Jun 24, 2007 — 10:14:39 PM
The touring version I saw some years back with Richard Chamberlain cut the Ballroom scene...ended Act One with leaving for the ball, and of course "She Did It" at the top of Act Two told what happened. The scene is amusing and can be fun especially for Zoltan Karpathy, and since Eliza was such a failure at Ascot - it is really the ONLY scene where we see her as a success in polite company. I think it's necessary for audience to see it....but there you are.