[Dixielandjazz] Sid Caesar/Nanette Fabray improv

[Stephen G Barbone]

Maybe so Ron, but remember this was a once a week, 90 minute, live  
show. Considering the writing time, and the sketches, (sometimes as  
many as 9 or 10)  I doubt there was much rehearsal. If you surf around  
that page you will find more Sid Caesar comedy sketches which are  
hysterical. One with pantomime to the 1812 Overture also including  
Imogene. I wonder if this little music pantomime was a weekly sketch  
to different music. Can't remember.

There is also a great sketch of "the German clock".

As Thad McArthur pointed out, there is also a youtube of him "sitting  
in" on sax with Benny Goodman's Band. The tune is Sing Sing Sing and  
the drummer is Krupa.

Caesar was a talented musician studied reeds at Julliard, and played  
with Charlie Spivak, Claude Thornhill, Shep Fields and Art Mooney Bands.

It is a neat page to surf. Sid Caesar was a talented mime and a funny  
man.

Cheers,
Steve

On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:

> Brilliant, and certainly one-take, live television, but I hardly  
> think it
> could have been improvised.  Every motion and gesture so closely  
> followed
> the music that there must have been a good deal of rehearsal.
>
> Ron Wheeler
>
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>> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Sid Caesar/Nanette Fabray improv
>>
>>
>> See the following live pantomime improv between 2 comedians
>> to serious
>> music. Perhaps not OKOM, but a treat nevertheless. This was done
>> single take/live in front of an audience. Ah for the good old days.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhF-7suDsM
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve Barbone
>> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband