Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
#1Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Posted: 1/8/12 at 8:36pm
Who knew video existed?
http://www.bluegobo.com/watch/10623
"You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love," performed live with Russell Nype, on the Colgate Comedy Hour, December 1, 1955.
#2Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/8/12 at 8:43pmThanks for posting. Glorious!
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#3Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/8/12 at 9:01pmAs if her vocal were not enough, watch how she works the skirt during the encore!
#5Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/8/12 at 9:17pmFunny, I saw her in the audience today at this afternoon's final Cherry Orchard performance.
#7Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/8/12 at 10:04pmNo this is bad because now I just want more.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
pinoyidol2006
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
#8Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/8/12 at 10:12pm
^THIS.
Holy crap that was brilliant.
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
#9Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/8/12 at 11:07pmShe's kind of channeling Jimmy Durante there at the end. I don't know why, but it works.
#10Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/9/12 at 6:44amOh, dear God! That was brilliant. She sounds wonderful. I always love little video gems like this that people dig up from time to time.
#11Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/9/12 at 7:28amThat was brilliant, thanks so much for finding it! Great voice, great skirt.
#13Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:25pmWhat she does on the final "There is nothing you can take / To relieve that pleasant ache" is either genius or half a bottle of Scotch.
#14Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:31pm
I LOVE how she shouts instead of belts, even back then.
I EFFING love her.
Updated On: 1/9/12 at 02:31 PM
Gaveston2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/11
#15Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:42pmI like how Russell Nype has to also move the furniture and still isn't allowed to actually put his head on Stritch's shoulder.
#16Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:42pm
PalJoey - I'm going to go with genius.
Here's another gem:
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"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#17Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:54pmWe need more video of Stritch! Young Stritch, old Stritch, drunk Stritch, sober Stritch...MORE STRITCH!
#18Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Posted: 1/9/12 at 3:03pm
Here she is performing It's Today on a british variety show in the late 70s:
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"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#19Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Posted: 1/9/12 at 3:09pm
Someone had a half a bottle of Scotch before deciding she should perform this number:
Keep My Love Alive
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#20Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Posted: 1/9/12 at 3:14pm
In case you were wondering why Stritch was never in Chicago:
Jazz
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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Broadway Star Joined: 12/27/11
#21Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Posted: 1/9/12 at 3:40pmI! DON'T! BRAY!
"Tracy... Hold Mama's waffles."
#22Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Posted: 1/9/12 at 4:13pm
She's more interesting forgetting lyrics than most people are remembering them.
New Stritch
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#23Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Posted: 1/9/12 at 4:18pmMy God she looked like a drag queen in that All That Jazz clip! I love the Swim arm moves to! LOL!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
zamedy
Broadway Star Joined: 6/27/07
#24Elaine Stritch in Call Me Madam--RARE VIDEO
Posted: 1/9/12 at 10:58pmWOW. Just.. WOW. Pure, raw talent. You either 'have it' or you don't.. and she HAS IT. You can't teach that. She's got more talent in her left pinky that most people dream of. LOVE HER.
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