Stairway to Stardom!!!!

Hairdresser!

Kristy McNichol should have become a huge star. But she went cray-cray.

Sing it, sister!

Precious Taft.

With the addition of Precious, we have highlighted the very best of Stairway to Stardom.

An honorable mention should go to Horowitz and Spector.

This guy was hot!

Gloria Huddle channels Hepburn or something

With its glamorous intro, how could you not expect anything less than the best?

I want to see his big Italian cock!!!

I read in one of the myriad old STS threads that the featured performers had to pay to be on the show.

Horowitz and Spector sing about the travails of dieting

Bless his heart.

Gloria Huddle stands alone. Once in a life time do you encounter a talent like hers. She is so totally there, and yet not there, all at the same time.

Yeah we laugh,but honestly,wouldnt you love to see that sort of hopeful innocence again ? My fave so far is Precious. Shes bringing the DRAMA !

Yes, R13, it's worthy of the talent competition at Miss Black Person USA (at 14:40 below).

Let me entertain ya!

I came to post about Hairdresser but of course you bitches have already talked about it!

R8 I don't think he's seen it in years

I bet Melania would give Gloria Huddle a run for her money. And just like Gloria, Melania would be reaching out to get Jesus on the line, if we're to believe her latest stellar performance in front of the cameras.

Get it, gurl

R11 He's cute, and nothing a little duct tape couldn't take care of.

R5 One of the few from this show who actually had talent. I wonder if he ever made it as a dancer on Broadway,

The girl in OP's video is self taught! You'd never know it!

whatever happened to them?

What is this?

R10 Were they the inspiration for the Sweeney Sisters?

Hairdresser lady looks like the drummer from the Go-Gos. Or some random member of the John Waters gang.

And why is the first girl dancing in an office lobby?

Except for the dancer/stripper at R5 and possible All The King's Men - I think the Stehway to Stahdom was actually going in the opposite direction.

And the way Hairdresser lady keeps changing the pitch of her voice - maybe it was supposed to be a ventriloquist act......imagine it with her holding Jerry Mahoney in her left hand.

The guy at R5 can actually dance and has formal training. The other ones are all atrocious and practiced in their garages.

Danny looks like Eric Roberts and Freddy Mercury had a jewish love child.

Mario Cantone looked cute with the Orphan Annie cut.

I could watch these all day! I love them all but Hairdresser and Previous are my favs!

Can someone explain what this is? Some public access cable show from Bensonhurst?

We had a similar show in Boston called Community Auditions but I don’t remember it being as good as STS

The guy at R5 is A.C. Ciulla and he actually did make it. He’s a tony nominated and Emmy winning choreographer.

Precious Taft was a DL icon in 2007-08.

Holy fuck! I see a thread like this and am reminded why I come on here.

What other Public Access gems can we discuss. Did anyone ever watch and Prank Call show? (Better yet, did anyone call in?)

*The Prank Call Show

Forgive me, but I have not heard of "Stairway to Stardom". I did a little sleuthing and see that it was a NYC local cable offering. I checked out some of the talent, and was dumbstruck. Literally speechless.

This guy had a public access show in Atlanta that got pranked constantly here’s a sample.

"Crackhead" was years ahead of its time.

oh, no.

Mrs. Mouth was fabulous

Lucille Cataldo ("Hairdresser") actually appeared another time on "Stairway to Stardom." Here she is lending her vocal stylings to "Theme from Arthur" (when you get lost between the moon and New York City). At the end of the video, she says that her favorite singers are Barbra Streisand and Ella Fitzgerald. However, Ms. Cataldo is giving me Liza vibes.

Well that's definitely an improvement.

Have you forgotten what a STAH looks like?