| And Lanie Kazan from two shows. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 07:52 pm EDT 08/01/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:51 pm EDT 08/01/22 | |
| In reply to: Prior casting miscalculation: Henry Goodman as Max Bialystock - Delvino 07:38 pm EDT 08/01/22 | |
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| “… I got fired because the show was in trouble and I think I was used as a scapegoat. They used the fact that I had been ill and that I had gained some weight as something to fire me with although I had lost a lot of weight because I danced my ass off if I must say!” Also fired were the director and the choreographer and hired Michael Bennett as his first real directing job. “He fired 26 people at intermission one night and I was among them. It was devastation. It was the cruelest act. And he never came to see me, he wouldn’t have a meeting with me. It was probably the lowest point of my life and they replaced me with one of my best friends, Michele Lee (pictured with Lainie above). It was beyond awkward. She would be rehearsing all day in the theater then I would go on at night. They said to me, ‘You can be a real mensch and stay with the show or you can leave but we’re going to replace you.” My name was above the title: ‘Lanie Kazan in Seasaw’ and I think he wanted it to be ‘Michael Bennett Presents Seasaw.’ It was my comeback and it was very painful. I didn’t recuperated very well. I stayed in New York, I lost my home, my husband and I separated. It was the worst time of my life – the worst.” Another Broadway show fell through {The Women} Lanie’s marriage broke up, she lost her house and had to hit the road to and started to work in, what she calls, “the toilets of America” in little nightclubs on the south side of Chicago and in Milwakee. She just had one gown that she was constantly recycling.” |
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| Link | http://blogs.dailynews.com/outinhollywood/2008/02/18/part-2-lanie-kazan-talks-about/ |
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