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| How long was she signed for? Today, 6 months might be a full contract. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:18 am EDT 08/01/20 | |
| In reply to: Ed Sullivan re: The 'Wildcat' Debacle - Marlo*Manners 08:06 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
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| Road try-out plus six months on B'way wouldn't be odd today, though with the assumption of a successful recast (Well, Josh Groban was to be replaced by a star, or maybe wasn't, but we'll leave that for another ethread). Was Ball signed for a year? Would she have left in August without health problems? | |
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| re: How long was she signed for? Today, 6 months might be a full contract. | |
| Posted by: FleetStreetBarber 10:56 am EDT 08/01/20 | |
| In reply to: How long was she signed for? Today, 6 months might be a full contract. - Delvino 10:18 am EDT 08/01/20 | |
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| I think I recall reading that she planned to do the show for 18 months and had signed a 5-year lease on her UES apartment. | |
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| re: How long was she signed for? Today, 6 months might be a full contract. | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 10:48 am EDT 08/01/20 | |
| In reply to: How long was she signed for? Today, 6 months might be a full contract. - Delvino 10:18 am EDT 08/01/20 | |
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| Wildcat sold out performances when Ball was in the show. However, she wasn't able to consistently do 8 shows a week. According to every source I know of, Ball was the sole producer and she alone decided to close the show after 171 performances before the show was able to recoup. | |
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| re: How long was she signed for? Today, 6 months might be a full contract. | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 04:09 pm EDT 08/03/20 | |
| In reply to: re: How long was she signed for? Today, 6 months might be a full contract. - BroadwayTonyJ 10:48 am EDT 08/01/20 | |
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| It's kind of a shame that HELLO, DOLLY! didn't come along a few years earlier. I'm sure that David Merrick would have taken Ball as a replacement Dolly for however long she wanted to do it or could commit to do it between seasons of television sitcoms. And that show surely wouldn't have taxed Ball as a singer or dancer as much as WILDCAT might have done. Going in as a replacement for 3-6 months would have been ample time for Ball to discover that she would get bored (if that's the case) or figure out that an 8 performance week was not something she was either capable of or interested in doing. If FOLLIES had run longer, she might have been an interesting replacement Carlotta had that been something she was interested in at the time. |
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