#beth fowler

[warningsine]

[music-in-my-veins14]

[sondheims-hat]

Happy Birthday, Beth Fowler (November 1, 1940).

Top: As Mrs. Segstrom in the 1973 Broadway production of A Little Night Music (also pictured Gene Varrone). Bottom: As Mrs. Lovett in the 1989 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd (also pictured Eddie Korbich).

[bestillmybeatinggayheart]

@staff explain to me why the beauty of these women constitutes as “Adult Content”

[ayanna-banana]

Anyone else really miss/wonder what the frick happened to Sister Ingalls? She went to shu and then...nothing? Writers?

Her and Sophia’s relationship was so refreshing too

[dweemeister]

When we're through You can't fail. Like a lotus blossom Soft and pale, How could any fellow Say "no sale"? You'll bring honor to us all.

“Honor to Us All” from Mulan (1998) - music by Matthew Wilder and lyrics by David Zippel; performed by Beth Fowler, Freda Foh Shen, Marni Nixon, Lea Salonga, and chorus

The spiritual predecessor to “Where You Are” from Moana (2016), “Honor to Us All” introduces us to our protagonist - Fa Mulan - who feels shackled by the traditions that are weighing her down from her mother, grandmother, and family attendants. Those anxieties will reveal themselves several minutes later in “Reflection”, but this opening number serves to establish one dimension of the film’s conflict - how a young woman struggles to eventually make her life her own and not anyone else’s.

With Mulan, groundbreaking Filipina actress Lea Salonga became the only actress to provide the singing voice for two Disney princesses (the other being Jasmine from 1992′s Aladdin). That is a distinction not likely to be repeated anytime soon. For Old Hollywood fans, the late Marni Nixon - who ghost-sang for some of the most important movie musicals of the 1950s and ‘60s like The King and I (1956), West Side Story (1961), and My Fair Lady (1964) -  is Grandmother Fa here in a rare credited role.

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[blodbranddod]

Orange is the new black (2013-)