Bway Lost Treasures 3 ? (Wishes)

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:05am

24 Hours a day - Golden Rainbow
Smile, Smile , Smile - Hallelujah, Baby

[hypertruffle]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:07am

*crosses fingers* I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

[jasobres]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:09am

The Producers - Along Came Bialy/Act I Finale - Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick and Cast
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - My New Philosophy/Happiness - Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Wayne Mathis and Cast (it's nice to revisit where these guys got their big break)

[James2]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:17am

Sweeney Todd - "The Worst Pies in London"

[wildcat]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:21am

Turkey Lurkey Time...PROMISES, PROMISES
Life Is...ZORBA

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:25am

Worst Pies is already on Bway Treasures 1.

I'll second "Turkey Lurkey" from PROMISES PROMISES

and add

"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine" from HAIR
"They're Playing Our Song" from TPOS
"I Got Love" -- Purlie
"Rags" from RAGS
"50 Percent" from Ballroom

and of course the oft mentioned ACL and DREAMGIRLS segments that the MB estate won't release.

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:27am

Worst Pies is there but good God is it a bad copy - I've never seen such bad lip syncing -- anywhere!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:40am

There Goes My Life - A Mothers Kisses

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 11:43am

Did they ever do that song from A Mother's Kisses on television?

And yeah, the lip syncing to both Worst Pies and A New Argentina are terrible. They should have just used the clip of Angie singing "Bye the Beautiful Sea" from the 1981 Tonys.

[joeybiltmore1]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 12:44pm

I'm hoping for:

"I Want to Be Happy" - Ruby Keeler and cast of NO NO NANETTE 1972

Medley from THE WIZ - 1976

whatever they did from PIPPIN 1973

whatever they did from A CHORUS LINE 1975

the title song from ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1977

"Sunday" from SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

"The Production Code" from A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD/A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE

But let's just hope that there's a volume three at all! One suggestion to the producer of these: the split second a number ends we cut to something else - can't there be a SECOND to see a final pose or watch the cast receive applause? Has anyone else noticed this? But I'm thrilled that these are being released. Bring on Volume 3!

[nmartin]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 12:48pm

The year the Tonys had a salute to Gershwin, Dorothy Loudon sang a song called Vodka that was hilarious. I would love to see that again. Also, Loudon singing My Type from Jerry's Girls.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 12:49pm

NO NO NANETTE and THE WIZ didn't perform on the Tonys. Actually it wasn't uniform for all the nominated musicals/revivals to perform until the 80s.

[hypertruffle]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 1:03pm

Michael Bennet-Did the sweet charity revival ('86, I believe) get to perform?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 1:10pm

No I don't believe Sweet Charity performed. In the 70s and 80s they did alot of "tribute" segments on the Tonys. In 1986 they did something called "40 years of Broadway Show Music" which included some very bizarre things like Bea Arthur singing (?) "Not While I'm Around" from Sweeney Todd.

The official Tony Awards website lists the performers and musical clips from all the past Tony Broadcasts.

www.tonyawards.com

[James2]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 1:53pm

Into the Woods - 1988

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 1:59pm

The 1967 Tonys (which is the earliest one telecast nationally) showed numbers from the 4 nominees (CABARET, WALKIN HAPPY, THE APPLE TREE, I DO! I DO) but in 1971 to celebrate their 25th anniversary all the songs they did came from previous Tony winners - often with the OC members. These clips provide BROADWAY'S LOST TREASURES with many of the early shows (KING AND I, PAJAMA GAME etc.) Because of this there was nothing fom COMPANY the year it won.

In 1972 they did a number from JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (which was NOT nominated for Best Musical) but nothing from FOLLIES or TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA! They did show the finale from AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH ("C'mon Feet" and "Put a Curse on you") which must have mystified TV viewers. (It mystified me but I was in 6th Grade at the time!!)

They also showed "I Want to Be Happy" and "YOu Can Dance with Any Girl" from NO NO NANETTE which had won several Tonys the previous year, but got no Tony-show airtime because of their 25th anniversary bits.

1973 was an even stranger telecast. Their theme was "The Wide World of Broadway" and they featured numbers from foreign productions of Broadway shows (KING AND I, SHOW BOAT - with Cleo Laine, and an Italian musical called CIA RUDY which never came to New York) but nothing from NIGHT MUSIC or PIPPIN!

ABC didn't really get it together until the 1976 Tonys when they did sequences from A CHORUS LINE, CHICAGO and PACIFIC OVERTURES. From that year foreward it has become standard for ABC and now CBS to show numbers from the 4 nominated musicals and sometims even the revivals. So thanks to te Tonys we have numbers from some of the un-recorded shows like MERLIN, BIG DEAL, and JAMES'S JOYCE'S THE DEAD.

[joeybiltmore1]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 2:01pm

Wow, Michael Bennett, I didn't know that. I could SWEAR I've seen footage of Keeler and the boys tapping their fannies off - I just assumed it was the Tonys. I remember "The Wiz" did a lengthy segment on a show Howard Cosell hosted in the mid-70's. I'd love to see that too.

Is a Vol. 3 in the works? Let's hope so!

Back to the garage for me -

Joey

[CapnHook]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 2:25pm

I made this list a long time ago. These are shows that performed but have yet to be on the DVD:

GREASE
DREAMGIRLS
A CHORUS LINE
PETER PAN
WEST SIDE STORY
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
ASPECTS OF LOVE
WILL ROGER'S FOLLIES
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
THE SECRET GARDEN
BYE BYE BIRDIE ("Rosie" from Revival)
MISS SAIGON
CRAZY FOR YOU
DAMN YANKEES
FALSETTOS
MOST HAPPY FELLA
RIALTO

[nmartin]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 3:44pm

Merlin! Dear God. No one should have reminded me of that. I can still see some woman playing a unicorn.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 6/5/05 at 4:16pm

Pippin did "Magic to Do" -- in 1972, I guess it was the only nominated musical because of their round the world tribute.