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| Posted by: mermaniac 11:39 am EST 02/17/21 | |
| In reply to: Who was the best REPLACEMENT director or actor? - DistantDrumming 12:58 am EST 02/17/21 | |
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| Patricia Routledge in "Darling Of The Day" (replacing fired Geraldine Page). | |
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| re: Who was the best REPLACEMENT director or actor? | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 01:56 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:55 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Who was the best REPLACEMENT director or actor? - mermaniac 11:39 am EST 02/17/21 | |
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| Just to clarify, although it was announced that she would star in the much-delayed show (when it was still called The Great Adventure), it was announced in November 1966 that she would instead be starring in Black Comedy. This was around a year before rehearsals started for the show that would finally open on Broadway as Darling of the Day in January 1968. Page had also been announced as a possible star of Mame, which it seems she really wanted to do. It does seem that she wanted to do musicals. The problem seems to have been that she really couldn't sing. So it's not like Page started rehearsals, got fired, and was replaced by Routledge. That Routledge would be starring in it was announced in August 1967, around three months before rehearsals started. John Gielgud and Victor Borge had both been announced as possible casting for Priam Farll. I have wondered if it was ever offered to Alfred Drake. It seems to me that he would have been the best choice. It could be that he was offered the role and turned it down. |
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| re: Who was the best REPLACEMENT director or actor? | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 04:31 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Who was the best REPLACEMENT director or actor? - AlanScott 01:55 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
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| I was just rereading an old AFTER DARK (a wonderful rabbit hole to disappear into). They were announcing the musical version of LILLIES OF THE FIELD starring Ethel Merman and Sammy Davis, Jr.! | |
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| re: Who was the best REPLACEMENT director or actor? | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 04:56 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Who was the best REPLACEMENT director or actor? - Billhaven 04:31 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
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| While Ethel Merman is believed to have said that when she's working on a Broadway musical she has to "live like a [f'ing] nun", I somehow don't see her playing one, not the one in "Lillies of the Field". Maybe if the premise of the later "Sister Act" were being written for her, but she'd really be kind of like a fish out of water with her patented "take charge loudly" manner. | |
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| re: Who was the best REPLACEMENT director or actor? | |
| Posted by: Holland 04:14 pm EST 02/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Who was the best REPLACEMENT director or actor? - PlayWiz 04:56 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
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| Perhaps she was thinking, well, if Mary won a Tony for The Sound of Music... | |
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