Wow this is awesome! Saw this in 97 as a kid. I wish the whole show had been pro shot like this. It’s the best musical I’ve ever seen on Broadway. The original cast was unforgettable. Sad that it’s not captured forever on film

A comic love letter to the second oldest profession in the world. Lots of name-dropping and inside jokes, but accessible to the general public. Hilariously funny, but also somehow very sad.

Mrs. Quonsett!!

Kate is practically channeling Kate!

Here's a novel idea. Sit and WATCH the show, using your eyes, rather than through the lens of that huge camera.

Awesome

I wanted to see this play so bad I made my mother drive me from Baltimore to Broadway to see Sammy Davis Jr.

Wonderful Betty Buckley! ♥️Xxxooo

I love how she can make seeing this entertaining.

Gary freaking beach?

Yes, please... is there an Act Two?!

The great Rex Harrison!!!

I saw this production. The only flop musical I've ever seen that never left a cast recording. With hindsight, one problem was Cariou tried to sing numbers that would have been better served in a sprechstimme style, especially the Stars and Stripes Forever. And the "Charge!" number really falls flat because that's a song that sounds like it belongs in a musical version of "Arsenic And Old Lace."

40:00 Liz Callaway rendition of Not a Day Goes By is “chefs kiss”

I hate that she left out the “please, love me” in her finale. Effy is so defiant throughout that even when she’s begging with Curtis to “stay with me” she’s not really asking. I feel like Lillias’s ad lib “love me, please love!” in there just adds another layer of insane emotion, especially when she’s in peak defiance by that time. IDK once you hear it, it can’t be unheard.

Thsnk you so much!! Betty Buckley!!! ♥️Xxxooo

What happened to "Lucy/Jessie ?" One of the best numbers ever written

Did this theater not have mics? Everyone is shouting their lines.

Such joy!!! Thank you!! ♥️Xxxooo

This was Frank's last performing gig.

I didn't get a chance to see Frank Gorshin perform in this one man show about Mr.Burns..but? I did meet him at a Sons Of The Desert Banquet at The Player's Club in NYC. He was a sweet, kindly and talented gentleman.

I love Ann-Margret. We saw this, she had had a motorcycle accident right before this tour but she got back up and went, just like she recovered from her 1972 20 foot stage fall.

Like Jesus said, we can all learn from our mistakes and we can learn from it the reason why Jesus Christ superstar is my favorite is because we can learn from it. We can learn from our mistakes because God will always forgive us every time we make a mistake.

Follies is the best musical ever. Unique, intelligent, deeply emotional, incredible score representing 50 years of Broadway music. Only my adored Stephen Sondheim could have written this masterpiece.

This is incredible

Am obsessed with this... Slime😊

Oh please tell me you have Act Two!

jason 💔💙

Love you Helen, can't believe I'm the only one who commented, loved you in The Snoop Sister.

Hammersteeen?🤦🏼‍♂️

Brilliant Hope More Cats

Hope more Lion King

This sequence occurs in the middle of Act II and was added out of town. After the show's out-of-town premiere in Detroit, there was a general feeling that the production was not giving enough attention to the big classics in Cohan songbook. This sequence, so beautifully staged by Layton, addressed that concern. To make room for this sequence, other scenes had to be cut -- including one set in the stateroom of an ocean liner in which George and his wife Agnes learn of the offer for George to play FDR in "I'd Rather Be Right" (there is a similar scene in the film YANKEE DOODLE DANDY set at Cohan's country home). Also gone was a cross-over scene with the ensemble in which they disparage and dismiss Cohan's own plays of the '30s, basically saying that they're not worth seeing -- they all close early -- they're flops. It was a bit of a harsh scene in a show that otherwise praises its hero, but it was -- sadly -- historically true. Having said all of that, we're grateful that this marvelous musical sequence was preserved for posterity. It, along with the POPULARITY number that can be found on KZbin -- see "American Dance Machine: A Celebration of Broadway Dance, 1981" -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5raqGaQibppqK8 -- allows us to see why Joe Layton won the Tony Award for his GEORGE M! choreography. It also reminds us of the everlasting joy found in Cohan's melodic music.

Whoa how did you find this?

Well, if this is really 1995, it was the year after we recorded this for Unsung Musicals with Christine and Jonathan Freeman (who Malcolm is channeling here) and they had to have gotten the orchestration by Larry Moore from us - but I have no idea where this took place. EDIT: Oh, dopey me - this is the Unsung Musicals concert we did at the Danny Kaye Theater at Hunter College. Totally forgot about it. Funny.

THE AUDIENCE WERE LEAVING WAY BEFORE THE END! BROADWAY WAS A THEME PARK WAY BACK THEN.

THIS is a treasure: a parallel back story...an intimate reflection...a layer to the id of 'Roxie'.

I love this guy so much.

Great! And a secret bonus: from 2:24:00 there's footage of Angela Lansbury as Rose!

No sets, no costumes, nothing but talent.

The goat 🐐

She disappears into music and lyrics, even just standing still. It’s so raw not having to think about anything but the voice, bravo B.

Ngl, this is one of the shows I thought I'd never see the original production from. And now here we are. Thank you for posting!

In 1983, in Brussels, during the series of performances of the production of the Belgian National Theater of this excellent comedy ("Silence en coulisses") , a spectator died of laughter... His wife confessed "He left happy"

I'm beginning to think Carrie's original production was actually the deconstructed revisal, done as a Greek tragedy.

OMG, how wonderful! Finally there are recordings, even if there are too few... :( I hope there will be more over time so that as many people as possible can see this masterpiece. Unfortunately, something so beautiful and perfect will never exist again. Ralph is a genius, he's perfect. He has always been good and very good and now, today, he is perfect and even better than ever. “Conclave” and “The Return” are masterpieces in their own way.

I saw this original. Laughed so hard.

More Grease Phantom Lion King the wiz

Interesting that the movie adaptation cast Superman and this tour the voice of Batman in the same role. Thank you for posting this video. A saw this show on Broadway with Farley Granger in the lead.

Thanks