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re: Prince vetoed casting Minnelli in the original production

Posted by: larry13 05:03 am EDT 04/02/14
In reply to: re: Prince vetoed casting Minnelli in the original production - AlanScott 04:54 pm EDT 04/01/14

Thanks Alan.
And, on the subject of Stritch--and a part I'm positive she never did--it was mentioned at the seminar preceding the MOST HAPPY FELLA dress rehearsal last night that Stritch very much wanted to do a part--presumably Cleo--for the opening of the original production. Not so surprising, she would not sing the high C that Loesser had written and asked for it to be transposed down slightly. Not so surprising, he refused and the rest is history.
Never knew about this. Jo Sullivan Loesser was present but I believe it was Laurence Maslon, interviewing her, who basically told this story.
Do you know anything about it?


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re: Prince vetoed casting Minnelli in the original production

Posted by: AlanScott 06:56 pm EDT 04/02/14
In reply to: re: Prince vetoed casting Minnelli in the original production - larry13 05:03 am EDT 04/02/14

I think I've heard that Stritch was up for the role of Cleo, but I haven't heard anything more. I assume that even if Maslon said it was a high C, it wasn't. Cleo never sings a note anywhere near high C. It must have been the C an octave down from high C, which might have been a stretch for Stritch even then. B might have been about it for Stritch.


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re: Prince vetoed casting Minnelli in the original production

Posted by: larry13 09:56 pm EDT 04/02/14
In reply to: re: Prince vetoed casting Minnelli in the original production - AlanScott 06:56 pm EDT 04/02/14

Thanks again, Alan. I also doubted Cleo sings anything like high C. There were several inaccuracies--putting it mildly--that were stated at that seminar.


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re: Prince vetoed casting Minnelli in the original production

Posted by: Dalmaniac 10:23 am EDT 04/03/14
In reply to: re: Prince vetoed casting Minnelli in the original production - larry13 09:56 pm EDT 04/02/14

I think, nowadays, "a high C", has become shorthand for an extremely difficult note to hit, whatever the value of the actual note is.


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