Patricia Routledge is 94! Happy birthday Hyacinth!

[Stormy]

 

[jeezifonly]

A wide-ranging performer 😍😍

[pubic_assistance]

Happy to know she's still around.

Keeping Up Appearances was always one of my favorite Brit-coms.

[BtmBearDad]

I believe just Hyacinth, Daisy, and Emmet are the ones still alive from the main cast.  

[pubic_assistance]

6 minutes ago, BtmBearDad said:

I believe just Hyacinth, Daisy, and Emmet are the ones still alive from the main cast.  

Daisy was always my favorite. 

Judy Cornwell brought such warmth and kindness to the character. 

[Stormy]

58 minutes ago, BtmBearDad said:

I believe just Hyacinth, Daisy, and Emmet are the ones still alive from the main cast.  

Not the dishy Vicar!   I want him around 

[+ sync]

1 hour ago, jeezifonly said:

A wide-ranging performer 😍😍

I recall, when I first heard her sing this,  I was in disbelief that I was hearing the Hyacinth who couldn't carry a tune in a "bucket."

[pubic_assistance]

23 minutes ago, Stormy said:

Not the dishy Vicar!   I want him around 

Jeremy Gittins is still around. Probably not as dishy these days.

 

 

Edited February 17, 2023 by pubic_assistance
spelling

[Luv2play]

1 hour ago, jeezifonly said:

A wide-ranging performer 😍😍

That sounds like Peggy Wood singing. She played the Abbess in Sound of Music and sang that number.  

[Luv2play]

Of course I wouldn't put it past Hyacinth to fake singing Climb Every Mountain. She was such a phoney. 😆

[CuriousByNature]

She's awesome - the whole cast of Keeping Up Appearances was great, but she was the heart of that show.  And then playing Hetty Wainthrop in that mystery series.  But not many people remember she also played Clinty Clintridge opposite Sidney Poitier in To Sir With Love.  She was not a bad looking woman in her day...

 

 

[BtmBearDad]

4 hours ago, pubic_assistance said:

Daisy was always my favorite. 

Judy Cornwell brought such warmth and kindness to the character. 

Daisy and Onslow were favourites of mine. Judy went on to play a totally different type of character on “EastEnders” - she got rave reviews for it too, I think everyone shocked to see “Daisy” as this evil mother Queenie Trott. 

[jeezifonly]

3 hours ago, Luv2play said:

That sounds like Peggy Wood singing. She played the Abbess in Sound of Music and sang that number.  

It’s definitely Dame Pat. She had a lot of legit vocal training early on in her pursuits. Had she desired, she could have made it in opera
https://bit.ly/3xy1DLC

[+ WilliamM]

3 hours ago, Luv2play said:

That sounds like Peggy Wood singing. She played the Abbess in Sound of Music and sang that number.  

Patricia Neway  sang the song on Broadway.  I saw the musical in 1960 whe in highschool

 

[+ Pensant]

I would’ve loved to have seen Sheridan appear. I think he’d have enjoyed our little group.

[+ sync]

12 hours ago, WilliamM said:

Patricia Neway  sang the song on Broadway.  I saw the musical in 1960 whe in highschool

 

I've never heard Climb Every Mountain sung more moving for me than when sung by Patricia Neway.

[TruHart1]

22 hours ago, Luv2play said:

That sounds like Peggy Wood singing. She played the Abbess in Sound of Music and sang that number.  

Actually, although Peggy Wood was an extremely talented soprano, by the time Sound of Music was filmed, her singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon because Ms. Wood’s voice was way past its prime.

BTW, Marni Nixon actually had screen time herself in Sound of Music as one of the lesser nuns!

Patricia Routledge is an amazing artist. I ran across a TV production (BBC?) of Pirates of Penzance a few years ago where she sang the socks off the character of Ruth, Frederick’s nurse, an “older woman” who practically raised him and secretly was enamored of the boy! The character Angela Lansbury played in the Rex Smith, Linda Ronstadt movie.

TruHart1 😎

[+ sync]

2 hours ago, TruHart1 said:

Actually, although Peggy Wood was an extremely talented soprano, by the time Sound of Music was filmed, her singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon because Ms. Wood’s voice was way past its prime.

BTW, Marni Nixon actually had screen time herself in Sound of Music as one of the lesser nuns!

Patricia Routledge is an amazing artist. I ran across a TV production (BBC?) of Pirates of Penzance a few years ago where she sang the socks off the character of Ruth, Frederick’s nurse, an “older woman” who practically raised him and secretly was enamored of the boy! The character Angela Lansbury played in the Rex Smith, Linda Ronstadt movie.

TruHart1 😎

Very interesting information.  I never realized that Marni Nixon's voice was big enough for the singing of Climb Every Mountain.  

Apparently, I missed a great deal of Marni Nixon's talent:

 

 

Edited February 19, 2023 by sync

[TruHart1]

2 hours ago, sync said:

Very interesting information.  I never realized that Marni Nixon's voice was big enough for the singing of Climb Every Mountain.  

Apparently, I missed a great deal of Marni Nixon's talent: …

 

Marni Nixon was the singing voice for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, and Natalie Wood in West Side Story.

TruHart1 😎

[+ WilliamM]

Patricia was cast in several Broadway musicals,. not hits unfortunately

 

There are demos but not cast albums

[+ WilliamM]

10 minutes ago, TruHart1 said:

Marni Nixon was the singing voice for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, and Natalie Wood in West Side Story.

TruHart1 😎

I saw her in the musical Cabaret iin a Summer theater near Boston

Sheplayed i the landladies.

 

[CuriousByNature]

16 hours ago, Pensant said:

I would’ve loved to have seen Sheridan appear. I think he’d have enjoyed our little group.

And his roommate Tarquin... LOL

[CuriousByNature]

2 hours ago, WilliamM said:

I saw her in the musical Cabaret iin a Summer theater near Boston

Sheplayed i the landladies.

 

I have very vague memories of Marnie Nixon as the lead in a TV show that was sort of a knock-off of Sesame Street with puppets and stuff.  I don't think it was widely distributed and it would have been in the late 70s or so.  

 

[+ WilliamM]

Sound of Music did quite well in awards that year.

Gypsy didn't. I saw Gypsy and south of music.

Iagree with Ethel Merman who said how could we buck a nun

Ethel at least should have won best performance by an an actress 

[BtmBearDad]

@Pensant and @CuriousByNature - who would you cast as Sheridan and Tarquin? 🤔

I’m thinking someone like a young Graham Norton for Sheridan, and someone like Joe Lycett for Tarquin?