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…to keep the king, but Barbara Andres, who portrayed her, did get to keep “At Once I Loved You,” which musicologist Steven Suskin reported was “a show-stopper” in his book…

…enthusiasm certainly didn’t keep the show from immediately reaching sellout status and staying there for two solid years. As Barbara Isenberg points out in her excellent new book Tradition! –…

…does give Rounseville the opportunities to solo “A Wand’ring Minstrel, I” and duet with Barbara Mesiter’s Yum-Yum in “Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted.” Then he shares “Here’s a How-De-Do?”…

…portrayed sisters named Portia and Joy. By the time that Pat Carroll and Barbara Ruick recreated these roles in 1965, the sisters had been renamed Prunella and Esmerelda. Then in…

…directing, I’m surprised that he didn’t suggest – or insist – to Bock and Harnick that the tiger roar out of the chosen door. After that, the princess (Barbara Harris)…