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We will miss you Betty.....

Posted: 11/23/06 at 7:11pm

Here is the link to the NY Times.

You will be missed dearly by many people and remembered because of your personality and talents forever.

A very sad day in musical theatre.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/theater/00comdencnd.html?hp&ex=1164344400&en=96af8bad4c6549f0&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 7:17pm

She will indeed be missed

Updated On: 11/23/06 at 07:17 PM

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 7:42pm

A great artist...

She and Adolph Green did some incomparable work, the likes of which is becoming rarer and rarer.

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 7:59pm

That's a shame.

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 9:25pm

The obituary in The Times said the score from "Do Re Mi" was not up to Comden and Green's usual standards. Most writers on Broadway would kill to have songs with lyrics as witty as Adventure or Waiting or Legitimate. And the words for "All of My Life" (gee, wonder why I mention that one?) break my heart every time I hear them.

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 9:31pm

She was a true original. She will be missed, but never forgotten.

*sigh*

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 10:35pm

OH NO!!! WHAT HORRIBLE NEWS!! I'm crying!

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 10:39pm

Damn, I thought Betty Buckley dropped dead.

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 10:44pm

I thought Ugly Betty had been canceled.

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 11:39pm

What a loss to the theatre community. A true master of the form. She will be missed.

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#11

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 11:42pm

RIP Betty.

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#12

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Posted: 11/23/06 at 11:52pm

I cannot beleive this actually happened. This is such a sad day for all who have ever loved musical theatre.

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#13

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:14am

I am so sorry to hear about her passing. No doubt the musical theatre has lost one of it's best.

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:18am

I am so saddened by this news. I want to put on the FOLLIES concert and watch her perform "Rain on the Roof."

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 2:45am

betty died!???? damn, u don't read the paper for ONE DAY, and.....

crap! Bettyyyyyy! I was just wathcing ON THE TOWN today, as a matter of fact - and actually thought about her the other day while I was driving. don't ask me why, but she corssed my mind. i thought, what's betty comden been up to lately?

well, sadly - this answers my question today of which would be the third celeb to pass away. first the other day, ruth brown. then robert altman. and now poor Betty. i am so bummed.

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#16

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 8:44am

There aren't many left of Broadway's Golden Age. Betty Comden was a class act.

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:38am

A legend has passed. We were blessed to have known her talent.

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On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, Wonderful Town, Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing, Do Re Mi, Subways Are For Sleeping, Hallelujah, Baby!, Applause, On the Twentieth Century, The Will Rogers Follies...

...plus the screenplays for Good News, The Barkleys of Broadway, Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon, It's Always Fair Weather, and Auntie Mame.

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Updated On: 11/24/06 at 09:38 AM

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:42am

She had been ill for quite sometime. For me, she and Adolph Green were the quintessential New Yorkers -- and the cutest couple I have ever seen -- even though they weren't really "a couple". I have AN EVENING WITH COMDEN AND GREEN cd set and it is always a delight to listen to --even for the 78th time.

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:43am

I loved "Peter Pan" when I was growing up. Still do.

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 11:14am

I just felt like playing the bonus tracks on the Wonderful Town revival cd. I especially love her version of "Wrong Note Rag".
She will be missed!

#21

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:19pm

What a marvelous talent and character. This is such a sad day for musical theatre. There will never be another like Betty.

PEACE.

#22

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 1:20pm

Terrible Terrbile Terrible news. Betty COmden was an extreme talent. You will be greatly missed. ::Goes to wacth Singin' in the Rain as well as listen to Will Roger's Follies::

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#23

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 1:30pm

Sueleen, Phil and Best have said it all.

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 1:41pm

RIP to a true Broadway Legend and condolences to her family and to the Broadway community. What a loss! It's so sad to think about how few of the talents from Broadway's golden age are still with us. I will have to put on my Subways are for Sleeping recording today and listen to Betty and Adolph singing on the bonus tracks.

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Posted: 11/24/06 at 1:42pm

blueflame said "they were the cutest couple, even though they weren't a couple." Isn't that so wonderfully New York of them? The only other place you see "professional couples" like that is London. It's what makes trhe big cities like NYC so great.

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