Re: Annie GYG (Re: TV tie-in to musicals: It's a Bird...)

From: ElBob-O@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (robert=A0armstrong) Carol Channing on the Tonys
told how she'd understudied Eve Arden in the Broadway production, and
she'd thought it would be a good idea if, instead of letting Danny Kaye
sing Let's Not Talk About Love fast and herself slow, that she should
sing her part fast too. 
"The result of this was: I was fired." 
The ironic ending to her story was that, two decades later, Eve replaced
Carol in the Chicago production of Dolly. Betty Grable would replace
Eve. 
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Oh to have seen Eve Arden on the stage. I almost saw Betty Grable in
GUYS AND DOLLS in stock, but she became ill and didn't do the Camden,
NJ, engagement.