Bea Arthur made her final Broadway appearance in 2002 when she performed her one-woman show "Bea Arthur on Broadway--Just Between Friends." At the piano is Billy Goldenberg, and here is the beginning of the show.
The woman was simply a national treasure who created two of the most iconic roles in sitcom history. I never got to see Just Between Friends but adore every story she tells on the recording. Bless you Spiderwoman!!!
Christopher Bush got it! I misread your sentence as singular roles (s). My apologies! I should know better than to be on the computer without reading glasses! By the way I was about nine years old when Maude was on television the first time and even then I knew I was seeing something incredible! I would watch with my mother and years later I’d watch Golden girls with my mother just about every Saturday night! I still have the theme song from Maude memorized.
I saw her in London- taking my wife on her first trip there. We toured all day and were EXHAUSTED. I worried that I would not be able to stay awake for the performance. WOW! She Brought down the house: gays, straights, old, young, black, white, fence, male- all were crying from laughing so hard. What a wonderful performer.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve been hoping this clip would surface. I had the distinct pleasure of seeing Ms. Arthur’s show twice. She was such a marvelous performer and vocalist. She will forever be my favorite Golden Girl.
I saw her in London in 2003 and for there duration of this clip and much longer I was frozen in thrilled disbelief that she was actually out there in front of me
After Elaine Stritch’s DVD came out of her one woman show I’d hoped to see this one woman show also. What a talent. I wonder if the rest exists anywhere?
Any chance of the whole thing? A masterclass: "Fun to be Fooled", a ditty by by Harold Arlen, that suddenly is Hamlet. Love seeing "B" all glam, lashes and all, doing her thing, where she belongs. Have the CD. PS: Her joke lamb recipe is AMAZING. I know, I cooked it, which a'int bad for an old ham...
My companion went to her show in San Francisco and loved it and her of course. She MUST have recorded one performance for commercial distribution yet I haven't been able to find any reference to such a product. Appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction .
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Love her so much! The CD of the concert is marvellous, Great to be able to watch a piece of it. Wish i would have been there!
I DO NOT mean ANY disrespect when I ask this (I absolutley love Bea Arthur) but why at the beginning when she was telling the recipes was everyone laughing? I was actually taking it as a recipe. I didn't get the joke about it?
She did this the same exact time period as Elaine Stritch did HER OWN one woman show at Liberty. It’s like they went through their entire careers being not only compared to each other being so similar type of women. Both were up for the Dorothy roll in GG’s & also both considered for the role of Ersula The Sea Witch in the movie The Little Mermaid..,,, there’s more roles tgey competed for, I only named two…… I wonder if they knew each other? And if so, were they friends or enemies, or perhaps neither…… just acquainted nothing more, nothing less
