Interesting Facts You Didn't Know About Your Favorite Shows.. — Page 5

Ziegfeld hated Ol' Man River. He would sit there during rehearsals yelling, "Goddamn bass!"

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the concept of the ruby slippers IS copyrighted. The shoes are silver in the stories, however, MGM changed them to Ruby for the film and that is copyrighted. Disney had to go through extensive negotiations to use Ruby slipper in Return to Oz.

Glinda's dress color is not copyrighted. Read interviews. Hilferty chose to use a different color to avoid people drawing visual comparisons with the film. She wanted the WICKED Glinda to be readily accepted as NOT who she was in the MGM film.

Bye Bye Birdie was originally titled "Let's Go Steady"

Mary Martin was considered for the role of Fanny Brice in the original production of Funny Girl

Initally the "real life" June Havoc refused to let her name be used in Gypsy. The character's name was changed to Baby Claire. Soon after Havoc realized that everyone would recognize her as the character anyway so she gave them the release to use her name.

The original title for Hello Dolly! was Dolly, A Damned Exasperating Woman

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anthony writes all about that scene in his book!