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The revised title song in "Woman of the Year"

Posted by:	Delvino 10:17 am EDT 08/13/14

In Bacall's second memoir, much of which seems written on the road, she discusses the changes to "Woman of the Year" when Joe Layton directed the touring edition. She got a new title song from Kander and Ebb (not discussed on COLORED LIGHTS), which apparently is now the one licensed with "Woman of the Year." Is it an amended or adjusted version of the one we all know, or is it truly a brand new song, with a new lyric and melody? And what does it do to the overture? Does the opening, "Sam Craig... wherever you are, blah blah" remain? With a different verse and chorus? Is it a better song? The one on the OBC is infamous for the Bacall reaches on sustained notes (Wo Man! Of the YEEEEEEAAAAAR!) I'm curious if the revision sat more comfortably on her voice, and demanded less of her stylized shouts of the sort used in "But Alive."

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