Lauren Bacall rehearses APPLAUSE (1970, Broadway)

Footage of studio rehearsals with Lauren Ball, shot in December 1969. Note that the musical was still referred to as a musical adaptation of All About Eve at the time. Seen alongside Ms Bacall is director/choreographer Ron Field, going over the steps to the dance break of "But Alive."

[@AAwildeone]

A rehearsal clip of Bacall? Seriously! This is one of the only reasons why the internet is good...

[@johnv7060]

That better be High Point in the coffee cup she's holding!

[@michaeljj43]

she looks amazing!!!! and what an amazing feat to carry a musical when she never did before.

[@jackib8113]

This is what talent, hard work and class looks like

[@rugby8-Philadelphia]

This show was Amazing as was she!!!
I saw it with Bacall when I was in High School, and then saw it about a year later with Anne Baxter playing Margo!!!
.....was also the first show I saw Lee Roy Reams in

[@williedaniel6194]

Grandma Grandma ❤

[@jackjules7552]

Bacall is not giving accurate answers to the interviewer. It is not true that the only time she ever sang professionally was in movie a few decades back. Bacall sang on live television on the Danny Kaye Show a few years prior to this...and I mean really sang. And Bacall did dance before....Bacall also took 13 years of ballet from the time she was three...a fact she mentioned in another interview.