Favorite Roscoe/ "Beautitul Girls?"- Page 2

[ljay889]

Posted: 10/26/11 at 2:13pm

Lots of little things were added, changed, and cut for this production.

Bernadette isn't blonde, so strawberry blonde makes more sense. That line and other small original book lines were added back very late in previews.

There's really no way to make sense of all the book changes throughout the years. Every major production has been different.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/26/11 at 2:29pm

"Fell apart" doesn't really connote laughing anymore. I'm not sure it ever did, really.

What about "Meredith Lane," played by Sheila Smith in the original? Right before "Who's That Woman," she utters her one and only line in the show: "This number winded me when I was nineteen."

Sheila was the standby for Alexis Smoth, Yvonne De Carlo and Fifi D'Orsay. After standing by for Angela Lansbury in mame, she went on to achieve the rare distinction of playing both Mame and Vera on Broadway:



Here she is, 38 years after Follies (42 yars after that photo), playing Madame Armfeldt in a Westchester production of A Little night Music:

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/11 at 2:51pm

And why did Chrstine change her name to Sandra? Is that why Phyllis doesn't tell her she never liked her, because she's thrown by the fact Christine went undercover as Sandra?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/26/11 at 2:56pm

My favorite Roscoe is the grumpy one who hates almost everything. He makes me laugh.

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 10/26/11 at 8:58pm

"And why did Chrstine change her name to Sandra? Is that why Phyllis doesn't tell her she never liked her, because she's thrown by the fact Christine went undercover as Sandra?"

It was originally Christine Crane and Sandra Donovan and they combined the 2 names to reduce the cast size. Nixed Meredith, Willy WHeeler, Chet Walker, and of course Vincent & Vanessa, and a few other minor roles that only had 1 or 2 lines each and were primarily used to fill out the cast.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/11 at 9:21pm

Posted: 10/26/11 at 9:29pm

You'll be happy to know 1800 people fall apart in the Chicago script.

[FrauleinKost]

Posted: 10/27/11 at 8:21am

The 1800 people who fell apart are my favorite characters.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 10/27/11 at 8:27am

I like Alexis Smoth

[evic]

Posted: 10/27/11 at 3:27pm

Are Sandra and Dee Dee lesbian lovers? They arrive at the party together and are seen frollicking in the shadows on the catwalk during act 2. I miss Phyllis' line "I didn't know this was supposed to be a costume party".

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 2:31pm

I've been thinking a lot about this and I realized that my real favorite character is Young Carlotta.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 2:50pm

I never realized it was After Eight who started this thread.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 2:54pm

Kind of puts a different spin on it, eh?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/23/12 at 3:18pm

Like many threads on BWW, I think this one was taken from the troll.