OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed- Page 4
OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
OperaBwayLover
Broadway Star Joined: 5/17/07
#75OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 10:10pm
I never got to see her live (unless you count Sondheim! The Birthday Concert), but I loved her interview in an issue of Opera News a few years ago. Her humor, candid nature, and overall bluntness just struck a chord with me. There is a wonderful quote from the article, where she was asked about the 'death' of the Broadway musical:
"I don't see anything. I want the theater to go on. Nothing is ever going to be the same. Oscar Hammerstein lyrics are not gonna be brought back. "Later in the second act, when she begins to peel/ She proves that every single thing she's got is absolutely real." Is there anything as sweet and funny and dear as that?"
Here's to the lady who lunched.
#76OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 10:33pmHas Steve Sondheim released a statement yet?
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#77OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 10:36pmSurprised that no one has mentioned her stint in Love Letters -- with no less than Jason Robards. It was fabulous-- her line deliveries were not to be believed. Luv u, Elaine!
BroadwayEd
#78OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 10:41pm
I don't think Sondheim is the type of guy to release "statements." It must be a rough summer for him-- Mary Rodgers, and now Stritch.
All I know is, she was...IS an original. She may be imitated, but she was one of those personalities and performers that won't be duplicated. We're seeing less and less of them. Maybe they ought to learn a thing or two from watching her in AT LIBERTY.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#79OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 10:54pm
A very sad day, and a tremendous loss for us all.
I remember how thrilled I was when I saw her in Sail Away. Her rendition of "Why Do the Wrong People Travel" was spectacular. And she performed the contemplative "Something Very Strange" equally effectively.
Whenever I saw her in the ensuing years, the same thrill was there.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#80OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 11:07pm
"We're seeing less and less of them. Maybe they ought to learn a thing or two from watching her in AT LIBERTY."
I always thought that one of the women in Sex & the City should have been a younger Elaine Stritch type. While Cynthia Nixon was ok, I think her role should have been cast with someone more like Stritch, a wise-cracking, chain smoking, hard drinker. (ETA: yeah, I know Sandra Bernhard says she auditioned, but she's not really right for the Stritch type).
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Updated On: 7/17/14 at 11:07 PM
#81OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 11:09pm
RARE STRITCH:
Elaine Stritch, Millicent MArtin and David Kernan do the "Uncle Sam Rag" from Redhead, music by Albert Hague, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields:
http://youtu.be/-5odBISvqX0
#82OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 11:37pm
I actually cried at work today when I heard the news. I don't think I've ever cried over a celebrity before.
Why? Maybe due to At Liberty and Shoot Me I felt like I knew her. Or maybe I was crying for the end of an era where people sang fabulously witty lyrics like Noel Coward's Why Do the Wrong People Travel?. Maybe Martha Plimpton had a point. "I never thought it could happen. I never thought it could happen" she tweeted today. Maybe it was because we lost something utterly irreplaceable. The portion of our lives where we could see Elaine doing a new wonderfully funny part on television, or maybe see her live when she toured into our town or on Broadway is over forever.
#83OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/17/14 at 11:55pmI echo Martha Plimpton's sentiments. I cannot cannot cannot believe she's gone.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
larrystyles
Understudy Joined: 8/24/12
#84OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 12:46amElaine has been the #1 or #2 trending topic WORLDWIDE on Twitter all day. Thank you Elaine.
LightsOut90
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/14
#85OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 1:15amHoping they have some sort of memorial service for her in new york for the public to attend, i did a double take at work when i saw someone post the news on facebook. Very glad I got to see her in Night Music and her last opening night at the Carlyle.
#86OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 1:16am
Before Elaine left New York, she donated over six decades of personal memorabilia to the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (she studied with Stella) to create the "Elaine Stritch Rehearsal Studio". This is talked about in the Shoot Me Doc. Her legacy will continue to live on and inspire many young actors for years to come. Here are photos of the finished room at Adler:
Elaine Stritch Rehearsal Studio
http://www.glamsmash.com/ - Glamsmash Productions, a video production company in the heart of New York City
#87OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 1:18am
Patti LuPone has released a lovely extensive statement.
http://time.com/3002903/elaine-stritch-patti-lupone/
#88OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 1:22am
Such comedic timing!
http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/07/relive-the-time-elaine-stritch-mistook-david-letterman-for-her-pool-boy/
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#89OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 1:41am
I wish Elaine had come to visit MY first grade class!
Elaine visits with first graders
#90OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 2:23am
So sad that she's gone. She certainly left her marvelous mark on the world
"Give the little lady a great big wonderful hand..."
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
Updated On: 7/18/14 at 02:23 AM
#92OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 3:16am
RIP Elaine.
A Broadway Legend.
Never saw her live - my loss. Will watch an episode of Two's Company tonight with a glass of fizz or vodka. Here's to Elaine.
x
#93OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 8:57am
This is a wonderful clip of Elaine Stritch singing and dancing to "It's Today" from a 1979 Royal Variety Performance. Amazing!
Elaine in It's Today
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#94OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 10:08am
To paraphrase William Saroyan.
'I knew everybody had to die , but in her case I thought they would make an exception'
'Our whole family shouts. It comes from us livin' so close to the railroad tracks'
#95OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 10:22amI've never attended a dimming of the lights... Does anyone have any advice of a best spot to go to, or is there some sort of "official" memorial spot? Thanks!
#96OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 10:28am
Adam Feldman from Time Out NY shares a story about his first major interview, which happened to be with the incomparable Stritch.
"And you can print that!” Then she paused. And then she added: “Well, cut the fucks.”
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 7/18/14 at 10:28 AM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#97OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 11:44amI so wish someone would release the superb, forgotten Alan Resnais film PROVIDENCE on DVD or VOD. She's wonderful in it, as is Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, Dirk Bogard, John Geilgud and others.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#98OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 12:04pmI woke up today very sad. Hard to imagine a world without Stritchie.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#99OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed
Posted: 7/18/14 at 12:09pmIs there anywhere on-line to see the dimming of the lights live?
