Carol Burnett spoke about her friendships with Lucille Ball and Julie Andrews leading up to her 90th birthday celebration. 'The Carol Burnett Show' aired for 11 seasons.
Carol Burnett is so glad we had this time together.
"What I love about it was the fact that it wasn’t a roast, and it wasn’t a birthday party with a cake and balloons and stuff," Burnett chuckled to Fox News Digital."It was a two-hour variety show. We had a 19-piece orchestra and I had so many friends who were there. And the live entertainment, my gosh… It was really exciting."The actress had her first breakout role on Broadway at age 26 in 1959, singing in the musical fairytale spoof,"Once Upon a Mattress.
"But [the networks] could never do what we did because I think the cost would be extravagant now," she explained."We had a 28-piece orchestra, 12 dancers. We had 60 to 75 costumes a week. Bob Mackie designed for our guest stars. All of that you couldn’t do today. It would be too much. We did kind of a Broadway mini-musical comedy review every week. And that couldn’t be done today.
"When we read the sketch, the writers had written that I would run up the stairs and then come back down with the draperies just hanging on me," Burnett explained."Bob Mackie, who’s so brilliant, thought, ‘Well, that’s not as funny as it could be.’ I went into the costume fitting that week, and he said, ‘I have an idea for the curtain dress.’ I walked into the fitting room, and he had it on this mannequin. I just fell to the floor.
"The Carol Burnett Show" made sides split across the country for 11 seasons. She went on to headline"Carol and Company" for another two. Over the years, Burnett happily stayed busy in showbiz. SheFrom left to right, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Carol Burnett, Lyle Waggoner and Vicki Lawrence.
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