As it was at the overture and shall be at the exit music, bliss without end. Amen.
Would you have paid to see the shows based on these commercials? I think the audience testimonial about Cyd Charisse in Grand Hotel is my favorite. More to come!
Evita:
Grand Hotel & The Will Rogers Follies:
Grind:
The King and I:
Fiddler on the Roof:
Ballroom:
Nine:
Big River:
Carrie:
Nick & Nora:
It’s hard to believe it, but it was five years ago today that we lost the great Dorothy Loudon to lung cancer. I was never privileged to have seen Loudon perform onstage (her final performance was the first preview of Dinner at Eight at Lincoln Center less than a year prior to her death), but thank God for her cast albums, her Tony-winning legacy and in this instance, youtube, for keeping the memory of this extraordinary talent alive. I’ll never forget the following spring at the 2004 Theatre World Awards when Peter Filichia made a special mention of her toward the end of the ceremony bringing about a full house standing ovation in her memory.
Here is her performance of “Fifty Percent,” the eleven o’clock number from Ballroom, from the 1979 Tony awards telecast.
Photo by Kari Geltemeyer
