Laurie Beechman sings MEMORY

[mikey2573]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 7:22pm

Not sure where this came from but it was just uploaded to YouTube two weeks ago. Looks like it was shot through the in-house video camera at the Winter Garden.  It is the late, great Laurie Beechman singing MEMORY during a performance of CATS.  Apparently it is one of her final (of many) returns to the show.  She is certainly not singing it quite as well as when she was in good health, but still, it's Laurie Beechman singing MEMORY so who cares!   Sadly, she would die of ovarian cancer about 9 months after this video was shot.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqfwJ157hSk

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 7:35pm

Thanks for posting. I first saw Laurie Beechman as Grizzabella in the first national tour of Cats in Boston in 1983.  Saw her a couple of times after that in the Broadway company. I lover her rendition of Memory.

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 3/20/16 at 8:48pm

She was a great performer, her Fantine was phenomenal.