| re: Liza, Carnegie Hall, 1987 |
| Posted by: fredfrankg (fredfrankg427@gmail.com) 06:25 am EDT 06/23/21 |
| In reply to: Liza, Carnegie Hall, 1987 - shocktheatre 08:35 pm EDT 06/22/21 |
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Someone had posted this wonderful clip before, and it's a treat. Liza at her Liza best; she was also this wonderful in 1991 (or '92?) when she did Radio City and opened with a terrific "Teach Me Tonight." I seem to remember catching it on HBO. It was also around this time I saw her leaving the Five Oaks with Michael Feinstein while I was entering. I did a double take because she looked so pretty -- and healthy. Had she stayed that way, Liza would have been the perfect entertainer to do a Vegas residency.
While it would have been an event, and a bigger money maker for the Weisslers, I don't really see Liza as Rose. True, Daly was not a great singer, but hers was the best acted Rose I'd ever seen (with Angela Lansbury a wow as well). And while I'm at it, Jonathan Hadary was the best Herbie ever, and deserved a Tony. This was also the very best production of Gypsy I'd ever seen, with the exception of the Newsboys' improvised line of "group sex at last!" when Rose explains why they all sleep in two rooms in the hotels. I'm surprised Arthur Laurents didn't threaten them within an inch of their lives.
As for best sung Rose? Hands down, Betty Buckley at Paper Mill. But the least funny production I'd seen.
Fred |
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