Oh there's a lot more to the Lorelei saga than is here already. I can't remember all the names but let me have a shot at it. This is all hazy since I was a mere slip of a lad and never saw the show although it was right around the time I moved to the Big City.
Lorelei toured for about a year before coming in. It was in trouble from the start. They had three directors: Robert Moore, Comden and Green for a while and then somebody else (Joe Layton?) or perhaps the forgotten #3 rehearsed the show and was replaced by C&G and then Moore. Anyway there was another choreographer too--also maybe Layton. The producers had to pay all these people except C&G only took their fee, but didn't ask for director royalties. They were getting some writing royalties anyway and their directing stint was just to keep somebody in charge during all the rewrites which were innumerable.
All the rewrites cost a lot of money and this is why the show which was designed to make its investment back on the pre-Broadway tour, did not. The NY reviews were enthusiastic for Carol, so-so for the show and after the advance sale played out, it limped along and ran about 10 months or so.
The song "Men" was done on the Tonys that year and was indeed very funny.
Post Bway there was a mini-tour at the Music Fair circuit since the producers owned those theatres, but after that zip, zilch, nada.
Someone I knew was cast in a featured dance role, but decided that she didn't want to be in a dog on tour for a year, so she got a doctor's letter saying she was injured or sick and got out of her contract. Still, her name was in the cast list on the first album which she found very amusing between sips of vodka gimlet.
I hope her name will be on this reissue. She died about 5 years ago and deserves many monuments whether she was in them or not.
There's plenty more about Lorelei that I can't recall. Anybody else remember tales?
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
