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Happy June!
And just because it’s June, June, June! Seth Rudetsky, in his Playbill.com column Onstage & Backstage, finally got the story behind this now infamous clip:
“I had to ask Leslie about…”June Is Bustin’ Out All Over.” If you don’t know, it’s a clip famous within Broadway circles because she sings a string of wrong lyrics, relentlessly. I finally got the story; Leslie said that she was hired to sing in a live TV concert on the White House Lawn. All the lyrics were on cue cards so she could read them. Unfortunately, it rained the night before the concert and the morning of. When the song started, everything was fine…until the cue card man slipped in the wet grass…and never got up again! Leslie said she had no choice but to keep going and “fake it.” And that she did. Making up crazy words, nonsense syllable and only solidly landing the phrase “just because it’s June!” She was horrified, but after the concert she ran into the conductor. He didn’t say anything. Her husband didn’t say anything. Her friends didn’t say anything. She thought, “OMG! I got away with it!” Until a few years later, a friend came up to her and said, “Do you know you’re in every gay bar in America?” She said, “Doing what?” He said, “Singing ‘June is Bustin’ Out All Over.’”
Enjoy just because it’s June June Joan!
Grew up with this show & adore this photo.
(Source: causewhatsahero)
The source of my tumblr name!
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Person: So what kind of music do you like?
Me: Musicals.
Person: Musicals? You're so lame...
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Me: Excuse me, would you mind just standing under that chandelier?
20 badass Broadway ladies I adore» #6 Patti Lupone
I find your face offensive.
…if you’re sexy and you know it…
My heart. Oh my gracious.
64 year old Bernadette Peters. SIXTY-FOUR.
Guess this is what happens with good genes, proper diet and exercise and one helluva good surgeon…
Elaine Stritch on “The Late Show with David Letterman” in the mid-90s.
I’ve been meaning to post this clip since I came across it in a post on the Broadway chatforum All That Chat. Vintage Letterman bit, and Stritch at her funniest. Love love love it.
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Here’s a mystery I can never quite solve:
A man or woman enters the subway car and launches into a usual schpiel asking for money except this one takes a turn toward the charitable in that the person begging is actually doing this on behalf of an unnamed charity that has undergone such severe budget cuts that their volunteers are forced to take to the subways & ask riders for change.
First of all, for those who pay attention, there are announcements made that say it is illegal to ask for money on the subway. So, this unnamed charity is so desperate for funds they ignore the law and send out people to solicit donations?
Yes, I realize there is no charity. Why, then, did a man open up a small suitcase filled with sandwiches & water bottles and offer it to anyone who was “hungry, especially the children?” I never got a good look at the suitcase so I cannot testify to the freshness of the sandwiches or even if the water had never been opened. It seemed like an awfully big charade to carry out for a few cents. Just when I was ready to let this guy go with his story & stop casting the side-eye on it he walked up to a young girl in her early 20s seated across from me and asked if she would help. She politely shook her head no so then he switched to plan B and told her “you have such a pretty smile; you’re a pretty young lady.” I knew then the only charity donations went toward were filling this man’s pockets.
It might be jaded but living in New York has caused me to be suspect of everyone’s motivations and most especially those begging in the subway.
