Thursday, September 20, 2012

Liza Barbra & Aretha!

The Three Divas performed live for a tribute to the late Marvin Hamlisch in New York City on Setp. 18, 2012

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Neil Patrick Harris' 2011 Tony Awards Opening Number

Barbra Streisand's RELEASE ME Due 9/25 With Several Broadway Tracks

http://broadwayworld.com/article/Barbra-Streisands-RELEASE-ME-Due-925-With-Several-Broadway-Tracks-20120816




Thursday, August 16, 2012; 02:08 PM - by BWW News Desk


Barbra Streisand's LP RELEASE ME is slated to be released next month. Retailers, including Amazon and Elusive Disc, list the release date as September 25 (the CD release will be out a week later on October 2) and the track listing as follows:




1. Being Good Isn't Good Enough (from Hallelujah, Baby!)

2. Didn't We

3. Willow Weep For Me

4. Try To Win A Friend

5. I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today

6. With One More Look At You (from A Star Is Born)

7. Lost In Wonderland

8. How Are Things In Glocca Morra?/ Heather On the Hill (from Finian’s Rainbow/Brigadoon)

9. Mother And Child

10. If It’s Meant To Be

11. Home (from The Wiz)



Streisand has appeared on Broadway in I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE and FUNNY GIRL, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Streisand won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role in the film version of the musical. Her next two movies were also based on musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly (1969), and Alan Jay Lerner's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1970). Additionally, she has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, one special Tony Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.



RELEASE ME features previously unreleased recordings from Streisand's career. "It was quite interesting to go through the vaults, find these recordings and hear them again with the benefit of hindsight," Streisand says of the record. "You could say I’m more forgiving of myself now. In fact, I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I actually like the overall recordings, even with their flaws. Although I could have re-sung certain lines where I thought they could be improved, I decided to leave every vocal the way it was."







Read more: http://broadwayworld.com/article/Barbra-Streisands-RELEASE-ME-Due-925-With-Several-Broadway-Tracks-20120816#ixzz24Ogs5hFf


Marilyn Monroe..Bette Midler To deserve you

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Sunday, July 29, 2012

BlackGlama Icons: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Ross, Janet Jackson, Joan Craw...

Reminder: 'VITO' Airs on HBO check listings until Tues.

http://www.frontiersla.com/Blog/FrontierBlog/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10406781
Vito Russo

By Karen Ocamb


As you know, HBO was a presenting sponsor for this year’s Outfest film festival, and the documentary Vito was the opening night film for the festival's 30th anniversary. The highly regarded film airs tonight on HBO. As a preview, check out the interview Renee Sotile and Mary Jo Godges of Traipsing Thru Films conducted with director Jeffery Schwarz, composer Miriam Cutler and Russo's friend Bruce Vilanch, who says that Russo left him the only film of Bette Midler with Barry Manilow on piano performing at the gay Continental Baths.

Gay and AIDS activist Vito Russo thought it was critical that LGBT people understand the history of how we have been represented on film—which contributed to how society saw and treated us in real life. In that vein, I’ve been working on an overview piece on Outfest and some of the films I saw. I am writing two “stand alone” pieces on How to Survive a Plague and Love Free or Die about Bishop Gene Robinson in order to go more in depth. Please see the list of Outfest award winners at FrontiersLA.com.



Vito Russo and Bette Midler