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oh, Marjorie Mae...

Posted by: TsuHsi 03:22 pm EDT 03/31/14
In reply to: re: So if Sally Bowles isn't supposed to be a good singer.... - MarjorieMae 09:07 am EDT 03/31/14

I am so glad you are on this board. First of all, I agree with you.

Secondly, some time ago, when I said, on this board, that I had seen Edward Villella and Eleanor Parker in Pal Joey, I received the following: "Sometimes the pearls become real with age" -- and was informed I had never seen any such thing, that they never performed it.

I had to dig up Ken Mandelbaum to prove that I had.

We must have been at the same preview. And as anyone who saw them knows, you couldn't possibly make it up or forget it.


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re: oh, Marjorie Mae...

Posted by: PlayWiz 05:23 pm EDT 03/31/14
In reply to: oh, Marjorie Mae... - TsuHsi 03:22 pm EDT 03/31/14

Did Villela and Parker only do one preview performance before a paying audience before they were fired?

It's a shame someone like Tommy Rall or Michael Berresse didn't get a chance to play Joey in a big venue sometime during their careers.


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re: oh, Marjorie Mae...and oh, TsuHsi

Posted by: henny 12:16 am EDT 04/01/14
In reply to: re: oh, Marjorie Mae... - PlayWiz 05:23 pm EDT 03/31/14

Please, give us a few words about the performance. Was there no hope? I've been imagining Parker singing WHAT IS A MAN? for many years now. Was there not just the tiniest glimmer of hope that she might grow into Vera?


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