| re: Linda Lavin -- from THE MAD SHOW to SUPERMAN | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:41 pm EST 01/01/25 | |
| In reply to: re: Linda Lavin -- from THE MAD SHOW to SUPERMAN - BroadwayTonyJ 02:35 pm EST 12/31/24 | |
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| Hey, BroadwayTonyJ. Although Lavin left very soon after the opening, a bit more research after I posted has me no longer sure that she played only previews and opening night. Here’s what I can tell you. After previews that started on December 23, 1965, the show opened on Sunday, January 9, 1966. On that day, Leonard Lyons reported in his widely syndicated column, Lyons Den, that Linda Lavin was to play opening night and would be replaced by Marcia Rodd starting at the next performance. Lavin was to move directly into rehearsals for It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman. I had come across that item a few years ago, and I did not question it as it seemed to make reasonable sense. But now I’m not sure. An ad for The Mad Show in the edition of the New York Times dated Sunday, January 16, 1966, had Lavin listed among the cast, and Rodd was not listed. On Tuesday, January 18, a column in the Daily News stated that Rodd had replaced Lavin, which seems, along with the Times ad, to leave open the possibility that Lavin played the first full week of performances after the Sunday opening. Best Plays has the date as January 16, 1966. I guess that would agree with the News item since the item was in the past tense, but it would mean that the Times ad that listed Lavin was inaccurate. It seems a little odd that Rodd would have taken over on a Sunday, but certainly not impossible. Several years later, Rodd said in an interview in the New York Times, published in the edition dated March 14, 1971, that she went into the show four days after the opening. I can’t find the date on which it was recorded. |
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