I would have posted about this in reply to the article, but by the time I saw it, comments were closed.
This is what Fred Ebb said in the Dramatists Guild Quarterly group discussion of the creation of the show:
"It got an amazing reaction from the audience, because they did laugh, and they kind of realized what they were laughing at, and they would stop laughing. There was a sort of polite hand. It made them very nervous, which is what Hal wanted." |
