"@bestdisco1979" I love your handle! I recall 1979 in San Francisco at the Trocadero Transfer, they did Disco like no where on earth! I saw Dame Angela in SF when she toured in Sweeney Todd in 1981. Musical Theater will never be the same.
Ethel Merman can’t hold a candle to this performance by Angela Lansbury with the guts, the passion, and her drawing from a deep well of some of her experiences, where she was overlooked way too many times. Just now seeing this clip for the first time and had no idea, although I think her tremendously and Broadley talented, I had no idea of the immense power of emotion she could dig into and reach and deliver like this performance. Wow.
@@susanbultman9676unfortunately not Ethel is amazing don’t get me wrong but she just couldn’t dig into a character in musicals she just belted mostly angela is the best roses and she’s very versatile as an actress which is why she can make a character her own and it can’t be replicated
I saw her in this back in 76. She was a powerhouse - and it was a matinee performance. And her "Everything's Coming Up Roses," which is sadly not here, was so driven. She knocked it out of the ballpark! Saw her in Sweeney, too. Incredible. So much that was always going on there with her. So strong and assured.
Dame Angela is brilliant in anything! I think all Broadway show when they come to the end of their run should be filmed and sold or streamed. Dame Angela said that the only thing she will be remembered for in the theatre is 'Sweeny Todd' it was the only thing that was filmed. So sad we all should be able to see these brilliant people!
@@richardmayora5310 I forgot about Anything Goes. Merman was great on the stage but film was not her forte. Still, it's sad she didn't get to film Gypsy. I like Roz in most of her films but not as Madame Rose.
@@SymphonyBrahms Merman would have been a horror in a film version of Gypsy. She could not act. And her best asset, that powerful voice, means little on camera. I would take a dubbed/mixed Russell any day. Her acting was perfection.
THE BEST!!!! I love Broadway! What a stage! What a star she is! The joy of watching a true lady perform with the lungs and star quality she has! Everything’s roses for her! 🌟🎭🌟🎭🌟🎭🌟🎭🌟
I've been is a lot of musicals but my favorite was being in Gypsy in the 1980s. My mother took me to see it when I was just 8 years old and I LOVED it then !!! In my mid 20's would audition and I got in a production. I didn't know Angela did this show. This is wonderful!
a wonderful reminder of how brilliant ms lansbury was in musical theater, and how she could make a role like this so uniquely and completely her own, especially when it had been so firmly associated with and almost indelibly stamped by the personality of the likes of ethel merman. for myself, i was lucky enough to have seen ms lansbury in "mame" when I was about 10 years old, while she was touring in a revival of the show in the 70's, something that i'll never forget. goodbye, little yellow bird, r.i.p.
Few days before turning 97 ! A star but very humble and down to earth. Such a classy lady.Actress,producer, TV, theater, singer....I thought about her and "Murder she wrote" these last few days again. One of my favorite shows in the world! Forever one of the iconic and extraordinary tv successes of all time!beatiful tribute!💔⚘❤🙏🏻🪙🇮🇱✡🕎
@@ACinemafanatic Her daughter Louise emerges from the wings and applauds. She invites Rose to go to a party and Rose initially declines saying she is not dressed properly. Louise offers her fur coat and they exit.
@@NickyMay16thank you because I saw somewhere that it ended like the one with Patti lupone where Gypsy laughs at her new dream. Angela was the best rose to me she was original she made it raw and didn’t overdo it with the singing and still managed to have the audience completely charmed and captivated by her. She was the first to with the Tony playing rose
Her vocal control here is amazing. This is one of the reasons why she worked with Sondheim a lot. I don’t care if people slam me… but vocally she’s a million times better than Ethel Merman.
I mean Sondheim and Julie styne thought she did better than Ethel did which is why she knocked it out of the park and was the first to play roses in an unhinged way and win a Tony for it
Merman was just loud. Her phrasing was very odd and she was not much of an actress. She sang every song like it was Alexander's Ragtime Band...just be loud and belt. No nuance. She was like an orchestra of all trumpets.
I had the thrill of seeing her as a 10-year-old boy in 1976. At that point, the only thing I knew about Angela was, the my aunt had taken me to see Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 71 because I have won a coloring contest that allowed me to get two free tickets to see the movie. I had a very cool aunt who always tried to broaden my horizons. If I was enthralled in something, she would do everything in her power to make it more exciting by articles or finding out information about the person or movie I was into. Since he had taken from you, I love that movie and was fascinated by Angela. So…now 1976, I remember standing in the front yard on a hot August day, and she said, “hey guess what? Angela Lansbury (Miss Price) is appearing in Chicago right now in a play called Gypsy!” I remember my mom and her friend Barb were in the yard smoking and my aunt asked my mom if I could fly to Chicago. Surprisingly my mom said, YES! Was she drunk? Who knows. Anyway, next thing I know my mom is upstairs packing me a little suitcase and we were driven to the Quad City Airport and flying off to Chicago! We arrived, checked into the Drake Hotel and took a cab to the Opera House to see “Gypsy” as far as I remember that was my first big it was pretty memorable all the dressed up people on the huge, beautiful theater. Then suddenly the lights went off and Angela and cast were on stage. I remember being overwhelmed. The show was amazing!!! I remember thinking she doesn’t look exactly like she did in “Bedknobs,” but then as a kid you don’t realize people change in looks over a few years. Even though it was 47 years ago, I still remember it very distinctly. It must’ve made a huge impression on me! I the show, we exited the theater, and my aunt took me to the stage door outside of the opera house. We waited quite a while for Angela to exit in probably remove her stage, make up and blah blah blah, eventually she came out and I remember someone having a huge bouquet of roses. She then came over to myself and my aunt and said what’s your name and I said Todd my aunt spoke up probably because I wasn’t sure what to say. I just remember vividly thinking. Oh my God, Miss Price is in front of me. My aunt said to Angela he loves you and Bedknobs and Broomsticks she leaned over to me, grab my hand and said, “ I’m so glad you loved it, but I just want you to know I’m not really a witch, and I won’t turn you into a toad or anything!!!” She then signed my gypsy program and got into a limousine and I’m sure off to her hotel. It’s amazing how I can’t remember what I did yesterday but that night is frozen in my memory as if it happened yesterday. The next day I remember we looked around Chicago for the soundtrack because I wanted the music. I remember us being so excited to be told by someone in the know that we should go to roses records. I know they were big in the 70s. I have no idea if they’re still around in ChicagoAnyway got the soundtrack and got my signed Angela program and a happy memory ❤
The ending of this revival is so heartbreaking the way angela portrays rose to me is the best having this childlike tantrum and yet the warmth of a mother clinging to desperation and recognition. A well deserved tony
Your page is quickly becoming top of the list "go to" for musical theatre. I've seen this footage a few times, and happy to see it posted again, reaching more people. I'd actually watched all of this in the last few weeks, and it's silly to complain when it's such a miracle that ANY of this footage is now available to all of us - but it would have been a real treat to have all or even part of "You Gotta Get A Gimmick" - but this existig footage was obviously specifically shot to capture some big Angela Lansbury moments. Speaking of which, ALL of "Rose's Turn would have been fantastic to see and hear, but the footage here contains approximately the last minute and a half, where we get to see how deftly she handles the breakdown. No dragged tempos, no vocal indulgences, and no overdoing of the self-analysis aspect of this legendary 11 o'clock number. It's doubtful that Rose, given her persona and the time she lives in, would get too intellectually thoughtful about feelings of bitterness and regret. Lansbury, not unlike what we hear on Ethel Merman's original cast recording, plows right through - plows, not rushes. Is she emotional and thinking back on some key moments in her life? Absolutely. But, not in the modern sense. She's able to touch on events and feelings, but in an angry, frustrated, stream of consciousness way ("it wasn't for me, Herbie ... and if it wasn't for me, then where would you be, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" - thank you Sondheim for that perfect writing). I saw four out of five of the Broadway revival Roses: Angela Lansbury (1974), Tyne Daly (1990), Bernadette Peters (2003) and Patti LuPone (2008). I was not yet born when the original production starring Ethel Merman ran. On the page here on TH-cam where they do "who sang such and such the best," it was something like "who handled the final parts of Rose's Turn best" competition. I wrote up some thoughts about the various Roses (including Rosiland Russell in the 1962 film, and Bette Midler in the 1993 TV movie). Here follows a cut and paste of what I said about Angela Lansbury: ******Angela Lansbury (1974) I was 12 when I went to see this (good fortune - a good friend's parents were taking the family and one of their sons didn't want to go - I happily stood in). I knew the musical from the OBC album, but I had no idea that my life was literally about to change. For me, Lansbury is the ultimate Rose. Her performance changed my entire thinking about what musical theatre could be - much more layered, and complex that what I perceived prior (I'm not saying I was able to analyze it this way at age 12 - it's that looking back, I realize what a huge impact it had on me). Footage of her production can be seen on TH-cam - highly recommended.******
"Some people sit on their butts/Got the dream, yeah, but not the guts....Well, they can sit and rot/But not Rose!" Change "Rose" to "Angela", and you have a capsule summary of the extraordinary career of this extraordinary woman. I'm sure that, in whatever theater Heaven has, Angie is earning storms of applause, as well as requests for encores of "Open A New Window", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and "The Worst Pies In London".
What a joy! What a treasure. Your TH-cam channel means so much to me. I could write an essay but suffice to say that as a child of the 60s and 70s in California, who was inexplicably drawn to musical theatre (no one else in my family cared and some were aggressively dismissive) I could only dream of seeing such footage. I now teach youth musical theatre to young people. Some have made it to Broadway, film, Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe & Grammy nominations. What I am most proud of is that so many, who don't go into it professionally are bitten by the musical theatre bug. Take their kids to see shows and have such a respect for performers. I will definitely show this clip to my students in the fall (some already are familiar with the score from "Gypsy" via La Merm), and who knows may some of these "kids these days" will subscribe to this channel?
I can feel your words so much. I'm brazilian and never stepped a foot on usa, but sondheim's works are my everything and not a day goes by (lol) in my life without listening, singing, humming, whistling or watching his work. much love! ♥️
I can feel your words so much. I'm brazilian and never stepped a foot on usa, but sondheim's works are my everything and not a day goes by (lol) in my life without listening, singing, humming, whistling or watching his work. much love! ♥️
@@biavObrigado! We have a large Brazilian community in Berkeley California. I don't know Portuguese but I have picked up that much. I love the reference you made to "Merrily We Roll Along." Your comment alert reminded me that school starts in 2 days. So I will put "Not a Day Goes By" on my songs to teach thanks to you.
So true, she deserved every accolade and award that honored her skill, sadly there should have been more, The Manchurian Candidate for one, yet to see her work on the stage was always bigger than life, a real pro, delivering perfection.
The best rose of them all Angela really understood rose and doesn’t get much credit for her portrayal due to the modern audience but she paved the way with her digging into the psychological aspect of rose as well as the pain and bitterness she provided
@@beaellie9766 Thanks! I am aware of her multiple awards and I saw Manchurian Candidate many years ago, but this clip of her on Broadway is next level. I have been to many Broadway shows and it is rare to see someone with that level of energy and passion especially for someone who at that time had to be middle aged. She was phenomenal!
What a brilliant character actress Angela can do it all everything from the Manchurian Candidate to Mama Rose 🌹 to Mame as well asJB Fletcher in murder she wrote
I love Angela in everything and I think her stage Mame and stage Hello Dolly characterizations are the absolute tops. I had to imagine and compare other actresses performing in the same roles in other shows in order to come up with my favorites. With that here are my picks. My top movie Gypsy mama is Rosalind Russell. And she is my #1 movie Mame. Stage-wise my favorite Gypsy mama is probably Bette Miller. She has a voice that can both belt and rip your heart out emotionally. My favorite movie Dolly is a difficult decision because the movie was deemed to be substandard. But I have to go ahead and pick Barbra. She just is too talented to count her out. Walter would not have been my choice to play the character but he grows on you. And Michael Crawford is building into THE best Phantom.
By 1974 Broadway definitely used microphones. In fact, I think the original production of MY FAIR LADY was the first Broadway show to be miked. What you didn't see, of course, were any lavaliere microphones like the kind they have today.
@@detectivefiction3701 I wasn't saying that the stage wasn't miked. They had had condenser for a long time. However they still had to project to get the condenser to pick up the sound. I was on stage a few times and the stage of course was miked, but I wasn't and my director would yell at people "I can't hear you and I am sitting in the F***ing front row." I don't know why they started wearing body mics; condensers were great and allow a better suspension of disbelief. Now, we I see a booble stuck in the middle of someone head or behind his ear, I am like sure that's believable. I remember when Paula Abdul was doing Sweet Charity and she asked for a mic and the director and writer looked at like she was nuts.
I agree she set the standard Ethel didn’t really have much range but Angela did you see it in her mannerisms and how she acted and singed the songs. Her roses turn is so raw and heartbreakingly unhinged that it works
Angela as Mama Rose. Gypsy so many performers have attempted to play mama rose Angela nails it perfectly merman was also pretty good in her day Bernadette Peters surprised me with her interpretation of mama rosé didn’t think she could handle it. I was wrong she was brilliant Tyne Daly was. Positively remarkable as mama rose Patty LuPone also took a stab at mama 🌹 rose she was positively brilliant Bette Midler did a tv movie on mama rose 🌹 impressive wonder what she would have been like in live theatre would of like that very much My personal favorite is Tyne Daly as Mama Rose 🌹. but that’s just me
What a tragedy--a tragedy that should be an utter embarrassment and blemish on the whole INDUSTRY of Broadway--that this performance, (and so many other classic performances) was never filmed for eventual release. It would have been a hundred times better than the movie version. Nor was Langsbury's performance in Mame ever videoed, and she did it last in 1983 when very good technology existed. At least we have a so-so video recording of Angela in Sweeney Todd. This post makes clear they had the technology to capture the entire performance of Gypsy with Langsbury at the time. Why isn't it available now, decades later? For shame that the writers, greedy financiers, and probably a bevy of overpaid lawyers, blocked the video recording of this and so many other original classic Broadway performances. I had the vinyl record of Angela Langsbury in Gypsy back in the 70s as a child--it was the only recording available for years until they reissued the original Ethel Merman one, which I then realized was all about Ethel: interesting but not pleasant. The third recording was also a great one, with Tyne Daly in around 1990. And now we have many more. But I love the recording of Angela's Gypsy and still do. But the decent recording DOESN'T BEGIN TO DO JUSTICE to watching her sing and act it. Here she was at her absolute peak powers, one of the greatest actresses ever, and yet only a very small number of people--and declining yearly--ever got to see and experience her do this live. It would be so nice for the rest of us to have been able to see it in a video form. How lucky to have this snippet found and posted so a few of us nerds can know and see just how good she (and the others in the cast) were, in one of the greatest musicals ever created. Every year, despite an occasional Wicked or Phantom extravaganza, Broadway become less and less relevant to mainstream America. Yeah deal with that NYC and mainstream media based there. It is too expensive for 99% of Americans--especially combined with the costs of staying in NYC. The movie Wicked, while great, will not save the industry, not long term. If you Broadway producers want to know why, despite the occasional mega-blockbuster, so many great shows are unknown to the majority of American and the world living today, look in the mirror--then look at your greedy hands and lawyers. You have allowed much of a great American art form to become lost for failing to record these performances when you had the chance and the technology to do so. Despite the occasional video release of an original Broadway show (thank God there are a few) such as Into the Woods, or a few great revivals (South Pacific or Oklahoma)--very few stage musical productions still ever make it to video, where most of the world could see, learn, or appreciate what all the commotion was about with legends like Angela Langsbury. So while I marvel at the talent Langsbury had in Gypsy which i never fully appreciated, despite having heard it for years, it makes me very angry that the powers that be in the industry never allowed its recording and preservation for the ages. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
I appeared with Angela in Gypsy 1973 at the Piccadilly theatre in London,,I was one of the kiddie newsboys. A thrilling experience to work with her.
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"@bestdisco1979" I love your handle! I recall 1979 in San Francisco at the Trocadero Transfer, they did Disco like no where on earth! I saw Dame Angela in SF when she toured in Sweeney Todd in 1981. Musical Theater will never be the same.
Can you tell me what happened at the end of this version does gypsy laugh at her or do they reconcile ?
Ethel Merman can’t hold a candle to this performance by Angela Lansbury with the guts, the passion, and her drawing from a deep well of some of her experiences, where she was overlooked way too many times. Just now seeing this clip for the first time and had no idea, although I think her tremendously and Broadley talented, I had no idea of the immense power of emotion she could dig into and reach and deliver like this performance. Wow.
@@susanbultman9676unfortunately not Ethel is amazing don’t get me wrong but she just couldn’t dig into a character in musicals she just belted mostly angela is the best roses and she’s very versatile as an actress which is why she can make a character her own and it can’t be replicated
Hearing Dame Angela in her full-throated glory is simply enthralling! I am jealous of the audiences who got to see her Rose live in person! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I saw her in this back in 76. She was a powerhouse - and it was a matinee performance. And her "Everything's Coming Up Roses," which is sadly not here, was so driven. She knocked it out of the ballpark! Saw her in Sweeney, too. Incredible. So much that was always going on there with her. So strong and assured.
How did the musical end?
Erm that number is here at the end.
I had the privilege of (sneaking) going back stage in London and meeting her - and getting her autograph on the program. Still have it
Dame Angela is brilliant in anything! I think all Broadway show when they come to the end of their run should be filmed and sold or streamed. Dame Angela said that the only thing she will be remembered for in the theatre is 'Sweeny Todd' it was the only thing that was filmed. So sad we all should be able to see these brilliant people!
The only Merman performance that was filmed was the movie of "Call Me Madam".
@@SymphonyBrahms Nope. Merman did the film of Anything Goes. She did not belong on camera, like most Broadway singers. They usually can't act.
@@richardmayora5310 I forgot about Anything Goes. Merman was great on the stage but film was not her forte. Still, it's sad she didn't get to film Gypsy. I like Roz in most of her films but not as Madame Rose.
@@SymphonyBrahms Merman would have been a horror in a film version of Gypsy. She could not act. And her best asset, that powerful voice, means little on camera. I would take a dubbed/mixed Russell any day. Her acting was perfection.
@@richardmayora5310 She seems quite enjoyable in Call Me Madam. Watch that duet with Donald O’Connor “You’re Just in Love”. That’s horrible?
THE BEST!!!! I love Broadway! What a stage! What a star she is! The joy of watching a true lady perform with the lungs and star quality she has! Everything’s roses for her!
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❤ I Was There! ❤
I saw this performance in London. June 1973. My first Rose. I’ll never forget her Rose’s Turn. The gold standard.
I've been is a lot of musicals but my favorite was being in Gypsy in the 1980s. My mother took me to see it when I was just 8 years old and I LOVED it then !!! In my mid 20's would audition and I got in a production. I didn't know Angela did this show. This is wonderful!
a wonderful reminder of how brilliant ms lansbury was in musical theater, and how she could make a role like this so uniquely and completely her own, especially when it had been so firmly associated with and almost indelibly stamped by the personality of the likes of ethel merman. for myself, i was lucky enough to have seen ms lansbury in "mame" when I was about 10 years old, while she was touring in a revival of the show in the 70's, something that i'll never forget. goodbye, little yellow bird, r.i.p.
Few days before turning 97 !
A star but very humble and down to earth. Such a classy lady.Actress,producer, TV, theater, singer....I thought about her and "Murder she wrote" these last few days again. One of my favorite shows in the world! Forever one of the iconic and extraordinary tv successes of all time!beatiful tribute!💔⚘❤🙏🏻🪙🇮🇱✡🕎
Just announced Angela L passed away at 96. What a force she is in these clips! I wish I had been able to see this woman during this time.
I was very lucky. And I also saw her do Gypsy in the round with almost no scenery, a testament to her raw power that the show was just thrilling.
@@NickyMay16how did the musical end
@@ACinemafanatic Her daughter Louise emerges from the wings and applauds. She invites Rose to go to a party and Rose initially declines saying she is not dressed properly. Louise offers her fur coat and they exit.
@@NickyMay16thank you because I saw somewhere that it ended like the one with Patti lupone where Gypsy laughs at her new dream. Angela was the best rose to me she was original she made it raw and didn’t overdo it with the singing and still managed to have the audience completely charmed and captivated by her. She was the first to with the Tony playing rose
I saw this show in 1974. Brilliant singing and acting.
Her vocal control here is amazing. This is one of the reasons why she worked with Sondheim a lot. I don’t care if people slam me… but vocally she’s a million times better than Ethel Merman.
I mean Sondheim and Julie styne thought she did better than Ethel did which is why she knocked it out of the park and was the first to play roses in an unhinged way and win a Tony for it
Merman was just loud. Her phrasing was very odd and she was not much of an actress. She sang every song like it was Alexander's Ragtime Band...just be loud and belt. No nuance. She was like an orchestra of all trumpets.
I saw her in Gypsy.i still have goose bumps.watching this video.she was fabulous I've seen 4 out of 5 .to young for ethel.i rate her numerous uno.
I had the thrill of seeing her as a 10-year-old boy in 1976. At that point, the only thing I knew about Angela was, the my aunt had taken me to see Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 71 because I have won a coloring contest that allowed me to get two free tickets to see the movie. I had a very cool aunt who always tried to broaden my horizons. If I was enthralled in something, she would do everything in her power to make it more exciting by articles or finding out information about the person or movie I was into. Since he had taken from you, I love that movie and was fascinated by Angela. So…now 1976, I remember standing in the front yard on a hot August day, and she said, “hey guess what? Angela Lansbury (Miss Price) is appearing in Chicago right now in a play called Gypsy!” I remember my mom and her friend Barb were in the yard smoking and my aunt asked my mom if I could fly to Chicago. Surprisingly my mom said, YES! Was she drunk? Who knows. Anyway, next thing I know my mom is upstairs packing me a little suitcase and we were driven to the Quad City Airport and flying off to Chicago! We arrived, checked into the Drake Hotel and took a cab to the Opera House to see “Gypsy” as far as I remember that was my first big it was pretty memorable all the dressed up people on the huge, beautiful theater. Then suddenly the lights went off and Angela and cast were on stage. I remember being overwhelmed. The show was amazing!!! I remember thinking she doesn’t look exactly like she did in “Bedknobs,” but then as a kid you don’t realize people change in looks over a few years.
Even though it was 47 years ago, I still remember it very distinctly. It must’ve made a huge impression on me! I the show, we exited the theater, and my aunt took me to the stage door outside of the opera house. We waited quite a while for Angela to exit in probably remove her stage, make up and blah blah blah, eventually she came out and I remember someone having a huge bouquet of roses. She then came over to myself and my aunt and said what’s your name and I said Todd my aunt spoke up probably because I wasn’t sure what to say. I just remember vividly thinking. Oh my God, Miss Price is in front of me. My aunt said to Angela he loves you and Bedknobs and Broomsticks she leaned over to me, grab my hand and said, “ I’m so glad you loved it, but I just want you to know I’m not really a witch, and I won’t turn you into a toad or anything!!!” She then signed my gypsy program and got into a limousine and I’m sure off to her hotel. It’s amazing how I can’t remember what I did yesterday but that night is frozen in my memory as if it happened yesterday. The next day I remember we looked around Chicago for the soundtrack because I wanted the music. I remember us being so excited to be told by someone in the know that we should go to roses records. I know they were big in the 70s. I have no idea if they’re still around in ChicagoAnyway got the soundtrack and got my signed Angela program and a happy memory ❤
Alas, Rose Records is long gone.
The ending of this revival is so heartbreaking the way angela portrays rose to me is the best having this childlike tantrum and yet the warmth of a mother clinging to desperation and recognition. A well deserved tony
I saw Lansbury in Gypsy in 1974. She was a fantastic Madame Rose.
A great light on Broadway has passed . ! thanks for the years Ms Lansbury
I saw the show 3 times at Muny Opera in August 1974 before it went to Broadway. Magnificent,
Rest In Peace, wonderful Dame Angela. Such talent!!!!!
Glad someone filmed this on Super8 along with the video taping...
It's great to be able to catch up on this brilliant performers career on all that I missed.
Oh this is a treasure!
It was sold out when I tried to see it years ago@
Wow! I never knew Angela had such a powerful singing voice!
I saw this, I still have the souvenir program and the Playbill she signed. I still say it's the best show I ever saw.
it seems she gave such a warmth to the role as a mother unlike many of the other Roses, in addition to the brashness.
Which is why it works so perfectly
Your page is quickly becoming top of the list "go to" for musical theatre. I've seen this footage a few times, and happy to see it posted again, reaching more people. I'd actually watched all of this in the last few weeks, and it's silly to complain when it's such a miracle that ANY of this footage is now available to all of us - but it would have been a real treat to have all or even part of "You Gotta Get A Gimmick" - but this existig footage was obviously specifically shot to capture some big Angela Lansbury moments. Speaking of which, ALL of "Rose's Turn would have been fantastic to see and hear, but the footage here contains approximately the last minute and a half, where we get to see how deftly she handles the breakdown. No dragged tempos, no vocal indulgences, and no overdoing of the self-analysis aspect of this legendary 11 o'clock number. It's doubtful that Rose, given her persona and the time she lives in, would get too intellectually thoughtful about feelings of bitterness and regret. Lansbury, not unlike what we hear on Ethel Merman's original cast recording, plows right through - plows, not rushes. Is she emotional and thinking back on some key moments in her life? Absolutely. But, not in the modern sense. She's able to touch on events and feelings, but in an angry, frustrated, stream of consciousness way ("it wasn't for me, Herbie ... and if it wasn't for me, then where would you be, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" - thank you Sondheim for that perfect writing). I saw four out of five of the Broadway revival Roses: Angela Lansbury (1974), Tyne Daly (1990), Bernadette Peters (2003) and Patti LuPone (2008). I was not yet born when the original production starring Ethel Merman ran. On the page here on TH-cam where they do "who sang such and such the best," it was something like "who handled the final parts of Rose's Turn best" competition. I wrote up some thoughts about the various Roses (including Rosiland Russell in the 1962 film, and Bette Midler in the 1993 TV movie). Here follows a cut and paste of what I said about Angela Lansbury: ******Angela Lansbury (1974) I was 12 when I went to see this (good fortune - a good friend's parents were taking the family and one of their sons didn't want to go - I happily stood in). I knew the musical from the OBC album, but I had no idea that my life was literally about to change. For me, Lansbury is the ultimate Rose. Her performance changed my entire thinking about what musical theatre could be - much more layered, and complex that what I perceived prior (I'm not saying I was able to analyze it this way at age 12 - it's that looking back, I realize what a huge impact it had on me). Footage of her production can be seen on TH-cam - highly recommended.******
The pinnacle of musical theatre acting - just sensational ❤
My favorite is when part of this showed up originally on YT & they taped Dame Lansbury's reaction.
I have seen that footage. I think she watches it with Michael Feinstein - her comments and reaction are so touching.
It’s in my channel as well
RIP Angela Lansbury. You had a great run!
"Some people sit on their butts/Got the dream, yeah, but not the guts....Well, they can sit and rot/But not Rose!" Change "Rose" to "Angela", and you have a capsule summary of the extraordinary career of this extraordinary woman. I'm sure that, in whatever theater Heaven has, Angie is earning storms of applause, as well as requests for encores of "Open A New Window", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and "The Worst Pies In London".
The energy! Wow
I think every Broadway show should be professionally recorded professionally, if only for posterity. 🤩
What a joy! What a treasure. Your TH-cam channel means so much to me. I could write an essay but suffice to say that as a child of the 60s and 70s in California, who was inexplicably drawn to musical theatre (no one else in my family cared and some were aggressively dismissive) I could only dream of seeing such footage. I now teach youth musical theatre to young people. Some have made it to Broadway, film, Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe & Grammy nominations. What I am most proud of is that so many, who don't go into it professionally are bitten by the musical theatre bug. Take their kids to see shows and have such a respect for performers. I will definitely show this clip to my students in the fall (some already are familiar with the score from "Gypsy" via La Merm), and who knows may some of these "kids these days" will subscribe to this channel?
I can feel your words so much. I'm brazilian and never stepped a foot on usa, but sondheim's works are my everything and not a day goes by (lol) in my life without listening, singing, humming, whistling or watching his work. much love! ♥️
I can feel your words so much. I'm brazilian and never stepped a foot on usa, but sondheim's works are my everything and not a day goes by (lol) in my life without listening, singing, humming, whistling or watching his work. much love! ♥️
@@biavObrigado! We have a large Brazilian community in Berkeley California. I don't know Portuguese but I have picked up that much. I love the reference you made to "Merrily We Roll Along." Your comment alert reminded me that school starts in 2 days. So I will put "Not a Day Goes By" on my songs to teach thanks to you.
Keep it goin’ we need you. Thank you very much for your own genius and passion. We get it.
Always the best poster - thanks again! I look forward to the day when you stumble upon the full musical and post it!
Thank you very much! I hope so too - it would certainly deserve a full post, if it existed.
Thank you so much! Best place to find rare gypsy footage and anything I could possibly think of! Brilliant! 🤗
Thank you for the lovely compliment!
No actor of any time exceeds this woman’s precision and prowess.
I’m including Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Rest In Peace, Dame Angela. 10/11/22. The greatest actress of them all.
You’re absolutely right. Angela was something else. Truly brilliant.
She's truly extraordinary. And it shows in every moment of this footage.
So true, she deserved every accolade and award that honored her skill, sadly there should have been more, The Manchurian Candidate for one, yet to see her work on the stage was always bigger than life, a real pro, delivering perfection.
..... THAT!! is one HELL of an accolade!!
who else was relieved when the brightness changed to normal during "together" and then cringed again?
The best rose of them all Angela really understood rose and doesn’t get much credit for her portrayal due to the modern audience but she paved the way with her digging into the psychological aspect of rose as well as the pain and bitterness she provided
Your cuts between the various sources are flawless! Very impressive.
AMAZING!!!
A brilliant light is out.
The world is less.
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We have lost a Treasure. May she rest in peace, now she is with her beloved husband.
She sounds great! Even though this is on old video tape of the time.
Thank you! I'm so grateful for the opportunity to see this.
Yes!!! Thanks for posting this.
It was a perfect pwrformance really beautifully dne.
I only knew her from Murder She Wrote! What an amazing multi-talented performer she was!
She was nominated for three Oscars but you should really make sure you watch her in "The Manchurian Candidate"....she was so talented!
@@beaellie9766 Thanks! I am aware of her multiple awards and I saw Manchurian Candidate many years ago, but this clip of her on Broadway is next level. I have been to many Broadway shows and it is rare to see someone with that level of energy and passion especially for someone who at that time had to be middle aged. She was phenomenal!
Thank you for posting this!
It takes guts to step into Ethel Merman’s shoes. For Angela Lansbury they were a perfect fit.
Rest in POWER, Mz. Lansbury.
Stunning! ♥️🙏🏾
What a brilliant character actress Angela can do it all everything from the Manchurian Candidate to Mama Rose 🌹 to Mame as well asJB Fletcher in murder she wrote
I love Angela in everything and I think her stage Mame and stage Hello Dolly characterizations are the absolute tops.
I had to imagine and compare other actresses performing in the same roles in other shows in order to come up with my favorites.
With that here are my picks.
My top movie Gypsy mama is Rosalind Russell. And she is my #1 movie Mame.
Stage-wise my favorite Gypsy mama is probably Bette Miller. She has a voice that can both belt and rip your heart out emotionally.
My favorite movie Dolly is a difficult decision because the movie was deemed to be substandard. But I have to go ahead and pick Barbra. She just is too talented to count her out. Walter would not have been my choice to play the character but he grows on you. And Michael Crawford is building into THE best Phantom.
The Bette midler one is a movie too
rest in peace to the greatest
Bonnie Langford was the perfect baby June, coming from a stage family where her wonderful mother was their trainer, coach, agent…
Also in Sondheim's book "finishing the hat" the stories in there about working with miz Lansbury are hilarious!
I thought I had read it, but I don't remember that. Perhaps I haven't!
No mic. belting it out like a pro. How I miss old Broadway!
By 1974 Broadway definitely used microphones. In fact, I think the original production of MY FAIR LADY was the first Broadway show to be miked. What you didn't see, of course, were any lavaliere microphones like the kind they have today.
@@detectivefiction3701 I wasn't saying that the stage wasn't miked. They had had condenser for a long time. However they still had to project to get the condenser to pick up the sound. I was on stage a few times and the stage of course was miked, but I wasn't and my director would yell at people "I can't hear you and I am sitting in the F***ing front row." I don't know why they started wearing body mics; condensers were great and allow a better suspension of disbelief. Now, we I see a booble stuck in the middle of someone head or behind his ear, I am like sure that's believable. I remember when Paula Abdul was doing Sweet Charity and she asked for a mic and the director and writer looked at like she was nuts.
She is the best Mama Rose and I am a diehard Patti LuPone fan.
I agree she set the standard Ethel didn’t really have much range but Angela did you see it in her mannerisms and how she acted and singed the songs. Her roses turn is so raw and heartbreakingly unhinged that it works
RIP Dame Angela.
Where in the sweet hell do you FIND this footage???? The theater exteriors from here and for Funny Girl are just amazing.
Rest in peace Angela Lansbury.
She is amazing Happy 96th Birthday!
She was my favorite until Patti LuPone ♥️
May she Rest in Peace.
Oh, I’d have given a lot to have seen Lansbury play Rose.
I saw it. She was amazing.
Priceless. Weren't people claiming Broadway was dead right around then?
Angela as Mama Rose. Gypsy
so many performers have attempted to play mama rose
Angela nails it perfectly
merman was also pretty good in her day
Bernadette Peters surprised me with her interpretation of mama rosé didn’t think she could handle it. I was wrong she was brilliant
Tyne Daly was. Positively remarkable as mama rose
Patty LuPone also took a stab at mama 🌹 rose she was positively brilliant
Bette Midler did a tv movie on mama rose 🌹 impressive wonder what she would have been like in live theatre would of like that very much
My personal favorite is Tyne Daly as Mama Rose 🌹. but that’s just me
What a tragedy--a tragedy that should be an utter embarrassment and blemish on the whole INDUSTRY of Broadway--that this performance, (and so many other classic performances) was never filmed for eventual release. It would have been a hundred times better than the movie version. Nor was Langsbury's performance in Mame ever videoed, and she did it last in 1983 when very good technology existed. At least we have a so-so video recording of Angela in Sweeney Todd. This post makes clear they had the technology to capture the entire performance of Gypsy with Langsbury at the time. Why isn't it available now, decades later? For shame that the writers, greedy financiers, and probably a bevy of overpaid lawyers, blocked the video recording of this and so many other original classic Broadway performances.
I had the vinyl record of Angela Langsbury in Gypsy back in the 70s as a child--it was the only recording available for years until they reissued the original Ethel Merman one, which I then realized was all about Ethel: interesting but not pleasant. The third recording was also a great one, with Tyne Daly in around 1990. And now we have many more. But I love the recording of Angela's Gypsy and still do.
But the decent recording DOESN'T BEGIN TO DO JUSTICE to watching her sing and act it. Here she was at her absolute peak powers, one of the greatest actresses ever, and yet only a very small number of people--and declining yearly--ever got to see and experience her do this live. It would be so nice for the rest of us to have been able to see it in a video form. How lucky to have this snippet found and posted so a few of us nerds can know and see just how good she (and the others in the cast) were, in one of the greatest musicals ever created.
Every year, despite an occasional Wicked or Phantom extravaganza, Broadway become less and less relevant to mainstream America. Yeah deal with that NYC and mainstream media based there. It is too expensive for 99% of Americans--especially combined with the costs of staying in NYC. The movie Wicked, while great, will not save the industry, not long term. If you Broadway producers want to know why, despite the occasional mega-blockbuster, so many great shows are unknown to the majority of American and the world living today, look in the mirror--then look at your greedy hands and lawyers. You have allowed much of a great American art form to become lost for failing to record these performances when you had the chance and the technology to do so.
Despite the occasional video release of an original Broadway show (thank God there are a few) such as Into the Woods, or a few great revivals (South Pacific or Oklahoma)--very few stage musical productions still ever make it to video, where most of the world could see, learn, or appreciate what all the commotion was about with legends like Angela Langsbury. So while I marvel at the talent Langsbury had in Gypsy which i never fully appreciated, despite having heard it for years, it makes me very angry that the powers that be in the industry never allowed its recording and preservation for the ages. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
saw her in the Philly try-out and again at the Winter Garden
brilliant
and miscast
Her Rose’s turn was maniacally delicious 😈
And sad her taking a bow is basically her losing her mind as she thinks an audience is there
Jessica Fletcher could do it all!!! She is fantastic!
Some People...she really had it didnt she.
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I saw her do gypsy in Washington d.c. Her Rose was charming and sexy, though still a bully. I understood why Herbie stuck around
Was it a standing ovation for her roses turn when you saw it
i'm not angela lansbury's biggest fan tbh but damn she worked this!