Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

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Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

Posted: 10/22/15 at 1:27am

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

Tonight DAMES AT SEA has its opening night on Broadway, but 47 years ago the show opened off-Broadway at the Theatre de Lys (now the Lucille Lortel) starring Bernadette Peters.

Does anyone remember seeing it during its run?? And does anyone who saw it way back when plan on seeing the Broadway incarnation?

In performance:

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

In the recording studio:

Replacements during the run included Loni Ackerman, Pia Zadora and Kurt Peterson.

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Updated On: 10/22/15 at 01:27 AM

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

Posted: 10/22/15 at 8:32am

What a great group of pictures. Hard to believe it was that long ago.

Thanks for posting them.

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

Posted: 10/22/15 at 8:40am

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway Is that Hal Linden on the far right? So handsome!

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

Posted: 10/22/15 at 10:14am

Yes, that's Hal. He and Adrienne Angel were added to boost the vocals. The cast album also features two pianos instead of the single one used for the show.

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Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

Posted: 10/22/15 at 10:35am

thanks for the photos! so weird to see Bernadette without her signature frizzy hair lol :)

The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

Posted: 10/22/15 at 10:38am

"The cast album also features two pianos instead of the single one used for the show."

Correction: the cast album features full orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick (about twice the size of those used in the current Broadway production). The Off-Broadway production always had two pianos and percussion.

http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=630

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

Posted: 10/22/15 at 12:58pm

Hal is quite fetching with the beard. I too was surprised to see him in the recording session photos.

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Posted: 10/22/15 at 1:37pm

Dames At Sea actually opened at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre on December 20, 1968, and transferred to the larger Theater de Lys on April 22, 1969. Previously, there had been a shorter production that played the Cafe Cino.

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

Posted: 10/22/15 at 7:12pm

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

I wonder what that one act Cafe Cino version was like. A subtitle "GOLDDIGGERS AFLOAT" was added at that time.

Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway

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