Your Favorite Broadway YouTube Clips

[Fantod]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 7:26pm

Hi everyone,

I have a drama class where we're supposed to share great clips from Broadway shows (preferably on YouTube) and I was wondering if anybody had a particular favorite, and if so, could you post them. Thanks so much!

Updated On: 5/19/16 at 07:26 PM

[theatreguy12]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 7:57pm

Twiggy and Tommy Tune in My One and Only..."Chasin' the Clouds Away." Also Michael Jeter in Grand Hotel...."Let's Take a Glass Together."

Updated On: 5/19/16 at 07:57 PM

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 8:13pm

I am cheating and picking 6. Lord knows I have posted these 1000 times around the board but they bear repeating.

 

[Cupid Boy2]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 8:16pm

Bonnie Franklin and the cast of Applause 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJFueAcQWY0

[sarahb22]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 8:37pm

Not to be "that person", but I sorta feel like we're doing the OP's homework for him...

[Fantod]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 9:01pm

It's not homework; it's the last day of class and we can show videos for fun (or chose not to if we want). Thanks to those who share.

Updated On: 5/19/16 at 09:01 PM

[sarahb22]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 9:35pm

Ah. Gotcha. Well, I'll second 'Raise a Glass' from 'Grand Hotel' (Tony Awards performance), and will also add the "Lambeth Walk"  number from "Me and My Girl", performed at the 1987 Tonys.

 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 9:54pm

Sutton fosters performance of Gimme Gimme on the Rosie O'Donnell show, the opening to the 2013 tony awards, the Matilda royal variety performance, the behind the scene videos of Charlie and the chocolate factory in London.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 9:57pm

Definitely this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-1_4VwHGdo

[Steve C.]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 10:34pm

For the absolute sheer exuberance of Broadway itself, Manhattan, the pace of the city and the Ensemble and Cast, you can't get much better than the 2007 Tonys with the revival of A Chorus Line. Opening on the street outside Radio City with the great Marvin Hamlisch and the Amazing Angela Lansbury hosting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XelEnue5hbk

 

[ggersten]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 10:43pm

Dreamgirls Tony Awards performance
Another vote for Raise a Glass from Grand Hotel's Tony Awards performance
The Wedding Singer Tony Awards performance
Liz Callaway - The Story Goes On - bootleg of Baby

Instead of YouTube - you could just go to blugobo.com and peruse for material there.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 10:50pm

True about bluegobo plus most of the clips are now hosted on Youtube anyway.

[Hest882]

Posted: 5/19/16 at 11:40pm

Great choices thus far, including ones I watch over and over. To the list I'll add the West Side Story revival Tony clip, the one with Debbie Allen's great dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqMLhQKfbNY

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/20/16 at 12:50am

A few years ago, most if not all of the Sullivan stuff was removed from Bluegobo. Without those, site is nothing to write home about. Wish all of the Sullivan spots were released on video.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:24am

There are 17 hours of Sullivan clips of Broadway shows floating around. The Sullivan estate polices these scrupulously on YouTube. They want only their 2 hours of commercially released clips to be viewed.

[artscallion]

Posted: 5/20/16 at 11:32am

There's a great clip of Nathan Lane and Faith Prince doing Sue Me from Guys and Dolls. Shows them both at their very best.

[IronMan]

Posted: 5/20/16 at 3:21pm

Because attention must be paid to one of Broadway's brightest, swinging-est, most turned-on hits...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4SF6QWxOPE 

[Back Row]

Posted: 5/20/16 at 3:39pm

Every Tony Awards show from 1967-2015 (all that were nationally televised) is posted on YouTube. There is a lot to be found there. 

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 5/21/16 at 12:16am

Just another one of those "classics" from one of those old Broadway chestnuts. 

Paul Robeson was the man originally selected to play Joe in Show Boat and sing "O' Man River." This man just had an amazing life. The third African American to receive a scholarship to Rutgers in the 20s, he was class Valedictorian and an All-Pro college football player. He then got a law degree from Columbia, but found law too racist. He had a short career in the National Football League (it was around then in the 30s, but no one paid much attention to it). He received great acclaim as an actor. He wasn't available for the opening run of Show Boat, but played the role in the London premiere to great acclaim and also in the 1936 film.

After Show Boat, he became an international film star and an early leader of the Civil Rights movement who was blacklisted during the McCarthy 50s for his pro-Soviet leanings and had his travel rights restricted. But he really isn't remembered much any more.

Well, he is remembered some since his Youtube "Ol' Man River" has 3.4 million views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s

I actually prefer the second stringer, William Warfield, who played Joe in the 1951 MGM extravaganza and in a 1966 Lincoln Center limited run with Barbara Cook that produced a highly praised and still available recording.

I think that I prefer his version, which only has 1.1 million views, because Warfield spills more of his guts into the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzYRo9j7YM

Ah, MGM

No royal curse, no Trojan horse,
And a happy ending, of course!

If MGM had produced a musical version of Hamlet, could they have given it a happy ending?

Great Chorus Line. That was new to me. Marvin Hamlisch has a day in the sun.



 

 

Updated On: 5/21/16 at 12:16 AM

[Jarethan]

Posted: 5/21/16 at 12:34am

Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur singing Bosom Buddies is absolutely #1 for me, along with some bootlegged pieces from Mame

Sutton Foster and Cast doing Anything Goes

Carol Channing and Before the Parade Passes By

Jennifer Holliday...And I Am Telling You I Am Not Going

A New Argentina from Evita (Lupone and Patinkin

I haven't seen these in awhile, so they may not still be out there, but Melba Moore singing I've Got Love from Purlie; 

 

[Okiekat]

Posted: 5/21/16 at 3:24pm

Karen Morrow and the cast from "I Had a Ball" on Ed Sullivan.  Wish there was a better clip.  Luther Henderson's dance arrangements... love it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vtTNnWHwa0

[Tom5]

Posted: 5/21/16 at 3:37pm

I liked "Barnum 1980" from that years Tony's. (The whole 6.37 minutes)