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I was asked what my favorite Cole Porter song is
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It's a tough thing. It's like saying, what's your favorite ice cream? You know, they're all so good
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My actual favorite Cole Porter song is just one of those things
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Why? Because I use it at my auditions all the time, and it gets me a job
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A really great song of Cole Porter's is From This Moment On
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You know, it's simple poetry, but you want to get entrapped by it every time you listen to it
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My favorite Cole Porter songs, besides all the amazing ones in Kiss Me, Kate, are Night and Day and Begin the Begin
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Night and Day, I mean, it's the perfect song in that it's sexy and it's charming and it's sweet and it's sweeping
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And the Begin the Begin, those rhymes, ugh, amazing. I get a kick out of you
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I think because, and I think it goes back to my family because we did have this extraordinary Rosemary Clooney album
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Rosemary Clooney sings Cole Porter, and she does such a cover of that song
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I love so many Cole Porter songs but there one in Anything Goes that they sing the Bluebird song I like to call it Because it has this phrase and I wrote my daughter a lullaby based on this phrase Be like the bluebird who is never blue for she knows from her upbringing what singing can do
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My favorite Cole Porter song is So In Love. So in love. So in love
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So in love. For me, it's the marriage of the melody and the lyric
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The melody goes, dee da, dee dee da. The lyric goes, strange dear, but true dear
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And I think that is a beautiful, beautiful marriage of music and lyric
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I love the lyrics and it is so beautifully sung. I just, I find it so haunting and beautiful
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And I get to listen to Kelly O'Hara sing it every night. Kelly O'Hara sings the song so beautifully
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And I get to hide behind the dressing room and listen to that voice
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It's absolutely amazing. My favorite Cole Porter song is So In Love
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Not only because I get to sing it later in the show, but because I get to sit and listen to Kelly O'Hara sing it with a full orchestra
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It's pretty amazing. That would be my favorite, favorite Cole Porter song. That kills me every time
