"Putting It Together" Questions....

Firstly Sondheim def has casting approval. He absolutely was happy with the casting of Kathy Lee. He changed 1 lyric for her specifically in Could I Leave You. I didn't get to see her so I have no idea. She had 2 HUGE shoes to fill in that role

Secondly, no The Game Sequence won't be on the DVD. The Broadway production was rewritten. There are songs in the first one that don't appear in the DVD and vice versa.

The recording of Putting it Together is amazing. Especially Rupert and York.

They changed a lyric in "Could I Leave You"... from "Just wait a G*d damn minute!" to "Just waiting a mother f*cking minute!".

Kathie Lee is an ardent Christian... and taking the Lord's name in vain is not acceptable. The "f" word is the lesser of two bad words.

May sound silly to you, but it's the religion.

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Whoops!

*Dances offstage, Ashley Simpson style".

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Well, that is a little weird.
I was a little upset at the fact they changed other lyrics to Could I Leave You, instead of "passionless love making once a year," Burnett (and I think Julie Andrews sang the same lyrics) says "beautiful love-making once a week" which I guess was done to accomodate the "plot" but it took a lot from the sarcasm of the song and this line usually causes some laughs.
There's no A Little Priest sequence in the DVD, I can't believe they had it in the off-Broadway show, why don't they have it on the DVD? Does Julie Andrews sing this song? Julie Andrews singing A Little Priest = HEAVEN.
I loved every single performance on the Broadway show but didn't really get why George Hearn got a Tony nod. and Burnett didn't. I think Bronson Pichot's performance was very underrated too, he was so funny.
Does anyone know if this played on Broadway as a limited engagement or was it an open-ended run?

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Actually that's not how the lyric changed. She asked Sondheim to change the lyric for reasons already stated. Sondheim said in the London production they had the actress sing "wait a bloody minute". So that's what it was for a few days. She said it didn't really ring true for her character (being a New York society lady). She suggested f*cking. Sondheim said "are you sure? Fine then sing it."


And Lou I have friends who don't believe the same things I do. I have family who don't really like gay people, but they're family. It's unfair to "stone" someone for an association that you only know on paper ("documented history"). You can't really say what the nature of their friendship is unless your friends with both of them...and even if you did, it's still not cool.

"beautiful love-making once a week"

I believe the line was changed to "dutiful lovemaking once a week."

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"Being COOL at all times is not the best thing."

Yes and talking about this on Broadway world will def. make a difference...actually this should prob be on the off-topic board.

"Sondheim said in the London production they had the actress sing "wait a bloody minute". So that's what it was for a few days. She said it didn't really ring true for her character (being a New York society lady). She suggested f*cking. Sondheim said "are you sure? Fine then sing it.""

There was no London production.

Diana Rigg sang the original lyric - "god damm(n)ed minute" in the Oxford version as she had done in Follies - there was no London version of PIT. Julie Andrews did the same and as it is in the script, so did Carol Burnett.

Fiatlux I was just repeating a version of the story I heard from Kathie Lee. I may have gotten the details of it incorrect. It actually was her story not mine. So if it's incorrect, then I apologize for that.


LouW As ws stated before I don't idolize Kathie Lee, I've actually never seen her perform and really wouldn't want to. I was simply saying that your Kathie Lee bashing is not really relevant to a Broadway thread. From the looks of it YOUR the one who seems rather obsessed about this. There was no bubble to burst LOL. I find it a little comical that you think I take this so seriously. I certainly hope you're not accusing me of being unintelligent because that would be unwise of you, since you don't know me from Francis Bacon.

Nicely said JazzySuite82...He does seem a bit hostile...

RayAndAllThatJazz86...The Manhattan Theater Club was a limited engagement...The Broadway was a open run.