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| Butterfly McQueen in The Wiz | |
| Posted by: Cormanjones 04:48 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: Famous Broadway firings - bobby2 01:03 am EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| Does anyone have information on what happened to Butterfly McQueen in the Wiz? After listening to the Athenian Touch I can imagine her not being a strong singer. Apparently the entire part she played was cut out of town prior to Broadway. | |
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| re: Butterfly McQueen in The Wiz | |
| Posted by: Maguire75 09:22 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: Butterfly McQueen in The Wiz - Cormanjones 04:48 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| From someone on the creative team, she had trouble remembering her lines. The show was also running seriously long and her character was excisable. | |
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| I saw the first preview performance of the Philly out-of-town tryout | |
| Posted by: aleck 05:52 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: Butterfly McQueen in The Wiz - Cormanjones 04:48 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| Butterfly McQueen was nowhere in evidence. BTW, that performance ran over three hours long. The scenery kept falling down. And the dancers kept bumping into each other. But people were dancing in the aisles. That audience was cheering. (Another Philly tryout -- Miss Moffat -- was not as joyful . . .) |
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| I saw the first preview performance of the Philly out-of-town tryout | |
| Posted by: aleck 05:51 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: Butterfly McQueen in The Wiz - Cormanjones 04:48 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| Butterfly McQueen was nowhere in evidence. BTW, that performance ran over three hours long. The scenery kept falling down. And the dancers kept bumping into each other. But people were dancing in the aisles. That audience was cheering. (Another Philly tryout -- Miss Moffat -- was not as joyful . . .) |
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| re: I saw the first preview performance of the Philly out-of-town tryout | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:57 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: I saw the first preview performance of the Philly out-of-town tryout - aleck 05:51 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| Just want to note that The Wiz played Baltimore and Detroit before Philly. Surprised to hear that it was still more than three hours when you saw it in Philly. | |
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