ms peters when she played the same role back in 2003, missed quite a few preview performances cause her voice couldn't handle the demands of the role. According to ATC she missed 9 performances in total. 8 were during previews or shortly after opening, and 1 was a personal day when her husband had surgery. Didn't she have a respiratory infection or something early on? (i.e. it was more complicated than simply her voice not being up to it).
I guess I am lucky, I only saw FOLLIES once - the first Broadway preview. Bernadette's voice was
almost perfect and she gave what I thought was a spectacularly moving, dreary (in a good way) performance as Sally.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.