| Louis Edmonds (not William Daniels) perhaps? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:18 pm EDT 10/10/17 | |
| In reply to: Similar instances - MFeingold 11:01 am EDT 10/10/17 | |
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| Hi, Mr. Feingold. You mentioned this William Daniels story here some months ago, and I responded at that time. Perhaps you didn't see my response. The story may be true but the information I can find doesn’t support it. I've done a bit more searching and I've found more than I posted the first time I responded to you on this. I don’t have Daniels’s book. Perhaps he discusses it there, but this is what I find. Subways opened at the Shubert in Philly on November 6, 1961 (perhaps after a preview or two) and played there through November 26. It then played at the Colonial in Boston from November 28 through December 17. Daniels is not listed in a scan of the Philly program’s title and credits page. It would seem more likely that if Daniels had been in the show during the tryout and written out before Broadway, he would have been there in Philly. The person who is listed who did not make it to Broadway is James Nichols. Grayson Hall is not listed. This, of course, does not prove that Daniels might not have been in the show there at some point. The title and credits page I have for Boston lists Grayson Hall but does not list James Nichols. On October 26, 1961, the Times reported that Daniels would be appearing in the Zoo Story-Krapp’s Last Tape double bill with Ben Piazza and George Bartenieff at the Studio in Buffalo for one week beginning on November 7. He had played in the double bill in an Off-Broadway return that played at the East End from September 12 through October 8. On November 6, the Times reported that Daniels would be appearing in The World Next Door, by Stanley Young, based on a novel by Fritz Peters. Young had been working on the script since 1951, and it had been under option for Broadway at certain times over the years. This time, the plan was for the play to open Off-Broadway on January 3, 1962, but again it didn’t happen. Still, if Daniels was involved with Subways — and it would seem that he would have had to be involved with it in Philly, not Boston — why would this have been announced on the same day Subways opened in Philly? Hall appeared Off-Broadway in a play titled The Buskers that opened at the Cricket on October 30. It closed November 4. According to the book Grayson Hall: A Hard Act to Follow, by R. J. Jamison, it was Louis Edmonds whom Hall sort of replaced and she went into the show during the Philly run. |
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