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Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore on Gilmore Girls) got her big break in the Broadway production A Chorus Line in the 1970s – she even won the 1976 Tony Award as “Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical)” for her role.
A little digging by one of the readers of this site produced a video of Kelly Bishop singing “At the Ballet”, one of her numbers from A Chorus Line. I thought you’d enjoy seeing it!
Thanks Sara!
Ahhhh. I am a proud digger. I am so glad you posted this. It makes me cry everytime. It’s so powerful. As someone else commented, I too can see a little Emily in that performance. She is AMAZING!
Cheri, I know!!
I watch this on youtube all the time too and still cry everytime I watch it! Kelly and the others are just perfection in this, when they pan round the crowd it’s so touching to see how everyone is so moved by their performances – she is such a classy lady.
On the “One” number you can pick her out over to the left of the screen if I remeber correctly although it’s very fuzzy. She really is perfection in this.
BRAVISSIMO!
And what a hoot to see Donahue again.
I love this video. I have watched it so many times along with others that I have come across at youtube. I cry every time I see this or watch this whole sceen in the movie. Especially knowing that what they are saying in the song actually happened to them in real life. A lot of A Chorus Line was based on the real life lives of the actors in the musical. Kelly is really amazing in this. I wish that I could have seen the show on Broadway. I have seen the show on stage in Detroit with another cast and have seen the movie so many times and I was alway drawn to the character Sheila in it. It wasn’t until about mid way through Gilmore Girls that I found out that Kelly played Sheila in the original production. I was shocked then amazed and then thought that it all fit, she was Shelia and everyone that I saw do the part did it like Kelly. They were her. Oh yeah, I did see this episode of the Phil Donahue show when it was first aired. They did a lot more than just this number.
You can almost see the Emily in that performance. :)