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Well, you seemed a little surprised that Boyd Gaines had won the Tony Award three times. I was just providing with what I thought was FURTHER astounding information--that EVERY time he's nominated, he wins! No biggie--please feel free to be anyone you care to, including Marquise.

Per the IBDB: Boyd Gaines Awards 2000 Tony Award® Best Featured Actor in a Musical Contact [winner] 1994 Tony Award® Best Actor in a Musical She Loves Me [winner] 1989 Tony Award® Best Featured Actor in a Play The Heidi Chronicles [winner] P.S. And EVERY TIME he's been nominated for The Award he's won! HE NEVER Loses!!! NOW what do you feel like, Marquise?

Well, Marquise, I guess if Julie Andrews has NEVER won the Tony Award but Boyd Gaines has THREE of 'em, I guess ANYTHING in the world of Theatre is possible...

"Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk": Let’s take an old fashioned walk I’m just bursting with talk What a tale could be told If we went for an old fashioned walk Let’s take a stroll through the park Down a lane where it’s dark And a heart that’s controlled May relax on an old fashioned walk I know for a couple who seem to be miles apart There’s nothing like walking and having a “heart to heart” I know a girl who declined Couldn’t make up her mind She was wrapped up and sold Coming home from an ...

Jose'!!! You are RAZOR SHARP this Sunday, aren't you? YES, it was the charming "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" that was written for EASTER PARADE, never used for that film, but found a home in MISS LIBERTY. And your prize, Jose'? Well, you are now a dancer in 1870s Paris! Due to some happy misunderstandings, it is thought you were the model for the Statute of Liberty and brought back to New York as the toast of the town!!! Your happy deception is uncovered, of course, but not before you se...

Jose'! CONGRATULATIONS on yet ANOTHER T.P. win!!! YES, of course MISS LIBERTY (1949) with a score by Irving Berlin and Book by Robert Sherwood used the story of France gifting the Statute of Liberty to America as a basis for its plot. Although the characters contained some genuine historical figures such as newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer, the story the musical told was 99.99% Fiction. Way to go, my man!!! Now for your bonus points: Berlin wrote a song for Fred Astaire and Judy Garland to sing i...

According to the IBDB, that would have been David Burtka. As for being "too young" for 'Joey'--I think the role usualy calls for someone in his late twenties/early thirties--old enough "to have been around" but still "young enough" to charm somebody like 'Vera'.

All I see here is a misunderstanding not worth arguing about. And I'm not going to.

I ALSO think PAL JOEY is a SPLENDID Musical--Indeed, one of my favorites. But for JOEY to work--it needs TOP-NOTCH Casting for both 'Vera' and 'Joey'. Perhaps if someone along the lines of Glenn Close or Meryl Streep for 'Vera', and for 'Joey' [Part does not REALLY require a trained voice], and well, my mind escapes me at the minute of a male dancer with the looks, "charm" and has the right "dancing stuff" to carry off the part. Thoughts on this, anyone?

But "The Merm" NEVER missed a performance, sabrelady--that was not her "style". Her standbys/understudies NEVER went on. Stritch NEVER played "Mrs. Sally Adams" until the National Touring Company of CALL ME MADAM.

...damn TRIPLE post!!!... SORRY, folks...

...If I May... DAMES AT SEA is "not like" 42ND STREET--although I can see how one would jump to that conclusion. DAMES AT SEA is a gentle parody of screen musicals from the early 1930s (of which, of course, 42ND STREET is one.) EVERY Song in DAMES AT SEA is a direct "spoof" of a song from the early 1930s: For example: DAMES AT SEA MUSICAL NUMBER -- ORIGINAL SONG IT IS SPOOFING "Wall Street" "42nd Street" "It's You" "You're The Top" "Singapore Sue" "Shanghai Lil" "Choo-Choo Honeymoon" "Shuffle...

...If I May... DAMES AT SEA is "not like" 42ND STREET--although I can see how one would jump to that conclusion. DAMES AT SEA is a gentle parody of screen musicals from the early 1930s (of which, of course, 42ND STREET is one.) EVERY Song in DAMES AT SEA is a direct "spoof" of a song from the early 1930s: For example: DAMES AT SEA MUSICAL NUMBER -- ORIGINAL SONG IT IS SPOOFING "Wall Street" "42nd Street" "It's You" "You're The Top" "Singapore Sue" "Shanghai Lil" "Choo-Choo Honeymoon" "Shuffle...

...If I May... DAMES AT SEA is "not like" 42ND STREET--although I can see how one would jump to that conclusion. DAMES AT SEA is a gentle parody of screen musicals from the early 1930s (of which, of course, 42ND STREET is one.) EVERY Song in DAMES AT SEA is a direct "spoof" of a song from the early 1930s: For example: DAMES AT SEA MUSICAL NUMBER -- ORIGINAL SONG IT IS SPOOFING "Wall Street" "42nd Street" "It's You" "You're The Top" "Singapore Sue" "Shanghai Lil" "Choo-Choo Honeymoon" "Shuffle...

Coward initialy wrote the song "Sail Away" for the moderately succesful British Musical--ACE OF CLUBS--which never played in America. In 1961, he decided to build an entire satirical musical about the fads and fobiles of people traveling--and engaged Elaine Stritch to play a caustic cruise hostess. It was THE first Coward musical to open on Broadway BEFORE playing in the West End. Out of town reviews were DREADUL--the only things people liked were Stritch, and the Coward wit that was evident ...

What was the FIRST name of the Captain that Word Bond played in GWTW?

Jose', what is the connection between the original cast of 110 IN THE SHADE and the original cast of CAMELOT?

And WHICH artist ultimately dissolved the colloboration?

And while we're at it--whose idea was it to form the Rodgers/Lerner colloborating team in the first place?

BTW, what OTHER musical were Rodgers and Lerner going to colloborate on? What happened to THAT project?