The Nanny
The Nanny
#0The Nanny
Posted: 6/24/03 at 1:46am
OK, since we have a Golden Girls thread, I thought we should have one about The Nanny. I would imagine most of the people here enjoy that show.....especially since it was so theatre-related.
I don't think I could pick one favorite episode, but I loved the one when Bette Midler was on. She went chasing Fran through the kitchen and ran past Niles (who was wearing a lihtblue, feathered gown) and he said, "Oh Miss Midler. I'm one of your biggest fans." to which she responded, "There's a shocker." LOL
I especially liked it after Fran and Max got married (finally). Tonight I was watching the episode where Fran and Niles are trying to Produce a play, so they pretend to be Maxwell ad C.C. in order to get a hold of Bernadette Peters' agent. I wonder why Bernadette was never actually on that show. She should have been.
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~
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#1re: The Nanny
Posted: 6/24/03 at 2:41am
lol TheaterBaby we are so in synch. I also watched that episode tonight. When Maxwell caught Fran in his arms! Priceless...
I thought the show started losing it's pizazz when the kids grew up and weren't in it so much. I mean, Maggie got married and yet they still have her popping up once in a while, kinda strange. I watched Intimate Portrait on Fran Drescher and how The Nanny came to be really was a Cinderella story for Fran. Her agents told her she had to lose the accent and 20 something pounds if she was going to make it in the business. She didn't take to their advice. And made up her own show centering her accent as a comedy making her the reincarnated Lucy.
My favorite episode from the ones I've seen on the reruns so far is when Fran almost married the French tutor.
Speaking of Better Midler though, I LOVE BETTE. That show kicked ass. It was sad to see it go. Joanna Gleason was great on it. Bette was hilarious though. My favorite Bette episode was when she randomly started singing some Kid Rock song and turned it into a swing style.
" Ba wit da ba da bang a bang da boogie boogie wock sock the boogie , wock sock the boogie! wock sock the boogie woogie ...... "
#2Maxwell Sheffield
Posted: 6/24/03 at 8:27pm
...and speaking of Maxwell Sheffield, Charles Shaughnessy will take on the role of confirmed bachelor and phonetics professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, July 8-20, at the Benedum Center, presented by Pittsburgh CLO.
Max von Essen will join the cast as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, a role he performed last summer at NJ's Paper Mill Playhouse.
Pittsburgh CLO ~ Celebrating Musical Theater
It's never too late to live happily ever after!
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#3re: Maxwell Sheffield
Posted: 6/24/03 at 8:32pm
"confirmed bachelor"
Isn't that phrase pre-Stonewall slang for 'Gay Man'??? :)
#4re: Maxwell Sheffield
Posted: 6/24/03 at 8:36pm
I loved the show Bette! I have a few favorite episodes there:
>The one where Bette loses her voice and her friend pretends to be Stephen Spielberg. He talks into the answering machine knowing that Bette can hear but not speak, and tells her he wants her for his new movie. Then he says, "Oh, never mind. Barbra Streisand is on the other line."
>The one where Bette accidentily ends up on the basketball court during the Laker game and gets stuck dancing with the Laker Girls (even though she had no clue what she was doing). LOL and the security guard tolds her he loved her in the movie "Bitches." .....confusing the title of Beaches.
The Nanny wasn't as good as the children gt older, but I'm glad they didn't just fade them ou like some shows do.
I have every episode of both "The Nanny" and "Bette" on tape.
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~
#5re: re: Maxwell Sheffield
Posted: 6/24/03 at 9:31pm
Sorry BroadwayGuy2, I'm not really familiar with pre-Stonewall slang. I borrowed the line from the Pittsburgh CLO website and they probably borrowed the line from something Jack Warner wrote back in 1964. Hey, then maybe that is pre-Stonewall slang!
=0)
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TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#6re: re: re: Maxwell Sheffield
Posted: 6/25/03 at 12:59pmTheatre Baby, please PM me with an e-mail addy. I'd gladly pay you to copy your Bette Midler series tapes, I never got that show programmed right on my VCR. I'm a big Bette fan, like a good little bi boy should be!
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#7Bette
Posted: 6/25/03 at 2:04pm
I'll gladly tape them for you if I can figure out that whole double taping thing ? It might take me a while because I'll have to get a hold of someone who can hook two VCR's together (unless someone knows a place in Manhattan where I can go and have it taped professioanlly)? Or, if you have a DVD player, I might be able to get someone to transfer them onto DVD.
One of the episodes got a little screwed up while I was taping it; but they're all there.
I will PM you my email address though. :)
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~
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