Anne Bancroft live in Thomas Meehan's YMA DREAM

Описание: A live taping of one of Anne Bancroft's best performances with Lee Jay Cobb is recovered. One year at the Oscars some of Host David Letterman's commentary was oddly familiar to this very sketch.

"Yma Dream" (as in Yma Sumac), was written by Thomas Meehan, who co-wrote The Producers. It was originally published in The New Yorker, and it's included in a book called Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker.

Several years ago, I had the good fortune to be present at a live performance of the piece which Christine Baranski gave as part of the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space, a performing arts center in NYC.