You Could Drive A Person Crazy...original 3 gals!

In concert, Donna McKechnie and the two other gals (Pamela Myers and Susan Browning), who were in the original Company, get together for the first time since 1970 and do it all again!

[@stevedickman2152]

When you listen to a variety of songs, it's amazing how many times you can sing, "Bobby is my hobby and I'm giving it up," and it fits. Try it.

[@robertgrant4950]

Steve Dickman - I have. It WORKS!

[@zakariashartley]

🤣🤣🤣

[@billbrimmer1739]

They were fabulous in 1970 and just as incredible in 1982!

[@readycarlos]

This special was originally called "Showstoppers: The Best of Broadway" and premiered on the pay cable Entertainment Channel in 1982. For home video release it was retitled "That's Singing: The Best of Broadway."

[@Elmaestrodemusica]

Doesn't get much better than this!! Superb!!

[@zazuzazz5419]

They’re the GOAT Girls!! 🎶Dood doot dee doot doot!!🎶

[@alexabanag6132]

I only went here because ive seen gavin,wesley, and ethan perform this...

[@entertheVoid123]

Story of a marriage brought me here.

[@adrianariveraproductions]

My favorite musical. It's so emotional and compelling. And let's give it up for this Andrews Sisters style Sondheim masterpiece!

[@KristinMcAuliffe]

Watching this makes me realize how Donna McKechnie became a star - I barely even looked at the other 2 women. She is just magnetic on stage.

[@yayshowvids6427]

She really stands out.

[@josephalexandergemmell9979]

i'm with you!

[@EricMontreal22]

Apparantly this is a vastly watered down version of the original Michael Bennett choreography for the number, which was notoriously elaborate and difficult

[@TwistedThunderKittie]

well it had been 12 years

[@pontythython1901]

Almost 12 years after this comment lol

[@EricMontreal22]

@@pontythython1901 LOL

[@EricMontreal22]

Also the 12 years thing is no excuse--the three ladies remembered the full choreography for the 1990 reunion concert! ;)

[@stewartlynch7859]

Stephen Sondheim inspired me to be a playwright.

[@courtneycole3170]

Wow that was a turn when i heard what I heard but hey that was cool back in the day...

[@BTURNER1961]

Newsflash. Us gay men can grasp the concept of 'context' and we know that the language we use changes meaning, and that the words we incorporate in our art are likely to alter in connotation. We do not expect or want everything sanitized so the dumbest of us won't get their feelings hurt. We have even figured out that Christmas carols written in the 19th century do not normally discuss homosexuality. Can we move on and discuss the music and performance now?

[@kennethbrady]

Love you.

[@johndalton3180]

Here here! Btw I quite liked what Dorothy Louden did with it at Carnegie Hall. "If that person was a... DRag..."

[@tracysmith2913]

I'm here because of marriage story

[@kamwashere_]

who's here because of gavin, ethan, and wes?

[@corakowal]

me

[@nickiea6452]

me

[@madmau]

I actually come from Marriage Story.

[@carolinajacome321]

Me!

[@broboy8788]

Meee

[@almadora]

susan browning may be known to many as 'miss farnsby,' the comically suicidal girl in the mid-season monkee episode 'monkees on the line,' the one mike tries to save.

[@damienburke288]

Sondheim pure Genius

[@PatroniFan]

Pamela Myers was on the show Sha Na Na. I can't remember if she did anything after that.

[@mugmiso]

She works regularly in the Cincinnati professional theatres.

[@PatroniFan]

@@mugmiso Thank you for the update.

[@ctina3031]

What show was this on? (Not originally, this actual clip.)

[@jeff__w]

"Showstoppers: The Best of Broadway" (You can see it here on KZbin.)

[@plumberina2465]

Totallyyy not here cause of Gavin lee, Wesley Taylor and Ethan slaterrrrr hahahaha

[@feliciadavis1436]

Bernadette Peters can do this by herself ha ha

[@crabstick250]

🤣😅😃

[@sikandermallu]

What TV show was this? I wonder what other musical gems were performed by any other original cast members.

[@jeff__w]

"Showstoppers: The Best of Broadway" (You can see it here on KZbin.) Here are the songs [copied from that video’s description]: 1. Everything's Coming Up Roses--Ethel Merman (Gypsy) 2. Quadrille--the American Dance Machine (Can-Can) 3. Get Some Cash for Your Trash--Nell Carter (Ain't Misbehaving) 4. You Could Drive a Person Crazy--Donna McKechnie, Pamela Myers, Susan Browning (Company) 5. You Made Me Love You--Debbie Reynolds (Irene) 6. Try to Remember--Jerry Orbach (The Fantastics) 7. Shriner's Dance--Chita Rivera and the American Dance Machine (Bye Bye Birdie) 8. Summer Loving--Barry Bostwick and Carol Demas (Grease) 9. Sleeping Bee--Diahann Carroll (House of Flowers) 10. Never Will I Marry--Anthony Perkins (Greenwillow) 11. All for the Best--Stephen Nathan and David Haskell (Godspell) 12. Mean to Me--Nell Carter (Ain't Misbehaving) 13. I Believe in You--Robert Morse (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) 14. Could I Leave You--Alexis Smith (Follies) 15. Charlie's Place--Donna McKechnie, Wayne Cilento, and the American Dance Machine (Over Here) 16. Little One New York--Chita Rivera and the American Dance Machine (Tenderloin) 17. Pretty Woman--Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd) 18. Send in the Clowns--Glynis Johns and Len Cariou (A Little Night Music) 19. Those Were the Good Old Days--Ray Walston (Damn Yankees) 20. They Say It's Wonderful--Ethel Merman (Annie Get Your Gun) 21. Lullaby of Broadway--Jerry Orbach and the entire company

[@sikandermallu]

@@jeff__w Thank you! 🙏🏾

[@jeff__w]

@@sikandermallu My pleasure! 😊

[@Filmgenius89]

What was this from?

[@Filmgenius89]

I mean, specificity, what was this performance from?

[@Dbdbe1]

Can we reassemble the original cast from Company? Father Dowling investigates...

[@sharoncasanta6840]

I enjoy every version of song, but I think the girls from the PBS version starring Neil Patrick Harris and Patti Lupone are top notch, easily the best of all versions.

[@Variant.2008]

I cant hear it normally JSJSJAJS

[@amyvocalist]

@manidonno10 Absoloutly! I'm performing this song next week, and no way are we doing it that fast!

[@garyschwartz9559]

From an era when Broadway musicals had an orchestra not a few people who play multiple instruments let alone when it’s only a tape.

[@slapstickgags]

Wrote that like it's an inherently bad thing. Ain't it impressive when folks can play multiple instruments? And not all musicals need a huge orchestra.

[@emalaw1329]

It also feels you're trying to imply most modern musicals don't have a fully furnished pit and are forced to rely on actors to play instruments...if you gave a chance to shows like Hamilton, Hadestown and Come From Away, you'd hear that the pit is alive and well in contemporary Broadway, and that even without a fully fledged, traditionally codified orchestra, they can produce spectacular ambience and flair

[@thekiss2083]

Dang! Didn't realize that was originally an f-slur. I think changing it was the right call. Regardless of the time period, it calls way too much attention to itself in these breezy, comedic lyrics

[@Variant.2008]

Bobby baby Bobby spongeybobby

[@qb10002]

The people freaking out about them saying fag need to realize that Sondheim is gay too, so it’s obviously not meant to be offensive. This was a different time when people weren’t so sensitive.

[@ekbrickner8054]

In his book, Sondheim said that he regretted writing that line in the song, and that even at the time it was an outdated term.

[@Starisborne]

Ed Miller black people use that term because we are allowed too, we changed the ending of that word to an a and use it as endearing term to only black people, when a term that is used to degrade you in an offensive manner, the only people who gain authority over it would be the people it’s used against, not every black person likes it but we are only ok with it being said as long as it’s by a black person, it can’t even truly offend you

[@blah7983]

Cant find anyone in the comments offended by it, yet so many people talking about them.

[@wbcjr17106]

So was George Furth, who wrote the book for Company (and won a Tony for it.)

[@paulthenerdycat4139]

It’s bubi.

[@andrackulateamshots501]

George has 7 soaps he takes away 6 and cuts them in half he eats 3 and throws up twice how much soap does George have My last 3 remaining brain cells: 0:55

[@doritodorito492]

The way the first time I heard this song was with Spongebob characters

[@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy]

Wasn't expecting the f bomb but okay.

[@leetylr]

yes they did but only as a cigarette reference

[@brettdolphin9168]

leetylr I know this comment is 4 years old but they most definitely did not

[@ekbrickner8054]

Sondheim wrote in his book that it was meant as the slur, and that he regrets writing it into the song.

[@pikachuhatyu]

one of the harmonies is off. i think it's the lowest voice. anyways we can't do anything about it, it's been 40 years lol

[@rogersweeney8344]

The lads do a much better job !!!