15 minutes of Side by Side by Sondheim

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/14/16 at 7:21pm

 

On a 1977 Mike Douglas Show, Hermione Gingold introduces her fellow cast mates from the 1st replacement cast for the Broadway production of Side by Side by Sondheim: Georgia Brown, who sings a mannered "I'm Still Here,": Nancy Dussault, who sings a plaintive "Send in the Clowns", and Larry Kert, handsome and in amazing voice, years before onslaught of AIDS, who sings "Something's Coming."

After Gingold chats with Mike Douglas and co-host Marvin Hamlisch, she introduces the trio, who open with a medley of "Comedy Tonight" and "Love Is in the Air."

 

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Updated On: 5/14/16 at 07:21 PM

[sarahb22]

Posted: 5/14/16 at 8:34pm

Wow, thanks so much for this!! Amazing to watch.  One of these days Mr.Sondheim isn't going to be here anymore, and I think a lot of people (the ones who aren't really all that much into theater but have heard popular music) are going to be shocked at just how far back his career went.  Everybody knows he wrote "Send in the Clowns", but I think you'll hear a lot of "Wait, he wrote stuff from 'West Side Story'?  He wrote the lyrics to 'Everything's Coming Up Roses'? Really?"  He's one of the last Broadway legends still around.

[bunnie3]

Posted: 5/14/16 at 8:55pm

O.m.g. such great memories of the original show.  That Ned Sherin and Julia McKenzie (?!) were to die for.  

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/15/16 at 7:55pm

Here's Millicent Martin (not Julia MacKenzie!) from the original Broadway cast performing "I'm Still Here" on the Tonys that year
 

 

Updated On: 5/20/16 at 07:55 PM