Probably the most respected person in theater. Such grace and humbleness, and such TALENT! We love you, Angela!

She is the QUEEN. In '80 I had the stunning pleasure of seeing her in Sweeney Todd. My date was good friends, had gone to William and Mary with, a girl named Glenny Close, who was living with Len Cariou, who played Sweeney. We picked up "Glenny" and went to the theatre, then after the show went backstage, saw their Tony Awards, then met Ms. Lansbury and Mr. Cariou at Jo Allens (?). "Glenny" had just auditioned for Barnum, the musical that pretty much got her started. I was overwhelmed with the evening, still gives me chills. Mr. Cariou bought me a very expensive pack of some kind of cigarette ( I didn't smoke but when he offered I smoked!). Ms.Lansbury had a salad and went home. But, "Len", "Glenny", my date and I sat and talked for about an hour or so. Mr. Cariou ( he asked me to call him Len) talked about the special voice coach Sondheim had hired for them. We talked about "Glenny's" audition (which, of course, she won). What a night! Later I had to go back to my 'space' in a fourth floor, rat-infested apartment on the lowest, lower East Side. But, wow!

Angela Lansbury always had the most elegant, stylish and exquisitely fitted gowns. She was perfection long before stylists ran the show.

A genuine talent. A true legend. One great human being.

People like Angela should never be forgotten!

worked with Angela during final week of her tour of this show! A more caring, lovely star I can't imagine! I made a cake for her (well before I was great at baking)! I instructed the apprentice in charge of her dressing room to slip it in and swore her to secrecy! Of course Angela did not relent until she found out who made the cake, and complimented me profusely, even though the cake was a pedestrian effort! I will always treasure my experience with her, even if her offer of being her personal chef/baker was just

A dazzling performance. Ms. Lansbury is truly one of the great theatre legends!

I first came across Miss Lansbury in the Judy Garland film the Harvey Girls. Fell in love with her then . Thank you Miss Lansbury!!! God Bless You 😇

Love how her generation of performers knew how to gesture.

I love her singing and I love her interpretation of the song, but I think the end bit where she talks is almost more important. There's so much theatre wisdom in that minute and a half.

Was there any song Dame Angela couldn't sing! She was just great. I especially loved her tribute to the great Ethel Merman, whom I ' have admired all my life.

that is probably the best tony opening i've seen. what she said was SO true.

How can anyone Not love Angie

Rest in Peace Angela :(

I sent her fanmail when she was performing in London and got a short letter! I love this lady!

Angela is the essence of Broadway! What a lady!!!

Gosh, her smile never changes 😍 and she needed no other distractions (background dancers etc) to entertain 🌹

In my opinion, Miss Lansbury is one of the most versatile performers in musical history. She is the greatest!

This has got to be the one video on KZfaq that perfectly describes theater for all history!

The fact that she was 63 here just boggles my mind. And still on Broadway at 86!

May she rest in peace 😢

I saw this live the year she did it - and it was AMAZING! The guts it takes to walk onto a bare-naked stage and solo like that. What a Lady!

People like Angela should never die :)

You can tell she enjoyed every moment of this performance. well done her

RIP Legend, Gone 24 hours, yet not gone at all. Great performance and comments by her here, Thank you!

Heaven gained an angel. Thank you Dame Angela for everything RIP

I got to see her three times in her original production. For one of the performances I sat in the front row, dead center. Incredible experience. I also to got to meet her after the show. She's such a lovely lady. In October she will be 91 years old...and still going strong. What an inspiration!

i love angela. she's the best broadway actress ever, hands down

That's Broadway Stars and their real talent--live performances, and actual singing plus dancing and acting. And all, just wonderful.

That's a very optimistic and "sane" interpretation of this song! Great :D She's simply the best ever!!

May she rest peacefully. 💜 #AngelaLansbury

argh! Love her. Why aren't the Tony awards like that any more. I dunno, it's just something that she brings to everything she does - that little bit of Lansbury magic.

Lansbury has lived in the USA since th 40's. She sang "Little Yellow Bird" in the film "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1944!

I saw her do it in Dallas way back when - then I got her autograph at the stage door - what a wonderful person! I shall never forget her graciousness and interest in the fans.

This isn't the part I'd imagine her as playing, then again I was raised with knowing her as Mrs. Potts, but she does an amazing job with it! Every part I've heard/seen her in is absolutely amazing!

She would have made a good 5th Golden Girl

What she says about musical theatre being owned in the moment for the people who are there watching it and the stats who are performing it is spot on. Of love, in A Chorus Line, 'the gift was ours to borrow...' and true of the music and performance of any beloved production in the heart of the audience viewing. A beautiful thing to say and, of course... Angela. What an absolute knock out in all she does. The woman is truely an outstanding performer.

What she said is so smart... What a sharp woman!

That was beautiful!Not only a great performance,but such a great speech!Shes so inspiring,when i grow up i wanna be just like her.Wow i sound like im 5 lol

Never pass up a chance to see her live on stage. Saw her a couple of years ago in "Blithe Spirit" and she was the most energetic octogenarian I've ever seen! Marvelous performance!

I have find it interesting how I am watching this on Angela’s 96th birthday, many years after the 90’s.

Amazing she is just one of if not the best performer of not only her time but all time. no one can match her

20 years later and she's still winning Tony's!

Oh Angie! I can watch this again and again....

I am old enough to have seen them all do Rose LIVE (Ethel, Angela, Tyne, Bernadette, Patti) as well as Anne Southern and Lainie Kazan!! They all were better at some things than others, but NOT ONE came close to Merman in the power and drive of that woman. And all the other actresses that followed had that performance to build on and grow from. She sang AND ACTED the crap out of it, and I will never forget it as long as I live!!!

Absolutely amazing! A legend... along with Ethel and now Patti!

Pure class.....

Again, Total Awesomeness! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I love this woman! Great entertainer and wonderful human being!

What a classy lady and what a talent! Also: the bonus clip of a very young Brian Williams doing the news.... :)

Loved this Gypsy was her only London Musical 40 years later she appeared in the West End again in Blithe Spirits and the applause as she came on was deafening

Holy crap. She does not move or look 64 here. What an amazing woman! Not for those reasons though. She is pure brilliance.

She was also the first Mrs. Lovett! That's what got me into loving her.

Angela Lansbury, I love you. You were the sweet in "The Harvey Girls;" marvelous in "Anyone Can Whistle;" and the absolute bomb in "Sweeney Todd." This performance is 45 years after Harvey Girls, and she still kicks ass and still looks good doing it. You can't beat that with a stick folks.

Mrs. Lansbury is one of my all time favorite actress. My wish is to meet her in person in London one day. That would be the utmost altimate gift for me.

i just love her on Broadway. She is gold on Broadway. Shes in a musical now

Hold the phone - Brian Williams was on CBS before NBC?! Angela Lansbury was always amazing!

The words at the end says a lot about the kind of person she was and her passion for the performing arts.

Well Angela you will live long in our memories !! Thank you for all the beautuful work you did during your lifetime !!!

What a classy, bright star she is! STILL! Take good notes fresh, new, aspiring stars.. THIS is how you become a legend! {i'm a bit surprised CBS didn't have a better handle on the 1st camera shots of her, for such a special as this, but still, Angela is SUPERB!}*****;)

so glad i just found this. wow. i love you tube. thank you Angela. I'm a guy from Maine. so you remember the TV show where she lived in Cabbot Cove, Maine.

Dame Angela Lansbury 16 October 1925 - 11 October 2022. Rest In Peace.

amazing performer. i hope to see her this spring in a little night music, even at 80 i'm sure she's rocking the house.

Sassy, jazzy new arrangement of Roses.. nails it!! When shows opened with simple star power knocking it out of the park...no High tech graphics needed....

She is perfection.

Such a talent, and she did this while starring in a hit TV show.

Truly Angela was my favorite talented woman she have a way with marveling you with great singing and acting

Angela Lansbury is BOSS!

Not only did she give a great performance, she also solved a murder later on that evening.

Thank you. Just Thank you!

nice dress!

One of the last great classics!

She's also the voice of Mrs Potts in "Beauty and the Beast" and sings the title song. :)

Love her beyond words!

Rest In Peace 🕊️

No one does it like Angela.

The woman who gave the Tony Awards legs! Although the most entertaining award show it failed to get rating and Dame Angela Lansbury world famous for several year due to 'Murder She Wrote' and as an actors actor hosted the Tonys for several years. Yes it rose in the ratings!

Brian Williams looks so young. Angela Lansbury never changes.

Simplemente maravillosa, gracias por subir ésta canción

she just won her fifth--God bless her!

Pretty hot for a 63 year old. What a talent. What a hard worker!

A true legend and trooper. Rest in power, Angela

Angela is the marvelous archetype of english lady. Zoltán from Hungary

my god..I never ever cried at musical numbers...till now

Looove Angela and have watched this video lots of times. Thanks for posting it.

ANGELA, la REGINA , la grande SIGNORA ❤️🙏🌹

It's kind of weird, hearing this song sung like this, just as a straight-out, positive song about everything looking up, and how great things are and will be (with even a bright, cheery, breezy orchestral arrangement, without those eerie, contrary chords right at the end). She does a great job here, but I sure wish I could have seen and heard her performing this in the actual show, kind of losing her reason, pathetically.

Angela is THE BEST ! i loveeeeee her :)

I LOVE HER

Amazing!!!

Fabulous, fabulous lady! Was there ANYTHING she couldn't do?

WOW, it is great to see Angela Lansbury like this. I was never a big fan, but I'm impressed.

she is amazing her lupone and staution are the best roses

I LOVE angela Lansbury. she was one of the best madame roses!

I LOVE ANGELA LANSBURY!!! Who didnt love murder she wrote?! And her voice as Mrs potts?! SHE is a living legend! I must send her fanmail before she passes!!

U are the most beautiful lovely lady i have ever seen on the screen.

Note too, that she isn't wearing one of those tacky mics clipped to her dress (or these days to one's wig or hairpiece, then over their ear to their cheek). There's a mic front and center near the floor, but that's it. She had to belt it out over the orchestra like a REAL singer/performer.

She's already 64 hereeee. OMG

i love it 👍🏻🙂... 😢

haha I love Angela Lansbury! xD