It's Turkey Lurkey Time 

My neck hurts after watching this!!! What a wild performance....YIKES!

I watch this at least once a week tbh

The level of dancing here is superlative, and Donna McKechnie's performance defines greatness. It's not JUST that her execution of this torrent of movement is better than anyone else's, it's the style, ease, flexibility and CHARACTER of every move that is astonishing. It must be hard enough to execute this choreography, but to make it look authoritative and natural at the same time is genius.

Out of the hundreds of times I've watched this video, I don't think I've ever commented! Legendary and iconic performance, I'm surprised this performance never made it to the Broadway's Lost Treasures series. Of course, Donna McKechnie is superb, but no one ever comments on Baayork Lee's infectious personality in this number. She is a little spitfire and gives hope to us shorter dancers (even male ones too, like myself!) that we can be featured right up there, too!

Many thanks for putting this up! Marginally better is significantly better than the original. And what a number! True musical theatre bliss!

It's like the "Single Ladies" of the 60s! Love it.

Donna double neck snaps are to die for. And no one can bend her back like she can...what a legend!!

Just woke up for Thanksgiving. I had to play this before I got out of bed.

It just gets better and better. As good as the video is of the replacement cast, this is so much more exciting. One reason is that the chorus dancers are doing more in the background, ramping up the excitement, especially Betsy Haug, in the green plaid skirt on the center desk, who was the dance captain of the production and went on to stage the London and other foreign productions. She may still have the original "Bible" of the choreography and staging.

I'm obsessed with this performance. OBSESSED. Donna McKechnie is a straight up legend.

I love the orchestration so much. I cannot get enough of Baayork. I love that brunette on the center desk going nuts with her hair. And I love the insane visual presentation Bennett gives (the guys moves are really complimentary to the women). I want to transport back in time and be in this production!!!

Glad this is still up. A cropped version comes up now when you search for it.

so fantastic is that choreography. a fine frenzied calculated dance.

This is so different from the Ed Sullivan show (or whatever show) version. And so much fun to watch.

Just by a fluke A friend and I went into the city when we were in college to see this play - we went back 7 times to see it - the orchestration of this is amazing as was the dancing at every performance i went to even before the dancing had stopped the audience was on its feet applauding and screaming like maniacs ! it was a thrill to see this and the entire play - I saw the revival it was ok but couldnt compare to this - DPK

I wish my office parties were as fun as this :-)

This song isn't lousy- I love it!

Never realized before last night that this Tony program was only the third to be televised nationally. No wonder that these days we would never think of not televising the Tonys!

If you'd ever seen "The Apartment," the classic movie this show is based on, you'd know that the wild Xmas party is important. That's the scene where the drunken secretary, Edie Adams, tells Shirley Maclaine, the elevator girl, about their boss's long history of cheating. The office party in the movie is just as over-the-top, with hundreds of extras including Ray Walston and a chorusline of secretaries doing the can-can. Turkey Lurkey Time is the Broadway version of that very memorable scene.

The woman dancing on the desk in the center (long brown hair, plaid skirt and vest) is Tony Award Winning Carole (Kelly) Bishop. She was the original Sheila in "A Chorus Line", and if nothing else, most people remember her as the mom in Dirty Dancing.

marginally better makes all the difference!

I saw Promises last night. It was amazing!!!

The girl in the green dress is Baayork Lee who was also in A CHORUS LINE with Donna.

You can tell this is the original becuz this dance number is awesome and energetic!

Whenever I'm down, I watch "Turkey Lurkey" ,and Donna's maniacal head pops pop me back into better shape.

I can't stressed enough how obssessed I am woth this #!

Yes, thank you for this upload. I was going blind with the other one. And it's not Bacharach/David's greatest song, but remember this was the 60's, and this was "the big dance number". AND it tears the roof off!

turkey lurkey rocks my world!! who knew the human body could move like this! WOW!!! Thanks for postiing the much improved resolution. cheers, hurdygurdychallenge

I was brought to this video by watching the video of a rendition of this performance from the Movie "Camp" :)

this is so much better then the dumbed down version that we have today. that was true broadway back then. but now it seems people are so stiff about the smallest stuff . ugh. could broadway ever return to how it use to be.

Love this, I'm obsessed!

Watched this loads of times. It's amazing! By 1968 weren't people in flared trousers? Also, isn't Donna McKecknie gorgeous? She has such a pretty face and a great figure AND all that talent!

i wish i could have seen the shows in the sixties. where the performers danced there asses of at EVERY performance!

thxs for the video. saw the musical in lax and loved the dancing

DON'T POP THE HEAD, CASSIE!!!!

Miss Wong is so cute.

Thanks a lot for the significantly marginally better pic - and hey, the sound is FANTASTICALLY better!! (BTW The video in the background of the Seth Rudetsky presentation of this seems very good - why hasn't anyone released it officially on one of those Lost Broadway editions?) I am VERY obsessed with this number, after only hearing it for 35 years. Lo, the scales were lifted from mine eyes!!

DAVE HOLMES SMOKES OG !

best work party EVER!

Well hang onto to your head pops kids. Promises, Promises appears again on Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes!

well learn this dance and do it at your office party.... get everybody fired up and in a party mood!

Ah. Or the grandma in Gillmore Girls. But yes, I love her a lot. Didn't recognize her in this video!

One of my childhood toys were called Turkey Lurkey, then I found this, it made me lol... xD

Which version do you like better? I love both versions but i lean towards the 1968 version due to it being over energetic and done in 1 take compared to where the movie version could of been filmed over days or weeks.

When I grow up, I want to be the woman who gets on top of the desk at 2:11. Doot doo-doo dooooooooooo!

lol i want to do this looks so fun:) best song ever

It's NOT a lousy song. It was written by Hal David and Bert Bacharach. I think it's one of Bacharach's best songs. Just my opinion.....

lOVE;)

for fucks sake this is epic why is my life not full of bouncy cute chicks from the 60s/70s.

This is the worst episode of Mad Men I've ever seen.

@crazychel I know right? I just said to myself I wanted to go to that party...or work at that place! LOL

As Michael Bennett originally choreographed this, the dancers were supposed to perform like minimally practiced, intoxicated office workers would. The number died. This rendition stopped the show.

@broadwaymac486 I adore Baayork...

Hey, this ISN'T Bob Fosse's work -as noted below. It's MICHAEL BENNETT - six years before CHORUS LINE. This terrific show got an indifferent revival on B'way in 1010, though Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenowith were good.

I agree, this is a terrible song and although I haven't seen the show, I can't imagine it's all that well integrated. It strikes me as a "and now we're gonna sing and dance" type number rather than emerging from the characters or situations. But Donna McKechnie really is something else. God forgot to give her connective tissue!

It looks like her. It's normally credited as Margo Sappington but that definitely isn't Margo.

Is the one on the right Julane Stites? She's the one I can't take my eyes off, after seeing Julane perform this on Ed Sullivan.

Nope. Not a Fosee production I just read the below comments.

Actually, I think Kelly B stays on the floor and can be seen in between Baayork and Donna.

Damn girl, watch your neck!

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Can't understand a word....

megan amram'd!