"The Grass Is Always Greener". Broadway - 1981.

The absolutely divine Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Cooper of the Original Broadway Cast of "Woman of the Year".

The video gulches slightly at the end - that is a recent occurrence as the DVD from whence the clip came is perfect...oh well.

Both actresses were rewarded for their theatrical efforts with well-deserved Tony awards.

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[powerfulpowerzz]

awsome, but y do they laugh every time marilyn says "whats so wonderful?" dont they see it coming?

[carolineorchange21]

i think they laugh because of the Marilyn's delivery - uproarious!

[jbactr]

Unfortunately, Marilyn passed away within the past few days....you will be sorely missed, Marilyn Cooper! what a talent!

[carolineorchange21]

God, I know! A tragedy.  I almost wanted to put something in the description but that seemed slightly morbid.

[Jim Kelly]

WOW! This is my favorite funniest B'Way Musicals scene! The way the audience reacts is exactly as I remember it, so many years ago! Thanks so much for posting this!

(The only thing missing was the curtain opening on Cooper at the kitchen table and her line about how she's not even bothering to fix herself up.)

[carolineorchange21]

youtube videos can only be so long! ;)

[fashionglindaguru]

This needs to by revived soon!

[Mona Milbrodt]

I saw Cooper's obit this morning...but I didn't realize this was the show-stopping song. OMG, my mother used to sing this all the time!!! Wonderful memory, thank you.

[tlcarpenter2]

A great slice of legendary Broadway history. There's nothing better than live musical comedy and the laughter it provokes. Bacall and Cooper are sublime.

[gymnastix]

Check into this, especially if you have all of this musical. For those of us who know how to merge files, it is then simply a matter of joining the parts as one file.

Please send me a private message, if you figure out how and why some are able to get around the You Tube uploads' time limit.

Regardless of your limit, if you have a complete work of any title, just upload it in several parts. I have seen as many as 50 parts uploaded.

[gymnastix]

Do you have the entire play? Because, if you do, I see complete films and TV episodes uploaded on You Tube all the time. You merely have to upload them as several parts.

Then too, there are some You Tubers who, somehow, get around the time limit completely. I have seen, increasingly so, many complete films and TV episodes as one upload.

[overthemoo]

The same reason you can watch someone like Madeline Kahn in the same film over and over and laugh just as hard the twentieth time as you did the first time. If a performer has great comedic timing/delivery, you'll get a chuckle no matter what.

[larryraiken]

I was in the original cast of this show. Mr. Ebb had the encore prepared right away, because he knew (theatrical genius that he was, praise him and rest his wonderful soul) that this was the number that turned a very good show into a great show. Marilyn Cooper was wonderful on and off stage, and if you ever played poker with her -- you lost your money. Bless her a million times!

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[Shamey Cramer]

Coopie was one of a kind. Had the pleasure of doing an on-camera interview with her in 1991 when she was on tour with Tommy Tune's version of Bye Bye Birdie. The audience is laughing so much, they miss half the jokes Fred Ebb put into the lyrics. Coopie won the Tony for the shortest performance - this scene is almost her entire role! She had one scene with dialogue and a song, and voila!

[monateegs]

I saw her do this number with Raquel Welch who took over from Lauren Bacall. It's a fun show and this number hits it out of the park. Thanks for posting.

[dyssbroadway]

You're not privy to a close-up of her facial expressions, which the people in the first few rows can see well. I'm sure her expressions are priceless.

[Nerris121]

and if you see the tony award performance, you'll see her face is absolutely perfect.