Bea Arthur on Broadway - Just Between Friends More comedy monologue than musical performance, Bea Arthur’s one-woman show Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends collects memories from the silver-haired star’s life on Broadway (Fiddler on the Roof, Mame, The Threepenny Opera) and television (Maude, The Golden Girls).

“I wanted to see if I had the guts to just come and be myself,” Arthur says in this performance recorded in front of a live audience in December 2001. Alongside co-creator and pianist Billy Goldenberg, she offers wry and often funny anecdotes about her career and the people she’s worked with (Angela Lansbury, Pia Zadora). When she does sing … well, even decades ago Arthur didn’t have a beautiful voice, but she’s well-suited to the comedy songs. And her versions of Kurt Weill’s “Pirate Jenny” and Goldenberg’s own “Fifty Percent”–while they won’t make anyone forget Lotte Lenya or Dorothy Loudon–are effective in their own right. Bea Arthur on Broadway is definitely more Bea than Broadway, but it’s a career well worth remembering. –David Horiuchi

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recipe: Black Cake
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