Fascinating. I saw it on B'way, and the much better streamlined iteration that toured and revealed Lucie Arnaz as a triple threat. She reminted the show for me. And others.
This jumped out, as something unlikely to be said today, at least not by the Times:
"Seesaw,” starring zaftig nightclub singer Lainie Kazan as bohemian dancer Gittel Mosca and Ken Howard as Wasp Nebraska lawyer Jerry Ryan, began rehearsals under Edwin Sherin's direction on November 20, 1972."
Zaftig.
But even this:
"The consensus of opinion was that she didn't look like a dancer or move like a dancer. She was also some 40 pounds overweight. “When we cast Lainie, she promised she'd lose those 40 pounds,” Coleman recalled. “She said she'd have it written into her contract that if she didn't lose the weight, we could fire her. Unfortunately we never checked to see if that stipulation was in the contract.”
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