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"I wanted to see if I had the guts to just come and be myself," Arthur says in this performance recorded in front of a live audience in December 2001. Alongside co-creator and pianist Billy Goldenberg, she offers wry and often funny anecdotes about her career and the people she's worked with (Angela Lansbury, Pia Zadora). When she does sing ... well, even decades ago Arthur didn't have a beautiful voice, but she's well-suited to the comedy songs. And her versions of Kurt Weill's "Pirate Jenny" and Goldenberg's own "Fifty Percent"--while they won't make anyone forget Lotte Lenya or Dorothy Loudon--are effective in their own right. Bea Arthur on Broadway is definitely more Bea than Broadway, but it's a career well worth remembering. --David Horiuchi

Bea Arthur on Broadway - Just Between Friends Track Listing:

1. Lamb Recipe
2. Introduction
3. What Can You Get A Nudist For Her Birthday?
4. Auditions
5. Isn't He Adorable
6. Fiddler on the Roof
7. Let's Face The Music And Dance
8. Bosom Buddies
9. Angela Lansbury
10. Threepenny Opera/ Pirate Jenny
11. It Never Was YOu
12. And Then There's Maude
13. Some People
14. The Soup Ladle
15. Where Do You Start
16. Bernie Schwartz
17. If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It!
18. Personal Hygiene
19. Who Cares
20. Fifty Percent
21. The Nun's Story
22. You're Gonna Hear From Me
23. The Chance To Sing
24. The Man in the Moon is a Lady