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Posted: 9/21/05 at 4:34pm

Were Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner really attached to each other on stage during the performance? I was just wondering because all the photos I've seen of the show suggest that they were just 'standing side by side' with hips touching.

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Posted: 9/21/05 at 4:38pm

i think they were just standing side by side...nothing attaching them...

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Posted: 9/21/05 at 5:19pm

Nope, no magnets or velcro or anything.

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Posted: 9/21/05 at 5:32pm

IF you can track down a copy of the 1998 Tony Awards you will see them performing "I Will Never Leave You" and they do indeed stand side by side.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

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Posted: 9/21/05 at 6:18pm

They start the show seperate and then join together.

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Posted: 9/21/05 at 6:43pm

What is really funny was when one of them would get just a beat off from the other (I saw the show 8 or 9 times and this only happened twice) and there is a big gap between the two. I always remember during the Egyptian number when one fo them fell over completely!

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Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:07pm

That time was ONLY because the wind was blowing really hard during the parade. They never really had an incident like that occur during the actual show.

They used a conveyor belt during the beginning rehearsals. Other than that, it was do or die. Every a** for herself.

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Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:15pm

From people who have seen the show-there would be times in the show when they would separate and sing to each other from different sides of the stage, as if to suggest not what so much as what they really want, but more what they really needed in order to live fullfilling lives. The song "Buddy Kissed Me" has pretty much a similar message.

"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

Updated On: 9/21/05 at 09:15 PM

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