| Another odd opening number is "He's (I'm) Not A Well Man" in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, in that the main part of it introduces us to a character, Mr. Pulvermacher, who's scarcely going to be heard from again--if at all--until the very end of the show. And the end of the show, by the time it opened in New York, was apparently different than had been originally contemplated, with Mr. Pulvermacher coming on as a kind of deus ex machina. Might the song have been added late in the tryout, to strengthen Pulvermacher's presence, and to give his secretary (Barbra Streisand's Miss Marmelstein, who was just beginning to wow everybody) something more to do? |
