Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Ethel Merman and the Muppets
#1Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/10/08 at 8:54pm
These clips always makes me smile.
The first is a medley of Ethel's greatest hits, with Ethel duetting with various of the Muppets. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think she realizes they're puppets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFklQhH7q4
The second is the famous "Soft Show Business" in which Ethel uncharacteristically sings "There's no Business Like Show Business" softly and sweetly, to comfort Fozzie, who's been a big flop. She's so tender when she says "The closing when the customers don't come"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF5jUPu76FQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF5jUPu76FQ
Then she takes the 2nd chorus BIG.
#2re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:58am
Bloody Hell, I was actually thinking about Ethel singing "Anything you can do" with Miss Piggy today...
hilarious.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#3re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/11/08 at 7:20amBrilliant.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Out In The Sticks
Understudy Joined: 10/13/05
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#6re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/11/08 at 4:52pm
Thanks, but you had to go and quote an Olivia Newton John song in this thread?!?
Couldn't you have told me you love me in more Mermaniacal terms?
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#7re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/11/08 at 4:57pmHa ha. What can I say? I've been listening to Xanadu all day.
#8re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/11/08 at 5:05pm
You coulda said you get a kick outa me.
Or that you hear singing and there's no one there.
Or that I'm the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
Or you could have offered me an eggroll or some fried rice or a ginger-peachy lychee or a napkin or a chopstick or a chair.
Sheeshh...some people!
#9re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/11/08 at 5:10pm
For mauriposa...watch this before your parade passes by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTO6srThtYk
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#12re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/11/08 at 5:58pm
Ohhhhh...Calvy, you know that anytime you want you can put your head on my shoulder, you need someone who's older, a rubdown with a velvet glove.
(I never understood...why a velvet glove?)
louisamayfoster
Stand-by Joined: 10/28/07
#13re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:44amI love her gowns. Does anyone know if she had a favorite designer?
#14re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:52amPJ, you're the top.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#15re: Ethel Merman and the Muppets
Posted: 2/12/08 at 12:30pmI believe that's supposed to be plural, in the original.
Videos