an asset to the abbey
Here’s a rousing opening number by the original company of The Sound of Music. At about 3:33 it’s hard to miss a very familiar face.
Stay with the video even after glimpsing our surprise religieuse for an earful of Patrica Neway‘s “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” with more than enough vocal goods to compensate for the “Queen Aggravain” makeup.
This is one of a multitude of video excerpts from Broadway shows compiled at bluegobo.com.
Could Royboy quote us an example of the “full scaled monster.”
I have read one volume of the diaries and Coward is loving in his praise to MM, and very dismissive of her husband. I think he even mentions “hating” him. But I recall no mention of MM as a “monster.” If there is something in volume 2 of the dairies or the latest edition (if it is not called volume 2) I would love a quote. Thank you. In the first diaries volume he writes with great love about her performances in SOM, SP and Hello Dolly. He had some problems working the husband on a tv show that he and MM did together, but he praises her work even then. If you go back to the mid 40s Noel and Mary had a terrible blow up about hat s in a show they did together, Pacific 1860, but after a few years of feuding they once again became the best of friends.
Yet More TSOM and opera trivia. The first London Mother Abbess was Constance Shacklock, who sang Brangane to Flagstad’s last ever Isolde on stage at Covent garden
If we’re going to get us to a nunnery, can’t we have some goss on Les dialogues des Carmelites?
“Its gay, its amusing…”
Oh, Ed, you have no idea.
I could sing the Mother Abbess tomorrow, but nobody would want to hear it.
Is it just me or do I hear the dulcet tones of Homer Simpson everytime M.M. sings “Doh” ?