Ladies Who Lunch - Elaine Stritch

Elaine Stritch sings her signature song, "Ladies Who Lunch" from "Company."

Available on the 2000 DVD "My Favorite Broadway: the Love Songs". View excerpts easily at http://www.theBestArts.com/BroadwayLove/

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[ecrivain07]

This lady is 100% entertainment. And I'll drink to that.

[equinoxranch]

This so oozes NYC.

[MPL029]

I met soooo many of the women described in this song When I worked as a server in the restaurant in Bergdorf Goodmans (5th ave and 57th street in NYC)... miserable bitches!!

[TheJammybrice]

I met her and she made fun of me, it was so fantastic. I was very shy about asking to meet her and she called me out saying at her age she didn't have the time for this nonsense. Such a great lady, very funny.

[arff2003]

And 1 for Mahler. I'll drink to that!

[sporran564]

Without sounding like a spoilsport, I saw the original production with Stritch, Jane Russell, and Vivian Blaine, as well as one of the national tours with Julie Wilson. Vivian Blaine remains for me the greatest Joanne. She had just the right touch of pathetic vulnerability underneath her sophistication and brittleness that made her characterization all that much more believable and sad. When she screeched, "I'll drink to that!" it was downright scary.

[Manafichu]

I fell in love with this after I heard this on Screenvision's Website recently for the New York Philaharmonic's Company Ad!

[popcornchickendude]

@jaraandrew100 Well, it's not really about their simple lives, it's more an ironic toast to the fake lives these women live.

[mdnk87]

8 people are ladies who lunch

[jaraandrew100]

@LvCrochet I feel like this song is being satirical. In a way making a ironic toast to their simple lives. Am I thinking in the right direction here? By the way, thank you for explaining this song and the term Ladies Who Lunch

[LvCrochet]

@jaraandrew100 Ladies who lunch is a phrase to describe slim, well-off, old-money, well-dressed women who meet for lunch socially, normally during the working week. Typically, the women involved are married and non-working. Normally the lunch is in a restaurant, perhaps in a department store during shopping. Sometimes there is the pretext of raising money for charity.

The phrase was popularized by a song in Stephen Sondheim's Company

[jaraandrew100]

Can someone explain this song to me? Don't be mean. Let your inner theatre geek come out