Lainie Kazan

On stage 5 productions, 33 years

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Worked with more than once7 names

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In the literature8 passages

• The most controversial move that Bennett made was getting a new Gittel. He replaced top-billed star Lainie Kazan with Michele Lee. The word was that Kazan was “miscast,” a charge she rebutted in a letter to the New York Times. “What could be more perfect than for a Jewish girl from Brooklyn to play a Jewish girl from Brooklyn? So much for…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• The biggest difference was that Streisand had an understudy in Lainie Kazan who did go on once. Jackman had two standbys—Michael Halling and Kevin Spirtas—but they must have been somewhat ashamed to take the money. Even on the two occasions that Jackman took a week’s vacation, they weren’t pressed into service. Only if something had happe…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• But Vincent Gardenia? How astonishing that Bennett, who was so into appearance—one reason why he’d fired Lainie Kazan from Seesaw —would hire short, squat, and craggy-faced Gardenia as Bea’s love interest. Perhaps he wanted this additional challenge, figuring that when he made it work, he could say, “And I even made people believe that a…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• Cast: Barbra Streisand, Sydney Chaplin, Kay Medford, Danny Meehan, Jean Stapleton, Roger DeKoven, Joseph Macaulay, Lainie Kazan, Buzz Miller, George Reeder, Larry Fullerebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• With Lainie Kazan on one side of her and Allyn Ann McLerie on the other, Barbra had at last begun rehearsing the role of Fanny Brice. Garson Kanin was putting them through their paces as they worked out the details of a scene. On the unusually wide stage of the Winter Garden Theatre, under its lower-than-average proscenium arch, Barbra wa…ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt
• Lainie Kazan watched in wonder. Ever since rehearsals had started on December 10, Barbra had been running the show, and producer Stark and director Kanin, to everyone’s amazement, had been letting her. Kazan, who’d played small parts in The Happiest Girl in the World, with Cyril Ritchard and Janice Rule, and Bravo Giovanni, with Michele L…ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt

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