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| " If they'd continued to work into the 1970's on Broadway, I'm not sure what roles they'd have been playing." | |
| Posted by: RobertC (robertcollier930@gmail.com) 04:58 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Parallel observation: "Larger than Life" performers like Channing, Merman even LuPone. Do we still cultivate them? - JereNYC 04:47 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| Believe it or not, it was proposed that Ethel Merman and Mary Martin play the batty sisters in a musical version of Arsenic and Old Lace. I believe the year was 1973 or so. I found this information in one of Steve Suskin's books. | |
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| re: " If they'd continued to work into the 1970's on Broadway, I'm not sure what roles they'd have been playing." | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:52 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: " If they'd continued to work into the 1970's on Broadway, I'm not sure what roles they'd have been playing." - RobertC 04:58 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| Yes, I remember reading that. First of all, Arsenic and Old Lace does not cry out for music (and I played Teddy in high school--probably my favorite role, so I know what is fun in the show). Second, the idea of Merman and Martin in the same book show (not a revue or special concert, such as they did a few times) just feels wrong--shockingly wrong, as Mrs. Stephen Haines might say! That's what makes the Forbidden Broadway parody of them singing "An Old Fashioned Wedding" so droll--while they can inhabit the same worlds (Annie GYG, for example), they can't be there at the same time. It would do something frightful to the time-space continuum. | |
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| re: " If they'd continued to work into the 1970's on Broadway, I'm not sure what roles they'd have been playing." | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 08:07 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: " If they'd continued to work into the 1970's on Broadway, I'm not sure what roles they'd have been playing." - BruceinIthaca 07:52 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| Ye gads, what would Ethel Merman and Carol Channing have been like if they had co-starred in "Legends"? | |
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| "Ye gads, what would Ethel Merman and Carol Channing have been like if they had co-starred in "Legends"?" | |
| Posted by: RobertC (robertcollier930@gmail.com) 08:17 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: " If they'd continued to work into the 1970's on Broadway, I'm not sure what roles they'd have been playing." - PlayWiz 08:07 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| Well, first of all they would turn it into a musical to take advantage of the stars. The obvious choice to write the score, would of course be Jerry Herman ;-) | |
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