A Live recording of I Met a Man, made during the 1971 Boston tryouts of Bob Merrill and Jule Styne’s PrettyBelle. Angela Lansbury’s huge Broadway “belt” is vividly captured here. I love her and i love this song.
One of my favorite songs of all time. Definitely top 10
You Never Looked Better, Angela Lansbury, Prettybelle (1971)
One of my favourite songs from Prettybelle, I wish they’d left it in the show! A lovely song about how her dead husband looks the best he ever has, in his coffin bed, ahaha. Get a load of that final belt though!
it’s in MY version of the show!
“Love is Only Love” from Mame (“First Rehearsal”)
music/lyric Jerry Herman
performance Angela Lansbury
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One of the three songs cut in previews, this is a song in which Mame explains the various ways in which love strikes in anticipation of her expected proposal from Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside.
In this draft of the show, the song comes up again when Patrick meets his future wife Pegeen (at what is supposedly a party Mame throws in honor of his current fiance). This charming exchange happens, which utilizes a brief reprise of this song:
Patrick: There’s a little experiment I’d like to try. Give me you hand. Do you feel anything?
Pegeen: Sure, you’re squeezing my hand.
Patrick: No, anything different. Uh, do you hear anything?…Close your eyes. Do you see fireworks?
Pegeen: No, it’s just dark.
Patrick: Thank God you said that!
AND WHEN I HOLD YOUR HAND
THE VIOLINS ARE ALL A BLUFF
(to Mame) Thank you, Moon Lady.
