| re: Was watching "Can-Can" movie for first time in many years/Gwen Verdon comparison (long) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 03:10 am EST 11/25/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Was watching "Can-Can" movie for first time in many years/Gwen Verdon comparison (long) - PlayWiz 11:35 pm EST 11/24/24 | |
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| There was no dance after “Never Give Anything Away,” but Claudine is onstage for it and must have sung with the girls the few lines they sing. The playbill tells us that Claudine was in five numbers, not counting “Never Give Anything Away,” for which the playbill listed only Pistaqche. Claudine was in the “Quadrille,” “If You Loved Me Truly,” The Garden of Eden Ballet, The Apeches, and the Can-Can. And she’s alone onstage with Hillaire and Boris during “Come Along With Me,” and there clearly must have been business involving her. The last number in the licensed script is the “Can-Can,” which ends the show proper. What the playbill listed as the Finale seems to have been a final chorus of “Montmart’” after the curtain fell and before the bows. Rather meaninglessly, in the show, Aristide sings “It’s All Right With Me” to a passing streetwalker. Re the one or two cut songs for Verdon: I mentioned that one, recorded on a Bagley (but there are additional verses as well as some slightly different lines in the complete lyrics book), was titled “Her Heart Was in Her Work,” and it has some of the rawest double-entendres I’ve ever heard in any song by anyone. It’s bawdy even by Porter standards. Supposedly, Conried objected to the song. That is what the notes to the Bagley say. The other song I mentioned that is in the complete lyrics book, “I Do,” I would guess was also intended for Claudine and Boris, but no characters are specified in the book, as indeed none are specified for “Her Heart Was in Her Work,” but I think it must have been for Claudine and Boris. I’m not at all sure “I Do” made rehearsals, and there is no indication of anything in the complete lyrics book. For that matter, there is no indication of anything in the book regarding “Her Heart Was in Her Work.” It’s possible that one didn’t make rehearsals. There is also a “Laundry Scene” that I would guess Claudine would have been in, but I’m guessing this one never made rehearsals. The book lists three songs being cut during the tryout. Verdon wasn’t in any of them. Bagley recorded two lovely ballads, “To Think That This Could Happen to Me” and “When Love Comes to Call,” at least one of which must have been for Lilo. Neither made performances. Again, it’s not clear if they made rehearsals. |
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