Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon

[StickToPriest]

Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#1

Posted: 12/7/07 at 3:39am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g0W0rXPyx0

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[morosco]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#2

Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:43am

I miss her.

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#2

Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:44am

There's no such thing as a "little" Dorothy Loudon.

What a talent!

[CapnHook]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#3

Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:50am

I just "watched" that DVD while writing an exam paper yesterday.

Lovely. LOVE HER.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#4

Posted: 12/7/07 at 4:50pm

Sorely missed. And a delightful person. And always gave 150 percent.

BroadwayEd

[Wilhelmina]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#5

Posted: 12/7/07 at 5:25pm

There is a rendition of her singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" on a CD called A Cabaret Christmas. Simply divine rendition. I found it on I-Tunes...
Updated On: 12/7/07 at 05:25 PM

[sondheimboy2]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#6

Posted: 12/7/07 at 8:01pm

I like to think that when Clint Eastwood dies and is at the Pearly Gates, he will have to explain to St. Peter just how it is that the soundtrack album of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" he and his daughter and Kevin Spacey get to sing...

But DOROTHY LOUDON, who was also in the movie and REALLY CAN SING doesn't get a song...

"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music "Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70 "Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba

[Kristie-K2]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#7

Posted: 12/7/07 at 8:54pm

After watching Queen of the Stardust Ballroom last week I was curious about Ballroom......Thank You....She was Great.....I wish I could of seen the show.

[theaterkid1015]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#8

Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:00pm

Sometimes? Everyday more like.

Anyone else think she was an ideal choice for Mama Rose in her day?

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

[StickToPriest]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#9

Posted: 3/12/09 at 2:08am

As the thread title says...

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[Q]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#10

Posted: 3/12/09 at 2:10am

YAY

[StickToPriest]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#11

Posted: 3/12/09 at 2:12am

And one more...

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[PalJoey]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#12

Posted: 3/12/09 at 8:11am

And the funniest performance by anyone, ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Sp_ig4YXA

[husk_charmer]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#13

Posted: 3/12/09 at 9:47am

Fifty Percent is probably my favorite love song from any musical, because it's so much more than just a love song.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[morosco]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#14

Posted: 3/12/09 at 10:02pm

The Worst Pies in London

[Chrysanthemum62001]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#15

Posted: 3/13/09 at 12:51am

Oh my GOD!

"Many important people watching-could mean "comeback". Damn, that is bloody brilliant.

"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL

[PalJoey]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#16

Posted: 3/13/09 at 8:07am

And it did!

[PalJoey]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#17

Posted: 4/5/09 at 11:15pm

"I bet you didn't know what you had when you wrote this one, Steve!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCN8z97stHQ

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#18

Posted: 4/5/09 at 11:20pm

PJ, I know you adore that performance, but to me the funniest performance by anyone, ever, is Loudon's brilliant comic tour-de-force rendition of "Losing My Mind/You Could Drive a Person Crazy." I remember the first time I saw the DVD of Sondheim at Carnegie Hall I had no idea that she was gonna do a medley of the songs, I was expecting a typical torchy "Losing My Mind" (I wasn't familiar with Loudon either so I didn't realize she didn't do "typical" anything), by the time she was done, I was laughing so hard I could barely breath and she had gained a new fan. I felt miserable when I looked her up and realized she had passed away. I adore her.
I really think she would have made a great Sally in FOLLIES, and how I wish she had played the female lead in THE APPLE TREE.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[jewishboy]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#19

Posted: 4/5/09 at 11:34pm

Ray, I'm totally with you. Did not have a clue about her live performances. It's a comedic master class!

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#20

Posted: 4/6/09 at 12:25am

From Charles Strouse's wonderful memoir:
"Dorothy had made her stage debut in 1962 in
THE WORLD OF JULES FEIFER directed by Mike Nichols, but when Mike called her to find out if she was interested in being in ANNIE,
she hesistated.
'Don't you think I'm too old to play Annie Oakley?'"

[into_the_woods2]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#21

Posted: 4/6/09 at 12:32am

yay love her

"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch

[PalJoey]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#22

Posted: 4/6/09 at 8:22am

She would have made an amazing Annie Oakley. (Earlier in her career.)

[morosco]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#23

Posted: 4/6/09 at 9:46am

Although it was 25 years ago my sides still ache from laughing so hard during the original Broadway NOISES OFF. Loudon was sublime.

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Because Sometimes You Just Need A Little Dorothy Loudon#24

Posted: 4/8/09 at 8:22pm

My mom has recently been listening to the Broadway channel on Sirius radio, and she heard Loudon singing "Fifty Percent". She asked me who it was, and she said that you could tell from the song that she was someone who was incredible on stage.

I also just showed her the "Vodka" video, and she loved it.

I think we have a new Dorothy Loudon convert.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.