A Stritch in Time

Some company that seems to have the legal right to do so has put the entirety of Elaine Stritch at Liberty on YouTube. They've made it un-embeddable so I can't put it here.  If you want to see it, you'll have to go there.

This is the onstage musical autobiography of Elaine Stritch, one of the more colorful — and at times, controversial — Broadway performers.  She was a fairly constant presence on Broadway stages for fifty years (!!!) starting in 1946.  She did this one-woman show on Broadway around 70 times in 2002, then did a limited run at the Old Vic in London, which is where this video was recorded.  She passed in 2014.

I'll warn you that it's almost two-and-a-half hours and if you start watching, there's a good chance you'll get hooked and have to watch the whole thing. Some of it is very funny. Most of it is fascinating. Now and then, it says a lot about alcoholism and/or an addiction to performing.  If you can spare the time, you'll probably enjoy the hell out of it.