to life!

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Here's a father giving a toast at a wedding. Lucky there were cameras on hand to catch it!

Watch on YouTube

I can't think of any wedding I've been to in person where I actually cried, but this one got me, in a good way.

thanks to Mark Evanier
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Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I loved this since I first saw it last week. I should point out, in case you didn't know (since you didn't mention it) that the groom just happens to be Lin-Manuel Miranda, author and star of the Tony-award winning In the Heights. I don't know how many of the bridesmaids and groomsmen are in the business, but it's clear that the parents aren't -- and that makes no difference to how awesome the production is.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I didn't mention it because I didn't want to spoil the awesomeness and cumulative effect of it for anybody who clicked without reading the comments.

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Some how, the only song I could think of giving that treatment at my own wedding was

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I was in that show, nine years after the clip, doing Ray Walston's part. I guess now we'd say Jerry Lewis's part. I could also see Shatner in it — there's only one song for him, but god knows he'd sell it. (At a discount!)

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Let's see.
I've seen Applegate played by:

Phil Silvers
Ray Walston,
Eddie Bracken
And "Those Were the Good Old Days" by Ron Spivak.
Bracken was the best of the lot (no one pitched a fit on stage like he did).
But, Spivak's one song blew me away.
Not just because he did it so well, but his "stall" was perfect.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wish I'd gone to some Broadway shows, or even regional (or touring) shows. Oh, well.

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

The Bracken version was at the Jones Beach Marine Theater.
Joe Namath played Joe Hardy.

[geckoman.livejournal.com]

yup...that was pure awesome!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Those wacky New Yorkers.

K.

[carbonel]

That was wonderful; thanks for linking to it. (This got me much more than the dance-down-the-aisle wedding clip that went viral some time ago; I'm not sure why. I guess I react more to song than to dance.)

My grandfather was in the habit of breaking into "Sunrise, Sunset" at the mention of any wedding, especially his grandchildren's, and when my younger brother was married (eep! about 25 years ago), he asked my grandfather to sing that at the wedding. That was a not-a-dry-eye-in-the-house moment.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

That was just third degree of delightful. Such verve, and such trouble they must have gone to working it out while keeping it a surprise from the bride.

And how fortunate it is that it can be done as an entirely positive song, ignoring what happens next in the original show's plot.