What performance(s) do you wish there were archive/bootleg footage of that you’ve never been able to find? — Page 4

cmorrow said: "I work at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center. Quite a few of the titlespeople have mentioned in this threadsurviveas archival videos in the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT). They're not online, but they do exist. This would include A Chorus Line (taped in 1975 at the Public), Amadeus withIan McKellen, City of Angels, Lend Me a Tenor with Philip Bosco, and Seussical. TOFT has a video of The Fantasticks at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, although it wasn't taped until 1985. (Ironically, the producerswanted it taped because they thought the show was about to close, but it ran for another 17 years.) TOFT also has the 2006 revival of that show with lyricist Tom Jones in the cast. Zero Mostel can be seen in the 1977 revival of Fiddler on the Roof. Jerome Robbins was said to be unhappy with the performance captured on tape, but it does exist.

There are also B-rolls (i.e. excerpts, but not the complete show) for Starmites and Moose Murders, as well as a B-roll -- very brief, unfortunately -- of the 1987 Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan."

Oh man. It'd be so cool to either watch A Chrous Line or Moose Murders. I'm more interested in Moose Murders because I don't think it's a show a lot of people have heard of given it's reception in the theater community--the fact that it's probably one of the biggest flops in Broadway history.

Lilith sings Spiderwoman.

btw Can you imagine Ute Lemper as Aurora?

Updated On: 8/5/19 at 03:26 PM

everythingtaboo said: "I actually echo the OP in wanting to see Bebe in Spider Woman. I've been so curious and it's crazy that nothing has been unearthed."

Sometimes’s the internet is a wonderful place - I woke up this morning and someone had posted this. Thanks again Bryan - I LOVE it!

Bebe Neuwirth - Kiss of the Spiderwoman (London, 1993)


devonian.t said: ”btw Can you imagine Ute Lemper as Aurora?’

I CAN imagine it. And it needs to happen!

David10086 said: "BrodyFosse123 said: "David10086 said: "Aside from Barbra in "Funny Girl", I'd love to see "Pins and Needles" and "I Can Get It For You Wholesale".

PINS AND NEEDLES was a studio album, it wasn’t a stage production. She took part in that studio album due to her association with I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE, both of which were written by Harold Rome."

WOW! Thanks for the clarification - I always thought P & N was a short-lived musical. I never realized it was just a studio album, and I've been a fan of Barbra's since 1977 ! Thanks again!


20 year old Streisand would have been fantastic singing those songs in character on stage but sadly, it had to be in our imagination. She was playing Miss Marmelstein over at the Shubert Theatre when she recorded her songs featured in this studio album:

I've never been able to find footage of Nicolette Robinson's Jenna. I saw her and she was stupendous -- my favorite Jenna except for Sara Bareilles.

The Norman Conquests 2009 revival. I would even settle for just one of the three plays, and I have "inquired."

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Random one, but Molly Shannon in "Promises, Promises"

After listening to the 1998 UK Cast Recording of the Rocky Horror Show, I'd absolutely kill for a video of Jason Donovan as Frank. He sounds absolutely perfect, as does the rest of the cast...

Also UK and Rocky Horror related: Anything of David Bedella as Hedwig. He was a very interesting and different Frank in Rocky Horror, and I'd love to see/hear anything from his turn as Hedwig.