A couple of months ago, some of these questions came up in another group. I don't have LuPone's memoir, but I found the relevant passages on googlebooks at that time (they no longer seem to be there, but maybe I'm just not finding them). Anyway, at that time I posted this in that group:
"I was able to find the relevant passage in LuPone's memoir via Googlebooks, She says that 'Meadowlark' was cut for one performance. She says Merrick went into the pit himself before the matinee and pulled the 'Meadowlark' charts from the stands, put them in his attaché case and took them to Manhattan. So no 'Meadowlark' at the matinee. Schwartz 'took countermeasures,' and the charts 'magically rematerialized' for the evening performance."
FWIW, someone in the group said that he was at the final performance, and there was no "Meadowlark." But I wouldn't necessarily trust him on this.
What is definitely true, and perhaps this accounts for some of the confusion, is that there was also a shortened version of "Meadowlark" that was performed later in the pre-Broadway run. |
