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It maybe of some interest that former Broadway dancer and actress Marion Herson Murphy Voorhees died at the age of 102 on October 26, 2011 in Delray Beach Florida. She was probably the last surviving cast member of such shows as FINE AND DANDY, BABES IN ARMS and other musicals and plays of the last half of the 1920s throough 1939. In addition to the shows mentioned above, Marion appeared in A La Carte, Lady Do, Rain or Shine, The Greenwich Village Follies, Strike Up The Band, The Little Show,...

I only saw Shirley Booth on stage in A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA, THE DESK SET and LOOK TO THE LILIES.She was, of course, wonderful and was never referred to as a diva any more than Merman, Martin and Verdon were.

Tap Your Troubles Away from MACK AND MABEL

Someone had to play Tom.

Midnight Radio: Suggestion. Produce your own Broadway show and then you can do whatever you want with the tickets. Until then, get a life. There is life beyond Xanadu

Thread don't have points, but needles do

OBC of Coco signed by Katharine Hepburn OBC of Flora the Red Menace signed by Liza Minnelli Opening night Playbills for the OBCs of ME AND JULIET, PIPE DREAM, THE GAY LIFE and DO I HEAR A WALTZ?

Yes, I looked at the YouTube line, Joey. In thinking back about the Follies in Concert. Barbara Cook was about the only performer that I didn't like. Don't get me wrong, I love Barbara Cook, always have, but, since NO ONE could ever top Dorothy Collins as Sally, Cook just didn't measure up to Collins. Nevertheless, it was one of the most exciting evening in a theatre that I've spent....well worth pushing the re-dial button on my phone for over 3 hours on the day that tickets went on sale!

Pal Joey's mention of original Follies production reminds me that night after I saw the OBC, I went to a nightclub on the East Side called Mary Mary. It was operated by Mary McCarty and she met people at the door. The entertainment that nigth was, among other things, Yvonne DeCarlo who, of course, sang "I'm Still Here." If I remember correctly, Dorothy Collins' husband, Ron Holgate, also did a number. Perhaps because I had mentioned to Mary McCarty when she greeted us that she had been one of...

BigFatBlonde said about Follies in Concert, "My wish is that they had issued the concert recording dialogue and all." I was there and there was very little dialogue. VERY little.

A CHORUS LINE is irrelevant like The Bible, gone with the Wind and My Fair Lady. All should be banned.

Everyone?

Don't disillusion yourself. Most of the world never heard of WICKED, let alone any of the songs from it.

He's only famous for being Nathan Lane and he plays Nathan at every opportunity. Sort of a male Patti LuPone

The Capeman

Business is that bad, huh? To quote Cole Porter's CAN-CAN, "Never Give Anything Away....That You Can Sell."

Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote "There's Music in You" for the motion picture MAIN STREET TO BROADWAY (1953). Mary Martin sang the song in the film.

jrb, i don't know what you do there :)

The new ending was put in solely so that LuPone could be on stage alone at the end. Strictly a power play.

I did the search and most of the postings deal with people's opinion of the critics' reviews and not with their own opinions of the show if they actually saw it.