Follies 1987 Who's that Women...

From the London company...

[@graham4006]

THE LATE DIANA RIGG WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING WHEN SHE PERFORMED TIRELESSLY IN LONDON'S WEST END AND ON BROADWAY IN FOLLIES..👏👏👏

[@vanmusician]

I saw this production - with Diana Rigg and Dolores Gray. Not knowing anything about the plot, I entered the Shaftsbury auditorium and thought 'Oh my - look at all that scaffolding around the proscenium - how can they do a show when the place is being repaired?' LOL

[@MaxwellHoffmannPDX]

I was lucky enough to see Dame Rigg in a heading-to-Broadway musical COLETTE, that never quite got there. This was in Seattle of all places. Diana was sensation and she got 2 standing ovations and eventually the houselights flickered to signal to the audience "hey, it's over."

[@Dianaemanuel]

I saw this production twice. It was extraordinary. Maria Bjornson's sets and costumes were hauntingly beautiful.

[@kevhippo]

Lynda Baron was excellent in this. I love that the dancing is spot on, shows how much they have remembered their routine from years past. This was a great production especially Julia Mckenzie who's losing my mind is spot on.

[@gerardleddy]

Having seen the original 1971 production at the Winter Garden Theater 13 times, each and every production number, performance and aspect is forever etched in my mind. Of all the revivals that I have seen in NY over the decades (including City Center Encores!) the production at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey starring Ann Miller amoungst others, is the closest in comparison to the original.

[@nornsnornsnorns]

Lynda Baron was the best singer of Who's that Woman in my experience (but only seen the original Mary McC on video), and that dress was really marvellous. Multi-coloured panels. Diana Rigg's understudy seen here was Dorothy Vernon; others include Pearl Carr and Josephine Gordon

[@russellwright1324]

I'm obsessed with this number and she's up there with my fave interpreters Phylis Newman and Susan Johnson. Oh! And those American accents! Yes!

[@laustpeternielsen-norman9569]

Thanks love the production.

[@larrygevirtz30]

Awesome!!

[@sicetergo]

Diana Rigg doesn't appear in this clip, she was on holiday the week that the Oliviers were recorded, Her understudy danced her role.

[@d291173]

@BalletBabyBoy Yeah Diana Rigg was Phyllis in the London production

[@alanespinoza4870]

Genius

[@BalletBabyBoy]

I don't know...sorry. Was she in this production?

[@robertd.carver6240]

The title of the song is "Who's That WomAn?" Not "WomEn!"

[@ducdebrabant]

Nice to see the choreography but I think it's more poignant when the older ladies aren't so good. Mary McCarty in her sad little outlet mall party dress was so touching.

[@sjcohen4444]

ducdebrabant Mary McCarty was such an amazing talent. I saw her in Follies, Chicago (the original Matron Mamma Morton), and as Marthy in a production of Anna Christie with Liv Ullmann and John Lithgow.

[@lsin570]

So many lines added. And all the glitter. Not accurate, but England is always so much smarter than the US.

[@mitchellivers]

This is bloodless and lacking all the magic the number had in the original production.

[@nicolasvanderhaar9237]

mitchellivers Julia McKenzie thou, and at least theirs an intact soundtrack

[@Thanksgiving2day]

Nicolas Van Der Haar: Indeed. Julia McKenzie is a pearl beyond price. But, mitch has a point. It is limp - in a way I think is endemic to U.K. productions of this show. In my experience, many many NYers have an sixth sense of other people there. 6.1 and 6.2: The banqueted (therefore useful or interesting), and the buffeted (knocked around by fate/circumstance, those who might be offered a small prayer and used by the folks in the middle to reassure themselves when sleepless. Brits (Diana Rigg and Julia McK notwithstanding can’t fathom that assumed overlay that is essential to this story.

[@edcachianes]

I agree, and it's a Follies without my favorite number: The Road You Didn't Take. There are some pleasures in this production, but the bite was softened, so as to be more "Upbeat." A friend involved with the original production, as well as this production, referred to it as "Hello Follies"

[@biav]

@@edcachianes hahaha hello follies is a pretty good way to describe it