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Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
#25Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
Posted: 6/12/13 at 1:10pm
And to think in an early review of "Bye Bye Birdie" - the critic wrote about AM,"....there's possibly the talent of a Judy Garland there"...
of course it was not be but a lovely tribute none the less..
#26Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
Posted: 6/12/13 at 1:21pm
Yes A-M does a fantastic version. Thanks for that link Will42. I remember it as if it were yesterday watching her perform it. I was seated pretty close to ringside...she is just an amazing performer on every conceivable level. Mesmerizing.
I never read the review comparing A-M to Garland, but BBB director George Sidney in a Look magazine article stated, 'We certainly didn't know that we were going to get the greatest potential musical star this business will ever have....
Sorry for the minor thread jack....
#27Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
Posted: 6/12/13 at 1:33pm
Think about it..
AM was a knockout- stunning..
Had she come about in 1945..
had a Roger Edens to vocal coach her..
had a Gene Kelly to star along with..
had she a Vincente Minnelli to direct her...
She would have been as big as Betty Grable...and yes, given Garland a run for her box office glory..
#28Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
Posted: 6/12/13 at 1:37pm
She would have been as big as Betty Grable
As big as Betty Grable? As Cole Porter wrote:
"Let's write a tune that's play-able,
A ditty swing-and-sway-able,
Or say whatever's say-able
About the Tower of Ba-able,
Let's cheer for the career
Of itty-bitty Betty Gra-able,
But let's not talk about love!"
#29Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
Posted: 6/12/13 at 1:51pm
Joey - now you well know...Betty Grable was biggest female box-office star of the 1940's and, at the time, the biggest since Shirley Temple.
and dear Cole was not refering to dear Betty's box office stats...believe you me...
#30Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
Posted: 6/12/13 at 2:36pmI first saw Peter Allen perform this song at the Boarding House in San Francisco, somewhere around 1977. In those days it was pretty much Peter and the piano (he may have had a back-up musician or two, I don't remember). Anyway, he performed 'Quiet Please' while seated at the piano. The number started off slowly, then built and built, getting louder and faster, the audience clapping along joyously, while the spotlight slowly grew smaller and smaller, until it was just lighting Peter's face. All of a sudden the microphone went dead, but Peter kept singing and smiling, the spotlight still focused on him, seemingly unaware that nobody could hear him. Then the spotlight went dead and the theater was plunged into darkness. For a second the audience was dumbfounded into silence. Then the theater burst into thunderous applause and cheers. One of the most effective and moving numbers I've ever seen.
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#32Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
Posted: 6/12/13 at 4:10pm
PalJoey, Lovely. Thank you.
hushpuppy, I echo PJ's Wow!
JoeKv99, *bronx cheer* 
#33Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
Posted: 6/12/13 at 5:49pmHushpuppy, thanks for the evoking great memories. As a young kid, I was fortunate to see Peter Allen in concert twice. I always thought he had looked goofy performing on the talk shows of that era (Merv, Mike, etc...), but to see him perform live....just unbelievable. His "Quiet, Please," "I Go to Rio," and "Tenterfield Saddler" were the highlights of each show.
#34Quiet, Please, There's a Lady Onstage
Posted: 6/12/13 at 5:55pm
Sorry to go off track from the original topic, but just had to add, this song was another highlight of all his shows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjSWZQNXLU
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