| She had also appeared in the 1963 Off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward, and she had played the title role in Jo, a 1963 Off-Broadway musical version of Little Women. She was originally hired as the Gigi standby. During the long pre-Broadway tryout, she replaced Terese Stevens, a 19-year-old British performer recommended by Katharine Hepburn, who had seen her in London in a rock version of Carmen in which Carmen was a rebellious college student. |
