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re: Riedel/RazzleDazzle/Fact Check

Posted by:	keikekaze 02:43 pm EST 11/01/15
In reply to:	Riedel/RazzleDazzle/Fact Check - NewtonUK 09:20 am EST 11/01/15

We've had a conversation similar to this one recently. It seems to me, if I'm recalling the other thread correctly, Riedel may have made his comment about the "only 17 productions had opened" while in the middle of some anecdote keyed to some date in the 1962-63 season, possibly some time in November, 1962? If that's the case, and he meant that only 17 productions had opened so far by the date of the anecdote, then that might have been correct. I think the 17th Broadway production of the 1962-63 season opened some time in November. But I haven't got the book, so you'll have to tell me. And Riedel probably should have specified more clearly that he meant "opened so far," if that's what he meant. The remark about "more than 50 productions" opening every year circa 1900 is also technically true--but so far short of the mark that, I agree, it looks like wild guesswork rather than anything that had been checked.

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