The White House: Dorothy Loudon, Jennifer Holliday, Bea Arthur, Elaine Paige, Mary Martin
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- In Performance at the White House, 1988. Dorothy Loudon ("Annie"), Jennifer Holliday ("Dream Girls"), Beatrice Arthur ("Mame"), Elaine Paige ("Evita"), Mary Martin ("South Pacific"), White House April 24, 1988. Musical Director Marvin Hamlisch; Louis Magor, accompanist to Miss Martin. Hosts: Marvin Hamlisch, President Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan. Directed by David Deutsch; Executive Producer John Musilli; Produced by Jackson Frost.
Songs heard: Forty-Second Street; Broadway Baby; Fifty-percent; You're Gonna Love Me; Send in the Clowns; Broadway, My Street; It Amazes Me; Don't Cry For Me, Argentina; Memories; A Cock-eyed Optimist; That's Him; My Heart Belongs to Daddy.
Bea & Dorothy really impressed me..But they All excelled.
Miss Loudon is the total package!! God Love Her!! Rest in Peace Miss Loudon ✝️.
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Dorothy Loudon - one of the all-time greats.
Yes, a marvellous force of nature taken from us too soon.
@@FringeDweller-xm8fp *marvelous
These women shine like the sun when they sing.
There's NO WAY I'd be able to control myself and stay seated throughout the program.
Bea’s did really amazing! Her voice is so unique ❤️❤️❤️
To have failed to give Elaine Paige a standing ovation was simply disresctul of a living legend
Not in this setting. To give one a standing ovation over the other outstanding performers would have been distasteful.
dorothy, GREAT ARTIST, left us to soon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jennifer Holliday what a voice ❤
OMG Dorothy Loudon singing Fifty Percent was beyond amazing! Brava!!!
Great song unique performance, but i dont like hearing it. Does that make any sense? The situation of the song is so pathetic, i dont like watching someone do that to themselves, it’s painful and a little campy. Has a song ever affected you in that way? Where a perfectly good song just “escapes you?” For me it is this song, lol!
@@Mister_Listener I've had songs I felt that way about, but this is not one of them. We all hear and feel differently.
@@flyinghow fair enough. I understand. One other song that gets my goat is Come Rain or Shine, also, This is The Moment. The songs were written to stand still, there is no growth or forward movement to the story, so we have to watch someone try to act when there isnt enough material to act. 50 percent forces us to watch a person wallow in self pity. Opera arias are like this, too. But I’d rather leave it in Dorothy’s hands, if you guys say she is so masterful, it is particularly soul crushing to watch a teenage girl sing 50%.
I loved (love) Dorothy Loudon! I'm too young to know how she died but that must have been one sad day!
Jennifer Holliday was holdind back, because her voice is like a thunder. This was just 30% of her voice capacity
I thought the same thing
MARY Martin sounds a fresh as she did on the OBC recordings, well her high notes are shaky but her years of stage craft carried her. Forever my favorite.
Elaine Page is simply brilliant
Them Clasically Trained pianists had SOUL...You could see them feeling that music and anticipating Jennifer's every move!!!
What... is... this... What an astonishing collection of talent.
WithOneLook: This…is…a…collection…of…Broadway…leading…ladies…performing..at…the…White…House…in…Washington DC. Take one, or two, looks when you have the time.
Thank you for posting this Jennifer Holliday is remarkable
Love Bea 💓
jennifer, a bright shining >STAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU for uploading this masterpiece. You have great taste!
Amazing Elaine Paige!!!
Charming and legendary! How wonderful to see my idol, the great Mary Martin so late in her career and life, still knockin' 'em dead with her great charismatic style and epic repertoire! Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for posting! Elaine Paige is amazing here
Bea’s song is from 70, Girls, 70
Jennifer holliday I love it 😘😘😘
Forget the politics and revel in the glory of these prima donnas. If you have any more of these White House Concerts, please post them! I remember loving the one with all the chorus numbers closing with One Singular Sensation.
Mary Martin was the best. you could tell she spent many years in Broadway. it's a shame she wasn't in the south Pacific movie.
Moriah D’Amico: The May- December romance of the American Army nurse-French plantation owner only works if there is a recognizable age difference between the two characters. Mary Martin was 45 when the film was made and unfortunately too old for the role, especially against Rossini Brazzi. Mary Martin, like many Broadway stars often played roles where the characters were much younger than their biological age. In 1959, when she was 46, she portrayed a woman 20 years younger in THE SOUND OF MUSIC. From appearance and voice she was very, very convincing.
At one point, Mary Martin was signed for MAME before Angels Lansbury got it and it would have been interesting to hear she and Bea Arthur sing “Bosom Buddies”.
Wait, so Effie White, Grizabella and Dorothy Zbornak was in the White House at the same time??? 🤯
And Miss Hannigan!
Growing up in the 1980's I had a natural aversion to Ronald & Nancy Reagan and their folksy warmth, which I interpreted as completely phony. I guess it's de rigeur when you're 16 to affect a Holden Caulfield attitude. But looking in the rear view mirror from the vantage point of my late 50's, all I can see is grace and class and a generous appreciation of these five magnificent women. I'm particularly glad to have the chance to see Mary Martin at the end of her career but still in lilting voice and plucky spirit, and Dorothy Loudon delivering - for me, at least- her greatest rendition of "Fifty Percent".
Thank you for this wonderful share Peter Mintun!😊👍
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Yo did Mary just slip Nature Boy into South Pacific?!? That’s genius
Out of this world good!
Love it! Thanks for this. I still find RR so creepy and what he did to America. He cemented the road to Trump. Anyhoo... It's funny that the camera never shows Ronnie during Jennifer's Holiday performance...It's a shame they didn't let her speak or do another song like a standard to show her beautiful range.... they needed a Black performer... she at least stated the best claim to Black women's ferocity and resilience but her performance of And I'm telling you was a caricature with affectation like she can't do anything else, just like Aunt Jemima.... but anyhoo... she shined.... and along with these other Golden dames... I'm good and grateful!!
Cool show! I will never understand Dorothy Loudon. She is so annoying and her histrionics distract from the music. When she tries to sustain a note her unruly vibrato ruins it. What am i not understanding?
Talent, you are failing to understand talent...sit down
@@MrDeankirkland lol, dont be catty darling, it ages you. I asked a sincere question, i dont have to like Dorothy Loudon just because you do! I onlyknow her from Annie and Ballroom and her mugging drives me crazy. Maybe there’s a victory of hers or an amazing role she is known for that i havent heard about ?
HOW ABOUT THE "HISTRIONICS" OF JENNIFER HOLIDAY? SHE SINGS LIKE SHE HAS BEEN CONSTIPATED SINCE BIRTH. Anyway...
Mary Martin will always be Peter Pan
I don't remember Dorothy Loudon being a Mae West impersonator in other performances...
A truly WHITE house gala. The choice was greater than that……..why didn’t someone make it?
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Wow…that audience was very…white lol
Tony, this was the final year of this vile administration but we still had another four years of Daddy Bush. All the people sitting in those chairs were singularly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans because they refused to utter one word..
Even more disturbingly ironic is the Reagan’s presiding over a tribute to Broadway musicals while being responsible for the death of a generation of gay men, many of who created theater.
While it was unforgivable and scandalous that Reagan did nothing to help the effort for AIDS, I don’t think you can lay the deaths of a generation at his feet.
@@oscar646 Like it's not the fault of the former guy that more than 300,000 Americans died needlessly of Covid because he wouldn't admit there was a virus on the loose in the country he was supposed to be running?
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You certainly can!!!
He would not acknowledge AIDS, did nothing about it - Never Even Mentioned it publicly until 1987!
Yes - he was a *Main* contributor to a Whole Generation of talented men Dying!!!
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