Ruth Buzzi

On stage 1 production

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In the literature6 passages

• Cast: Gwen Verdon, John McMartin, Helen Gallagher, Thelma Oliver, James Luisi, Ruth Buzzi, Barbara Sharmaebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• She had power and she used it. “Gwen was out from time to time,” said actor Ruth Buzzi. “We would always hear that she maybe had a cold or something was wrong with her voice, but you never really know why someone’s missing a show.” There were theories. “I went on a hundred times for her,” said Helen Gallagher, Gwen’s standby. “Because she…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• “I felt sorry for Gwen,” Ruth Buzzi said. “She seemed so lonely, maybe because Bobby never ever came in [to her dressing room]. He never seemed to pay any attention to her backstage and he never went out with her after the show.” Sensing this, Buzzi and Nick Malekos, one of the stage managers, would visit Gwen in her dressing room wheneve…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• [>] “Gwen was out from time to time”: Ruth Buzzi, interview with the author, January 3, 2011.ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• [>] “I felt sorry for Gwen”: Ruth Buzzi, interview with the author, January 3, 2011.ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• starring Ruth Buzzi “and a cast of 70” with Dennis Allen, the Burgesses, Carillo Bros., Miss Damorra,theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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