OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed- Page 2
OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
#25OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:47pmRest in Peace you brilliant wonderful woman. We are truly poorer today for your absence.
#26OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:48pm
I watch this clip whenever I'm having One of Those Days and it never fails to put a smile on my face.
Rest in Peace, Ms Stritch, you brought hours of joy to millions of us
You're Just in Love
'Our whole family shouts. It comes from us livin' so close to the railroad tracks'
#27OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:48pmElaine is also the #3 WORLDWIDE trend on Twitter. This is exactly what she would have wanted!
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Broadway Star Joined: 12/27/11
#28OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:49pm
Saw her speak at the 92nd St Y on February 17 of this year. (As part of the SHOOT ME publicity rounds - see link.) Physically frail, but sharp as a tack. Was this perhaps her final public NYC appearance? (Not counting her TODAY show appearance the following morning, where she made news by dropping a couple of F-bombs live. Ask Elaine Stritch for publicity, and she'd provide!)
RIP Elaine.
92Y - 2/17/14
"Tracy... Hold Mama's waffles."
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#29OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:53pm
Emogeek - what a great memory of Elaine at the Bowl! Best acceptance speech ever? I think so:
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#30OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:56pmRIP. Thank you for leaving behind a mark in the entertainment industry.
#31OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:58pm
So happy to have seen her in A DELICATE BALANCE, SHOWBOAT and AT LIBERTY (twice!).
She lived a long, long life...but it still makes me sad. Loved meeting her backstage at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles.
As someone else exclaimed earlier,"Everybody rise!"
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Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#32OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:58pm
"Dim the lights for a WEEK!"
Rip the lights off the damn marquis! The absolute end of an era. There was only one and she will never be equalled.
#33OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:58pmAn original Broadway Baby. What enormous talent she shared. Miss you, Elaine.
#35OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:04pm
There was only one and she will never be equalled.
This is exactly what I keep thinking. I don't think it's possible that there will ever be another performer like her, or even similar to her. She was purely original. It's the end of an era.
Showface
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/14
#36OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:11pm
RIP Ms Stritch.
You were one of a kind!
#37OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:13pm
Imagine me at 14, wandering into the Alvin Theater (now the Neil Simon), alone, to see a Saturday matinee of a recently opened musical called Company, because a sophisticated friend of 15 had told me "It will change your life."
Imagine this fourteen-year-old, mouth agape, watching a gravelly voiced actress croaking out the verses to "The Little Things You Do Together."
And then imagine that boy witnessing "The Ladies Who Lunch" and rising, rising, RISING, RIIIIIIIIII-SING.
To borrow from the late Maya Angelou, and still I rise.
#38OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:19pm
What a legend. A couple years ago she was going to do a concert in my neck of the woods. I had every intention of going, but she cancelled due to illness. I'm sad that I never got the chance to see her live.
Rest in peace, Stritchie
#39OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:20pm
Does anyone know if any of the Carlyle shows were filmed? I will always cherish seeing her Singin' Sondheim show on her birthday.
Such a talent and a legend.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#40OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:30pm
Everyone has that one celebrity that means the world to them. Elaine has been mine since I was 6 years old discovering the COMPANY album in a library.
I'm devastated and the tears just won't stop. She was a beast, in the best sense of the word. I'll drink to her.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#41OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:31pm
Elaine's apt description of a depressed alcoholic's justification of drinking and poor behaviours made me realize my family pattern of substance abuse and that I was headed down that road if I didn't make some changes.
My favorite part of At Liberty: http://youtu.be/15a5jz6J0lM?t=2h9m38s
It's hysterical and poignant while truthfully exampling the ways we justify bad decisions. God, when she talks about the Dominican mini-bar waiter I always lose it.
Stritch in another life:
Sleep well, Madame.
"...ah, gays and their wit. Hell must be a laugh a minute!"
-Evie Harris
#42OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:31pm
Requiescat in pace and thanks for the memories, Stritchie.
I'd have to ponder whether it was my first live Stritch experience--not dissimilar from that so eloquently evoked by PalJoey (although I was, >ahem< younger than he...) or my last: the 3rd time I saw 'At Liberty', that affected me more.
You never forget your first time, of course, but Oh, how much more I appreciated her wisdom, her independence, her effing SPIRIT when I had a few more years under my belt and knew something about the way the world works.
And thanks, HorseTears, for that clip! How did I never see that??? Perfect!
"I'm not moving 'til somebody comes and takes me off the stage". I guess somebody came... 
You think, what do you want?
You think, make a decision...
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#43OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:33pm
Stritch doing "Ladies Who Lunch" in 1982, from the PBS broadcast "Broadway Plays the Kennedy Center":
http://youtu.be/u9ninSXPpmY
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#44OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:33pm
When I still had the spark, I saw here in a few shows.
A great talent who will be missed .
R.I.P.
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#45OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:44pmSooo very sad- she was a brilliant comedienne and actor who could deliver a line like NO ONE else! What a body of work she has left behind for the world to continue to enjoy and love! R.I.P
Darreyl with an L!
#46OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:50pm
I (literally) walked into her right before the start of a performance of Into The Woods in the park. I wasn't being too observant and had no clue it was her and just said, "oh, sorry!" She didn't blink twice and just went on her way to the front of the stage to inspect the set, practically climbing onto it. When I got to my seat everyone around me screamed, "do you realize who you just walked into?!"
Rest in Peace, Ms. Stritch.
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#47OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:55pmA true legend and an icon. I feel so incredibly fortunate to have seen her in A Little Night Music and I thought her performance was hilarious and very moving. Rest in Peace.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#48OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:55pmI'm so glad I was lucky enough to see her in A Little Night Music (several times, I might add). She was truly a singular talent. They don't make 'em like her anymore.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#49OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 2:55pm
Not sure if this was posted earlier, but this is my favorite of her Ladies... I've always wondered what happened before to prompt the performance. It's unlike any of the others. Truly astonishing. She is LIVING the song as she sings it. And the doubt that plagues her voice on "Aren't they the best?" will haunt me forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virv-1o2KjE
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
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