| re: I think there is some chance that Variety was wrong |
| Posted by: keikekaze 06:14 pm EST 11/26/22 |
| In reply to: re: I think there is some chance that Variety was wrong - BobPlak 11:04 am EST 11/26/22 |
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When I was in the 10 to 12 age range and first started getting interested in theater, I was already kind of a math nerd as well. So when I started looking at theater records I noticed and wondered about any discrepancies that appeared from the standard eight-times-X-number-of-weeks, plus (if the opening wasn't on a Monday) some partial opening-week number. I noticed a particular cluster of these discrepancies in the (then recent) 1959-60 season and wondered what had happened. I found out later that there had been a strike that I assumed had cost everybody that ran through the strike four performances. It wasn't until your reply above that I discovered that they'd all missed 12 performances.
So thanks for the explanation, and also for the specifics about Merman's misses in Gypsy. And isn't it wonderful how Republicans and Democrats used to co-operate--or at least speak to one another--once upon a time? ; ) |
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