Bea Arthur - Bea Arthur on Broadway - Just Between Friends
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Artist: Bea ArthurBrand: ARTHUR,BEA
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2002-02-12
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Lamb Recipe
- Fun To Be Fooled
- Introduction
- What Can You Get A Nudist For Her Birthday?
- Auditions
- Isn't He Adorable
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Let's Face The Music And Dance
- Bosom Buddies
- Angela Lansbury
- Threepenny Opera/ Pirate Jenny
- It Never Was YOu
- And Then There's Maude
- Some People
- The Soup Ladle
- Where Do You Start
- Bernie Schwartz
- If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It!
- Personal Hygiene
- Who Cares
- Fifty Percent
- The Nun's Story
- You're Gonna Hear From Me
- The Chance To Sing
- The Man in the Moon is a Lady
Free Music Notes for Bea Arthur on Broadway - Just Between Friends
Free Music Review: Put This On Repeat : My Favorite Grandma
Hit: 5 Stars
Bea Arthur finally releases her Broadway album, and the highlights are too many to mention. My personal favorites were her memories of Angela Lansbury, Talulah, and the very funny (yet not original) jokes (especially the ones about the nun and the cab driver).
The thing is, Bea has never been much of a songstress or vocalist - she has a deep voice with a very flat quality, which makes even her 'high' notes sound about exactly as the same as her low ones. This may or may not be a good thing, but the focus on the CD is the entire show itself. Bea positions herself as host, singer, stand-up comedian, storyteller, and world observer, and all of these roles meld into one another with remarkable ease.
Whats more important - everything works. I could listen to this back to back. In fact, its the only 'comedy' album I have on my Ipod. I tend to skip through many of the songs she sings (some are old classics that I can do without), but when shes in the middle of a social commentary, you have to take a moment out to remember that this is a woman who is in her eighties, and still so vibrant and productive. Amazing.
One of the running jokes throughout the CD is the "Lamb Recipe". Bea weirdly starts explaining the entire recipe - buying the lamb, preparing it, putting the timer on, and you wonder where she's going with it. Then, she brings in the joke at various other points in the show, and it works very nicely whenever she either runs out of things to say, or wants to use it as a segue to the next segment.
Her 'navigator' here is Billy, whom I especially love, even though he isn't given much room to talk here. I loved the part where Bea introduces him and asks him to take a bow. "Stand up, Billy!" she exclaims. And the moment he does she says "Sit Down, Billy". This really worked for me, as the comic timing here was impeccable.
All said, this is a classic album that should find place in your collection. Bea may not be for everyone, but for us single folk who spend our best moments watching "The Golden Girls" DVDs on repeat, we could not have asked for something better than this. A perfect slice of pristine Broadway heaven.
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More comedy monologue than musical performance, Bea Arthur's one-woman show Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends collects memories from the silver-haired star's life on Broadway (Fiddler on the Roof, Mame, The Threepenny Opera) and television (Maude, The Golden Girls).
"I wanted to see if I had the guts to just come and be myself," Arthur says in this performance recorded in front of a live audience in December 2001. Alongside co-creator and pianist Billy Goldenberg, she offers wry and often funny anecdotes about her career and the people she's worked with (Angela Lansbury, Pia Zadora). When she does sing ... well, even decades ago Arthur didn't have a beautiful voice, but she's well-suited to the comedy songs. And her versions of Kurt Weill's "Pirate Jenny" and Goldenberg's own "Fifty Percent"--while they won't make anyone forget Lotte Lenya or Dorothy Loudon--are effective in their own right. Bea Arthur on Broadway is definitely more Bea than Broadway, but it's a career well worth remembering. --David Horiuchi
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