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# Here, This Photo Will Distract You!
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/here-this-photo-will-distract-you-11-2020/
- Published: 2020-11-03T15:00:20.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-19T19:20:12.000Z
- Description: These ladies! Together! A treat!
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: *Flashback*, classic photos, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:15

Picture it! May, 1978! A confluence of LEGENDS, all nominated for Tony Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical, go to lunch at Sardi's Restaurant and make THESE FACES to bless this timeline! Let them wash over you!

PS: Liza won for the *The Act*, a musical I've never heard of [but which sounds like it was A DISASTER](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/23/archives/in-the-act-the-drama-backstage-is-not-an-act-behind-the-scenes-of.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)! Our beloved Madeline Kahn was nominated for *On the Twentieth Century;* the glorious Eartha Kitt was up for *Timbuktu!;* and Frances Sternhagen, whom I did not even know could sing, was up for *Angel*, which is *not* somehow a time-travelling musical adaptation of the *Buffy* spin-off but instead a musical adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's *Look Homeward, Angel* (!!!), [which sounds like a TERRIBLE IDEA and which did in fact close after FIVE PERFORMANCES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%5F%28musical%29?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). Please enjoy these excerpts from its *New York Times* review, via Wiki:

- "Angel...is a damp and oppressive amalgam of bathos. It has lyrics of the consistency of cornbread soaked in milk, a whole collection of indifferent performances and a score of sufficient banality to furnish a number or two for the piped music on airplanes waiting to take off."
- "The performances have no shine to them; at best they are losing battles."
- "Mr. Geld's score is so thin and trite as to make us notice Don Walker's orchestration. Its vulgarity is unfailing."
- "It is putting things too strongly to call "Angel" a disaster. It is a desert."

AHHHHH no wonder she is screaming!

###### \[Photo: Getty Images\]