Sutton Foster Performs 'Being Alive' | Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best | GP on PBS

Sutton Foster performs an excerpt of Sondheim's "Being Alive" during Great Performances' 50th anniversary celebration.

PREMIERES: FRIDAY, MAY 12 at 9/8c on PBS

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[ronaprice]

Sutton Foster is a national treasure!! I love her so much!

[jimtablazon]

This was so good to watch. In her memoir, “Hooked, ” she tells the story of how watching Patti Lupone performing the song Being Alive inspired her young self to de a performer. Glad she got to perform it herself!

[miss.phyllisreneefoster]

that was amazing great wonderful Sutton Foster my last name is foster to you are a very talented lady I enjoy your talent and I wish you well I love Broadway and theatre it would be awesome to see Sutton Foster and Renee Flemming on the stage and in a broadway together you both are my favorites I love singing dancing and plays and theatre THAT WOULD BE GRAND GOOD LUCK AND BLESSINGS TO YOU BE SAFE AND WELL

[musicaltheatrefank]

Katrina Lenk'd be proud of ya, Sutton.

[josephinesanges]

I love Sutton too but, I’m sorry to say, this is far from my favorite performance of this song.

[Victor]

A great talent, but so wrong for this song. And Company (1970) was not in the last 50 years. Sondheim got short-shrift in this production. That fluff like Barnum was included and groundbreakers like Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods overlooked tells me PBS has really gone off the rails. To think they once actually aired full productions of Sondheim shows... now he's an afterthought tacked on at the end. Humbug!

[mikawhofan]

I'm sorry I love Sutton but she does not do this song justice. It sounds almost upbeat. Not the melancholy reflection it's supposed to be.

[victordunson]

Sutton should have been in Company instead of The Music Man