This is a performance of "Someone in a Tree" from Pacific Overtures performed at the Sondheim Festival in Chicago's Millennium Park this summer. With Gary Alexander and Telly Leung. Sorry for the crappy camera job, I'm not very good at it!
This is a great song. I saw this play when I was seven because my brother was in it with his theater group but was too young to appreciate it. Now I love it!
I agree, i think that a womans voice would ruin that show, the women were the ones in black moving stage pieces. Then came out for the ending. Gotta love that Kubaki Style
Thanks for posting this -- I had no idea it was up here! The other singers, BTW, are Stephen Wallem (as the samurai), Michael and Bethany Lindner, and Tobias James. We asked Bethany to join in because this song was the end of a medley -- I agree, otherwise, about the all-male comment. The arrangement was done by Thomas Albert (my Dad), and this is the only time we've played this suite. I hope we can do it again sometime!
I really think the beauty of this show is the all male cast (obviously until the end) I love that sound of all the men singing together, it just gives me chills. And though that woman has a great voice, i wish she wasn't singing with them at the end, it spoils the effect.
No, the 'mercenary' (?) is supposed to come in then but the old man and his younger self don't hear him and so go on singing. It's how it's written in the vocal score and I remember it being performed that way in the Leicester Haymarket run last year.
This is a great song. I saw this play when I was seven because my brother was in it with his theater group but was too young to appreciate it. Now I love it!
ServosFLyingCircus 1 year ago
I agree, i think that a womans voice would ruin that show, the women were the ones in black moving stage pieces. Then came out for the ending. Gotta love that Kubaki Style
tyrizzo1 2 years ago
right. the warrior is supposed to try to come in but to not be acknowledged.
crescentsorrow 3 years ago
The guy in the khakis and dark blue shirt who sings with Telly (singing the old man) is Gary Alexander--a Chicago actor. Joe Foronda is in in black.
rheingold50 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this -- I had no idea it was up here! The other singers, BTW, are Stephen Wallem (as the samurai), Michael and Bethany Lindner, and Tobias James. We asked Bethany to join in because this song was the end of a medley -- I agree, otherwise, about the all-male comment. The arrangement was done by Thomas Albert (my Dad), and this is the only time we've played this suite. I hope we can do it again sometime!
Matt Albert, the violinist in the background
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ganzmatt 3 years ago
I hope people get how difficult this song is even in its blatant lack of much blended harmony.
Mclick80 4 years ago
The old man is Gary Alexander.
rheingold50 4 years ago
I really think the beauty of this show is the all male cast (obviously until the end) I love that sound of all the men singing together, it just gives me chills. And though that woman has a great voice, i wish she wasn't singing with them at the end, it spoils the effect.
heidilynn999 4 years ago
No, the 'mercenary' (?) is supposed to come in then but the old man and his younger self don't hear him and so go on singing. It's how it's written in the vocal score and I remember it being performed that way in the Leicester Haymarket run last year.
coventrystudent 4 years ago
oops i mean *might NOT have been haha
heidilynn999 4 years ago