It's My Body and My Body's Nobodys Business But My Own

I'm sorry, but I love this number.

There's a video of the TONY performance on outubeYay.

It's so catchy and a great deal of fun. I wish I could have seen THE LIFE.

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I watch that video every so often. What really annoys me is that there is one woman who looks like it's her first day on the job. Know which one i'm talking about?

This musical was a piece of garbage but it was a lot of fun! Especially the drag queen doing cartwheels during the "Hooker's Ball!"

Does anyone have THE LIFE Concept CD with LIza and JHoliday?

It's cool.

Mungo - do you mean Katy Grenfell? In the jean shorts? She was in the original cast - as all of them. Sharon Wilkins is hilarious (love her mugshot)

"Lacey, get your calculator, baby. Let's figure this out...it says here I've been laid by over 15,000 men! Lord have mercy!"

Updated On: 4/16/07 at 10:55 PM

i loved this show saw it twice, liked it better then titanic

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Count me in the camp that liked THE LIFE a whole lot better than TITANIC.

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Titanic has some soaring music but the lyrics are everything that Yeston sometimes does worse--like the group numbers in particular people sing lyrics that don't sound even remotely the way anyone would naturally talk--it's all very strange.

All I know of The Life are the songs on Youtube, one that Sam Harris sang on some talk show and... that's it. I guess being a COleman fan I need to get the score--was he really working on it since 1975?? Peopel said the problemw as back then it seemed relevant--by 1995 it seemed very dated. I actually lvoe best the performance of the song done on the Rosie show--i need to try to digitze my 4 tapes of Rosie Broadway clips--so much great stuff.

brody--why did they make promo vids for Steel Pier and The Life that year when I don't usually see such elaborate vids for shows?

The main controversy I remember at the time was most people online who had seen it thougth the choreography reeked of poor Fosse imitation...

Havingn just recently seen Jeckyl (the video) I can't imagine it possibly being worse Unless of course the characterization and plto progress made as little inane sense as in Jeckyl

Wow I didn't realize that Life ran for over a year--not too bad considering the reviews I remember actually (Steel Pier got better reviews didn't it and hardly ran at all?)

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Updated On: 4/17/07 at 01:24 AM

Yeah I used to always get the song stuck in my head too--from the Rosie performance alone.

I agree the promo video is great as is Monk's Everybody's Girl (tho they cut the opening) tho the dancing one for Steel Pier is really poorly filmed IMHO.

I still am surprised that this ran longer than I expected--putting it in perspective it ran longer than shows that in my head always seemed bigger successes like Coleman's Seesaw, or Sondheim's Passion, or K&E's Zorba... DId it tour?

Ummmm... I'm sorry but THE LIFE was the best new show that season hands down, in my opinion. I've said it here before but I must have seen that show at least 10 times and I even got to see Sharon go on for Lilias (however the swing who went on for Chi~Chi was not fat at all and that didn't work). I always wondered what happened to Bellamy Young. She was kickass in that show. In my opinion the weakest part of the show was Pamela Isaacs.

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Yeah, what did ever happen to Bellamy?

I really enjoyed The Life. I think the score is superb (and I, like Eric am a huge Cy fan). I like it better that Will Rogers Follies to be sure.

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Bellamy Young. Hmmm. Well...she works extensively on television. Most notably she played Monica West on some little TV show called CSI: MIAMI and as Dr. Grace Miller on that little NBC TV show SCRUBS. Appeared on episodes of NORTH SHORE and MEDIUM. She also completed a few films, and is currently filming THIS IS NOT A TEST with Tom Arnold.

Updated On: 4/17/07 at 12:22 PM

THE LIFE did run a little over a year but many of those weeks it was far below capacity. Check the grosses: The first weeks of previews it was only selling 35-40%. The Tony niminations helped. (The reviews didn't.)

Roger Berlind was a co-producer of THELIFE and also the producer of STEEL PIER. He did not have enough money to keep both struggling shows going. THE LIFE had won two Tonys and (it is my belief) he decided to put his promotional budget into that show. I saw both: STEEL PIER, though flawed, was still a better overall show. But his decision wasn't based on that. Without any Tony wins, and minimal advance sale STEEL PIER would probably not have lasted much past labour day. HE felt that by promoting TEH LIFE it could have a sucecssful run. It still closed with a huge loss. Look at the grosses: Many weeks were very low.

THE LIFE did not tour, and has not been picked up by regional and community theatres. ALl that remains is the OCR, and it is not one of the better produced cast albums of the era.

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