![]() Heather Headley, a Tony winner for “Aida,” put her version on a new album alongside standards like “Over the Rainbow.” Just last week, Kathryn Gallagher, an actress in the cast of the Broadway-bound “ Jagged Little Pill,” performed her own take, accompanied by a cello, at a Midtown bar, encouraged to do so, she said, by fans online. I asked my colleague, Jesse Green, the co-chief theater critic for The Times, what makes the song so coverable. Its emotional content, he said: “It has a classic arc from sadness and self-criticism to acceptance and triumph.” And the music offers singers a chance to show off their voices. “You get breathy confessional head-voice moments building to a belty chest-voice climax,” he added. Bareilles, who just finished her third stint leading the “ Waitress” cast, clearly pays attention to the way the song has traveled since the musical opened nearly three years ago. “I think of my songs as my little children, and I want them to have big lives,” she said.
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