
Celebrating A Life On Stage (DVD)
Release Date: 2012
Label: Wienerworld (UK)
Catalog #: WNRD2562 (Region 2 UK DVD)
I can’t believe it had taken so long for me to make a live album. I had wanted to for so many years, but only during my 40th Anniversary tour did it feel right. We captured the whole the show but due to constraints of CD time limits had to drop a couple of the songs which was a shame, but luckily as the tour reached Australia later that year we put the whole concert on DVD! This was filmed in 2009 at the State Theatre in Sydney, a beautiful building with great architecture, and wonderful acoustics!
New songs that featured in my repertoire during this tour were Lennon & McCartney’s “Yesterday”, which I had sung for my Evita audition, “Shoot the Breeze” written by my pals Bette Midler & Dustin Hoffman, Stephen Sondheim’s “By The Sea” from Sweeney Todd and “Small Packages”, a song specially written by Stiles & Drewe (Mary Poppins, Honk!) to celebrate my 40th Anniversary concert.
Note: In 2012, British DVD distributor Wienerworld re-issued & re-packaged Elaine’s first ever in-concert DVD which was filmed in Sydney, Australia. The 2012 DVD re-issue is available via amazon.co.uk and is encoded for ‘Region 2’ playback. A ‘Region 1’ DVD edition is available courtesy of PBS America via amazon.com.
- 1Overture
- 2Life Goes On
- 3Tomorrow (from the musical 'Annie')
- 4Easy to be Hard ('from the musical 'Hair')
- 5Broadway Baby (from the musical 'Follies')
- 6I Don’t Know How To Love Him (from the musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar')
- 7Small Packages
- 8Hello Young Lovers (from the musical 'The King and I')
- 9Shoot the Breeze
- 10Yesterday
- 11Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina (from the musical 'Evita')
- 12As If We Never Said Goodbye (from the musical 'Sunset Boulevard')
- 13By the Sea (from the musical 'Sweeny Todd')
- 14I Get a Kick out of You (from the musical 'Anything Goes')
- 15I Dreamed a Dream (from the musical 'Les Misérables')
- 16Someone Else’s Story (from the musical 'Chess')
- 17I Know Him So Well (from the musical 'Chess')
- 18The Ballad Of Poor Old John (from the musical 'Piaf')
- 19Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (from the musical 'Piaf')
- 20Hymne À L'Amour (If You Love Me (from the musical 'Piaf')
- 21Cry Me a River
- 22Memory (from the musical 'Cats')
- 23With One Look (from the musical 'Sunset Boulevard')
- 24Interview (Bonus Feature)
- 25Grow Young (Bonus Track)