Ellen Greene "Suddenly Seymour" Tonight Show
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2008
- 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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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.
+ar420e She's Brookylnite. Her accent is very distinctive.
Lol. Absolutely. First time she opened up, I was in shock. She sounds amazing.
Yes just like Michel'le! They talk like munchkins but when they sing.....WOW
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!
@@MsTheJohnsons I was just thinking the same thing!
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 .
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.
That just shows her body and voice are one..
Don't ever molest she is literally the best
The human generation we are living on is so stupid superficial and fake
Ellen is a Brooklynite. She has a VERY distinctive Brooklyn accent.
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.
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.
It is beautiful
There's no one like Ellen. She's incredible.
Ellen Greene was made for this part! She’s always performed this song and she’s the only one that sings IT!!🔥🔥🔥
This woman can belt like it's nobody's business!! She is amazing!
Yes
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.
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.
Phil V no f word sayin
@@kooperdouglasmilburn2263 who the fuck are you to give orders?
@@kooperdouglasmilburn2263 Fuck it
She gets into character and you can see her transform. Makes me cry to see something so beautiful.
It's one thing to have a good singing voice. It's another thing to sound unique. Wow!
This is one of the best comments I've read on RUclips, ever
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.
That just blew me away. Who needs autotune when you have a voice like that...simply breath taking.
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.
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.
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.
May 27, 1983. Carl Reiner was the guest and Ellen sang "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly Seymour."
She will forever define the role of Audrey. What a powerful voice. Wow.
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
If I ever saw her sing in person I might die from emotional overload.
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.
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!
I agree....Her song, period....
Thierry Wybauw RIGHT
I agree.
Aww thank you ❤️
Are you the former Ellen Green?
My dad loved this performance. I searched for years before I found it on RUclips. He died last month. He loved this song so very much.
"I bought this dress and i hurt my back. That didn't make sense" lol idk why this was so funny to me.
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.
Wow is this part made for her:) and boy does she pull it off:)
@@vg2binkey884 Her Brooklyn accent is so Thick!
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!!
Honestly
Me neither, but I'm going to do some research. Not very many people can sing that powerful.
Check "pushing daisies", she's not singing but it's REALLY good, and fairytalish
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.
Wow. What I wouldn't give to have been in the audience when she performed Little Shop off broadway.
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!!!!
@@bernardlerner1913 I am so jealous of you right now
Yes it was fantastic it. I seen her back then. Never forget it. I was so happy when she did the film
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.
My Mum made us watch Little Shop of Horrors when we were kids in the 80s and 90s!
I cry every time I hear her
NPR filmed a tiny desk concert of the revival cast for the anniversary production. you can find it on you tube. worth the search
she does have that effect.
Great movie, it's on MAX now
I love her she can sing her butt off. When I first heard her sing I cried for 15 minutes.
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.
Ellen Green has lungs from another planet. Incredible!
Must have arrived with the eclipse.
what an awkward interview, but HO LEE SHIT what a voice.
If that was an act she fooled me. I think what you see in this interview is the real her.
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).
She always gives me goosebumps when she sings. Amazing voice
If I heard her sing this, I know I'd cry. She's got such a beautiful singing voice
Such an amazing woman. There's so much emotion put into this.
She's perfect.
When your voice is so powerful that you have to hold the mic 15 inches away, else the doors blow off their hinges.
I get goosebumps every time I hear her sing.
She's performing as if on Broadway again! Live theatre requires great exaggeration to reach the back row/nosebleeds! She's great!
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.
What a voice. Gives me the chills.
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
so much emotion conveyed with her face, love it !
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.
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.
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!
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...
After all the years Ellens performance is still mesmerizing... Goosebumps all over my body 💕💕💕
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.
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
She's so precious! Oh my god!
I KNOW RIGHT
That was one of the greatest performances on the tonight show. Ellen Greene really has an amazing voice…fantastic..
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!
she can sing her ass off
Brings tears to my eyes every time!!!!! She could sing me to sleep any time.
Such a perfect voice to emote such heart break and hope...
Totally agree, 7 year younger me.
She’s so adorably cute the way she talks and she’s so relatable with the awkwardness 😂
What a treasure. Thanks for sharing.
Every single performance, she makes me weep. She’s so unbelievable
omg I so love her !!!! God has given her the most powerful voice I've ever heard in my life ,,Breath taking !!!!
Still to this day my favorite broadway song and performance! Amazing
She brought it in this performance
coworkers and i were JUST talking about this the other day....!
I have goosebumps all over my body as we speak ,she just Saaaannnnggggg her face off. simply amazing
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.
That's real talent... no autotune here.
Weren't the 80's awesome?
sniff....
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. ❤️
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
hi do you have a contact number?
The days when singers didn't try to shove the microphone down their throat because they were really belting it out.
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.
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..."
Now we have people working on audio though that adjust the mic as need be
thought she was going to have to stretch her arm to its fullest extent to keep from shattering the speakers. Yes! Excellent voice.
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.
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.
I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying 😭😭
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.
What a vision of talent and grace! (And her partner for the duet was absolutely fantastic!)
OMG her voice gives me chills, its so unique but moving.. Awesome!
Wow, she sounds amazing live, that was just awesome!
holy shit. her voice just knocked me into next week
She's such a sweet person, as well as having a spectacular voice.
I could listen to this a thousand times and in each instance it is amazing performance by Ellen Greene.
Thank you for posting this.I saw this live years ago.
Ellen Greene just pours out so much passion into the song. It is almost indescribable.
She's delightful, with a powerhouse vocal ability.
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
That's not an accent. It's a speech impairment.
I found the LSofH as a fan of Steve Martin but stayed because of how Ellen sang Suddenly Seymour. Incredible voice.
No one ever did it like Ellen Greene. She is FABULOUS!!
Now thats TALENT! both of them
Her voice 😍 just rips into you! Amazing
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.
I love her!!! She is so entertaining.
How does someone with a voice like that gets forgotten forever?! better than celine dion and beyonce in my op
+Rose Ria She does a lot of stage theater. So those of who flock to see the stage see a lot of her.
Rose Leatham she is amazing but hell nah is she better than QUEEN CELINE! X
Are you Fu&^%ing kidding me? Celeine Dion and Beyoncé? Ellen Greene is SOOOOO much more talented that both of these combined!!!!
MrScott156 Ellen is a theatrical singer. She sings in theatre. Celine does so much more: Soft rock, pop, opera, ballads and THEATRE. She has had a record deal since she was 12. She has around 45 albums and awards. At least if you don't like one song of hers, there are other genres, Ellen is just theatre. She is no match for Celine.
She's a Brooklynite.
She's adorable in every way. "My sweetheart" *melts*
I love her. She's adorable in the interview and her singing voice is amazing.
Omg. Her voice and stage presence is Awesome!!! Thank you for the Audrey character
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
Fjw1966 , so true, I just listened to a few other versions I downloaded on iTunes just to see if anyone comes close, they were all damn good singers but did not do the song any justice, Ellen Greene by far set the standard!
Ellen Greene completes me.
its amazing that she has such a quiet voice when she speaks...but when she sings its a powerful voice..absolutely fantastic
What a rendition of a great song and show stopper👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
no matter which version I watch Ellen Greene just GETS it.There is no other woman who could sing this the way she did.
I mean,he is obviously not Seymour,but she nailed it just the same
Little Shop is one of the greatest love stories, and this is one of the greatest love songs. Ever.
Superb!!!!!! Johnny loved her! PURE TALENT
Silly I know, but whenever I hear her perform this song, I'll admit my eyes always start leaking. What a voice!
I think I'm a mostly normal guy but sometimes when I see a really great talent giving it his/her all in a performance, I find it very moving. This woman's performance in Little Shop of Horrors moved me. She is so talented and, just as important, so courageous to put so much into her singing.
What a gem Ellen Greene is. A national treasure. I always listen to her sing Somewhere That's Green, and I dream right there with her.
This interview is really cute.
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.
The passion Ellen invests in her performances gives me wicked chills. I mean, just watch the video--THAT is the way to sing "Suddenly Seymour" :)
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!