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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

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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Thread:	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 (2) 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 (1) "Ye gads, what would Ethel Merman and Carol Channing have been like if they had co-starred in "Legends"?" - RobertC 08:17 pm EDT 06/26/18

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