Dorothy Collins was in BALLROOM?...her singing "50 Percent" from BALLROOM

I had no idea Dorothy Collins had Dorothy Loudons role on the BALLROOM tour! But I was on the website her daughters put together (rememberingdorothycollins.com) and then read that she had starred on the tour....another one of those shows that has such a fantasic score but such a short run, its barely known of.

Go down the page to the heading ""Fifty Percent"- Dorothy on tour in Ballroom with the Broadway cast 1979" and listen, I prefer Loudons emotionally gut-wrentching rendition, but none the less this is fantastic to hear.

Do any recordings exist of this tour???


Scroll down and its just above the FOLLIES CD image

Updated On: 9/22/10 at 11:04 PM

She sounds glorious.

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It was, to what I've unearthed, a tent tour. Similar to the Kenley circuit (although he had Mrs. Roper, Audra Lindley), however I've never found which one.

I'd hazard it was either the Music Fair Tent Circuit, or one that Ruta Lee calls the Eastern Silo circuit (which I have never heard of).

The recording of her is quite good, although I like Loudon better.

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Janis Paige did do it at the Muny, and they, once upon a time, did house tours...so it's entirely possible.

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This has nothing to do with "Ballroom", but it gives me a chance to post a link to one of my favorite clips of her singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5RrYduPMf8

And it doesn't have that annoying jump that the other clip has and you get the entire song.

She gives it her all. It almost seems like a rehearsal for "Losing My Mind"

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