Viva Diahann Carroll

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Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/28/05 at 5:24pm

http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/7373

A classy, underrated artist.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/28/05 at 5:44pm

You have great taste fflagg.
She is very underrated as an actress and as a singer.
She's one of my favorites.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/28/05 at 5:49pm

Takes one to know one. :) There is a recent CD of hers combining two albums from 1962: one with Andre Previn and one a live recording. Check them out on amazon.com. A diva experience.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/28/05 at 6:22pm

She still looks amazing.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/28/05 at 6:30pm

She did a concert entirely of Lerner/Lowe songs that was amazing!!

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/28/05 at 7:55pm

She's marvellous on the "House of Flowers" OBCR. Even if her voice goes out in "I Never Has Seen Snow" and Harold Arlen has to sing one of the notes for her.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:15am

She had the flu at the time of the recording. There is a great Streisand perf of the song on her 1973 TV special just out on DVD.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:26am

Am I the only one old enough to have loved her in Julia, her groundbreaking 1968 television series?

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#9

re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:29am

NBC on Sunday nights I believe with Lurene Tuttle and Lloyd Nolan.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:31am

No, you are not.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:33am

I wrote her fan letter, care of NBC Studios in Burbank and she sent back an autographed picture.

I also wrote letters to Elizabeth Montgomery and Sallie Fields.

Wonder what happened to that picture...

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#12

re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:36am

oh my god...I still have my autographed Jamie Summers photo and official "Bionic Women Fan Club" certificate. It has a gold seal on it. A GOLD SEAL!!!

Why do I still have it? I don't know.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:37am

Of course you do. ;-}

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#14

re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:39am

I LOVE her on the "No Strings" CD. It remains one of my favorite OCR's.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:40am

I did actually try to get rid of it at my friends garage sale once. No buyers.

But.....back to Diahann Carroll.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 12:47am

I have to say my favorite film performance of hers is in "Paris Blues". She was fantastic in that role, and I love the movie on a whole as well.

Does anyone know if Newman was playing the trumpet himself in the club scenes?

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 1:11am

Diahann Carroll is excellent! I loved her in "Julia" (I used to watch "Julia" with my Grandmother, that was our show!) as well as "Dynasty" and everything she has ever done. She does still look & sound amazing and I believe is touring now as well (or soon!)
Brava Diahann Carroll!!

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 9:29am

Loved 'Julia' and thought 'Dynasty' was hysterically bad.
Her recording of 'Sunset Blvd' is great and I have her on DVD with Judy Garland. Beautiful lady!

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 10:13am

No Strings is still one of my favorite cast recordings of all time. She has a lot to do with it.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 10:19am

Indeed. And do not forget when she gets down in "Claudine". :)

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 11:01am

I also love no Strings. she brings so much to that recording.

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re: Viva Diahann Carroll

Posted: 12/29/05 at 3:25pm

I will seriously date myself.

I saw No Strings with Diahann Carroll shortly before she left the show. This was the first show I ever saw on Broadway (only tours up to that point), and No Strings is very dear to me for that reason as well as the cast, unique staging, design and that score.

Yes, I have the Playbill and the ticket stub and the tile hot pad with the show logo on it that theatres were selling at that time and which hangs in my kitchen.

Encores really screwed this one up.

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