Bette Midler on Broadway.- Page 2

[DAME]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 3:23pm

Wow. i didn't know she played the Greek. That is cool. Was that the same tour the clip is from?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 8:21pm

Does everyone know that there are two songs from Bette's early performances at the Continental Baths on YouTube?


"Easier Said Than Done"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53TXY0dLbow


"Marihuana"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rdzxjoetqA

I was only 15, so I couldn't go to the baths (that had to wait till I was 17!), but I saw her in '71 at the Bottom Line, the Bitter End, a strip mall in New Jersey and an auditorium at the old NYU Uptown Campus in the Bronx.

This is what she and Barry Manilow were like then. At 15, I though the Divine Miss M and Follies were as good as it gets.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 8:22pm

I don't think so Dame

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 8:26pm

oh my God, Barry Manilow.....I wonder what he was doing during breaks....

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 10:22pm

I wouldn't mind if Bette replaced Patti in the Gypsy revival. They'd probably recoup and run for another year.

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 10:28pm

Thanks Sondheimhboy2! She was fab and this clip confirms that the daughters really did that weird mop sliding thing. I thought that was so strange in the revival tour.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:15pm

Yes, the mop dance is Jerome Robbins' original choreography.

It looked cramped on that Tony Awards clip. I've seen the mops sliding a much greater distance in actual productions.

By the way, Manilow did some amazing arrangements and piano playing on Midler's first two albums, "The Divine Miss M." and "Bette Midler". I particularly like the arrangements on "Skylark" and "Surabaya Johnny".