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List Price: $16.98 | | Label: Drg
Salesrank: 15753
Released: February 12, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Bea Arthur on Broadway - Just Between Friends Track Listing:
1. Lamb Recipe
2. Fun To Be Fooled
3. Introduction
4. What Can You Get A Nudist For Her Birthday?
5. Auditions
6. Isn't He Adorable
7. Fiddler on the Roof
8. Let's Face The Music And Dance
9. Bosom Buddies
10. Angela Lansbury
11. Threepenny Opera/ Pirate Jenny
12. It Never Was YOu
13. And Then There's Maude
14. Some People
15. The Soup Ladle
16. Where Do You Start
17. Bernie Schwartz
18. If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It!
19. Personal Hygiene
20. Who Cares
21. Fifty Percent
22. The Nun's Story
23. You're Gonna Hear From Me
24. The Chance To Sing
25. The Man in the Moon is a Lady
Editorial Review:
And then there's Bea, in this salty, sweet, startling, and stirring evening of stories and songs spanning the irrepressible Tony and Emmy Award-winner Bea Arthur's six decade career.
Genre: Soundtracks & Scores
Media Format: Compact Disk
Rating:
Release Date: 12-FEB-2002
Description of Bea Arthur on Broadway - Just Between Friends:
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
Bea Arthur on Broadway - Just Between Friends Reviews:
The Eternal Entertainer 
2009-08-08 - She was at the top of her game - endearing, so talented and a pure joy to watch.
Bea Arthur A true talented original
2009-04-28 - Very enjoyable.I really hope this could get a dvd release along with her show" And then there's Bea".
People like her come only once in a lifetime. I just wish Hollywood would realize this and put talent and substance back into movies and television.
If your a fan of Bea Arthur or just appreciate real talent then buy this.
Amazing performance by Ms.Arthur
Put This On Repeat : My Favorite Grandma
2007-11-21 - 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.
And Then There's BEA!
2007-01-20 - Thank goodness this is available on CD. I saw the show twice in Manhattan and once in P-town MA. She is an American treasure. What's nice is that you don't need to have had seen the live performance to enjoy this CD. (Though I'd love to have it on DVD.) Just Bea, Billy, a piano and yet so much more!!!!!
Golden Girl Shines Brightly
2005-10-21 - For anyone who has ever laughed as Bea Arthur deftly put people in their place with her lightning quick wit as Dorothy on the "Golden Girls", they will not be disappointed with this CD. Arthur, some 9 years after leaving the small screen, returns triumphantly to her professional roots, the stage, and does not disappoint. Mixing antedotal stories with classic songs, all to the accompianment of Billy Goldenburg, Arthur weaves her life in a brillant 90 minute tapestry so that the listener regrets ever reaching the end. Anyone who has ever seen Arthur perform on stage, or as Maude or Dorothy, they will not regret purchasing this CD. For that rare minority of people who have not have the privilage of seeing Arthur previously should find out what they have been missing of this American icon.
