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| Posted by: AlanScott 06:20 pm EDT 08/02/24 | |
| In reply to: re: First Broadway show you ever saw this is not a poll - AlanScott 01:40 am EDT 08/02/24 | |
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| I was able to borrow Peter Pan On Stage and Screen from a friend who has a copy. I did kind of wonder last night if "Be Our Mother" and "Happy Is the Boy" were perhaps the same song, and they just changed the title between San Francisco and Los Angeles. And according to the book, that was the case. Another title it had (although perhaps never seen in a program, I'm not sure) was "Be Our Parents." I presume the lyrics of that version were at least somewhat different. It was Sondra Lee, not Kathleen Nolan, who is quoted in the book about "When I Went Home" having deeply moved the audience, moving them so much that they didn't want to applaud such a sad moment. And that, she said, was why it was cut. She didn't say precisely that Martin was upset that she didn't get a big hand for it. I think I just surmised that, perhaps wrongly. This aligns with what bmc says below about Sondra Lee discussing it in her autobiography. Nolan is also quoted about the song, saying it was a wonderful song, and she remembered hearing it for the first time in rehearsals at the Curran. She said that she could still remember all the words. The author, Bruce K. Hanson, also says that most of the performers in the production whom he interviewed for the book not only remembered the words of the song but could sing them. Hanson also says that Robbins and Norman Shelly both remembered the song as having been very good. Robbins couldn't remember why it was cut. Hanson writes, without giving a source, that Martin told Moose Charlap that the song was just too sad. |
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