Elaine Stritch – Broadway Baby (Sondheim 75th Birthday 2005)
Posted on July 7, 2009 | 25 Comments
Baby Videos of Theater fable Elaine Stritch sings a single of her signature songs, Broadway Baby (from a low-pitched Follies) for crony as well as composer Stephen Sondheim Performed in respect of Stephen Sondheim’s 75th Birthday upon Jul 8, 2005 during a Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles. A good unison for Children Will Listen, a module of a ASCAP Foundation. we did not privately movie this.
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Thanks for the info, Orvgg
If I stick it long enough…Go Elaine!
No, Ethel Shutta played Hattie in the original production in 1971. Stritch played a leading role in Sondheim’s Company, though.
I would like to know that also, let me know if you find out!
Did she originate this role?
Seff gjør vi det! Mannen er et geni!
Elaine Stritch :She makes growing old not so damn bad. One of the true characters of Broadway!
OMG! i saw rita moreno perform this when they did follies at the oakland paramount theatre. one of my dance mentors was dancing and my teacher, Ronn Guidi, coreographed the piece.
Yup, that’s right, I’m a Norwegian. I don’t know about the (very) young Norwegians, but a lot of people in Norway know about Sondheim’s music
6funswede, do nyou live in Norway? Or are you even Norwegian? You see; I’m also a huge Sondheim fan (he is the greatest of all time) and it’s so fun to meet someone who thinks that too, specially in Norway, ’cause I’m Norwegian myself, and I think there are way too many who don’t know who Sondheim is….
Don’t forget Ethel Merman
Thank you SO much for this posting. It’s not the music of my generation really, but in the last years I’ve been taught by a certain Mr. Andreas in Norway and also inspired by a certain American satirist. This is a brilliant performance, and Sondheim is the greatest!
Wrong. Watch the clip from the Ellen show. She says she’s been sober for 17 years. So she hasn’t been drinking since the late 80s.
Also, worthy of note…..This was her very first SOBER performance.
This “tounge-in-cheak” performance was sooo impromptu. She planned on singing it straight…..but the audience would have NONE OF THAT!!!! BRAVO MY DEAR LANIE!!!
SAC
She’s so cute!
SheS sO GOOd ANd AcTUallY sH3 wAS 80 hErE!!
I hope that I’m as fierce as she is at 80 years old!
Don’t forget Carol Channing.
Bless her heart.
oh god
At 80 she can still belt out a number better than most half her age.
What a broad!
Sing it Elaine!!!
really? she looks good
seventy ? She was 80 yo when this was filmed….