Kaye Ballard Love

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:43pm

I was listening to the Cinderella music. You have to love Kaye Ballard. What a great interpreter. "She's a frothy little bubble, with a flimsy kind of charm. And with very little trouble I could break her little (big crescendo) ARM".

Did she ever play Mama Rose anywhere?


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Updated On: 4/7/08 at 10:43 PM

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/7/08 at 11:09pm

I think she did. I wouldn't be surprised.

I lvoe the Donna Murphy story.

[Chevstriss]

Posted: 4/7/08 at 11:41pm

I've been bemoaning the fact all week that her "Robber Bridegroom" DVD (from 1980) release date just went from 2008 to "N/A".

Crappity crap crap crap.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 12:40am

I used to listen to her Cinderella tracks over and over. I adore the woman. She could sing the phonebook and I'd bee happy. I need to get her book.

[kooky]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 1:08am

I have LOVED-LOVED her for years!!!!! I remember when she had a little poodle
dog called Carmela ----- many moons ago .......

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 2:03am

My favorite Kaye Ballard recording is easily The Golden Apple. Her Lazy Afternoon is brillant, and was luckily recorded in full, which is more than I can say for the rest of the show.

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 8:53am

Lazy Afternoon is fantastic! That girl can SANG.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 10:09am

"You don't treat a mistress
Quite that way.
The dirty rat.
He treats me
Like a WIFE!"

--Carnival

[nmartin]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 10:21am

I know this may be an annoying question, but when I used to spend a lot of time in NYC, there was a shop in the West Village. Obviously, the owner knew/loved Kaye Ballard. There were many pictures of her around the shop, and he sold a cd of hers. I'm going crazy trying to remember the name of the shop. Anybody know?

[Sonia&Vernon]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 4:00pm

Kaye played Mama Rose in two different productions of Gypsy. I'm not sure where, though. Gavin MacLeod played Herbie in one and I believe Jack Cassidy was Herbie in the other.

I loved every time she spontaneously broke into song on "The Mothers-in-Law." Those shows need to be officially released on DVD!

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 4/9/08 at 12:28am

I ADORE KAYE BALLARD!!!!!

The fact that she never became the HUGE star that she should have been is a crime.

I remember about ten years ago or so, she was in a revue at the "Rainbow and Stars" and, in his review for New York Magazine, John Simon made some crack about her weight and I wanted to punch his lights out.

The woman is priceless with a comedy song and peerless with a ballad. She should be treated as a national treasure

And I wish that "The Mothers-In-Law" were available on DVD. O.k., it's the same farcical situations and schtick that was tiresome tiresome when Lucille Ball did them in "The Lucy Show", but it's KAYE BALLARD and the equally divine EVE ARDEN doing them! (There should be statues of these two women somewhere in the great land of ours.)

[Elphaba]

Posted: 4/9/08 at 6:24pm

She lives here, and right after we first moved here we went to a benefit she did for someone or something.
The ole girl can still sing, act, and was funnier than heck.