this so clear like to hear the songs this clear maybe well get lucky when i was in high school I went on a class trip to see angela landsbury everyone kept saying this was could have seen Merman in it.
I think Julianne Marie is interesting. She sounds exhausted. (I thought Natalie Wood was conciliatory; Laura Benanti spoiling for a fight.) Marie was a little before my time, but I grew up on the cast album of Do I Hear a Waltz? So it's nice to hear her act.
Thanks for putting this up. It sounds persuasive to me. I've tried reading Merman's life story. She seems to have lead a sad life, perhaps due to blind spots, perhaps excaberated by fame. I found Bernadette Peters riveting in the role. She made me forget how well I knew the material.
There is more steel, ambition, heart and sheer force of will in Ethel's performance than in that of any other Rose. By the time of this performance, she was enduring terrible back pain, but would go on to tour the show for, I believe, the next two years. This was pure Broadway, and I have seen very little that could match it in the fifty years since.
You sense her wonderful comic timing; her commitment to the moments. These cuts prove, once and for all, that Ethel Merman did not "walk" a performance. She creates a completely realized performance here on these tapes - and this is without the benefit of seeing her wonderful facial expressions and gestures.
I recently worked with some wonderful actors who were newsboys in this production! They had amazing stories to tell!!!
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boinx1234 1 week ago
Laughter and applause sounds the same then as now. The theatre is eternal.
ShowBizComic 4 months ago
this so clear like to hear the songs this clear maybe well get lucky when i was in high school I went on a class trip to see angela landsbury everyone kept saying this was could have seen Merman in it.
olbrych82 9 months ago
I think Julianne Marie is interesting. She sounds exhausted. (I thought Natalie Wood was conciliatory; Laura Benanti spoiling for a fight.) Marie was a little before my time, but I grew up on the cast album of Do I Hear a Waltz? So it's nice to hear her act.
rgmrtn 9 months ago
Thanks for putting this up. It sounds persuasive to me. I've tried reading Merman's life story. She seems to have lead a sad life, perhaps due to blind spots, perhaps excaberated by fame. I found Bernadette Peters riveting in the role. She made me forget how well I knew the material.
rgmrtn 9 months ago 2
There is more steel, ambition, heart and sheer force of will in Ethel's performance than in that of any other Rose. By the time of this performance, she was enduring terrible back pain, but would go on to tour the show for, I believe, the next two years. This was pure Broadway, and I have seen very little that could match it in the fifty years since.
sonnet30 9 months ago 2
You sense her wonderful comic timing; her commitment to the moments. These cuts prove, once and for all, that Ethel Merman did not "walk" a performance. She creates a completely realized performance here on these tapes - and this is without the benefit of seeing her wonderful facial expressions and gestures.
CarefreeYes 1 year ago 3