MARCIA LEWIS sings NOBODY LOVES A FAIRY WHEN SHE'S FORTY by Arthur Le Clerq Video

Two decades before MARCIA LEWIS won acclaim and a Tony nomination for her show stopping performance as Matron Mama Morton in "Chicago" she stopped the show nightly as "The Queen of the Fairies" with Arthur Le Clerq's "NOBODY LOVE A FAIRY WHEN SHE'S FORTY" [a number she would become identified with and which she continued to stops shows with in her award winning 1998 New York nightclub act "The Road to Chicago"] in "Your Own, Your Very Own": A Night at The Music Hall at The Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica, I had the pleasure of costarring in this musical revue with her, along with The Remarkable Lette Rehnolds, Dale Phillips and David Haines as "Mr. Chairman" who introduces this number. I first met Marcia Lewis in 1970, when she was winning the hearts of audiences and the shows leading lady, the Legendary Ethel Merman, with her rendition of Sweet Rosie O'Grady in her Broadway debut as Ernestina in Jerry Herman's "Hello, Dolly!" at the St. James, while I was a block away at The Imperial, making my Broadway musical debut in the Richard Rodgers-Martin Charnin-Peter Stone show "Two By Two" [for which I received a Tony Award nomination and Theatre World Award]. But it was after we both headed West in that we shared a stage together for the first time, in two 1975 vaudeville/music hall-style revues at Milt Larsen's now Legendary Mayfair Music Hall and Palace of Varieties, in Santa Monica, California. Milt, [the man who, along with his brother Bill, had founded Hollywood's ...