I've never been much of a Sandy Duncan fan, but she puts this number to bed! Her singing is wonderful, but her dancing is unbelievable. She is animated, alive and open. Just perfect in this role.
GOOD NEWS is such an underrated musical that needs to be revived!!! This show holds a very special place in my heart. It was one of the first full scale musicals that I ever performed in at school. It's one I would love to revisit and reprise performing all those beloved songs.
DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson are also a bit underrated, though their lives were featured in a movie 'The Best Things In Life Are Free", released in the 1950s, starring Dan Dailey, Ernest Brognine, and Gordon MacRae. (I think Turner Classic Movies should show this film).
Whenever I hear The Varsity Drag I think of the 1947 movie Good News with June Allyson (1917 - 2006) and Peter Lawford (1923 - 1984) ... tough act to follow, but Sandy gave a fantastic performance ...
Is this performance for a special event or charity fundraiser of some sort because I can’t find any information via google about this performance? It is so great though!
Musical Comedy Tonight is a serious attempt to explain just how the American musical grew up. The show's host and creator, Sylvia Fine Kaye, is a songwriter (for her husband Danny) and a teacher (at the University of Southern California and Yale). Her TV special is a canny amalgam of entertainment and history. She proves a funny and charismatic hostess! 1 - MUSICAL COMEDY TONIGHT - 1979 - SYLVIA FINE KAYE REMEMBERS GOOD NEWS, OKLAHOMA, ANYTHING GOES, COMPANY. BERNADETTE PETERS, BOBBY VAN, ETHEL MERMAN, AGNES DE MILLE, ROCK HUDSON, SANDY DUNCAN, CAROL BURNETT. 2 - MUSICAL COMEDY TONIGHT - 1/11/1981 - SYLVIA FINE KAYE, N. DUSSAULT, JACK LEMMON, B. LANE, SERGIO FRANCHI, DANNY KAYE, JULIET PROWSE, LARRY STORCH, RICHARD CRENNA, L. REDGRAVE, B. FRANKLIN. 3 - MUSICAL COMEDY TONIGHT - 11/22/1985 Songs and scenes by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, and Irving Berlin, performed by some of the country's leading musical comedy stars, and hosted by Sylvia Fine Kaye. The performance was taped before a live audience at Los Angeles' Wilshire Ebell Theater. Cast includes, Eddie Albert, Christine Adreas, Kaye Ballard, Greg Burge, Beth Howland, Florence Henderson, Donna McKechnie, Peter Noons, Roberta Peters.
TWO SONGS from GOOD NEWS featuring Bobby Van, Bernadette Peters and Sandy Duncan, hence The first song is performed by Bobby Van and Bernadette Peters and the second song, The Varsity Drag is performed by Sandy Duncan and company
