best 11 o'clock number — Page 5

DOLLY got saved by a few things, actually. If you look on the back of the very first pressing of the OBC album (and it has to be the very first), there's a photo from a production number originally in the Harmonia Gardens scene that has Vandergelder surrounded by the chorus dressed as butterflies. I'm guessing that was replaced by the dance contest number, but if anyone has a lead on what it actually was, I'd love to know.

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An 11 o'clock number is most certainly NOT a number that is brought in to save a show. "Comedy Tonight" is not an eleven o'clock number.

An 11 o'clock number is generally the second to last number of the show. If the end of the show (the Finale) is "midnight," so to speak, the 11 o'clock number is the number that comes in right before that.

Rose's Turn is an 11 o'clock number, but that show doesn't really have a Finale, so Rose's Turn is one of those 11 o'clock numbers that IS the final number of the show.

I think it also came from the very literal definition of coming in at 11pm when shows started at 8:30.

"And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going" is not an 11 o'clock number. Nor is "Hello Dolly." "Sit Down You're Rockin the Boat" is a CLASSIC 11 o'clock number.

Updated On: 7/4/04 at 05:22 PM