Chita Rivera, Bruce Adler, and George Dvorsky: Friendship

[@christinaannabel]

Chita Rivera is such a professional, a pleasure to watch. The three of them bring a lot of fun to this song.

[@Onlymusical]

Look at how fluid and graceful the late Bruce Adler's dancing is. A work of art.

[@Onlymusical]

Most entertaining version of this song I've ever seen, and the late Bruce Adler made it sparkle with his facial expressions. You never know how long you've got. As Michael Mann says in film after film, "Time is luck...."

[@319FBMZ319]

At first I wasn't a big fan of the three characters singing the song together but the song is so darn fun to watch that I like it now! :) Oh and plus the fact that Chita Rivera is in it makes it even better! ;)

[@broadwaybabe99]

hahahahaha i love when she punches him and goes "sorrrryyyy, sorrryryyy"

[@FPalace]

Man, I miss Bruce Adler. He was so talented and funny.

[@katnjny]

Bruce is the minister. Rest in Peace, Bruce. You will be missed.

[@JoshFreilich]

We all know Chita, but have you remembered Bruce Adler from CRAZY FOR YOU (Bela Zangler) and ALADDIN (the singing voice of the Peddler), and George Dvorsky from the Paper Mill production of SHE LOVES ME?

[@superglouse]

I love the choreo during hte chorus!

[@ManaYuGiOhGX5Ds]

THIS SONG IS AWESOME XD! Its one of my faves XD!

[@lionn101]

@YELLOW42758 yes the original does not have billy in the song this version of the play is very comical and i feel more comical betweent he constant disguises billy wears and the fact that moonface is just himself..... this is the version my school did and we had a great time other then the fact half of the jokes we had no clue what they were

[@walt1896]

@abnormalsin And the 1943 MGM DuBarry's best moment is at the end when Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Gene Kelly and Virginia O'Brian do the number. At the very end a young Zero Mostel even joins in! The movie as whole suffered form the censorship and other re-workings that many Broadway transfers to film went through then. Also, Betty Grable's success in the 1939 Broadway DuBarry was what allowed her to write her ticket back to Fox.

[@YELLOW42758]

@thecaruso "Friendship" wasn't in the original production. But you're right about BIlly not knowing about the plan in the original 1934 production.

[@treesny]

"Friendship" was interpolated into Anything Goes at least as early as 1954, when Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr performed it in a shortened version of the show on TV (they had introduced the song in 1939 in DuBarry Was a Lady on Broadway).

[@ztslovebird]

@thecaruso I agree. The trio sounds great, but continuity-wise it's supposed to be a duet. Maybe they just threw Billy in for the TV special.

[@coolsweetgroovy]

@ramirezrox1 me too i'm a big Chita fan also

[@ztslovebird]

Oh. I didn't know that.

[@broadwaybabe99]

hahahhaha chita is drunk

[@hafnertom]

veno here's your friend george

[@justinmcleod4130]

Who tf is Chita

[@treesny]

You're kidding of course! Bye Bye Birdie, West Side Story, Kiss of the Spiderwoman on Broadway (for starters)...