Great Weird Way
A Queerty YouTube Anthology of Bizarre Broadway
While not an exclusive YouTube oddity, this music video of Björn Skifs singing “The Arbiter” from Chess is wrong in all the most delightful ways. To begin with, it’s a story song, not exactly the best choice for a Top 40 hit, ABBA sounds or not. Add to it a music video that combines the aesthetics of Tron and a Vidal Sassoon commercial and you get and 80s catastrophe that probably in the background while a younger Jay McInerney cut lines on his coffee table.
Wow, Chess is my favourite musical bar none. Not the horribly messed up Broadway version, but the original concept album. I spent far too many hours miming the songs.
I am so greatful for youtube.com. Not only can one find interesting show clips like the one featured on this weeks post with the nude Swedish guys with the cute butts but also stars that have long since past but come to mind from time to time.
Unfortunately for the younger generation the only place to see Ms. Pearl Bailey doing Hello Dolly is on youtube. Why the all black version of Hello Dolly is not available on DVD is a mystery but that is one dvd I would buy.
On easter sunday I saw how The Easter Parade (Judy Garland, Fred Astaire) was no longer a traditional showing TCM or AMC (unless it came on in the wee hours of the morning). It was no where to be found but be that as it may I looked to youtube and not only found many of the great number that were in that movie but some creative person had spliced a lot of them into a ten minute clip that I enjoyed over and over.
Thank you, whoever you are that created youtube.com.
Thank you for sharing the LSOH and Chess/Rent vids were amazingly awful… I love it!
This has to be my all time favorite Bizzare Broadway vid though… These poor boys singing Defying Gravity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COotQLx4Amo
chess is my favorite musical. and the swedish version in english from which one of the clips is taken from “the arbiter” is the best of the best.
@gurlene:
I love that we can find gems like Pearl Bailey as Dolly. It was the first Broadway show I ever saw as a 16 year old fairy-in- training, spring of ’68. It’s a trip I’ll never forget, my first to NYC