LITTLE ME Martin Short - Faith Prince Press Reel
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2022
- Footage from the second Broadway revival of "Little Me" (1998) starring Martin Short and Faith Prince, directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall. See more from this production at • LITTLE ME Martin Short...
I've been waiting for this for YEARS! YEARS! What a score -- and Short! Truly the best channel on UA-cam.
a million years ago I was the swing makeup artist on this show and at a performance I was subbing in for, the automation that turned the donut onstage failed and an announcement was made over the house p.a that it would take 20 minutes at least to fix...Martin Short was onstage when the set broke down and proceeded to do 30 minutes of standup to entertain the audience until it was fixed! one of my favourite memories from working on Broadway.
Please bring this back. Sid Caesar was great but I’m in love with Martin Short is brilliant. This show is crazy amazing. Based on a great book, Little Me.
This production should have run forever. A least twice Martin Short completely fooled me with the double.
God Bless Martin Short. Man is amazing. This show and Goodbye Girl. Martin Short is underrated and Brilliant. Dont let Steve Martin hear this....well if you do read Steve. ..you are equally brilliant. So grateful for Only Murders!!! Thesr guys have kept me laughing and alive my whole life. TY
This show needs dynamic talent to really wow - and when it does like it did in this production it leaps off the stage. Martin Short could power a small city with the energy he had, and Faith Prince is a true theatrical force! Thank you for posting this Spiderwoman for posting this!!!
I love this show. Was lucky to have seen this production. Wow!
so many strong performances. that poor audio plagued tony performance, i'm glad that's not the only record of this.💙💙
I don’t know if the original score exists but christ, transposing and writing the parts for the orchestra to match the original cast recording was horrendous! Worth it for such a brilliant, underrated show though
Ya gone and dood it again, Aurora, dah-link; this is a tray of tasty morsels!! Thank you for launching yet another breath of sparkling air beyond the proscenium!
Peace be with you, gentle A.S.,
Lukerdog
This show has SO much great music. And, yeah, with the libretto like it is, it really needs great leads to work. This looks terrific. Wish I'd seen the production. Good dancing too! Thanks for posting.
This is wonderful, thanks for posting!!
Wow!
I loved this recording for so long. Thank you.
I was so excited to see this- I loved Faith, from Guys and Dolls and who doesn’t love Martin Short?- but aside from a few funny lines (“Hoi-polloi…oh, hi Polloi!”) I remember being pretty disappointed with Little Me as a show. Some shows from the Golden age just do not age, the music will always be great but the books are just too corny or problematic, like Damn Yankees or Pal Joey. You can really see it in this video, if you stop and imagine Sid Caesar up there because it was really written for him.
This production was intended to be the licensing version, as much of the material in the published/licensed Sid Caesar version barely reflected what happened onstage at all, or just marked "Sid improvises here." Martin Short definitely inserted a lot of schtick, and he and another comic are ghostwriters on the revised libretto here. It's all "on the page" now, nothing left up to "oh, you had to have seen the original to get what's intended here." Unfortunately, a flood at the headquarters led to the destruction of most of the production materials, and the 1998 Little Me never got into licensing.
So they do licence out orchestral and vocal scores for amateur productions here in the UK but they’re handwritten and don’t reflect the changes in the original cast recording! I ended up rewriting and transposing a ton of the music. Our production was phenomenal but incredibly hard work!
@@alexbeatty906 i would love to see your production and your scoring!
@@listenandbelieve I have some of the transcriptions still, deep down inside and rich kids rag, but it was more than my life’s worth to keep the conductors/orchestral scores that were licensed out!
@@alexbeatty906 they license the original handwritten pieces which match none of the recordings, don’t they? I’ve seen those many times.
@@listenandbelieve exactly! I don’t think a lot of people know about, yet alone perform this show
IMHO, it was a major mistake for this production to combine the roles of Belle and Young Belle; Faith Prince was way too matronly to play Young Belle. I know I'm in the minority here, but I preferred the 1982 revisal (with Jessica James a hilarious over-the-top Belle, James Coco, Victor Garber, Mary Gordon Murray).
Plus, you lose a lot of the interplay and humor of the two Belles