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I’m Not Getting Married

9 women singing the same song (bust open any notion of creative scarcity)

    Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Katie Finneran, Beth Howland (aka Vera on the 1980s sitcom Alice) Madeline Kahn, Patti LuPone, Jayma Mays, Jane Shaw, Sophie Thompson — nine dazzling different women– sing Stephen’s Sondheim’s “I’m Not Getting Married Today” from the musical Company in the compilation below. These nine brilliant actors bust wide open and lay bare for me the fallacy of creative scarcity. These quirky showstoppers take my perfectionist tendencies to task all the while smoking these difficult Sondheim lyrics. They remind me: Any notion of “best” is irrelevant and limiting. Who could possibly choose “best” between Madeline… Read More »9 women singing the same song (bust open any notion of creative scarcity)