Elaine Stritch - Summer Staff Picks

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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It’s time for the final episode in our Summer Staff Picks series, highlighting our favorite conversations from the Here’s The Thing archives. This week, we revisit Alec Baldwin’s 2013 conversation with “The First Lady of Broadway,” Elaine Stritch. Alec sat down with the late stage and screen veteran who, among many famous roles, played his mother Colleen Donaghy on “30 Rock.” Stritch spoke to Alec about her transition from the Sacred Heart Convent and finishing school to finding herself in New York theater classes sitting between Walter Matthau and Marlon Brando. She performed for nearly 70 years – and of her extraordinary career, Stritch comments, "I was the funny, kind of offbeat girl. I was never the romantic lead.” This wide-ranging conversation with the witty and outspoken legend touches on everything from her time on the “30 Rock” set to Stritch’s famous cabaret act at the Carlyle Hotel.

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0:00.0	This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing from I Heart Radio.
0:06.0	It's summer and that means it's time for our tradition at Here's the Thing
0:10.0	where the staff share their favorite episodes from our archives in our summer Staff Picks series.
0:17.0	Next up is producer Maureen Hoban.
0:20.0	Thanks, Alec.
0:21.0	When I think of women who unapologetically speak their minds and are bubbling over with humor and talent,
0:28.0	of course, I think of Elaine Stretch, she was known for playing bold and body females, including that of
0:35.9	Colleen Donogie, mother to Alex's character on 30 Rock. It was a delicious role where she
0:42.1	effortlessly eviscerated the vice president of East Coast
0:46.2	Television and microwave oven programming at every turn.
0:51.8	Elaine Strich sadly passed away in 2014, a year after this recording.
0:57.4	But in it, you'll experience the sharp wit, unfiltered candor, and unmatched presence of the legendary First Lady of Broadway, Elaine Stretch.
1:07.0	Actress Elaine Stretch has been performing for nearly 70 years.
1:16.0	No matter the medium she brings her characters to life with a playful ferocity that naturally leads to scene-stealing performances.
1:24.0	Despite her enviable career in film and television, Elaine Strich is a self-professed Broadway
1:30.2	baby. A big break came in 1950 when she was hired to understudy Ethel Merman in Irving Berlin's musical Call Me Madam.
1:39.0	She scared me to death.
1:40.0	Really? She's a tough broad.
1:41.0	But when I got to the end of Call Me Madam, it was mine.
1:44.8	You don't need analyzer.
1:47.8	It is not so surprising that you feel very strange but nice.
1:55.0	Elaine Strich remained on stage for much of the 50s and 60s,
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