June is Bustin' Out All Over...- Page 2

[After Eight]

Posted: 6/2/12 at 8:20am

Updated On: 6/7/12 at 08:20 AM

[canmark]

Posted: 6/2/12 at 9:56am

> Am I imagining this or did Uggams recently participate in some concert or Broadway event (like the Easter Bonnet thing) and actually replicate her June Is Bustin' performance with flubbed lyrics? Gotta say, she has a great sense of humor about it. I just did a YT search, but I'm not finding it. Anyone?

You see her in the BWW coverage of the event, Gypsy of the Year, starting around the 11:30 mark:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=315550

Updated On: 6/2/12 at 09:56 AM

[jayinchelsea]

Posted: 6/2/12 at 10:36am

I had just seen the video on YouTube and thought it was hysterical, but when the Anything Goes company did it, the audience went bananas!

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/2/12 at 11:25am

kudos to Uggams for having a sense of humor about it. loved the Anything Goes mash-up with Uggams.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 7/2/12 at 3:33pm

Here she is with Rudetsky discussing it. I absolutely love her grace and humor.

(sorry if this is the same link, but I'm not able to presently access the one already posted)




Leslie is Busted! Updated On: 7/2/12 at 03:33 PM

[Alexander Lamar]

Posted: 6/1/16 at 6:22am

Obligatory bump. 

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/1/16 at 6:50am

It warms my heart to see this thread bumped every year. 

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 6/1/16 at 9:53am

Just imagine... Everyone who doesn't know her theatre career will be like "Is that the blind woman from Deadpool?"

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/1/16 at 10:11am

HAPPY JUNE & HAPPY HUMP DAY!!!

[mamaleh]

Posted: 6/1/16 at 11:14am

I first encountered Uggams when I was a young child watching "Sing Along with Mitch" with my grandparents.  Even then I thought she had the most beautiful female voice on the show, which, aside from Mitch Miller's all-male chorus, featured other women singers.  I also noticed that while those women were often featured in picnic or other jovial scenes singing upbeat numbers, Uggams was never included---she did only solos.  Was that recognition of her superior talent? Or did the show's producers not want to feature her interacting with the white performers?  I have a bad feeling it was the latter.

[smidge]

Posted: 6/1/16 at 11:17am

Lucious' mom done gone crazy

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 6/1/17 at 11:52am

IT'S JOAN, EVERYBODY!

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/1/17 at 11:55am

That video is the gift that keeps on giving! LMAO!!!!

 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/1/20 at 8:48am

Thread bump. Happy June! Something to cheer up everybody today.

 

FYI, Uggams will be on Stars in the House today at 2pm.

[goodlead]

Posted: 6/1/20 at 1:56pm

I believe Leslie Uggams got her start as a contestant on "Name That Tune."  But this was decades ago, so I may be confusing her with someone else.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/1/21 at 8:58am

Happy June & Happy Pride Month!

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/1/21 at 12:49pm

For me June is not complete without these three things:

Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade

PRIDE

Leslie Uggams' bat-sh!t crazy rendition of "June is Bustin' Out All Over"

 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/1/21 at 1:35pm

FYI, Uggams will be on Stars in the House tonight.

[goodlead]

Posted: 6/1/21 at 1:44pm

I believe that Leslie Uggams first came to public attention as a contestant on "Name That Tune," long before any other show business exposure.  Can anyone here confirm that?

[JSquared2]

Posted: 6/1/21 at 5:42pm

goodlead said: "I believe that Leslie Uggams first came to public attention as a contestant on "Name That Tune," long before any other show business exposure. Can anyone here confirm that?"

If only there was some magical place to look for that sort of information...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Uggams

 

 

[justoldbill]

Posted: 6/2/21 at 7:03am

Thus far, no one has mentioned her delightful turn as Fauna in the Encores! production of PIPE DREAM.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 6/2/21 at 8:59am

My dad used to be a security guard at a high-end watch shop in the city, and Leslie came in one day with her husband. He texted me to tell me she was there, and I told him to ask her if she'd been huckin' the bajeepers. He didn't know what I was talking about, but she did, laughed, and told him the entire story about the cue card guy falling. He said she was the nicest celebrity he met during his time there.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 6/6/21 at 9:13am

I was very anxious to see that Encores production of Pipe Dream. How could Rodgers and Hammerstein, in their prime, create a musical based on Steinbeck novels, Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, with so few redeeming qualities that the production immediately after closing had had an anchor attached to it and was thrown into the North Atlantic?

The score I thought was surprisingly strong.

"Everybody Has A Home But Me"
"The Man I Used to Be"
"The Next Time It Happens"
"Sweet Thursday"
"All at Once You Love Her"

The last,, the principal love song, is about the only song to have any life beyond the show, and I think it's one of their limpest love songs.

On the other hand, "Sweet Thursday," a song of a type I don't remember, except that Rodger wrote very few of them, is so infectious that I don't see how it could have been forgotten.

This also highlights one of the major weaknesses of the show. Opera singer Helen Traubel miscast as Fauna. Listen to Leslie singing this tune and try to imagine it being sung as an aria.

"Sweet Thursday"

 

If you're interested in seeing a couple of numbers from the Encores production, someone just put up this video of two numbers live. The first probably didn't contribute a lot to the show's reviews, but the second is classic sturdy R&H.

 

"All Kinds of People" Will Chase "Everybody's Got a Home But Me" Laura Osnes


 

 

Updated On: 6/6/21 at 09:13 AM

[Tag]

Posted: 11/21/21 at 10:24pm

This was spoofed tonight on Family Guy, with Uggams voicing an animated version of herself singing with Peter.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/1/22 at 12:00pm

Happy June!