GavestonPS said: "Jarethan said: "...
As for The Right Girl, Tony Yazbeck's performance aside, I have always considered that to be tied for the worst number in the show, along with Too Many Mornings. At least with the latter, it is just that I got sick of it. I never enjoyed The Right Girl.
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Jarethan, did you see the most recent revival when it came to the Ahmanson and Victoria Clark took over for Bernadette Peters? "Too Many Mornings", sung by Clark and Ron Raines with their huge voices, became a revelation and very nearly operatic. It actually justified the intermission which followed.
But I can't agree more with you about "The Right Girl". The exact same content is covered much more cleverly by "The God Why Doncha Love Me ... Blues" 10 minutes later. Per one of the books about FOLLIES, "The Right Girl" is only there because Gene Nelson had to have his own "book" solo, like the other three leads.
I'm glad I'm safely 3,000 miles away. This whole PRINCE OF BROADWAY project makes me very sad, even just to hear about it.
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What a post. The Right Girl was there because the authors wanted it there, not because Mr. Nelson had to have anything. It's a great number in the right hands. In Mr. Nelson's hands it was a hugely dramatic and affecting number, as well as very exciting. In the last revival, which you speak of seeing at the Ahmanson, nothing was in the right hands, not one single thing, starting with the director straight on down the line. Too Many Mornings was a "revelation"? I have to laugh when I read pronouncements like that - the only thing missing is the word "thrilling." The song isn't about begin operatic, BTW, and nothing, NOTHING will ever justify an intermission in this show. The original cast and creative team understood this show perfectly - no one else has since, and that includes its book write who has watered it down over and over again - it didn't need to be "fixed" ever. As to Prince of Broadway, it doesn't sound like it's working very well, but I'd have to see it to judge for myself.
