Elaine Stritch - Broadway Baby (Sondheim 75th Birthday 2005)

Theater legend Elaine Stritch sings one of her signature songs, Broadway Baby (from the musical Follies) for friend and composer Stephen Sondheim

Performed in honor of Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday on July 8, 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles.
A benefit concert for Children Will Listen, a program of the ASCAP Foundation.
I did not personally film this.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Elaine
• Stritch
• Broadway
• Baby
• Stephen
• Sondheim
• Musical

[renethel]

I hope that I'm as fierce as she is at 80 years old!

[williamholzman]

Elaine Stritch :She makes growing old not so damn bad. One of the true characters of Broadway!

[btpluss]

Wow!

[stingotz52]

remarkable....just saw a little clip of her in "bus stop", the lady stills has it! saw her on her HBO special.....trooping all the way!

[AtLastOnTheGround]

@JTropp92

Truth be told, I preferred Elaine's Armfeldt to Lansbury's. I love them both. I just thought that Elaine understood the character in a much deeper way.

[JTropp92]

@AtLastOnTheGround Because Angela Lansbury kicked ass in that revival. 

[anoxinomin5]

GOD BLESS THIS OLD BROAD!

What an entertainer! Year after Year Always a brilliant performance from being a nurse in A Farwell To Arms and SAIL AWAY Early in her career to these many years of giving us moments of enjoyable entertainment! SHE REALLY IS A "BROADWAY BABY"!

[psychomusicanana]

Someone told me they spend an hour with her recently, and when she's not "on," the "tough" stuff disappears and she's gracious and pleasant.

[allthatjazzspaz95]

Elaine Stritch kicks ass. She's so unlike the typical Broadway leading ladies, and tough as nails.

[marypoppins2009]

Better than Bernadette Peters...by leaps!!!

[CarlyIsAGangster]

Elaine Stritch is Elaine Stritch.

She's a living legend. 

[anoxinomin5]

She makes this HER song. The definitive rendition of all ever done This is not a strip tease,as a sex kitten from Ozone Park in Queens ,New York does it, but a lament, a desperate desire to somehow succeed in show business, as Sondheim meant it to be presented! I've seen a dozen different versions done of this song over the past thirty years and, when it comes to Elaine Strich singing it,as Carly Simon would say,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,­,,,,"Nobody does it Better"