Broadway divas - impersonated!

September 5, 2011 9:40 PM

Actress / Impersonator Carly Sakolove impersonates broadway divas singing broadway classics.
posted by Foci for Analysis (12 comments total)

She's alright, but she's no Christina Bianco.
posted by Help, I can't stop talking! at 9:50 PM on September 5, 2011 [6 favorites]

Wow, Christina Bianco is awesome!
posted by StrikeTheViol at 10:10 PM on September 5, 2011

Christine Pedi is also great.
posted by StrikeTheViol at 10:14 PM on September 5, 2011

Ghah, loved her Liza.

But dang, Pedi's British ladies are spot-on!
posted by Mooseli at 2:58 AM on September 6, 2011

Good Stritch. Kinda mean to Pati LuPone, though.
posted by ColdChef at 4:32 AM on September 6, 2011

Also: this seems as good a place as any: Sondheim at 80. (great article)
posted by ColdChef at 4:35 AM on September 6, 2011

Okay, her Jennifer Coolidge is great, but her Pati LuPone is unforgivable.
posted by ColdChef at 4:40 AM on September 6, 2011

These are all a hoot; I had no idea this was a thing. Thanks!
posted by mediareport at 6:23 AM on September 6, 2011

Christine Pedi has the best Liza, and Christina Bianco's Bernadette is indistinguishable from the real thing, but nobody does LuPone better than Carol Channeling.
posted by Help, I can't stop talking! at 7:04 AM on September 6, 2011

OK, so check out this impression of Jennifer Holliday.
posted by Wordwoman at 7:42 PM on September 6, 2011

Babs and Esther were terrible, although ironically many do them with panache. Also, her Bernadette lacked B's sharp initial beats... or maybe, what all three were missing was the implicit projection of vocal POWER.

Doing both young and late-career Judy was brilliant, and she did that well.

Who was the old, husky blonde singer?... Got it from another vid: Elaine Stritch.

OTOH, love Christina Bianco, love Forbidden Broadway, and I'm so glad I got to see them while they still existed.
posted by IAmBroom at 8:32 PM on September 9, 2011

Er, that should have read,
OTOH, love Christina Bianco, love Forbidden Broadway, and I'm so glad I got to see them Forbidden Broadway while they still existed.
posted by IAmBroom at 7:41 AM on September 12, 2011