Elaine Stritch

On stage 20 productions, 67 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

Two’s Company

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In the literature8 passages

• The topical “Zip”—a song in which newspaper reporter Melba Snyder (played in the revival by Elaine Stritch) acts out her interview with Gypsy Rose Lee, “the star who worked for Minsky”—also underwent several lyrical changes in 1952. In the revival Melba opened the song with Hart’s earlier version of the first lines when she recalls her in…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Original revival cast (1954) : Vera Zorina, Bobby Van, Elaine Stritch, Ben Astar, Kay Coulter, Joshua Shelley, Nicholas Orloff, Jack Williams, George Church, Salvatore Dell’Isola (conductor). Decca DL 9015; reissued on Stet DS 15024. Missing: “La Princesse Zenobia Ballet.”ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Original revival cast, studio cast (1952) : Helen Gallagher, Patricia Northrop, Elaine Stritch, Lewis Bolyard, Jane Froman, Dick Beavers, Max Meth (conductor) (1952 lyrics and orchestrations). Missing: Ballet (“Chez Joey”). Angel ZDM 0777–7-646962–2-1.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Revival cast (1994) : Rebecca Luker, Lonette McKee, Mark Jacoby, Elaine Stritch, Michel Bell, Gretha Boston, Robert Morse, Jeffrey Huard (conductor). Quality 257.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• In fact, virtually all the critics lavished praise on Segal, Lang, Gallagher, Elaine Stritch, and dancer Helen Wood. But Walter Kerr in the New York Herald-Tribune was the lone naysayer in assessing Lang’s performance and said he was “a lightweight in heavyweight company. . . . He would be just a shade under-age for the part of Willie Bax…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• In 1958, a faithful television adaptation of the musical was seen on CBS (with Russell and Jacqueline McKeever), and in 1960 the stories were adapted into a CBS television series for Elaine Stritch and Shirley Bonne that lasted for one season. The musical has been revived in New York five times, three times by the New York City Center Lig…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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