1987 Tony Tribute Robert Preston.mp4
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- A 1987 tribute to Robert Preston, who had recently passed. Featuring Bernadette Peters singing "Time Heals Everything" Barbara Cook "Till There was You" and Mary Martin doing "My Cup Runneth Over."
I remember being so disappointed when he lost the best supporting actor Oscar for Victor-Victoria... such an immense talent.
His rendition of “I won’t send roses” from “Mack and Mabel” is one of the most tear-jerking moments in musical history. His cynical but warm, heartfelt explanation to Mabel is one of the most iconic in any stage musical.
Robert Preston's performance in "The Music Man" is the reason why I started doing shows 27 years ago. An amazing, amazing actor.
The shortest, classiest, and best acceptance speech in the history of the Tony awards.
I saw Barbara cook in her 80’s in Sondheim on Sondheim. TWICE. Nothing I’ve ever heard or ever will hear will come close to the sheer Beauty of Her Voice, phrasing and emotional truth.
I adore this man to me he is ALIVE AND WELL and living in my heart.... An absolute DREAM BOAT..💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
I've been in love with Robert Preston since I was ten years old.
I have bad news for you...........
Barbara Cook. What a joy to listen to.
Mr. Preston deserved a fitting tribute, and he could not have wished for two more brilliant vocalists or two more wonderful performances. Wow!
How wonderful to have the great Mary Martin singing THIS HOUSE for us as she remembers the great Preston. Thank you!
Where was Shirley Jones for this tribute to Preston?
Robert Preston was so wonderful. He could play any role… from Harold Hill to
Carol Todd to Michael Finnegan (one of my favorites) I was 20 when he died and I remember feeling very badly. After watching this I agree with Bernadette. Time doesn't heal everything, he's still missed. Guess thats the real tribute.
What a tribute, and what a treat for us. I was thinking about "I do, I do" and Mary Martin appears. Brilliant. Preston was great
Bernadette Peters--The only woman I've seen who could make the 80s look good.
Gives me the chills just to listen to all he and his leading ladies brought to us. He just brought such life to things.
How lovely to see dazzling Broadway legend Mary Martin pay tribute to Robert Preston and perform a song from "I Do I Do" in which they co-starred. Miss Martin looks terrific. Her voice and delivery are still impressive. Broadway lost some of its luster when these two giants left us. Boynton41, thank you for sharing this priceless video.
Preston was a king.
Robert Preston is, and was, one of the underrated greats!
I am so glad to hear this lovely presentation for this lovely man. I met Robert Preston in 1974. As much as I loved his work, he was such a delightful person and meeting him was even a bigger treat than seeing his best movie.
Oh, how I would have loved to have met him just once. Talent, creativity and integrity. What a treasure. This caliber of man is not around anymore.
I wish you could have met him, too and you sound sincere. By the looks of things, you wouldn't have been disappointed. People, don't you agree that Robert Preston was an extremely special and gifted person???
If I remember right, didn't you say you played the piano? I play the piano, too. (R.H.)
Fortunate YOU.
Anyone seen him in “Finnegan begin Again “ With Mary Tyler Moore.. Its a delight.. 😍🥂🍾
LOVE this film! Watched it again today.
@@IZS1962 I found it by accident a few years back and I love it.. 🤗❤️
What a great tribute to a great man. Mary Martin 20?years after doing I Do I Do sounds even better than ever. Barbara Cook nails everything she sings, particularly her signature song. Bernadette Peters sounded very emotional in her delivery. Robert Preston had a positive effect on every person he worked with.
Now that's a Tribute!!!!!!!!!!! The Academy could learn a lot from the Tonys!
Bernadette Peters is the definition of perfection.
majss majjss
I used to date her .
-jk
But my first love was very much a good look a like -sigh
Amazing Robert Preston loved him and his wonderful personality
I really love Mary Martin’s song at the end, simple and so meaningful.
JR Ewings "REAL MOM"....smiles! Now that's full circle.........I personally always wished that these types of "Presentations and Honorings" would be done while that person is alive. I realize that in some cases people "leave" too fast...but in MOST cases we as a people seem to sit on our hands for in some cases years before recognizing these very Stars who brought us so much happiness! Just my take....I'm sure I will hear from The Youber Tuber Church Choir on this......smiles...Bring It
A moving tribute to a giant n the theatre!
The unforgettable Robert Preston !!!!!!
I have seen some Robert Preston based articles on the computer, but I've never seen this one and had missed the award show that year somehow. I have now seen this for the first time. This was beautifully done. I am so happy that those people did this for him. He couldn't be more deserving of this than he was.
So bittersweet! Alas! First time I heard Time Heals Everything. ohmygosh!
Bernadette Peters. Holy crap.
Robert Preston no one like him he was one in a million rip robert
I saw Mary Martin twice when I was a kid...both times on Broadway. Once with her role in Peter Pan, the other in the SOund of Music. One of the true greats showing tribute to another one of the true greats - what a magic moment.
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
Bern was serious as a heart attack.. Barbara killed it..
He had a very diverse career as a stage and film actor.
What a great talent we lost when he died
We appreciated Robert Preston Merservey. And we always will.
I can also recommend an obscure but wonderful Preston movie called Island of Love. Also starring Tony Randall, it’s a light-hearted farce that I saw on a cruise ship going to Bermuda when I was 7 in 1960. Dating myself I know. But I watched it four times one rainy afternoon and it’s just a pleasure to watch.
Watching Bernadette Peters just makes me want to sing:
I'm picking out a thermos for you
Not an ordinary thermos, for you
But the very best thermos that you can buy
With vinyl, and stripes, and a cup built right in...
His wife looks like him. You see that occasionally with long- married couples, kinda sweet.
One of the quintessential "Music men." I loved him.
There was a previous Tony show where they pay tribute to Jerry Herman, and Robert and Bernadette sing a duet from “ Mack and Mabel”. They might have replayed that.
Thank you. Needed this in today's world... May 2020.... Time of COVID....
1987 tribute to the late ROBERT PRESTON
The problem with Tony tributes is that they cannot showcase the unique talent we've lost. Seeing other people perform his iconic roles does not do him justice. This is not a critique of any particular tribute: it's simply a fact that without seeing the performer, we cannot judge how much we've truly lost.
i love this so much.
RIP Barbara Cook
if you gather up a bunch of tomorrow"s @ the end all your going to have is a bunch of yesterday"s
What a wholely wonderful remark at this time of the performance
He deserved this tribute leaded by Dame Angela Lansbury with the greats Mary Martin,Barbara Cook and Bernadette Peters..Preston didnt win the Oscar but wan two Tony awards for Music Man(Cook wan too) and Ido I do(Martin didnt win for it). This homage to the great Robert Preston(1917-87) was magnificent and is very good to see al these ladies together. But to coment more about Peters than about Martin,Dame Angela and Cook isnt good. There was a list made in 2012 of the 25 more important ladies in the Broadway Musicals. These four were among the 10 fist.Dame Angela was 3rd,Peters 5th,Martin 6th and Cook 10th but if I could chose I would have put in this order:Martin,Lansbury,Cook and Peters. If I could do the list of the ten more important Broadway musical men Robert Preston would have been among the ten first. Harold Hill,Toddy, the husband of I do I do.What a grea performer he was!!!
You've taken the words right out of my mouth - Robert Preston, Angela Lansbury, Mary Martin, Bernadette Peters - such wonderful talent; such wonderful unforgettable songs.
leaded? Wan? Are you 8 years old?
I think the Prestons and Mary Martin and her husband were close friends through the years. Barbara Cook was talented and won the role of Marion in Preston's signature movie, Music Man, Bernadette had a true love/infatuation for RP (age and circumstances mirrored those of Mack and Mabel) and Landsbury was an early leading lady in film.
But RP was his wife were extremely private people. Mary Martin (and her husband) were there after Preston had his affair (w Ulla Sallert, 'Benjamin Franklin in Paris' costar). The Prestons separated (after 'Music Man' and before 'I Do, I Do'). Mary Martin and her husband were there for them both during this time. This may explain the order.
Sara Vazzana Sorry Sara- you're not even close- ever hear of an Oscar winning actress named ' Shirley Jones' ? She was "Marian the Librarian" in the movie. (Currently starting a concert version tour of TMM as "Mrs. Paroo" -with Patrick /her son/playing "Harold Hill"He met Preston during the filming of TMM).The Broadway Legend "Miss Barbara Cook" was only in the original stage version.
Sara Vazzana Got another FLASH for ya- Preston had a LOT of affairs over the course of his 40+ year marriage. The longest & most intense being with 'THE' Peggy Lee, which lasted (on & off) from the early 50's into the early 70's. See both her autobio and the most recent biography of her done by Peter Richmond.
Soooooooo wonderful! Couldn't believe I missed this!
Very nice to see again. Thank you for posting.
Harold Hill he will always be!
Lovely.
Finnegan Begin Again !
Yes! A big Amen to that!
So true!
ain't nobody got shoulders like Angela Lansbury.
Mary Martin (FIVE TIME TONY AWARD WINNER MARY MARTIN) comes out on stage and no one visible stands!
Mary Martin received three Tony Awards for South Pacific Peter Pan and The Sound of Music Dame Angela Lansbury received 5 Tony Awards for Mame Dear World Gypsy Sweeney Todd and Blyth Spirit Bernadette Peters received 2 for Annie get your gun and Song and dance and Barbara Cook only 1 for The Music Man..
So you cant talk more about Bernadette Peters a great Broadway star but in this video there are three of the all time biggest Broadway Stars Mary Martin Dame Angela Lansbury and Barbara Cook.
Sort of sad that the focus of the comments is on Bernadette Peters. Yes, she's been good for a long time. BUT, seeming not to know Angela Lansbury (5-time Tony winner...check out Mame, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy), Mary Martin (Tony Awards for Peter Pan, South Pacific, The Sound of Music) and Barbara Cook's (Tony for The Music Man) contributions to the theatre is sad, but redeemable. Search their works...they're all of them Kennedy Center Honors recipients.
Of course, no mention was made of three of Preston's flop musicals--despite his usual, charismatic performances--"Ben Franklin in Paris," "The Prince of Grand Street" and "We Take the Town!" in which he performed the role of Mexican outlaw/revolutionary, Pancho Villa. The real shame, however, is that he didn't live long enough to reprise the role of Toddy in "Victor/Victoria" on stage!
Marian joined him last year. :(
That's Angela Lansbury, just an awesome, great actress. Look her up.
It is, if you want to go around in your drawers all day.
My God, even theater people can't manage to clap on the beat.
They don't write 'em like THAT anymore! :)
oh and I'm in the music man I say good morning shinn
It is a lovely tribute, but the number Ms. Martin sings is, in fact. "This House", which is the final song in I DO, I DO. (She is not singing "My Cup Runneth Over".)
. They wanted to make I do Ido movie with Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet in th early seventies but like many of the Dame Julie s movie s in that period it was canceled.
Angela Lansbury.
Angela Landsbury
First, to be clear, I loved the tribute & all of the performances from these GREAT ladies of the stage! NO ONE is more worthy of such an outpouring of love than Mr. Robert Preston. But in the description of this video, just below the title, it says Ms. Martin performs "My Cup Runneth Over"... a beautiful song that I ADORE!!! But sadly, Ms Martin did NOT perform THAT song! It was the only disappointment relating to this video, but a BIG disappointment nonetheless. Will those who clearly loved Mr. Preston enough to post this beautiful video (which is in & of itself a loving tribute of your own)... plz correct the title of the beautiful song performed by Ms. Martin? Thank U most kindly. 💕
Isnt the first lady the voice of the grandma in Anastasia?
Funny how they don't mention Julie Andrews who he made 2 films with
They didnt talk about Dame Julie Andrews because they only talked about his biggest Broadway costars not Hollywood.costars.
What exact date was this particular Tony Awards Presentation?
June 7th, 1987
HaVoKoR Thanks
The day before what would have been Preston's 69th birthday...
Sara Vazzana I believe I, also, read about Robert Preston's birthday being June 8 and that he was born in 1918 so that sounds right on. Interesting you know quite a bit of "Prestonology". "Bobby Baby" was a good man--one of my favorite people and I wish you could have met him. Judging from my experience meeting him, you would not have been disappointed. I miss this wonderful actor and wonderful person.
When/where did you meet him? That would have been great.
what do you mean?
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oh my, Barbara Cook grew......
Angela Lansburys' introduction was beautiful and elegant. Thank you Angela . It went down hill from that point. Performance after performance . This is not a tribute. Robert Preston was an enigma for me. Always enjoyed his performances and the range of his acting ability. From musicals to western movies like Whispering Smith with Alan Lad. Truly a great talent. This tribute was a waste of time unfortunately.
Angela Lansbury.