I’m a new fan. Lee can do no wrong he’s amazing. Hope to go to see him one day. From. Lesley Spratt x

Love the song

Beautiful voice

I wonder if they ever went to drama school

Lee mead joseph dream will do that and I love your family ✨️ 👪 30th birthday

Yum

Lee mead joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat

Love Lee Mead

Hi Melissa happy birthday 30th April I love your

Great expressive singing from Lee. Hope he comes to Broadway soon. Terrific talent.

the way Lee Mead looks at them at the end, while John says thanks...... aww :)

Wonderful voice

wowwwwwwwwwwww perfectly!! I love to hear you!! thanks from Argentina!❤❤❤

Good version but can’t beat Anthony Warlows version.

great....love it...

Beautiful voice

That’s interesting cause donny Osmond also had his loincloth come off! What a coincidence xx 😘

No-one tops the original (Tommy Korberg) but this is mighty close! (saw Tommy live when Chess first came out)

Bland and emotionless

Always a pleasure to listen to Lee voice!😍

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JIHN BARROWMAN AND WICKED IN ONE. I AM IN LOVE.

as opposed to boning up on grammar, Lee Mead really should bone up much more on Judy Garland. He has a sweet voice, decent power (not quite enough for this song), but he has a good command of what he is able and not able to do vocally. He does need to open up his sound more, it will evoke his soul, and get the sound out of that whiny Eponine Le Miz caught in your nose, and is really dreadful. He does okay with acting the song, but has needs to understand what the lyricist wrote. Most singers when they sing this song ignore how brilliant the lyricist of Chess was/is. "Powers may Prevail" is to drumbeat consonants in very close proximity, this is a magnificent opportunity for a vocalist to act and shine, but often times these (and this song has a fair amount of interesting sounds to be played with and acted out) in this song the vocalist simply (and sadly) choose to simply sing this song, not act it out, with there voice being an instrument to bridge the music and lyrics. For many vocalist there are so worn out from the last few lines that they simply hold that last note out loud, boring. The word heart is a beautiful word, and if a vocalist takes a breath between my (what) heart (and starts loud, and decresndos all the way thru to the last beat, it a powerfully majestic way to end this song. I know this, because when i used to sing it, I would do for friends of mine in the Broadway community, and if a performer has the technique and strength to do this, the ending is so much more dramatically heightened. Again many things go back to Judy Garland. After listening to Lee do the traditional dumbed down tra la la la version of Any Dream will do (and yes i did see Bill Hutton on Broadway who outshines any other Joseph I have watched or heard), I went back to listen to Judy do As Long As He Needs Me, and what she does with a song both musically and with the lyrics is nothing short of (to quote James Mason about Judy Garland) "Profoundly Amazing" And do not get me wrong, I did happen to like Lee singing this song (not head over heels in love, but did like it), but I do believe with the right training, and if he works at it, he is capable of being so much more as a performer.

I thought the blonde girl would be the Glinda ? She looks so much like Louise there x

One of the best renditions ever made. I dare to say the best after the original

Wonderful voice, sings with real feelings.

Amazing.

not as good as Jai McDowall

I saw here on my birthday in 2015 and got a picture with her in nyc

I remember when Rachel got voted off "I'd Do Anything" and had to sing "As Long As He Needs Me", I'd never heard a musical performance like it in my life - the conviction, the heartbreak and she KILLED the parting moment so much so that you can hear the orchestral players just go for it. The audience was in tears, the competitors were in tears and the judges were in tears. It's on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmKseoWQaZt2ipY . I didn't think anyone could beat the Idina Menzel performance, until now.

I have seen wicked 3 times twice in broadway and once in my home country on the west end! I have also seen Idina menzel live! every time the show is absolutely amazing!!

My cuz knows john

Saw Rachel Tucker perform Elphaba, wow! Incredible and well worth the price of admission. I'll see it again! Wicked still kicking it after all these years...

why are people hating on their british accents? if they're on west end they're not gona sing it in an American accent are they? and of course they're going to do it in a London-ish type accent, would you rather them do it in a broad Yorkshire accent? no, didn't think so :)

So beautiful sat and cried throughout

she literally is the best elphaba

I really really really love you elphaba

I love Fiyero and Elphaba as a couple. This song is very mystical especially due to where the scene takes places. The fog they are in creates a mystical and breathtaking effect.

when i die im coming back as a pair of lees underwear!!

Rachel Tucker is now the Elphaba on Broadway!

absolutely incredible!

I know I'll probably get a lot of hate but these two have to be my all time favorite. and this is pure opinion

This was my favourite version of Close Every Door for ages, only to be replaced by a concert version much later. Thanks for the reminder.

She's a great singer, she really is, but her accent rubs me up the wrong way... 'If it turns out it's over too farst, I'll make every larst moment larst'. It irks me in ways that it shouldn't.

im freaking obsessed with this song oml

That was pretty good! :D

Idina Menzel will always be THE Elphaba in my mind. But Rachel Tucker definitely deserves to be wearing the green makeup and pointed hat. She's earned it. :) I hope to see her perform sometime in the future.

Good performance but awful camera work. Too many cuts and constant camera motion is enough to make you motion sick.

what episode was that in?

I love you elphaba and the lryics