Ellen Greene "Suddenly Seymour" Tonight Show

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16 жыл бұрын

A fantastic clip of Ellen Greene on the Tonight Show in February 1987 to promote the movie version of Little Shop of Horrors. She performs "Suddenly Seymour" from the show.

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@ar420e 10 жыл бұрын

The crazy thing about Ellen is that she is such a tiny woman with this demure almost "mouse-like" talking voice. Then she sings.... WOW you just get blown away.

@Tornado1994 8 жыл бұрын

+ar420e She's Brookylnite. Her accent is very distinctive.

@Crackermac7 5 жыл бұрын

Lol. Absolutely. First time she opened up, I was in shock. She sounds amazing.

@MsTheJohnsons 3 жыл бұрын

Yes just like Michel'le! They talk like munchkins but when they sing.....WOW

@jensdroessler3575 3 жыл бұрын

The range, man, the dynamic range! How she goes from the mouselike talking voice to the confident, „let all of the city hear me“ voice in Suddenly Seymour in the movie is more then impressive!

@alternity28 2 жыл бұрын

@@MsTheJohnsons I was just thinking the same thing!

@kgonza1220 4 жыл бұрын

She’s hitting these notes in character. As Audrey. She’s singing in Audrey’s voice. This is so unbelievably talented that it blows my mind. The world would be a b much better place with more people like Ellen Greene in it.

@gjdsmith 2 жыл бұрын

It is beautiful

@Anonymous27376 Жыл бұрын

There's no one like Ellen. She's incredible.

@Marcellat 5 ай бұрын

Ellen Greene was made for this part! She’s always performed this song and she’s the only one that sings IT!!🔥🔥🔥

@bethx0x035 8 жыл бұрын

to everyone saying her 'singing faces' aren't pretty. you clearly don't realise this is from a musical/movie it's an emotive performance .

@StrongEnough78 7 жыл бұрын

bethx0x0 Not only that, she's putting her all into it and sometimes thats what it takes to get a genuine and powerful sound like that. Unlike now with everything digitally enhanced.

@cjpatz 6 жыл бұрын

That just shows her body and voice are one..

@urielbritneybitch 6 жыл бұрын

Don't ever molest she is literally the best The human generation we are living on is so stupid superficial and fake

@Tornado1994 6 жыл бұрын

Ellen is a Brooklynite. She has a VERY distinctive Brooklyn accent.

@clarissabeatty4597 6 жыл бұрын

Shit, the way she's singing, I'd be crossing my eyes and everything to even sound half as good as that. People just want to complain.

@kaitlynstewart6239 9 жыл бұрын

This woman can belt like it's nobody's business!! She is amazing!

@rosered8771 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@philv2529 10 жыл бұрын

Can you believe that they originally were going to use Cindi Lauper for the role but she turned it down so then they said fuck it and used Ellen Greene because she was Audrey in the Broadway musical. Not that Cindi Lauper would have done a bad job but I can't imagine anyone else doing this role.

@Tornado1994 10 жыл бұрын

There's a difference, Cyndi is from Queens, Ellen is from Brooklyn. Ellen's more reserved and has a stronger more balanced NY singing voice. Cyndi's is too eccentric and defined.

@kooperdouglasmilburn2263 3 жыл бұрын

Phil V no f word sayin

@fortifarse 3 жыл бұрын

@@kooperdouglasmilburn2263 who the fuck are you to give orders?

@MikeWeiner 3 жыл бұрын

@@kooperdouglasmilburn2263 Fuck it

@MeritoriousLee 2 жыл бұрын

She gets into character and you can see her transform. Makes me cry to see something so beautiful.

@theriffwriter2194 7 жыл бұрын

It's one thing to have a good singing voice. It's another thing to sound unique. Wow!

@Meme-go9ts 7 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best comments I've read on KZfaq, ever

@marseilletarot 13 жыл бұрын

The magic of the Audrey character is that transformation - that secret fire and passion that she keeps hidden from the audience until this HUGE moment in the second act. Extremely satisfying when done well; unbelievably flattening when not done. Ellen Greene is, to this day, the best Audrey that there has ever been. The passion in her voice, the belt, the vocal breaks - they're reminiscent of Jennifer Holiday in the original Dreamgirls.

@SunBunz 7 жыл бұрын

7:26 She's Betty Boop when she speaks, and a GIGANTIC DIVA when she sings. It's fucking amazing. I can see tears in her eyes. She literally is singing her heart out, and it makes ME cry. lol

@FreedomFighter2112 10 жыл бұрын

That just blew me away. Who needs autotune when you have a voice like that...simply breath taking.

@StrongEnough78 7 жыл бұрын

FreedomFighter2112 Real singers like her don't need autotune. It's a pity it even had to be created for these new singers with no talent.

@WhizzingFish12 3 жыл бұрын

Ellen Greene's voice is simply amazing. Her power, range, and emotional expressiveness are unsurpassed. I've shown this song to a few people over the years, and their reaction is always the same: Polite attentiveness at the beginning becoming stunned silence by the end. Greene is one of the best singers of her generation, and it's sad that so few people know of her. Just goes to show the importance of the right breaks in one's career I suppose.

@panfa30 2 ай бұрын

She will forever define the role of Audrey. What a powerful voice. Wow.

@Melanie-bm7vh 4 жыл бұрын

It broke my heart when he didn't remember she was there before. Her performance that night was beyond extraordinary. I was a teen at the time and I have NEVER forgotten it... i'm 52 now. I've searched for it but never had any luck.

@photomanwilliams4147 Жыл бұрын

She really caught Johnny off guard.......when she returned to her seat, Johnny seemed a loss for words, almost mesmerized for a few moments. I suspect, he has seen so much talent over the years on his stage, he wasn't ready to be blown away as he seemed to be.

@Rob8 Жыл бұрын

May 27, 1983. Carl Reiner was the guest and Ellen sang "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly Seymour."

@laurafrakinroslin 6 жыл бұрын

If I ever saw her sing in person I might die from emotional overload.

@girliboi 4 жыл бұрын

back when stars actually SANG on talk shows.. and credit to her duet partner, sang it sweetly and note perfect without upstaging her (thankless job and NOT easy).

@Dario2nd 9 жыл бұрын

There's only one person who can bring that song and that's Ellen! It is just her song, no-one in the world can even come close to her character and power-voice when she's in her Audrey performance!

@Rivermontana 9 жыл бұрын

I agree....Her song, period....

@TheKentae1 9 жыл бұрын

Thierry Wybauw RIGHT

@scruffythekitten1470 6 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@Ellen-vh6ex 6 жыл бұрын

Aww thank you ❤️

@TristanandIsolt 5 жыл бұрын

Are you the former Ellen Green?

@arianalamark9891 10 жыл бұрын

Dude, I have never heard of Ellen Green before Little Shop of Horrors but I'm sure glad I know who she is now. Like oh my god she has one of the most unique and powerful voices I've ever heard!! I literally admire her so much not as a performer but also she seems like a great person!! This song too, will always remain one of my favorite Broadway pieces ever!!

@eahsdramaplays1410 5 жыл бұрын

Honestly

@brianheidel4550 4 жыл бұрын

Me neither, but I'm going to do some research. Not very many people can sing that powerful.

@antonellamR2D2 4 жыл бұрын

Check "pushing daisies", she's not singing but it's REALLY good, and fairytalish

@johncrowe6489 5 жыл бұрын

Ellen Green has lungs from another planet. Incredible!

@freestyleskeer 5 ай бұрын

Must have arrived with the eclipse.

@lailaraquel6707 10 жыл бұрын

"I bought this dress and i hurt my back. That didn't make sense" lol idk why this was so funny to me.

@vg2binkey884 4 жыл бұрын

lailaraquel i think she was beyond nervous which is y she said it! But i think shes way too cute and while promoting little shop thru her here.

@vg2binkey884 4 жыл бұрын

Wow is this part made for her:) and boy does she pull it off:)

@Tornado1994 Жыл бұрын

@@vg2binkey884 Her Brooklyn accent is so Thick!

@Sidhejester 5 жыл бұрын

When your voice is so powerful that you have to hold the mic 15 inches away, else the doors blow off their hinges.

@theEricWalker 11 жыл бұрын

I'm a 25 year old man and I'm not ashamed to admit that this video has me sitting in a puddle of my own tears right now. I've never seen a video of her performing it live until now and I am furious at my mother for not exposing me to her when I was a child.

@markyyyyyyyy321 Жыл бұрын

My Mum made us watch Little Shop of Horrors when we were kids in the 80s and 90s!

@dolphinsrr Жыл бұрын

I cry every time I hear her

@austinspeed6728 Жыл бұрын

NPR filmed a tiny desk concert of the revival cast for the anniversary production. you can find it on you tube. worth the search

@holt.hancock1321 Жыл бұрын

she does have that effect.

@nikollewis8769 11 ай бұрын

Great movie, it's on MAX now

@Newyorkeditor1234 2 жыл бұрын

My dad loved this performance. I searched for years before I found it on KZfaq. He died last month. He loved this song so very much.

@MrFallred 10 жыл бұрын

Wow. What I wouldn't give to have been in the audience when she performed Little Shop off broadway.

@bernardlerner1913 5 жыл бұрын

I was- and her voice echoed throughout the theatre-the only time in theatre and opera that I was crying, it was that good!!!!-they even sold minature plant puppets during intermission!!!!

@llyod85 4 жыл бұрын

@@bernardlerner1913 I am so jealous of you right now

@dolphinsrr Жыл бұрын

Yes it was fantastic it. I seen her back then. Never forget it. I was so happy when she did the film

@FutureLaugh 10 жыл бұрын

what an awkward interview, but HO LEE SHIT what a voice.

@TristanandIsolt 5 жыл бұрын

If that was an act she fooled me. I think what you see in this interview is the real her.

@mrlee333 10 жыл бұрын

I love her she can sing her butt off. When I first heard her sing I cried for 15 minutes.

@KHWendy28 9 жыл бұрын

OMG at 1st she has that Baby Voice and then it going too that big Voice she has and it is so great too hear live.

@RupertDCD27 15 жыл бұрын

She always gives me goosebumps when she sings. Amazing voice

@carriebee5418 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this.I saw this live years ago.

@luceleaves9341 11 жыл бұрын

I love the way that no matter which partner she is singing with, she still gives it 100% emotion. Love seeing artists who really give it their all.

@daltonmoen1404 7 жыл бұрын

If I heard her sing this, I know I'd cry. She's got such a beautiful singing voice

@poisonedcoffy 7 жыл бұрын

Such an amazing woman. There's so much emotion put into this. She's perfect.

@themetacrisis 3 жыл бұрын

I get goosebumps every time I hear her sing.

@anne-katrin.diedszun 7 ай бұрын

After all the years Ellens performance is still mesmerizing... Goosebumps all over my body 💕💕💕

@chuzzwozzer 7 ай бұрын

I can’t really put it into words how much Ellen Greene singing this song affects me except that it brings tears to my eyes.

@aussieview124 8 жыл бұрын

What a voice. Gives me the chills.

@stuckIN801 10 жыл бұрын

She's performing as if on Broadway again! Live theatre requires great exaggeration to reach the back row/nosebleeds! She's great!

@Phewy 7 жыл бұрын

so much emotion conveyed with her face, love it !

@Gameplayhq 10 жыл бұрын

she can sing her ass off

@BW12149 3 ай бұрын

That was one of the greatest performances on the tonight show. Ellen Greene really has an amazing voice…fantastic..

@cheriecasey3072 6 жыл бұрын

I understand why this made my heart race as a kid her voice and her emotions that she pours into it blow my mind and send me through the roof she takes my breath away no matter what year I hear it in what a wonderful talented beautiful woman

@raingalexia2524 7 жыл бұрын

She's so precious! Oh my god!

@poisonedcoffy 7 жыл бұрын

I KNOW RIGHT

@Fibbermcgee3 11 жыл бұрын

Ellen gets very emotional in this song, just as everyone does. It is a great song, and I listen to it over and over in my car. I have the CD from Little Shop of Horrors. She is absolutely marvelous. I just wish she would have starred in more films. I just love listening to her sing.

@arnoldbraunschweiger2061 Жыл бұрын

On the other hand, very few people can lay claim to such an iconic signature song (Menzel and Chenowith performing "For Good" comes pretty close). I'm a sucker for show tunes, and this one never fails to blow me away, but the material is just a bit shy of "great" - it needed someone with Greene's vocal talent and emotional investment in the Audrey character to really make it pop (e.g. when she sings "I'ld say 'shooah'" in that cute Brooklyn accent, I'm in total suspension of disbelief mode). She is a Broadway performer of the highest caliber, and it does seem unfair she is not more widely recognized (although, based on her interview with Carson, and stage fright confession when she returns to the couch, she doesn't strike me as the diva type). Her performance here is even better than in the movie, which was fantastic in its own right. Based on some comments, her Broadway run may have been even better still!

@ouch110 10 жыл бұрын

OMG Ellen Greene...*bows down*. What an incredibly unusual woman and talent! The ONLY Audrey EVER! That guy didn't need to be there really...just let ellen sing!

@fakerating Жыл бұрын

That's real talent... no autotune here.

@Aerospace_Education 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, she's unbelievable. The way she goes from sounding so small and scared to the transition where she knows she is better than she believed is incredible. To be fair Moranis does an incredible job as well. The other singer on this show is a pro and he was just flat out sang.

@RayburnHahn 14 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this during the broadcast and lamented not having my VCR running. I'm so glad that someone else had it and posted it so that I could relive the moment. The only unfortunate thing is that the resolution is low so you can't see the amount of tears she shed while singing. I was truly struck by how emotional she got, and this performance alone made me go see the movie.

@maddiewilburn7810 7 жыл бұрын

holy shit. her voice just knocked me into next week

@coriecolston75 8 жыл бұрын

me and my sister watched this movie a million times and she killed it ! what ever happened to a movie u can see over and over...love tha ol school...

@mr.mediocregamer9653 7 жыл бұрын

Such a perfect voice to emote such heart break and hope...

@mr.mediocregamer9653 Ай бұрын

Totally agree, 7 year younger me.

@passion_vogue_ 4 жыл бұрын

She’s so adorably cute the way she talks and she’s so relatable with the awkwardness 😂

@ShatnerLover Жыл бұрын

Every single performance, she makes me weep. She’s so unbelievable

@jayryan3181 9 жыл бұрын

She brought it in this performance

@KatieGoodloe 9 жыл бұрын

coworkers and i were JUST talking about this the other day....!

@Niaclan 8 жыл бұрын

What a treasure. Thanks for sharing.

@mistermatrix24 10 жыл бұрын

The days when singers didn't try to shove the microphone down their throat because they were really belting it out.

@Jaisha26 10 жыл бұрын

I agree...the days when people could SING and had proper mic etiquette. The sound man would tell em...pull back on the mic, your voice is SCRONG! haha...been there. LOL Amazed at Ellen's voice. Wow.

@KeelyBurnMusic 10 жыл бұрын

Yeah, as soon as I saw her holding the microphone away so far from her mouth I thought "There's probably a good reason for that..."

@BansheeDarkling 5 жыл бұрын

Now we have people working on audio though that adjust the mic as need be

@brianheidel4550 4 жыл бұрын

thought she was going to have to stretch her arm to its fullest extent to keep from shattering the speakers. Yes! Excellent voice.

@Argeaux2 4 жыл бұрын

It's mic technique and it changes depending on what you want to do. For example, Karen Carpenter used to hold the mic right up to her mouth when singing low, intimate notes. She needed to capture all the syllables of the words she was singing. Ellen's style is perfect here, as you pointed out. Pull the mic back as she goes for the loud notes.

@froggie12341 8 жыл бұрын

omg I so love her !!!! God has given her the most powerful voice I've ever heard in my life ,,Breath taking !!!!

@JOEYdaMUSH 5 жыл бұрын

I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying 😭😭

@marsmars9130 3 ай бұрын

Now thats TALENT! both of them

@mistynorman3172 8 жыл бұрын

I have goosebumps all over my body as we speak ,she just Saaaannnnggggg her face off. simply amazing

@buttheadsexy 11 жыл бұрын

Chills. Every time I watch this I get chills. The level of emotion Ellen Greene sings this with is indescribable. She sings it with a sweetness, and yet at the same time she sings it with such raw power. I can't watch this without getting a little teary eyed as well. Just an overall fantastic performance

@NIGHTLAMP12345678 6 жыл бұрын

Brings tears to my eyes every time!!!!! She could sing me to sleep any time.

@mrssabra2658 4 жыл бұрын

Feeling nostalgic. Here her sing at 5:50, she's got an incredible voice. Loved the movie so so much when I was a little girl. Little Shop of Horrors. ❤️

@laurendonovan658 5 жыл бұрын

What a vision of talent and grace! (And her partner for the duet was absolutely fantastic!)

@obbeachbum69 9 жыл бұрын

Weren't the 80's awesome? sniff....

@USAF4615 2 жыл бұрын

I could listen to this a thousand times and in each instance it is amazing performance by Ellen Greene.

@YuGiOhDuelChannel 9 жыл бұрын

Still to this day my favorite broadway song and performance! Amazing

@ceretomer5987 11 жыл бұрын

This was nice but I loved the song in the movie. Her duet with Rick Moranis was spot on. Their harmonization, emotion and chemistry are unmatched.

@nhcharmedone 13 жыл бұрын

Wow, she sounds amazing live, that was just awesome!

@mzmiller52 9 жыл бұрын

7/1/2015 encores. 30 years later and she blew the roof off the theatre. What a night! I wish someone had recordings of her early performances at brothers and sisters and Reno sweeney's before joe Papp took her out of the clubs. Or how about rachel lily rosenbloom. She was on the tonight show early on as well. He acted as if he never met her.

@salldarling 2 жыл бұрын

Her voice 😍 just rips into you! Amazing

@Josh516mich 13 жыл бұрын

OMG her voice gives me chills, its so unique but moving.. Awesome!

@latonyamontgomery6499 4 ай бұрын

Omg. Her voice and stage presence is Awesome!!! Thank you for the Audrey character

@enjaii 9 жыл бұрын

Real glad I found this, was here reminiscing with my niece. Ellen Greene sangs the hell outta that live......true voice - I'd probably have to sleep for a week after singing that!! lol

@JeromeTheSinger 9 жыл бұрын

hi do you have a contact number?

@TristanandIsolt 12 жыл бұрын

Ellen Greene just pours out so much passion into the song. It is almost indescribable.

@leannecanty8821 Ай бұрын

She's such a sweet person, as well as having a spectacular voice.

@Retrobeemer 4 жыл бұрын

I found the LSofH as a fan of Steve Martin but stayed because of how Ellen sang Suddenly Seymour. Incredible voice.

@skippyj1955 5 жыл бұрын

Silly I know, but whenever I hear her perform this song, I'll admit my eyes always start leaking. What a voice!

@geminidreamatl26 4 жыл бұрын

i still get chills to this day hearing her do this. this version is one of her best performances of it. And you can clearly see that the male singer is completely upstaged and at one point you cant even hear him. This is HER song.

@carrotjuse 3 жыл бұрын

She's delightful, with a powerhouse vocal ability.

@NYANKITTYFART 11 жыл бұрын

No one ever did it like Ellen Greene. She is FABULOUS!!

@NeoPalladio 14 жыл бұрын

The interview portion is really charming: her personality is sweet and the innocence of her delivery is irresistible. When Johnny asks her "why do you have a greenhouse?" she replies with the frankness and guilelessness of a child "I like plants." And then she sings! Man, what a set of pipes! No one else can go from zero to sixty like her.

@razzati420 9 жыл бұрын

Because she is supposed to be singing like that, shes a street girl with an accent isnt supposed to be a traditional sound. And she hits the notes exactly like howard ashman wanted and wrote same thing with his disney movies he wanted the characters to sound like a regular person.....durrr

@brianheidel4550 4 жыл бұрын

That's not an accent. It's a speech impairment.

@photomanwilliams4147 3 жыл бұрын

This is the 5th video clip I viewed tonight of her doing this song, Just blows me away......funny part, this clip is of poor quality, yet she is still WOW. Anyone reading this, do yourself a favor, search Ellen Greene doing this song on other clips..........even more WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@matsudaseiko 3 жыл бұрын

that's so wonderful thank you ^^

@ZekeITS 5 жыл бұрын

I learned tonight that her singing voice was never dubbed, it was all her. Incredible!!

@tomstillman1969 3 жыл бұрын

Bless her she's such an angel

@ShellsGhost1 11 жыл бұрын

She was giving him so much here and he took it and used it well to give all his emotion right back. But she totally spirit balled him and sapped every soul in that room of everything they've ever felt and blew him away. He couldn't keep up. No one could blame him. She is amazing.

@silverdreams3 Жыл бұрын

Oh god, I'm SOOO glad that's her real voice! Like, it's AMAZING! THAT POWER! You'd never guess the power she can throw into her voice when you just hear her talk but then she starts singing and that POWER comes out! Just gorgeous!

@BMitchMayes 8 жыл бұрын

I love her!!! She is so entertaining.

@Nansbbgrand 5 жыл бұрын

She’s phenomenal! Thank you sOo mUCchh for this!!!! 😁👍👍

@WitchyNichole 13 жыл бұрын

its amazing that she has such a quiet voice when she speaks...but when she sings its a powerful voice..absolutely fantastic

@Gambit771 4 жыл бұрын

She's honest with none of that showbiz fake for the cameras. Refreshing. I like it.

@jamesshride3158 8 жыл бұрын

Gives you chills, don't it?

@victordunson719 8 жыл бұрын

Yasssssssssssss

@ronaldh8446 5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah!

@mollielollielee 9 жыл бұрын

Ellen Greene completes me.

@golob13 14 жыл бұрын

at a small concert she gave in London three years ago and we talked a bit after the show. I'm a longtime fan and it really was a great evening. She's just adorable.

@user-mz6ye4lx2c 2 ай бұрын

Superb!!!!!! Johnny loved her! PURE TALENT

@gundrillerman4810 10 ай бұрын

Holy shit this is what I needed right now

@ChristopherMcGivern1 4 жыл бұрын

Moves me every time, Ellen is a sensation. How on earth does she scream so subtlety? I’ll never get tired of it

@IssyKnowsYourSecrets 13 жыл бұрын

Whatta sweet little thing. She doesn't take herself too seriously which just makes her adorable

@FlowersInHisHair 11 жыл бұрын

She's adorable in every way. "My sweetheart" *melts*

@jocelynhkcarter Жыл бұрын

Jocelyn Carter: You go girl! I saw the movie about 5 times and I still get a kick hearing Ellen sing this song. I will sing right along with her! The woman is so talented!