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[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 7:51pm

A girl at my school recently got cast as Gladys in this new musical which will also star Eartha Kitt. I tried finding more info about it, but didn't find much, except that Karen Ziemba was involved with the reading. Anyways, don't know how accurate that is, but does anyone know anything about this musical, including who was cast? Also how big of a role is Gladys?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 7:59pm

I saw the production with Karen Ziemba and Eartha Kitt.

It's an odd, confusing mishmash of a book by Joe Stein, and definitely not Kander and Ebb's best score. There is one good song at the end, a ballad sung by Sabina, but that's pretty much it.

I assume Gladys is the daughter? Not a bad part.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 8:02pm

So, wait, is this show similar to "Curtains" in the Kander & Ebb aspect?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 8:11pm

Kander and Ebb wrote the score to both, yes.

They also wrote the scores to FLORA THE RED MENACE, THE RINK, CABARET, and CHICAGO.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 8:36pm

I'm sorry. I didn't phrase my question clearly enough. Was this composed before the death of Mr. Ebb and just now being produced? Or, is it a show that they wrote a while ago that I've just never heard of.

[D2]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 8:49pm

It is a musical version of Thornton Wilder's THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, and it has been kicking around for years. Thornton Wilder also wrote THE MATCHMAKER, which became the musical HELLO, DOLLY!, not written by Kander and Ebb.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 8:51pm

theaterkid, your "or" doesn't make sense to me - seems you're saying the same thing before and after it.

[D2]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 8:55pm

I think he means is the upcoming production a revival of something that was produced years ago.

Getting back to the show itself, if I remember correctly there was a workshop production in Virginia a few years back with Bebe Neuwirth as Sabina.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 8:58pm

Bebe Neuwirth was to be in the premiere at Signature in DC, when the musical was called Skin of Our Teeth, only to be replaced with Sherie Rene Scott, who recording a song on her album. Brent Barrett recorded the (then) title song on his Kander and Ebb album as well. Dorothy Louden was also in the original production (I assume in the Kitt part, but I could be wrong).

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:09pm

Wait, I'm confused...the article said it would star Eartha Kitt. Unless it's wrong. Here's the article:

http://www.dailyfreepress.com

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:11pm

If you're talking to me, I was talking about the original production several years ago.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:25pm

Eartha Kitt was in the Ziemba reading a couple of summers ago - we're not saying she's not in this one as well.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 11:30pm

when this show played The Signature Theatre in Virginia, it was called Over and Over.