In concert, Donna McKechnie and the two other gals (Pamela Myers and Susan Browning), who were in the original Company, get together for the first time since 1970 and do it all again!
This special was originally called "Showstoppers: The Best of Broadway" and premiered on the pay cable Entertainment Channel in 1982. For home video release it was retitled "That's Singing: The Best of Broadway."
Apparantly this is a vastly watered down version of the original Michael Bennett choreography for the number, which was notoriously elaborate and difficult
Newsflash. Us gay men can grasp the concept of 'context' and we know that the language we use changes meaning, and that the words we incorporate in our art are likely to alter in connotation. We do not expect or want everything sanitized so the dumbest of us won't get their feelings hurt. We have even figured out that Christmas carols written in the 19th century do not normally discuss homosexuality. Can we move on and discuss the music and performance now?
susan browning may be known to many as 'miss farnsby,' the comically suicidal girl in the mid-season monkee episode 'monkees on the line,' the one mike tries to save.
I enjoy every version of song, but I think the girls from the PBS version starring Neil Patrick Harris and Patti Lupone are top notch, easily the best of all versions.
Wrote that like it's an inherently bad thing. Ain't it impressive when folks can play multiple instruments? And not all musicals need a huge orchestra.
It also feels you're trying to imply most modern musicals don't have a fully furnished pit and are forced to rely on actors to play instruments...if you gave a chance to shows like Hamilton, Hadestown and Come From Away, you'd hear that the pit is alive and well in contemporary Broadway, and that even without a fully fledged, traditionally codified orchestra, they can produce spectacular ambience and flair
Dang! Didn't realize that was originally an f-slur. I think changing it was the right call. Regardless of the time period, it calls way too much attention to itself in these breezy, comedic lyrics
"Showstoppers: The Best of Broadway" (You can see it here on RU-vid.) Here are the songs [copied from that video’s description]: 1. Everything's Coming Up Roses--Ethel Merman (Gypsy) 2. Quadrille--the American Dance Machine (Can-Can) 3. Get Some Cash for Your Trash--Nell Carter (Ain't Misbehaving) 4. You Could Drive a Person Crazy--Donna McKechnie, Pamela Myers, Susan Browning (Company) 5. You Made Me Love You--Debbie Reynolds (Irene) 6. Try to Remember--Jerry Orbach (The Fantastics) 7. Shriner's Dance--Chita Rivera and the American Dance Machine (Bye Bye Birdie) 8. Summer Loving--Barry Bostwick and Carol Demas (Grease) 9. Sleeping Bee--Diahann Carroll (House of Flowers) 10. Never Will I Marry--Anthony Perkins (Greenwillow) 11. All for the Best--Stephen Nathan and David Haskell (Godspell) 12. Mean to Me--Nell Carter (Ain't Misbehaving) 13. I Believe in You--Robert Morse (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) 14. Could I Leave You--Alexis Smith (Follies) 15. Charlie's Place--Donna McKechnie, Wayne Cilento, and the American Dance Machine (Over Here) 16. Little One New York--Chita Rivera and the American Dance Machine (Tenderloin) 17. Pretty Woman--Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd) 18. Send in the Clowns--Glynis Johns and Len Cariou (A Little Night Music) 19. Those Were the Good Old Days--Ray Walston (Damn Yankees) 20. They Say It's Wonderful--Ethel Merman (Annie Get Your Gun) 21. Lullaby of Broadway--Jerry Orbach and the entire company
The people freaking out about them saying fag need to realize that Sondheim is gay too, so it’s obviously not meant to be offensive. This was a different time when people weren’t so sensitive.
Ed Miller black people use that term because we are allowed too, we changed the ending of that word to an a and use it as endearing term to only black people, when a term that is used to degrade you in an offensive manner, the only people who gain authority over it would be the people it’s used against, not every black person likes it but we are only ok with it being said as long as it’s by a black person, it can’t even truly offend you
George has 7 soaps he takes away 6 and cuts them in half he eats 3 and throws up twice how much soap does George have My last 3 remaining brain cells: 0:55
