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| Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity | |
| Posted by: FinalPerformance 11:09 am EDT 07/20/21 | |
| In reply to: Happy Birthday, Helen Gallagher! - BroadwayTonyJ 09:36 pm EDT 07/19/21 | |
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| A great star that deserves many Happy Birthday wishes. Yes, I saw her in 1966 at the Palace Theatre, and followed her career over the years. | |
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| re: Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity | |
| Posted by: mermaniac 03:14 pm EDT 07/20/21 | |
| In reply to: Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity - FinalPerformance 11:09 am EDT 07/20/21 | |
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| Her hoped-for star vehicle, "Hazel Flagg", is still available on CD. A vastly under-rated Jule Styne score, with 2 hit songs, and her smooth delivery of one of his best unknowns: "I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever." The score contains a song that reflects today's outlook: "Everybody Loves To Take A Bow." Pick it up, fans ! | |
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| re: Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity | |
| Posted by: mamaleh 01:32 am EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity - mermaniac 03:14 pm EDT 07/20/21 | |
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| Saw her as Charity on the show’s final performance day at the Palace. She was funny, appealing and wow, she could really dance up a storm. Happy Birthday to that super-talented lady. | |
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| re: Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 11:53 am EDT 07/23/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 11:51 am EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity - mamaleh 01:32 am EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| I remember her mostly from TV variety shows in the 50's and 60's. Besides The Ed Sullivan Show, she displayed her incredible dancing skills on The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Bell Telephone Hour, and the very bizarre Hallmark Hall of Fame TV version of the Broadway musical Shangri-La. Like the LP of Helen Flagg, I was never able to find the OBC LPs of Gallagher's earlier musicals like Make a Wish and Pal Joey. In 1958 when I was 10 years old, my mom took me to the huge Polk Bros. warehouse in Chicago, which supposedly carried everything. It did have the Columbia LP of Pal Joey, which was advertised as Broadway Cast Recording on the cover. Unfortunately it was really just a 1950 studio cast LP with Segal and Lang, and not the Capitol Broadway cast LP with Gallagher and Stritch. Over a decade later when Gallagher returned to Broadway in her two most famous roles, I bought the LPs of both Sweet Charity and No, No, Nanette, which really showcased her amazing ability to disappear into roles that were always so different. A few years later when I became a big fan of Ryan's Hope, I initially didn't even recognize her. I was stunned to realize she was the show's matriarch when I eventually spotted her name in the credits at the end. In the CD era of the last 30 years, it has been pretty easy to collect all of Gallagher's Broadway and off-Broadway cast albums, including the elusive Make a Wish, Pal Joey, Hazel Flagg, Cry for Us All, Tallulah, and even a few studio cast recordings. Unfortunately I missed her stage performances at Papermill in No No, Nanette and at the York in 70, Gilrs, 70. However, in 2003, I finally was able to catch her on stage in Ain Gordon's non-fiction play Art, Life, and Show-Biz. It was a very slight show but watching Gallagher talk about her long career and even sing and dance a little was well worth the wait after being a fan of her work for over 50 years. |
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| re: Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity | |
| Posted by: bowtie7 06:50 pm EDT 07/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity - BroadwayTonyJ 11:51 am EDT 07/23/21 | |
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| I saw Helen Gallagher in the short lived off-Broadway musical Tallulah in which she was amazing as the title character. She got a rave from the New York Times when the show opened at a small off-broadway theatre in summer 1983 but I don't think the transfer to the Westside (Arts) Theatre lasted very long. Haven't really heard about the show since then, but she really was the reason for seeing it. | |
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| Helen Gallagher in HAZEL FLAGG | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 08:18 am EDT 07/21/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:16 am EDT 07/21/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Helen Gallagher was a knockout in Sweet Charity - mermaniac 03:14 pm EDT 07/20/21 | |
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| When I was 5 years old, I saw Helen Gallagher on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953, during the run of Hazel Flagg on Broadway. I believe she made two appearances on his show that season. On the first I'm pretty sure she and John Brescia performed "You're Gonna Dance With Me, Willie". Around the same time I remember Eddie Fisher singing "How Do You Speak to an Angel" on his weekly TV variety show. I was never able to find the Hazel Flagg LP, but decades later I picked up the CD release, which happily included Fisher's cover version of "Angel". In 1954 Paramount surprisingly made a film version of the musical titled Living It Up as a vehicle for Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Janet Leigh. My parents took me to see it at the old 66 Drive-In, which at the time was located in La Grange, Illinois. Dean Martin sang "Angel" in the movie version. In 2015 I saw the Musicals Tonight! production of Hazel Flagg. Good score, funny story. I enjoyed it. |
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