Ellie Stone’s version of this Jacques Brel song from the Off-Broadway play was mesmerizing, but here Geraldine Turner amps it up to the truly spooky and horrifying. And to think she recorded it *before* this week.
I wasn’t familiar with Geraldine Turner, but evidently she is a big musical theater star in Australia, kind of on a par with Angela Lansbury. She was the federal President of Actors Equity (MEAA) in Australia.
Thanks to YouTuber Brian Castles-Onion
When I was a teenager a Jacques Brel movie was playing on HBO. It was weird but very compelling. I must’ve seen it five times.
I remember that movie. It was very weird. Nothing at all like the Off-Broadway play.
But…the play and the film were directed by different people, although the cast was the same. The play was directed by Moni Yakim, a very interesting guy. I did a review of a documentary about him here:
https://jackshalom.net/2020/07/28/being-adventurous-means-going-to-places-you-dont-know-exist/