Thank you so very much for sharing! In 1976 I had the opportunity to see Miss Lansbury in Mame with the same cast. One cannot define the word presence adequately while Lansbury is on stage. I will tell you, it was as if you could feel electricity in the air. The theater seated 11k people and I was seated in the back of " the house". I never experienced anything like it before nor since. Again thank you for bringing back those very significant happy memories ! Lansbury rules !!!!
Nice to see so many reviews in better than expected quality, considering they're from video tapes well over 30 years old. The clips from the performances are also great quality (compared to most of what survives on TH-cam at this point). It makes me wonder how much really good footage still exists. Did the musical's producers tape selected scenes to share with the local news studios, or was each news studio allowed to record their own material? The clips mostly alternate between one view from the right & another view from the left. Someone should cut them together, so it isn't just a single camera experience. I guess it's too much to hope anyone has the entire show, but it is always nice to run across archival footage like this, so thanks for sharing!
Boston Blackie: I would rather have a delay in the start of MURDER SHE WROTE so that a film of this stage version with Angela Lansbury could be filmed like her version of SWEENEY TODD. 12 years of MURDER SHE WROTE is a sad compromise. Why a better production wasn’t mounted for her is excusable. As inexcusable as casting Lucille Ball as Grandma, I mean Auntie Mame.
@@johnpickford4222 The second time out was a disaster. If they were going to film a theatrical production, which they didn't do in those days, they would have filmed the first production that was a huge success. Dame Angela decided to do television and had two shows to chose from. "Murder She, Wrote" had been scheduled for Jean Staplton to do, but she didn't want to. So I am so glad the world has "Murder She, Wrote" that caused Dame Angela to be recognised world wide. Being British we always knew of her! She said that the only stage production people will have of her is "Sweeney Todd." I wish they had filmed "Blithe Spirit" and released it. In fact she was scheduled to do lots more but the Pandemic took care of that. The BBC has a wonderful radio interview with Emma Thompson interviewing Dame Angela, She talks about going to the UK to do "Blythe Spirit" and the people treated her as a rock star!' She talked about going in a car, with her grandfather, George Lansbury, Minister of Works, to 10 Downing Streest. A bus driver sitting beside the car climbed down from his cabin, stuck his hand through the open window and said "Nice to see you George!" Her grandfather was much admired in Britain.
@@bostonblackie9503 I really wish we could see a taped performance of Angela Lansbury in The King and I. We can be sure that she made a wonderful Anna.
@@k.robertrichardson6779my friend saw that in New York, she did it for three weeks so she could get in stronger vocal form before she did Sweeney Todd. My friend says she was amazing!
Thank you so very much for sharing! In 1976 I had the opportunity to see Miss Lansbury in Mame with the same cast.
One cannot define the word presence adequately while Lansbury is on stage. I will tell you, it was as if you could feel electricity in the air. The theater seated 11k people and I was seated in the back of " the house".
I never experienced anything like it before nor since. Again thank you for bringing back those very significant happy memories ! Lansbury rules !!!!
Happy Birthday, and as allways thanks so much for these treasures.
We'll miss you, Mz. Lansbury.
Great video - you're the best as always!
I saw her at the Winter Garden. Thanks for the memories.
Nice to see so many reviews in better than expected quality, considering they're from video tapes well over 30 years old. The clips from the performances are also great quality (compared to most of what survives on TH-cam at this point). It makes me wonder how much really good footage still exists. Did the musical's producers tape selected scenes to share with the local news studios, or was each news studio allowed to record their own material? The clips mostly alternate between one view from the right & another view from the left. Someone should cut them together, so it isn't just a single camera experience. I guess it's too much to hope anyone has the entire show, but it is always nice to run across archival footage like this, so thanks for sharing!
u kiddin? fab show !!!!!
Because this failed we have "Murder She, Wrote."
Boston Blackie: I would rather have a delay in the start of MURDER SHE WROTE so that a film of this stage version with Angela Lansbury could be filmed like her version of SWEENEY TODD. 12 years of MURDER SHE WROTE is a sad compromise. Why a better production wasn’t mounted for her is excusable. As inexcusable as casting Lucille Ball as Grandma, I mean Auntie Mame.
@@johnpickford4222 The second time out was a disaster. If they were going to film a theatrical production, which they didn't do in those days, they would have filmed the first production that was a huge success. Dame Angela decided to do television and had two shows to chose from. "Murder She, Wrote" had been scheduled for Jean Staplton to do, but she didn't want to. So I am so glad the world has "Murder She, Wrote" that caused Dame Angela to be recognised world wide. Being British we always knew of her! She said that the only stage production people will have of her is "Sweeney Todd." I wish they had filmed "Blithe Spirit" and released it. In fact she was scheduled to do lots more but the Pandemic took care of that. The BBC has a wonderful radio interview with Emma Thompson interviewing Dame Angela, She talks about going to the UK to do "Blythe Spirit" and the people treated her as a rock star!' She talked about going in a car, with her grandfather, George Lansbury, Minister of Works, to 10 Downing Streest. A bus driver sitting beside the car climbed down from his cabin, stuck his hand through the open window and said "Nice to see you George!" Her grandfather was much admired in Britain.
@@bostonblackie9503 I really wish we could see a taped performance of Angela Lansbury in The King and I. We can be sure that she made a wonderful Anna.
@@k.robertrichardson6779my friend saw that in New York, she did it for three weeks so she could get in stronger vocal form before she did Sweeney Todd. My friend says she was amazing!