| I think that choice was very deliberate - I've heard that Simard also held that note - and it's needed in this approach to the song: because it's kept smaller, more pointed at Bobbie, and more emotionally contained, the audience wants something that gives us "spectacle" for the 11 o'clock number, and that sustained note does it. Otherwise, we wouldn't have that feeling of "Patti knocked it out of the park" that we want. This way, we get that but we also get this more interesting version of the song that is about Bobbie rather than about Joanne. |
