Broadway and musical theatre superfan; champion of theatre arts in education; and all-around song-and-dance lover. My channel highlights some long-lost and rare footage and celebrates theatre from around the world.
Note: I own no copyright; merely sharing clips from my personal collection (and others' I've found on RU-vid) so viewers can fall in love with theatre the way I have.
This was at least partially the result of Merman publicly complaining that she had never won a Tony, even though she had in fact won Best Actress in a Musical for "Call Me Madam".
Nothing more satisfying than seeing someone celebrate their 100th birthday on camera and having fun. There are people that have made it to 100 years and celebrated on camera. George Abbott, Charles Lane, Hal Roach, and Glynis Johns come to mind. Ray Anthony technically celebrated his birthday with pictures, so I guess that counts.
My favorite thing being older is that comedians that I have watched numerous shows actually Tony award-winning amazing. Jason Alexander had two Tony awards before Seinfeld even ever piloted. We're watching Jane Lynch right here who is one of the most hilarious women I've ever watched in my life, I can keep naming them but just saying.
i genuinely don't think that DEH should have won best musical that year, i don't think i ever will, but i will say that Ben in this performance - and in this show in general - was absolutely astounding. i tip my hat to him and everyone involved in this show
So first off I just want to get this out of the way. I just watched Cabaret for the first time a few days ago. Specifically I watched the ‘93 with Alan. Phenomenal. Loved it. BUT. I remember this performance vividly. I was 12 when this first aired. When I was a little kid. I first saw him as Floop in Spy Kids. I loved it then and I love it for all its campy weird stuff now. Then, a little older, I saw him as Nightcrawler! Love all those X-Men movies. As I got a little older and my high school would do previews of their plays and musicals I got this odd feeling about performance. About theatre. It was….very attractive to me. Not like sexual. Just. I was attracted to it. I wanted more of it. My family was watching TV and the commercial for 2014 Tonys came on, “with performances from Alan Cumming and the cast of Cabaret singing “Wilkommen” Alan Cumming? Nightcrawler? I asked my parents if we could watch it. My homophobic father told me that “he doesn’t want those dancing f@gs on his TV!” Later, my mom came up to me and let me watch it with her on their TV in their bedroom. His performance came on. He arose from the shadows and (as you can see) wearing that! My mom says that I was shocked but as we continue watching I smiled bigger and bigger. Long story short, I owe this man and this performance to me finally realizing that I may be gay. Something about Alan Cumming in leather straps awoke something in me.
I sat in the 12th row at the Vivian Beaumont theater at Lincoln Center in 1987 with my great friend David Wilson. I thought I’d levitate as she sang this and the incredible chorus tapped and sang. Just joy!
Thanks Matt. I’ve seen three versions - Toronto, London and New York. Colm in Toronto was unbelievable ! His voice can be powerful and overwhelming. And in another instance it can be gently piercing and haunting. Never heard this range in any actor-singer anywhere.
This is quite a beautiful song 🎵. It brought the house down when I saw the musical 🎼 in Dublin. It's written by the late Fergus O'Farrell. A truly great show.
I reber wjen i forst learned of hamilton inwa somg want a d need to see it but it will take tkme to come to LA So I just listen to the album and then mean time. And I envisioned it and thought how this would belive, especially satisfied that 1 became 1 of my favorite songs and I was like. How are they gonna rewind? How are they gonna do this on the stage And when it finally came to LA I finally Saw it And It's exceeded my expectations The Rewind slow motion. Everything the scenic design they nailed it
Find Don Dunn's book on the making of this production in a library or something. It's an incredible story. The show was a mess, its producers the laughingstocks of Broadway, until Ruby got out there for that first performance and killed the audience (and continued to do so for two years).
A little girl with a great voice and she was very good as actress too. Wonderful Brittany, but I wouldn' t kick Joanna out, also she was talented. So they could be alternate on the show
I saw this while procrastinating on an assignment in sophomore year and then became so obsessed with this very particular performance and actress that I would try to mention it as much as possible in any assignment for school where I felt I could squeeze it in. My poor English teacher must have thought I was such a weird ass XD
