Jesse and Lea do "I Can Cook Too"

[CapnHook]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:34am

http://youtu.be/Nu62QxZSFiw

Stumbled onto this and love it for so many reasons. Two homos playing hetero in a love song. Two stage actors who 15 years later would become famous from TV series.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 6:40pm

Wow I never saw Lea dolled up like that.
With a little make up and some real hair she's not such
an ugly duckling.

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 6:43pm

Did I miss the memo on it being ok to call people homos?

[AC126748]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 7:13pm

Sorry, but I saw DeLaria and she was terrible. No style, no subtlety, and no chemistry with JTF whatsoever. When she wasn't scatting, she was screaming.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 10:20pm

I think it's okay for a homo to call another homo a homo but heteros can't do it.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 3:26pm

JTF look and Lea look and act like a brother being amazed at his wacky older sister. Zero sex appeal between them.

[Kad]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 3:54pm

Have to say, Alysha Umphress' take on the song is vastly, vastly superior.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 8:56am

"JTF look and Lea look and act like a brother being amazed at his wacky older sister. Zero sex appeal between them."

That video doesn't do it justice, it's very cleaned up and sanitized for Rosie's audience. It was much much MUCH better, much funnier and hornier at the Gershwin, trust me. They were the sole actors on that stage with any connection at all.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 4:05pm

How unfortunate that their publicity appearance came off as so bland and boring then, if the actual stage version was better. If I saw that on TV I wouldn't be excited to see the show at all.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 10:01pm

"JTF look and Lea look and act like a brother being amazed at his wacky older sister. Zero sex appeal between them."

I don't disagree, but how has any production of ON THE TOWN (including the film) ever been different? Nancy Walker and sex appeal? I don't think so, though she was a genius.

I didn't see OTT, but Delaria was a revelation in THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE in Los Angeles. It was very much like seeing Ethel Merman (another broad with "no sex appeal") again: big voice, big stage presence and (to quote Sondheim) "great low comedienne". (And, yes, I saw Merman live.)

I'd go see Dekaria in any comedy. Maybe some of the musical comedies ya'll have found so anemic (see BULLETS OVER BROADWAY) could have used her..