Im shocked!!

[scotty]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 8:44am

I just found out (five years late) that Madeline Kahn died. Wow!

Im sure this is nothing new to anyone. So forgive me if I appear insensitive.

I thought she was such a unique, gifted woman. Had such a presence on & off stage.

I will miss her (starting now).

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 8:45am

You didn't know?

[scotty]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 8:46am

No. Majorly out of the loop.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 8:49am

I've always been a big fan. I got to meet her when she did the concert version of "Anyone Can Whistle". She was a sweet and lovely woman.

[wildcat]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 8:54am

Scotty, if you've never heard ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Cy Coleman, Comden & Green, now is a good time to hear Madeline at her peak (you'll wear a black arm band, of course...)

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 8:56am

ON THE 20TH CENTURY=MASTERPIECE!

[scotty]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 9:03am

I've got some catching up to do!

Posted: 2/12/05 at 9:49am

Oh My God! What happened? First Arthur Miller, now Madeline Kahn! What a sad week on Broadway!

[scotty]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 9:56am

actually (to my suprise). It's Madeline Kahn, then Arthur!

[Marquise]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 9:59am

yes Madeline Kahn died 5 years ago...

what a gifted comic actress with great performances in "Paper Moon", "Blazing Saddles", "Clue" and "On The 20th Century" among them. She was even funny in "At Long Last Love"....

[wildcat]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 10:18am

Track down the otherwise ordinary NEW FACES OF 1968, the last of Leonard Sillman's Broadway revue series, for Madeline's FABULOUS Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya/Surabaya Johnny send-up DAS CHICAGO SONG. It's a classic piece of material.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 11:08am

I miss her so much. She never failed to make me smile. I watched Clue the other night and I got all teary. Hers was the first celebrity death to actually affect me. I still remember coming home and hearing my father say she had passed away. I literally went completely numb, and for the rest of the night I kept breaking down; she meant that much to me.

melissa errico fan - I'm so glad you got to meet her, and sorry to say I am jealous :) Good to hear she was sweet to you :)

[Menken Fan]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 11:11am

I got to meet Madeline after a performance of The Sisters Rosenswieg at Lincoln Center. What a fantasic woman! I would highly recommend her final movie "Judy Berlin". Find this movie and enjoy!

[EdnaSings]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 1:14pm

Madeline always makes me laugh in "Young Frankenstein" with the Sweet Mystery of life moment. Not only was it comically perfect, it was perefectly sung.
I did a huge Mel Brooks study at college (which was later thrown out by the board *grump*) and Young Frankenstein is one of my fave films (I even have a Young Frankenstein inspire tattoo on my life.. I need to get a hobby...) which obviously led me to fall madly in love with anything Madeline did. Blazing Saddles "It's twue, it's twue!" Genious.
I was also really devestated to learn of her passing, such a talent, there's still a film due for release with her vocal talents on, I remember thinking about when A Bugs life Came out, how weird it was to hear her knowing she was dead.
There's a wonderful aria knocking around on various P2P programs of her on a chat show, singing "once a moment passes" or something along those lines and bursts into Sweet mystery of life at the end, worth downloading if you can find it.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 4:51pm

You wouldn't believe how many people don't know Madeline is dead.

[Menken Fan]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 6:48pm

The aria was "The Moment Has Passed". She performed it on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. You can listen to it here...
The Moment Has Passed

[broadwayjules]

Posted: 2/12/05 at 7:24pm

Beautiful!! Thank you for the link, I love Madeline.