060]

I LOVE this performance! I'm going to try to mimmick it at a women's function I'm performing at!

[andrea1341]

omg!! this was amaizing!!

[wackos36]

Lisa Jennings

[mladenson]

Who is this???? Does anyone know?

[kce3productions]

@mladenson Lisa Jennings.

[Broadway3]

i love the bit with "see note"

[Sirinya92]

LOVE HER !

[NoSeaChusma]

A great performance with neglected blocking and choreography!

Why does the director have her sit for two solid minutes, then get up and pace for another minute and a half on a nearly dark stage? ZZZZZZZZZ

[reader55player]

She reminds me so much of my drama teacher! This is my district piece and she is a great influence.

[realguada]

wow, she knows what she's doing... :)

[sing2milo]

It's really cute, but she really needs to be more consistent with her accent.

[KevinScottSings]

good, one of the best on youtube

[VentureCrew007]

She's good, but she bites her words too much. My guess is she hasn't had any voice training. Quite good for an amateur, however.

[laneylikewhoa]

she doesn't have the right accent in all of her words, but it was good overall.

[mecca1995]

i did not like that version at all

[awesomechowchow]

definitely the best adelaide ever! she's really funny and good i love her see note thing

[25stealthshooter]

well i no morgan is this in our play im just stage crew haha

[xdramaaqueenx]

amazing minus one of the final notes, which was just flat! im playing adelaide in my school play and was looking on here for inspiration - she is the best one ive seen!!

[meganrawrbizzle]

im adelaide in my school play :)

[savyyoung]

i am adelaide in my school play, and this lady is really good!

[iluvtosing12]

im her for the play

[homelt]

Ouch...pushing the chest voice on the last note = flat enough for anyone to hear. Darn. That's really the money note on this one. Other than that, a GREAT interpretation. Really like the "See note" schtick.

[greendncr94]

she was good but adelaide is suppose to say "person" like she's saying"poison".

[SecretRainbow]

this was so great, i got chills towards the end!

[snowho92]

best adelaide ive ever seen!!!!!! soo charismatic and funnY!!

[ArminaJFB]

i lov elove love this performance! i am studying this song for an audition soon and i gotta say, she is pretty awesome, funy too! :D

she mixes that nazaly voice with unforced humor and she still looks damn sexy on that stage :)

love it!

[MetalYoshiEgg]

I LOVE the vibrato on "person"....on the "son" bit.

It's like an adorable cartoon character.

This woman is brilliant.

Very.....fresh. A different interpretation to most, still maintaining Adelaide's characterisation. Very nice.

[americanidolinsider]

Yeah the vibrato is amazing as well as the facials.

[flashesofbrilliance1]

Well done. She made the song hers with many personal and fresh choices; high stakes, light touch, great use of her voice throughout the piece. Nice!

[theevvenprincess]

@flashesofbrilliance1 hell no!! shes good .. but this song belongs to Vivian Blaine in my opinion :/

[kathleensezhai]

haha I love how she did 'see note'. (: She's an awesome Adelaide

[Akuchan7]

I LOVE Musical Theatre! Well done!

[frenchy8th]

Excellent job with the acting... I agree, she made it very interesting.

[TheLovesong123]

i loove the accent i want to be adelade in my schools vesion any tips i would looove them and i looved the facial esspression u gave me tons of ideas thanks♥♥♥

[thinazzabird]

ownin' this part job well done there's no way to play guys and dolls but light and this nails it thanks

[tvtuner10]

u did a bad job wit da nyc accent.

[DemonMaiden]

So funny! XD I loved how she acted at the "See Note" part. x3

[WILTALK]

Ok she does slip out of dialect but she does some interesting and subtle things with this song. I liked it.

[sidsidluvshugs]

i think the one at my middle school was better. the girl who sang it at my school but more soul into it.

[theatrebabe39]

LOVE IT! I'm singing this today for Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin and I am SUPER nervous! Thanks for the inspiration!

[showersinger34]

THAT IS SO COOL!!!!!

how do you get to do that?

how did it go?

[pointeprincess20]

The Adelaide at my high school this year was AMAZING. No offence, because this girl does have a lot of talent, but I've seen better. Her voice is very nice, and she sang the song really, really well, but it was lacking some of the humor and emotion that could have been there. She does have a little bit of the accent here and there, but not as much as she should for Adelaide. Good job though.

[JescaLovey]

We're doing this as part of a medley called Leading Ladies.

I'm watching videos to get ideas for the accent.

She's got the perfect voice; but the accent's missing!

[itsxheaver]

OMFG ME TOO!!!!!

i tried out for the solo, and i dont know if im gonna get it, so im looking on here to learn about the accent. but as you said, its not here. =[

[OKills]

shes a good singer but wheres the New York accent!! per SON is in a foreign accent aswell ...cud be better there like!

[AbbiMay93]

check out my rehersal of this song (it's a video response to this!)

[92sb11]

i think you would make a good Galinda from wicked !!!

I think it was excellent

[ClaudiaTripleThreat]

wooo!!!!!!! shes AWESOME!!!

[nathionk]

Sorry to say, but the adelaide at my high school this year did soooo much better this video doesn't even compare. its too bad were not allowed to record it and post it, it would be almost an instant hit.

[tarynactress]

Okay, she is AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!

Why are there all of these "thumbs down"?????

Jealous?

[itsxheaver]

no. shes missing the accent. were not jealous

[tarynactress]

NO! She has the accent!

[kylerehnlund24]

amazing!!!

[xWickedxRentx]

Amazing!

my school is doing this xD

[smile4thaprinces1]

i literally said wow out loud. she was absolutely STUNNING she hit the accent. she hit all notes perfectly. LOVED her facial expressions and you could tell she was having a lot of fun. good for her :-)

[elphie0801]

she is the essence of adelaide ;D

I was adelaide in my high school performance.

nowhere near this good ofc ;P

[DSBallerina]

this is EXCELLENT. I'm playing adelaide in my high school's production and this taught me alot about what to do with this song. thank you.

[elphie0801]

where is your high school?

just out of interest lol.

i was adelaide too : )

[filmmaker305]

this was great! 5/5 stars!!!!!!

[mkmih01]

yuck

[beachestilltheend]

Amazing!! I love it!

[itsbiancabetch95]

wow! that was truly amazing! the facial expressions! the voice! you've got it all! im miss adelaide in my middle school guys and dolls! were doing guys and dolls junior! but im learning this song right now! im excited!

[AOqtII]

Fabulous performance!!!!!!!!

[LuCkYdOgS36]

I am auditioning 4 this play does any1 have any suggestions?

[karstuff]

I Love it! Really Good!

[actressindemaking]

wow! i actually thought that was really good! she really kind of made it her own, instead of just copying the way other actresses did it.

[innerpunk16]

i, having done the play...thought she was funny and did a great job!

[KristinChenoweth1]

I admire her attempt at this difficult role, but, I did not enjoy it at all. I did not feel she did a good job. She changed the words very slightly as well.

[rebrebekah]

If this is an amateur performance, I think this is very very good. Ok, one dodgy note at the end, but I love her facial expressions, which are also reflected in the way uses her voice. The most important thing about Adelaide is personality, not vocals and I think this actress has both :-)

[L3th4l4ng3L7]

she dusnt say person right!

[kaylaisanerd]

People make me mad. All everyone seems to care about it the accent. A huge thing for an actress taking a part this well known is meeting everyones expectations. Some people say she copied the little manurisms and quirks other actresses have others say she

[mcbabi7]

wow i didnt like that..the way she pronounced person. it was like purse-ONNN. i thought it was supposed to be poysin?

[milkncookies11]

role, not rold...my bad

[milkncookies11]

shes gooooood. I might audition for this play, and i really wanna b adelaide, so I am watching her as a rold model. she is really gr8 :]

[bubblybrunette96]

its supposed 2 b poyson

[mulioctaveman]

It was okay but I've seen Carol Burnett perform this song. But for what it was she did great.

[mulioctaveman]

and the high note on bad was flat.

[dudess4rent]

it's not an easy to please character to play. give her a break.

[SUPPPlauren]

ah i love it.

(:

[goodgracious1]

i hated it :/

[thomfish06]

i am with you

[gurlyoubetrippin]

OMG PERFECT.

i just got the role of adelaide in my play and i wasnt quite sure how to act out this song. i could def. learn from this ! thanks & good job !(:

[gilber5482]

I still think she's the most FANTABULOUS

adelaide! i'm playin sarah in guys and dolls

junior but(not to be a snob)but i really wanted adelaide cuz i'm hilarious.if only I

could sing like her...

[gilber5482]

we're doin guys n dolls junior & im playin

sarah brown even though i wanted adelaide

so bad i could taste it but i just wanted 2 say i think this girl's better than carol burnett on adelaides lament & i love carol.thanks.

[AlebeskaGenius]

Wow, what a great job! A Persawn xD! And what great singing :)

[Geekella]

lol i LOVE her aggression at the end

[PolarSquid]

Her accent was okay when she wasn't singing loudly, very high, or very low, but when she did, her real accent sort of came through...

Which was kinda irritaing.

But she was good at singing.

[LoveMySpade]

I like how she says "person"

:D

[m15tt]

did you video tape this?

if you did what camera did u use?

[megs1031]

She's trying to hard to use a New York accent, causing it to kinda sorta suck....

[lovextohate]

That was excellent. I'm auditioning for Little Shop of Horrors as the part of Audrey, and I'm considering singing this song, as the characters have the same attitude and a similar accent.

[SharpCookies]

I sang this for my callback for the school musical. We're doing the same musical this songs from (Guys and Dolls) so I thought it was a good choice (Also considering I really wanted to be Adelaide). Only was cast as a chorus member, but enjoyed singing some of this.

[aproby]

She was sooooooo awesome!!!

[suitehannahfan]

SHE FRIGGIN ROCKS! lol

I have to do this song, and I'm really good at it, but I'm using her as my acting model now!

ahaha! GREAT JOB! :)

~Diana~ <33

[deadbydawn123]

this is good

[primerib613]

Hi. Who's singing this?  Good performance!