CountertenorChris Colfer (as Kurt Hummel) sings the song in the Glee season 2 episode "Born This Way". A review in Salon describes Colfer's performance as turning the song "into a valentine to self-knowledge and self-improvement—and a young, gay singer's dream of treating the world as a stage and commanding it like a star."[3]
In 1994, American singer, songwriter, actress and director Barbra Streisand released her cover version of "As If We Never Said Goodbye". It is taken from Streisands twenty-sixth studio album, Back to Broadway (1993), and peaked at number 20 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is also featured on the live albums The Concert and Back to Brooklyn.
Critical reception
Sam Wood from Philadelphia Inquirer found that after premiering the song, taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway adaptation of Sunset Boulevard, Streisand takes the opportunity to place "a proprietary stamp" on it.[4] Richard Harrington from The Washington Post named "As If We Never Said Goodbye" the "standout" of Back to Broadway, writing, "Like many Lloyd Webber songs, it's maudlin, sentimental and faintly familiar - an assemblage of nostalgic reflections cannily crafted into a major statement through a melody that sweeps steadily toward its bravado finale. Streisand-as-Desmond sings "This world's waited long enough/ I've come home at last," and it's hard not to make a connection to commercial expectations for this album."[5]
