The extraordinary Gwen. My all time favourite performer giving my all time favourite performance.
She was romantically involved with Jerry Lanning during that revival of DAMN YANKEES. "I'd say, 'You lucky boy!'"
Fosse's note to her for the last step of "Little Brains" was to "arrange yourself inside your panties". Gwen was therefore horrified when a producer suggested the number needed "more bumps". "I don't do BUMPS", she said indignantly.
Her solo in "Two Lost Souls" is simply wonderful. Irreplaceable.
No, I think it was someone with the Shuberts. Or perhaps Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin watching an invited runthrough. I think the story is in Margery Beddow's Fosse book.