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re: Better to give you too much credit...

Posted by:	LegitOnce 01:04 am EDT 08/14/14
In reply to:	Better to give you too much credit... - Delvino 10:09 am EDT 08/13/14

Well, or to look at it a different way, it made Dolly more like a Merman show. She always had a big song list, and, because she was a throwback to the pre-R&H "integrated" era, a lot of those songs were only vaguely connected to what was actually going on in the show. I mean, what does "Kate the Great" have to do with Anything Goes? (Yes, of course the song was cut, but not because it was irrelevant.) I get the feeling that if Merman had been the first Dolly, she would have had at least two more songs than were written for Channing -- not necessarily the two she sang when she went into the show, but something similar, a longing ballad and what Ethan Mordden calls the "Hot Damn I'm Merman" number.

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