TURKEY LURKEY TIME from Promises, Promises - 1969

"Promises, Promises" just finished another run on Broadway - but this version would be nearly impossible to match!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Promises
• Turkey
• Lurkey
• Broadway
• musical
• Donna
• McKechnie
• Margo
• Sappington
• Baayork
• Lee
• variety
• dance

[skybeau96]

After loving this number in Camp then seeing this I can't believe what a great job those kids did - lucky friend of mine is in New York going to see Promises, Promises tomorrow

[ohbutyes]

@skybeau96 - the number was a lot of fun in Camp, but who knows how many takes it took to get it all. That's what's so amazing about these dancers with this performance and that crazy choreography - done LIVE it is a completely different animal. They've slowed it down a couple notches in the current production - and it definitely lost some energy... I love Bacharach though, so I still thoroughly enjoyed it.

[FrontRowGuy]

Note, too, how much better the camera direction is in this than anything we see now. The numbers on this year's Tonys were one smash cut after another, The camera didn't stay on anything long enough to get a sense of what it really looked like on stage. Then compare that to this. The camera holds steady so you can appreciate the picture frame of of the stage. We've become too preoccupied with idea that the TV audience is too stupid to keep watching unless they're completely over-stimulated.

[ohbutyes]

@FrontRowGuy - I could not agree more... they have completely lost the ability to shoot musical performances of any kind on television - and it was pretty much a science - MTV was the beginning of the end...

[latinhands]

Very Hulla-Balloo!

[ohbutyes]

@latinhands - good catch... it's the same choreographer!

[jonnylvsmary]

Man, I sure wish my office parties were this much fun!

[hfelton]

How is it possible that the girl on the right in purple, Julane Stites, never appeared in another Broadway musical according to ibdb.com. Though just out of high school, she held her own above with two theater dance legends, and IMO is beautiful. Googled her and found that years later she returned to her native northwest and became a successful teacher and choreographer, the proverbial big fish in a small pond. I wonder why she didn't make more of an impact on Broadway.

[gabsylv]

@groundcontrol436385 You'll sure to die young with that attitude!

[bitchee]

2:56 onwards is mind blowingly good

[BrochtrupBean]

@groundcontrol436385 You don't know what you're talking about. You don't. You're being critical for the sake of sounding critical. ("Overrated" and "nor" = deth knell, you cad.) Dime a dozen. What you know about art, and Ms. KcKechnie, could barely fill a used condom.

[dann1299]

@groundcontrol436385 Donna isn't meant to be super graceful she is drunk.

[groundcontrol436385]

@latinhands

Absolutely. For all it's energy it's simply inelegant and not very creative. I don't think it's great choreography at all. Nor do I enjoy McKechnie who is lacking in grace. But then I thought A Chorus Line was way overrated both for its choreography and its score.

[bitchee]

this is just incredibly good.

[cjm608]

without question this is my FAVORITE channel.

[duceemia]

Seth Rudetsky on "Turkey Lurkey" - youtube

[overthemoo]

@frommsb I am very thankful for you today. :P I'm posting this video on my Daily Broadway blog and I was trying to figure out who that woman was, because I knew Margo originally had the role but I knew that wasn't her in this performance.