Overheard at FOLLIES tonight- Page 2

[Sing a Song With Me]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#25

Posted: 2/13/07 at 2:01pm

I saw Sally's Folly in tryout in New Haven right before they renamed it, hired Michael Bennett to re-tool it and it became the much-maligned and underappreciated Ballroom, starring, I do believe, the fabulous Richard Kiley as the widow.

[Calvin]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#26

Posted: 2/13/07 at 2:09pm

I never saw "Ballroom," but I did like that "50 Cent" song that Rue McClanahan sang in her recent one-woman show (although nothing compares with the original, as sung by Dorothy Hamill).

[PalJoey]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#27

Posted: 2/13/07 at 2:11pm

[tazber]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#28

Posted: 2/13/07 at 2:55pm

Wait,
50 Cent was in Ballroom? I always knew there was more to him than bullet holes.

....but the world goes 'round

[Rathnait62]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#29

Posted: 2/13/07 at 2:57pm

No no, Ann Reinking sang 50 Percent as the original Miss Hannigan in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[Calvin]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#30

Posted: 2/13/07 at 2:57pm

No. He was in the "Raisin in the Sun" revival, along with Tempestt Bledsoe and Audrey Meadows.

[lildogs]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#31

Posted: 2/13/07 at 3:12pm

Are you sure that wasn't THE TEMPEST with Meadowlark Lemon and Gene Autry?

[tazber]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#32

Posted: 2/13/07 at 3:16pm

I'm pretty sure Meadowlark Lemon was in the Baker's Wife.

....but the world goes 'round

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#33

Posted: 2/13/07 at 3:46pm

The Baker's Wife? Isn't that the Into the Woods spin-off that Joanna Gleason did back in the early 90s?

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[Calvin]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#34

Posted: 2/13/07 at 3:47pm

Was that before or after "The Honeymooners"?

[allofmylife]

re: Overheard at FOLLIES tonight#35

Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:10am

"*lol* This is great! *lol*"

Personally, I never saw the original Lol Abner, but I heard the guy who played Pappy Yokum was great in "Facts of Life".

Or was he Barney Fyfe?

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