She can barely walk on the beat!

Mike Anderson that is true. she even admitted to being an awful dancer. for west side story, they had to simplify the dances for her and work hours and hours on her. surprisingly she's won two awards for dancing on Broadway and she was surprised by that.

Andre Ribeiro But she is a much better actress and singer than she is a dancer. Her Tony award really does demonstrate that.

Andre Ribeiro It's because she time off from dancing so she wasn't as good as she was a few years prior. Watch her performances in In the Heights and especially as Anita in West Side Story. She was phenomenal in both.

Meanwhile she’s a dancing lead in Moulin Rouge

Seriously, I'll have to search up Patina Miller!

I heard that line and I thought the same thing

When was she ever on Broadway?

She was on in 1998. She got a Tony nomination. For High Society.

@@QueenofWheels And in 2003 she was in A Little Night Music.

Her voice is still great and very on par. She just need some more training and moving while she sings and she should be fine.

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She began on Broadway at age twelve.

@@alhambralions5985 and got nominated for a tony

@@alhambralions5985 she was nominated for a Tony at that age too.

One of those women has been awarded TWO Tony Awards- and it's NOT MS. Kendrick (or Ms. Olivio or Ms. Miller-tho' I suspect she'll have two before she retires.)

@Sarah Hamilfan Karen Olivo only has a Tony award for West Side Story.

You can say that again...You can enjoy someones talent while respecting others for theirs. Everyone's a Broadway Connoisseur these days -_-

8 years and these people are stillll doing it

Don't get me wrong, Sutton is great but DID YOU WATCH PATINA? OR KAREN? Or....PATINA?!?

MrsLeota yeahhh... they could have picked a different song for Sutton Foster... something that would show off her voice

Sam Colins Whaaaaat? Sutton sounds great, as do all of the ladies up there. But most importantly, it is about celebrating Shirley Maclaine- not showing off the performers.

she's so epic anyone who doesn't think that is weird

yes, she id

Alaina Leitzke Me too ;) She used to go to my school... and do things at our theatre! It's really is cool, it's kida like, she made it with our same resources, so maybe we have a chance to make it too.

Yes

She won a Tony for it

Lead player yup

I adore Kendrick, BUT no one sounds like Bernadette. NO. ONE. She is the reigning QUEEN of Broadway!

First song is from Pajama Game. Karen Olivo's song is Irma La Douce, from the musical of the same name. Original soundtrack is here: masterworksbroadway.com/music/irma-la-douce-original-broadway-cast-recording-1960/

It's a musical tribute to Shirley, so the song serves as a reference to an iconic role she played.

Irma LaDuce title song from the film of the same name. It's Not Where You Start is from the play 'SeeSaw'. But Shirley sang it on one of her TV specials (it was amazing then. It still is.) Those kind of TV specials are gone. Tommy Tune in SeeSaw sang it first though. In a balloon costume (don't ask..)

Tanner Sebastian Irma la douce

It's a song from "Sweet Charity" called 'There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This.'

Opening number is Pajama Game (which was Shirley's big break); Sutton Foster - There's Gotta Be Something Better than This (from Sweet Charity); Patina Miller - If they could see me now (Sweet Charity); Karen Olivo - Irma La Douce (from the musical); Anna Kendrick - It's Not where you start, it's where you finish (from Seesaw).

I've never even heard of Irma La Douce and now I want to see it.

@@LaineMann 1963 film with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon: www.imdb.com/title/tt0057187/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

When anyone is awarded a Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) national lifetime achievement award, they give a few at once for different categories and the honorees are entertained and spoken to by colleagues on stage. I have seen them for different categories, but would have to read up on it more to delineate. I am going to look up who else was awarded, and for what categories, the same year as Shirley MacLaine. They are around her in that balcony tier.

Irma La Douce. And I know! It took me forever to find it too!

Soundtrack is here: masterworksbroadway.com/music/irma-la-douce-original-broadway-cast-recording-1960/

You know that Anna Kendrick is the youngest Tony nominee in history, right? It is insane to judge almost any performer from the 3rd rate variety show that the Kennedy Center puts on every year, with cheesy tributes and the worst [and most repetitive] choreography imaginable. And as much as I love Karen Olivo and respect the talent of Patina Miller, calling them legends is premature.

Nick Mayor All the legend stuff is just stuff but man do I agree with the rest. These tribute often misfire. Beyonce performing Proud Mary for Tina Turner? Silly, cheesy, corny, and just plain bad. Not a good use of any of the talent. Oh well, maybe Shirley loved it.

Nick Mayor Yah but a nomination is one thing-being awarded a Tony is another. And of course being nominated FIVE times and being awarded TWO Tonys is something else all together. Sutton Foster IS legendary.

Nick Mayor I did not judge Anna Kendrick just from this performance. If you watch any other one of her performances, it is obvious that she does not have the same level of talent and training that adult Broadway stars have, and it is made even more obvious in this video. And, as mentioned above, Patina, Karen, and Sutton weren't just Tony nominees - they've actually won.

Amy Melendrez Agreed- but I'm saying that Ms Foster might be a tad bit closer to that legendary status- she's won TWO and in all likelyhood will receive her SIXTH nom this year for "Violet" . She's an extremely bankable talent in the theatre who's got 3 movies she's in(one with Robin Williams) waiting to come out besides the new TV pilot in the wings. I'm afraid Broadway is going to lose her. Really hope not.

They are honoring her. They get to show as many shots as they want. You want to see how the recipient is reacting.

When you're asked to sing at the Kennedy Center Honors you don't say no.

She's not retired - just taking a different journey. I think you'll see her pop up time to time like she did this summer in the off broadway production of Tick...Tick...Boom (that was only for 3 shows). She also is working on her debut album (funded by Kickstarter) which should be released this fall.

Nah. She was teaching a bit, I think, but right now she's doing Hamilton in Chicago

Half Point 1 but Karen... and Patina... and Sutton. But mostly Karen.

lmao

A comment so dumb 5 years later i had to call you out for it.

Kennedy Honors

Sorry true

KEMET1971 you need to see more of her performances.

She's a triple threat. She can sing, but the most important part is her phenomenal dancing

spectra vonderget Perhaps they should have asked you instead.

Okay, watch Anything Goes by Sutton.

You clearly haven't seen all of Sutton's dancing performances.