Today's Video Link

The great comedienne Imogene Coca originated the role of Letitia Primrose in the 1978 Broadway musical, On the Twentieth Century and if you click below, you'll get to see her re-create at some later date, her big show-stopping number from that show.

I had the pleasure of knowing (and even directing) Ms. Coca late in her life and she was just a joy to be around. One night in New York, I took her to Sardi's for dinner and then across the street to see the show, Crazy For You. At her request, we then went for a walk all around Times Square and she started pointing out theaters in which she'd worked, upstairs rehearsal halls in which she'd rehearsed, the locations favored night clubs and restaurants, etc.

We stopped outside the St. James Theater on 44th Street, which is where she'd done On the Twentieth Century in '78. The show then inhabiting the St. James was The Who's Tommy (that was the official name of it) and she joked that maybe she should go inside and sing this song to the audience there…