As I remember she had terminal cancer when she did this performance and died shortly after this. She knew the show must go on and gave it 100+ percent to go out on top. There was more emotion and she gave it her all. You can feel it. Especially when she takes in the applause she knew it would be her last. She is one of my all time favorites. Gives me chills every time I see this.
Everything about this performance is perfect. Every note, heartfelt. Loudon’s phrasing is so meaningful that you empathize with her in this soliloquy. I wish I was in that audience that night. I’m so glad we have a recording. I may have watched this over 50x now. No joke. I’m obsessed with this version.
I couldn't agree with you more. I think I am going on one hundred times. She captures the essence of the supposed other woman, changing the perseption most people prefer to believe. And she does get my admiration.
I've watched this several times and I always imagine myself in her place after she finished the song. Facing a packed house of people who adored her. She stands for a little while on the side of the stage -- her heart must have been pounding with excitement and perhaps a little sadness. To be loved in such a dramatic outpouring of approval. She absolutely deserved the long ovation.
Best version of this song ever, such an underrated and underappreciated singer and actress, she did not get the attention she deserved in her lifetime, and it's a damn shame! RIP Dorothy, make god laugh and smile.
The quintessential 11 O’Clock number. From a show that tried too hard too much. Still. Dorothy and Michael Bennett… I still remember the opening night party at the Windows of the World and the crushing moment of the first reviews. You knew it was bad when Lauren Bacall is the first to leave.
Dorothy was nominated for a Tony Award for her lead performance in the musical "Ballroom," where this song originated. The musical opened at the Majestic Theatre on December 14, 1978, and ran for 116 performances. You can tell this performance meant a great deal to her. And the audience clearly loved every minute of it.
I have watched this so many times. Her voice was so much stronger on the 1978 cast album but that version does not hold a candle to this. Here she struggles to hold long notes but brilliantly turns those moments into exuberance for being able to hold the note for 50 percent of the time she would like 5:08 ...absolute genius. I doubt anyone will ever match this performance.
@@63BLG It is really very special. I remember seeing Dorothy Louden on TV when I was a kid. She always made an impression -- was it her beauty, her sense of fun (she had a smile like a beacon of good feeling)? I am not sure, but I always noticed her. For me, like you, this was the high point of this program. Her creative triumph in the face of her health situation brings tears to my eyes, but always inspires me.
Touching and stunning performance. Its not about vocal prowess but about how she "lives" the song. Few artists can do this today. You can sense the audience feeling her pain and emotions.
@Robert Lee, Countertenor You are absolutely right. I was talking about all of her renditions of the song, On this performance she had a different kind of passion.
The voice. It's so touching. It gets you right there. I can't think of a better interpreter of such songs. Why is Loudon not better known over here in Europe? We should be worshipping her.
Dorothy had such a unique voice with that vibrato that appears often at the end of a phrase but I also hear it in the middle in the song. I love seeing her here--such a passionate performer. What a treat it has been to see her as Mrs. Lovett via TH-cam when she took over after Angela Lansbury left. She really made that role uniquely her own and such a different take from how Lansbury played it--both were great! My mother saw Loudon in the play "Noises Off". She was not a theater person and couldn't appreciate the nuances of the comedy....but she recognized talent and said Dorothy Loudon was outstanding!!!
This interpretation is one of the best, a lot of emotion but at the same time a little of sadness...a small percent of love and not expectation.....we can’t have everything but a little many times is enough to move forward...
Loudon is a consumate actress as we see here. But what she can do with a comedic role and song....well she just hams it up royal and the audiences adore it. Dorothy Loudon never holds back or leaves anything in the dressing room. Every ounce of her energy and talent is reserved for the paying customers filling those seats.
Just heard this song sung by Loudon on the Elaine Page show, first time I've ever heard it and I don't know the singer ~ came straight in & found it on You Tube ~ I love the lyrics & loved her rendition of it !
What a wonderful performance, so full of feeling and emotion. What I don't understand is why so many people feel the need to compare how someone else's rendition compares to this one. Why can't each singer's rendition be taken at face value and appreciated on it's own merit? I just heard Streisand's version in the last week and I completely don't understand LieslJones59 comment about her having the "vulnerability of an armadillo". Barbra Streisand sings in a completely different style than Dorothy Loudon, they both do a magnificent job on the song, and both should be appreciated equally.
Couldn't agree with you more. My high school English teacher always admonished: " Comparisons are odious." Today she might add: "You Tube wars are tiresome."
A point well taken. I've never understood why some people find it necessary to build up one artist by denigrating another. Both Loudon and Streisand are enormously talented, and both renditions of this song are unforgettable. Isn't that enough?
Saw Jason Graae do this live in Sacramento at a theater preview. The producers and casting directors had no idea what to do with him. He was the Cat in the Hat in Seussical one year, and the devil in Damn Yankees another year. He dominates the stage, and was really nice when my family got to talk to him in person.
I know that many won't agree, but this song seems as much a tour de force as "Rose's Turn". Loudon here gives a masterclass on how to deliver a showstopper with class. Considering her age and physical state at the time, an amazing performance.
I remember hearing this song when Barbra sang this - and here it was, and now watching this again, the arrangement of the music and choice of notes to hold make some much difference. Dorothy's version - you would imagine in a little cottage somewhere by the window; Barbra's - you can imagine as she sings out her last note, she is seen from a far shot dreaming of her lover. Very different set-up but equally pleasing to the ear. :)
Victor Lee I don't know how old U E? All I know is Dorothyoudon gotnit absolutely to perfection! When you've grown a little older, often there aren't enuf single men so U wind up falling for a married man and know u will never have al the things back that you had before Still u love him! Dorothy got it to perfection The best rendition ever! She acted the shit out of it!
Sublime. From a great forgotten musical that was based on a TV movie, of all things. Anyway, Dorothy nails it. I've heard other versions and none have her vulnerability or courage - strange combination. Because this song is really about courage, not settling for less. You might have to be a 'certain' age to fully get that.
Notwithstanding the whole thing with Kevin Spacey, she was hilarious in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil -- she played the wealthy society woman at one point waving a gun around at a party while howling with laughter.
You know, Dorothy Loudon was a great enough talent that she doesn't need to be built up by knocking Barbra Streisand. Both Loudon and Streisand sing the song superbly. Sorry if you can't handle that, asshole.
She inhabits this broken woman who would settle , to allow another man to use that part of her that never knew true love . All the rationalizations justifying the need to feel love rather than be loved 100 percent. Makes for a sad plea to experience the love she believes will never be realized. What’s missing in her is 50 percent of loving herself - she sings this perfectly, which makes this so tragic to hear. She makes you feel what this woman is feeling.
She was in a Kander & Ebb musical in Arlington, VA in 1999 so no, this wasn't her last performance. She was cast in Dinner at Eight at Lincoln Center in 2002 but had to drop out when her illness made it impossible for her to perform.
@@fergusmurray1828 ALL ABOUT US (MUSICAL) All About Us is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The musical has been produced in regional theatres but not in New York City. Based on Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, the prehistoric Antrobus family and their maid deal with life's trials and tribulations, including the Ice Age, a great flood, and a devastating war as they traverse the centuries in a testament to human will and resilience.
@@fergusmurray1828 A showed called All About Us. It never made it to Broadway, only in Regional Theaters. A review perhaps shows why: "The theatre critic for "theatremania.com", David Finkle, said in his review, "Kander is reportedly committed to having every show that he and his late songwriting partner completed brought to the stage. He was right to press for the recently opened and entertaining Broadway musical Curtains, but this time, the bigger favor would perhaps have been to keep the trunk lid firmly shut.""
Wonderful! For once Ms Loudon is not wearing a dress that is not swallowing her and her talent comes through. I know that sounds petty, but … Aren’t phones supposed to be turned off and put away during a Broadway performance. I see too many illicit recordings taken from someone’s seat with bad video and audio, for which know the actors are not being compensated. This is not of that ilk. I wish that the rules regarding recording would be unforced. This video was of the quality that made me want to line up for tickets right away.
Barbra just recorded this great song -with all the vulnerability of an armadillo! The difference between Loudon and Streisand? Loudon lived in a condo. Streisand lives in a COMPOUND. It's an entirely different view of Life.. and it shows in the performing.
You might not know it but Streisand grew up in the projects in Brooklyn and was really poor. But anyway, when you are betrayed or hurt, I think that it doesn't matter if your are rich or poor. You feel the same. I think Streisand's version is amazing.
As I remember she had terminal cancer when she did this performance and died shortly after this. She knew the show must go on and gave it 100+ percent to go out on top. There was more emotion and she gave it her all. You can feel it. Especially when she takes in the applause she knew it would be her last. She is one of my all time favorites. Gives me chills every time I see this.
Ms. Loudon died on November 15, 2003.
She died five years after this performance.
I've heard similar stories, but I've read that she wasn't diagnosed with uterine cancer until 2002.
I'd rather have 50% of Dorothy Loudon, than 100% of any body else at all! Bravo!
Bea Arthur did it so much better
Me Too !! Nobody does it better for me xx
Well said, Bravo!!
This is what a talented singing actress can accomplish. She breaks the heart, as only she can.
I FUCKING LOVE THIS! I come listen to this every time I doubt I'm in the wrong business.
20 years later it is still beautifully powerful and yet fragile...TALENT never dies.
2020 :) And I feel this will be viewed and appreciated forever.
Everything about this performance is perfect. Every note, heartfelt. Loudon’s phrasing is so meaningful that you empathize with her in this soliloquy. I wish I was in that audience that night. I’m so glad we have a recording. I may have watched this over 50x now. No joke. I’m obsessed with this version.
I couldn't agree with you more. I think I am going on one hundred times. She captures the essence of the supposed other woman, changing the perseption most people prefer to believe. And she does get my admiration.
Me too, watched this many times ever since I heard it on the Elaine Page show a few years ago ~ such feeling !
I've watched this several times and I always imagine myself in her place after she finished the song. Facing a packed house of people who adored her. She stands for a little while on the side of the stage -- her heart must have been pounding with excitement and perhaps a little sadness. To be loved in such a dramatic outpouring of approval. She absolutely deserved the long ovation.
I just watched this for the first time - speechless. Just perfect
Best version of this song ever, such an underrated and underappreciated singer and actress, she did not get the attention she deserved in her lifetime, and it's a damn shame! RIP Dorothy, make god laugh and smile.
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I was there that night!
This performance ---- at 75 years of age, was so heartfelt, so attentive. She felt every intricate, emotional lyric and delivered it!!!
This was one of Dorothy Louden finale performances a great artist a real Broadway Baby love❤
I had the privilege of seeing this on Broadway and then on tour with Dorothy Collins. It was an amazing experience!
This is how it's done. She inhabits the lyric and brings it home with
pure honesty. Totally real Such a gifted artist. And, she's 75 here. ***
Actually she’s 73! 😉
The quintessential 11 O’Clock number. From a show that tried too hard too much. Still. Dorothy and Michael Bennett…
I still remember the opening night party at the Windows of the World and the crushing moment of the first reviews. You knew it was bad when Lauren Bacall is the first to leave.
Dorothy was nominated for a Tony Award for her lead performance in the musical "Ballroom," where this song originated. The musical opened at the Majestic Theatre on December 14, 1978, and ran for 116 performances. You can tell this performance meant a great deal to her. And the audience clearly loved every minute of it.
best song in this concert, I have worn out my cd almost
I have watched this so many times. Her voice was so much stronger on the 1978 cast album but that version does not hold a candle to this. Here she struggles to hold long notes but brilliantly turns those moments into exuberance for being able to hold the note for 50 percent of the time she would like 5:08 ...absolute genius. I doubt anyone will ever match this performance.
@@63BLG It is really very special. I remember seeing Dorothy Louden on TV when I was a kid. She always made an impression -- was it her beauty, her sense of fun (she had a smile like a beacon of good feeling)? I am not sure, but I always noticed her. For me, like you, this was the high point of this program. Her creative triumph in the face of her health situation brings tears to my eyes, but always inspires me.
Well she was dying of cancer at the time.
@@withonelook1985 Yes, knowing that when I saw her here was poignant. She deserved all the love that the audience poured out for her.
A TRUE AND AUTHENTIC LEGEND IN BROADWAY COMMUNITY !!!
MISS DOROTHY LOUDON THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING...
Touching and stunning performance. Its not about vocal prowess but about how she "lives" the song. Few artists can do this today. You can sense the audience feeling her pain and emotions.
Simply beautiful and awesomely powerful. Thank you dear Dorothy Loudon for giving us this legendary performance. 🎉🎉🎉
A true legend! Such depth and power in her voice. The emotion she puts behind her performances
I agree with you Matt! Carl - She is lovely!
Perfection. Stunning. So beautiful. A true Broadway legend.
I think this is the Best Rendition of Fifty Percent I've ever heard.
KT Perspectives it should be... it’s hers
@Robert Lee, Countertenor You are absolutely right. I was talking about all of her renditions of the song, On this performance she had a different kind of passion.
This is my favourite version of the song bar none. God bless Dorothy.
Yup!
Total connection with the audience and always with a twinkle in her eye ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
This is such a beautifully sung love song. I just love it and can listen to it over and over again. Touches my heart ❤
Unreal. Simply. Unreal. God Bless you Dorothy Loudon.
perfection.
This is simply the best version of this song and I've heard a lot of them. She is just wonderful!
My pawpaw knew her...got to meet her as a toddler in 87. This is tragic and lovely. Makes me appreciate my husband.
The voice. It's so touching. It gets you right there. I can't think of a better interpreter of such songs. Why is Loudon not better known over here in Europe? We should be worshipping her.
Hell, at this point, she's not well-known even over here. Her fame has faded since she was active on Broadway. It's a crying shame.
I still cry when she sings this tune.
the end of the road for Dorothy Loudon, but what a road and what an end....stunning
I've watched this twice, and I can't stop crying.
She's fantastic. Makes me cry everytime.
She was one of the most talented women we had the privilege to see perform.
There will never be another like Dorothy. 🥰
One of a kind
Every time I watch this video I get chills up my spine. What a talent
First time listening to Dorothy Loudon and am now a fan!
I ADORE DOROTHY LOUDON!!!
with my 30-years younger husband snoring 4 feet away, this speaks to me.
God bless you. ❤
Dorothy Louden was talent personified!
Dorothy had such a unique voice with that vibrato that appears often at the end of a phrase but I also hear it in the middle in the song. I love seeing her here--such a passionate performer. What a treat it has been to see her as Mrs. Lovett via TH-cam when she took over after Angela Lansbury left. She really made that role uniquely her own and such a different take from how Lansbury played it--both were great! My mother saw Loudon in the play "Noises Off". She was not a theater person and couldn't appreciate the nuances of the comedy....but she recognized talent and said Dorothy Loudon was outstanding!!!
Very real. Sung beautifully
Brava Brava Brava!!! Class act!!!
This interpretation is one of the best, a lot of emotion but at the same time a little of sadness...a small percent of love and not expectation.....we can’t have everything but a little many times is enough to move forward...
Loudon is a consumate actress as we see here. But what she can do with a comedic role and song....well she just hams it up royal and the audiences adore it. Dorothy Loudon never holds back or leaves anything in the dressing room. Every ounce of her energy and talent is reserved for the paying customers filling those seats.
Nobody tops this. Brilliant perfomance, brilliant, beloved performer.
I just adore this song it reminds me of my love for a special friend I adored and lost 12yrs ago
Just heard this song sung by Loudon on the Elaine Page show, first time I've ever heard it and I don't know the singer ~ came straight in & found it on You Tube ~ I love the lyrics & loved her rendition of it !
Wow.. the way she knows how to work with the orchestra...They are brilliant as well.
Wonderful, I loved her, and was fortunate enough to see her many times live - thanks for sharing this, she's great!
I saw Dorothy Loudon in Noises Off and laughed my head off.
Loved her. Legendary. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Breathtaking performance!
She lives the composer's message in her interpretation and it is magical. Incredible.
She is Dorothy Loudon. Can you imagine this today? No. NEVER. She is one of a kind.
One of her best roles and arguable her most memorable performance. A great number done by men and women for years with great emotional impact.
Mi total admiración. Conmueve en cada nota y con cada gesto. Una alegría haberla descubierto.
A deeply moving performance. She always makes the song hers. And the Bergmans are AMAZING.
one of my all time favorite performances. and the music was just wonderful. shes absolutely fabulous. i live this song so much.
What a wonderful performance, so full of feeling and emotion.
What I don't understand is why so many people feel the need to compare how someone else's rendition compares to this one. Why can't each singer's rendition be taken at face value and appreciated on it's own merit? I just heard Streisand's version in the last week and I completely don't understand LieslJones59 comment about her having the "vulnerability of an armadillo". Barbra Streisand sings in a completely different style than Dorothy Loudon, they both do a magnificent job on the song, and both should be appreciated equally.
Couldn't agree with you more. My high school English teacher always admonished: " Comparisons are odious." Today she might add: "You Tube wars are tiresome."
How you doing?
I agree completely and the Streisand shade is ridiculous. I wonder what that idiot sounds like when she sings. I'm sure Babs isn't losing any sleep
A point well taken. I've never understood why some people find it necessary to build up one artist by denigrating another. Both Loudon and Streisand are enormously talented, and both renditions of this song are unforgettable. Isn't that enough?
Love her Tony's acceptance speech for Annie...
Saw Jason Graae do this live in Sacramento at a theater preview. The producers and casting directors had no idea what to do with him. He was the Cat in the Hat in Seussical one year, and the devil in Damn Yankees another year. He dominates the stage, and was really nice when my family got to talk to him in person.
how wonderful it is to hear this again from this exceptional broadway siging actress
Quite simply...terrific.
Just breathtaking. What an entertainer.
I know that many won't agree, but this song seems as much a tour de force as "Rose's Turn". Loudon here gives a masterclass on how to deliver a showstopper with class. Considering her age and physical state at the time, an amazing performance.
You have the right to your opinion and i for one agree that different performances can be viewed as masterclasses in many different ways
What a great gal!
why has it taken so long to discover this gem............. im hooked.....
I remember hearing this song when Barbra sang this - and here it was, and now watching this again, the arrangement of the music and choice of notes to hold make some much difference. Dorothy's version - you would imagine in a little cottage somewhere by the window; Barbra's - you can imagine as she sings out her last note, she is seen from a far shot dreaming of her lover. Very different set-up but equally pleasing to the ear. :)
But it is a song about being alone, after all.
Robert Lowry true
Victor Lee I don't know how old U E?
All I know is Dorothyoudon gotnit absolutely to perfection! When you've grown a little older, often there aren't enuf single men so
U wind up falling for a married man and know u will never have al the things back that you had before
Still u love him! Dorothy got it to perfection
The best rendition ever! She acted the shit out of it!
SPECTACULAR !!!!!
Sublime. From a great forgotten musical that was based on a TV movie, of all things. Anyway, Dorothy nails it. I've heard other versions and none have her vulnerability or courage - strange combination. Because this song is really about courage, not settling for less. You might have to be a 'certain' age to fully get that.
I can't spell Orchesta. I love her. She is the best.
Oh this song is played in heaven for him I hope
Love her!
that is showing em all how its done.... perfectly acted, timed and judged... super star
Hermoso tema y hermosa interpretación Ballroom fue un gran musical a pesar de su fracaso de publico Muy triste su desaparición Tenia estilo
One of the best version of this song....I like the Barbra version too
Notwithstanding the whole thing with Kevin Spacey, she was hilarious in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil -- she played the wealthy society woman at one point waving a gun around at a party while howling with laughter.
👏🏼
Barbra sings it, but Loudon lives it. They both do great renditions, but Dorothy Loudon’s version reaches your heart and soul.
You know, Dorothy Loudon was a great enough talent that she doesn't need to be built up by knocking Barbra Streisand. Both Loudon and Streisand sing the song superbly. Sorry if you can't handle that, asshole.
Definitive version. My opinion of course.
No one else.
She inhabits this broken woman who would settle , to allow another man to use that part of her that never knew true love . All the rationalizations justifying the need to feel love rather than be loved 100 percent. Makes for a sad plea to experience the love she believes will never be realized. What’s missing in her is 50 percent of loving herself - she sings this perfectly, which makes this so tragic to hear. She makes you feel what this woman is feeling.
She left us to soon.
This is her song.
Does anyone know if this is the last time she sung publicly?
She was in a Kander & Ebb musical in Arlington, VA in 1999 so no, this wasn't her last performance. She was cast in Dinner at Eight at Lincoln Center in 2002 but had to drop out when her illness made it impossible for her to perform.
@@leighbesstoad Which Kander and Ebb Musical?
@@fergusmurray1828 ALL ABOUT US (MUSICAL)
All About Us is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The musical has been produced in regional theatres but not in New York City.
Based on Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, the prehistoric Antrobus family and their maid deal with life's trials and tribulations, including the Ice Age, a great flood, and a devastating war as they traverse the centuries in a testament to human will and resilience.
@@fergusmurray1828 A showed called All About Us. It never made it to Broadway, only in Regional Theaters. A review perhaps shows why: "The theatre critic for "theatremania.com", David Finkle, said in his review, "Kander is reportedly committed to having every show that he and his late songwriting partner completed brought to the stage. He was right to press for the recently opened and entertaining Broadway musical Curtains, but this time, the bigger favor would perhaps have been to keep the trunk lid firmly shut.""
Wonderful! For once Ms Loudon is not wearing a dress that is not swallowing her and her talent comes through. I know that sounds petty, but …
Aren’t phones supposed to be turned off and put away during a Broadway performance. I see too many illicit recordings taken from someone’s seat with bad video and audio, for which know the actors are not being compensated. This is not of that ilk. I wish that the rules regarding recording would be unforced. This video was of the quality that made me want to line up for tickets right away.
Hunnnnnnn
Barbra just recorded this great song -with all the vulnerability of an
armadillo! The difference between Loudon and Streisand? Loudon lived in a condo.
Streisand lives in a COMPOUND. It's an entirely different view of Life..
and it shows in the performing.
vulnerability of an armadillo......dead
Seems like there would be a better way to compliment an amazing singer other than to put down another amazing singer.
Usually I would agree, but not with Loudon and this song.
You might not know it but Streisand grew up in the projects in Brooklyn and was really poor.
But anyway, when you are betrayed or hurt, I think that it doesn't matter if your are rich or poor. You feel the same.
I think Streisand's version is amazing.
You didn't understand my comment. I basically said that your emotions don't depend on your material status. Love is love, sadness is sadness.