There's also a sound clip of her in MAME...I could be wrong, but I believe this is the entire recording of her in MAME. However, there is no visual...just audio.
Thrilling. I wish there was footage of her Everything's Coming up...
Yes, too bad. Because, actress that she is, she played it as a musical scene in which she convinced the horrified Louise and Herbie to go on with the act minus anyone who had any talent.
It was a bravura sequence, but in a different way than "Some People" and "Rose's Turn", because it was played more to the other characters than to the audience (at least until the very end).
(At least that's my memory and, working on a stock recreation of the Broadway production, I saw 35 performances. Still, it was 40 years ago.)
In case anyone still wonders, Angela's Rose was one of the most thrilling performances I have ever seen on the musical stage. Everything you have heard about it is correct. Only her Mrs. Lovett topped it, IMO.
I absolutely agree Gaveston ( except maybe her Mrs. Lovett topping it - I'd say it was a draw). But that evening of theatre at "Gypsy" was perhaps my most unforgettable. How I wish that - and her Mame - was preserved on film.
I absolutely agree with Gaveston on all points. Lansbury's "Roses" was stunningly brilliant and effective. She started by trying to convince Louise and Herbie that all would be okay and built it into convincing herself. I'd be hard pressed to say whether her Rose or her Mrs. Lovett was better. Her Rose was probably more emotionally compelling, but her Mrs. Lovett was a more challenging undertaking because the character was a thematic device as well as a character and she made it work superbly on both levels. She found and conveyed the humanity in what could easily be a caricature while also embodying utilitarianism run amok.
Because, some have asked for footage of Everything's Coming Up Roses. Well, I found a video that features just that! It's not much, but it should be enough to please, though, right?
Play from :49-:58 & 1:09- 1:18.
I know...it's a pitiful amount of footage, but, better than nothing! Link
Incidentally, I have been looking for ages for more footage of her in Gypsy. From what I discovered, there is all this footage of her in Gypsy:
- The most well known, a 12 minute long audio b-roll footage used to TV reviews. This was shown in much better quality on Michael Feinstein's American Songbook documentary.
- The one with the link above, which was b-roll for TV reviews. It was a complete video, and there was also footage shot from the same place of "Some People".
- Footage shot from the wings, which she herself said to have seen in a 2007 interview.
- Footage shot from the balcony, which she herself said to have seen in the interview mentioned above.
I hope this helped out a little, I would very interested if anyone had any information on this at all, or if even better they had these videos!
I can't speak for video but there is a full audio of her in Gypsy that is soundboard recording from 1974- It has some static age to it, but it's still great. There is a full show video recording of her in the revival of Mame too.
Yes, I know. There are actually two. One from in the middle of the production, and one from closing night. There is also about 29 minutes of Home Movie footage of he in the original 1966 production of Mame. Here is the home movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-csGpVukmxQ