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| Last Edit: PlayWiz 05:01 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 04:53 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: Lainie Kazan and Funny Girl - AlanScott 04:46 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| "Funny Girl" opened March 26, 1964 and yet Lainie Kazan is on a Bell Telephone Hour special supposedly recreating her audition for FG which was televised November 24th of that year. That's eight months into Streisand's run -- rather remarkable how an understudy got such a prestigious gig at that time period though unless some of the infamous story was true. I almost always trust your research and knowledge, but that telecast existing is kind of bizarre. Robert Young's intro does mention that the "understudy might one day wind up playing the lead", so I guess she was still in the show. She really had a great PR person and must have had cooperation from someone with power at FG for the right to use those songs on tv! | |
| Link | Lainie Kazan on "Bell Telephone Hour" |
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| re: Lainie Kazan and Funny Girl | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:13 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Lainie Kazan and Funny Girl - PlayWiz 04:53 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| Thanks for the link. Never saw that before. Interesting, though, that she sings only one song from Funny Girl — one of the two big ones — and then sings from other then-current shows. | |
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| re: Lainie Kazan and Funny Girl | |
| Posted by: larry13 05:08 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Lainie Kazan and Funny Girl - PlayWiz 04:53 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| It MAY be remarkable how an understudy got that prestigious gig BUT since she didn't go on as Fanny until a year into the run, then she did NOT benefit from either the publicity for those performances NOR being(supposedly)fired. She could not have been "fired" in 1964. | |
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