Florence Henderson, of Broadway and Brady Bunch fame, has passed away
Posted: 11/25/16 at 1:45am
omg so sad!
Posted: 11/25/16 at 1:51am
Awwww...RIP
Posted: 11/25/16 at 2:36am
I met her just last year and she had a great energy about her. She was a class act. RIP.
Posted: 11/25/16 at 7:42am
Here is Seth Rudetsky's "Deconstructing Florence Henderson". Her "Sound of Music" is amazing! https://youtu.be/bPLrn-gE6YM
Posted: 11/25/16 at 7:47am
...https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Florence-Henderson-Stage-and-Brady-Bunch-Star-Dies-at-82-20161125 There's a video of her performing at the 1971 Tony Awards. Incredible!
Posted: 11/25/16 at 8:48am
Both a talent and kind spirit. What a loss!
Favorite Performance next to 30-Rock Apperance: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=florence+henderson+when+you%27re+good+to+mama
Posted: 11/25/16 at 9:04am
I am truly saddened at this news..."Here's a story of a Lovely Lady..." Florence Henderson is/was a true friend to the LGBTQ community and AIDS activist; her Love and Spirit will never die. My senior friends worked with her and some even lived with her at times and tell me of wonderful memories and stories of their time together.
She is/was a great Broadway star and YouTube has many older b/w clips and of 50's and 60's performances.
This is audio of "Oklahoma" with John Raitt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n31XYNcTIUw
Wonderful, wonderful Lady..
Posted: 11/25/16 at 11:37am
RIP Always a class act. You will be missed!
Posted: 11/25/16 at 11:57am
Florence was a great person as well as a performer. She was also so supportive of other performers. I would often see her around Los Angeles at the shows of others. The last time she and Barry Manilow were in the front row at the Catalina Jazz Club when Roslyn Kind was singing. They lead every ovation.
Posted: 11/25/16 at 12:11pm
This is so sad. Not just Brady Bunch.. The girl who came to supper, Fanny, Oklahoma, Wish you Were Here and national tours sound of music, south pacific, and God knows what else. Oh Mike!
She will be missed. I personally will miss her. Hope she sings in heaven..
Posted: 11/25/16 at 2:09pm
Sort of shocked by this news, I was at a benefit concert starring Martina McBride in Stamford CT just two weeks ago and Florence was the emcee, she was quite funny and engaging and look far younger than her age. So sad and sudden.
Posted: 11/25/16 at 2:14pm
RIP Ms Henderson.
Posted: 11/25/16 at 10:17pm
Very sad to hear this. She was so energetic and full of life, even though she was 82, it feels like she passed way too young.
Posted: 11/26/16 at 9:24pm
I remember listening to Florence years ago on the Broadway cast album in her starring role as Fanny. I just came across these two clips which were on television in 1954. That was when I found out that Mrs. Brady was originally a Broadway star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHWJ5yyOOec
With Eddie Fisher singing the role of Marius which was played on Broadway by William Tabbert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X1kwiFvnTE
Posted: 11/27/16 at 8:30pm
My paths crossed with Florence only once, back in the 1980s, but it was memorable for reasons you will never guess. I am a folksinger, my first album was out and I was a guest on a cable talk show that she was hosting (this was in the beginning of cable -- I don't even remember the name of the show). Florence was so nice, during the makeup session, then on camera -- but this is the amazing thing:
A few days later I got a hand-written note from her thanking me for being on her show! I was nobody (still am, just older) -- my first album, a folksinger -- and she took the time to hand write a thank-you note (when Lord knows I should have written one to her). I saved it -- it's in a box somewhere (I've moved five times over the past 8 years) -- so I'm not surprised reading these sweet stories about her.
Looking back on her career it's clear she was always in it for the long run. You don't write thank you notes like that unless you are. I don't write as many thank-you notes as I should -- in fact, when I do write them they're usually thank-you postcards because who has time to address and lick an envelope?
So next time you are debating whether you should send a thank you note, ask yourself, What would Florence do?
