re: We will miss you Betty.....
re: We will miss you Betty.....
SMiller
Featured Actor Joined: 7/9/04
#1We 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
SMiller
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#1re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/23/06 at 7:17pmShe will indeed be missed Updated On: 11/23/06 at 07:17 PM
#3re: We will miss you Betty.....
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.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#6re: We will miss you Betty.....
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.
#7re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/23/06 at 9:31pm
She was a true original. She will be missed, but never forgotten.
*sigh* 
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#8re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/23/06 at 10:35pm
OH NO!!! WHAT HORRIBLE NEWS!! I'm crying!
--Aristotle
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#9re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/23/06 at 10:39pmDamn, I thought Betty Buckley dropped dead.
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#10re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/23/06 at 10:44pmI thought Ugly Betty had been canceled.
#11re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/23/06 at 11:39pmWhat a loss to the theatre community. A true master of the form. She will be missed.
-best12bars
"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
-skibumb5290
#12re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/23/06 at 11:42pmRIP Betty.
Who would play you in the movie? "Taye Diggs." --Brian d'Arcy James
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#13re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/23/06 at 11:52pmI cannot beleive this actually happened. This is such a sad day for all who have ever loved musical theatre.
Junior
Stand-by Joined: 4/12/06
#14re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:14amI am so sorry to hear about her passing. No doubt the musical theatre has lost one of it's best.
#15re: We will miss you Betty.....
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."
virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#16re: We will miss you Betty.....
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.
"We'll catch-up some other time."
sniff sniff
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#17re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 8:44amThere aren't many left of Broadway's Golden Age. Betty Comden was a class act.
#18re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:38am
A legend has passed. We were blessed to have known her talent.
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.
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
blueflame
Stand-by Joined: 9/9/05
#19re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:42amShe 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.
EganFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
#20re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 9:43amI loved "Peter Pan" when I was growing up. Still do.
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#21re: We will miss you Betty.....
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!
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#22re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:19pmWhat a marvelous talent and character. This is such a sad day for musical theatre. There will never be another like Betty.
#22re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 1:20pmTerrible 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::
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#23re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 1:30pm
Sueleen, Phil and Best have said it all.
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
**********
"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"
~ Best12Bars
#24re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 1:41pmRIP 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.
#25re: We will miss you Betty.....
Posted: 11/24/06 at 1:42pmblueflame 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.
Videos