Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
#1Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Posted: 10/22/15 at 1:27am
Tonight DAMES AT SEA has its opening night on Broadway, but 47 years ago the show opened off-Broadway at the Theatre de Lys (now the Lucille Lortel) starring Bernadette Peters.
Does anyone remember seeing it during its run?? And does anyone who saw it way back when plan on seeing the Broadway incarnation?
In performance:
In the recording studio:
Replacements during the run included Loni Ackerman, Pia Zadora and Kurt Peterson.
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#2Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Posted: 10/22/15 at 8:32am
What a great group of pictures. Hard to believe it was that long ago.
Thanks for posting them.
#3Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Posted: 10/22/15 at 8:40am
Is that Hal Linden on the far right? So handsome!
#4Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Posted: 10/22/15 at 10:14am
Yes, that's Hal. He and Adrienne Angel were added to boost the vocals. The cast album also features two pianos instead of the single one used for the show.
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#5Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Posted: 10/22/15 at 10:35am
thanks for the photos! so weird to see Bernadette without her signature frizzy hair lol :)
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
#6Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Posted: 10/22/15 at 10:38am
"The cast album also features two pianos instead of the single one used for the show."
Correction: the cast album features full orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick (about twice the size of those used in the current Broadway production). The Off-Broadway production always had two pianos and percussion.
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#7Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Posted: 10/22/15 at 12:58pm
Hal is quite fetching with the beard. I too was surprised to see him in the recording session photos.
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#8Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Posted: 10/22/15 at 1:37pm
Dames At Sea actually opened at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre on December 20, 1968, and transferred to the larger Theater de Lys on April 22, 1969. Previously, there had been a shorter production that played the Cafe Cino.
#9Remembering the original DAMES AT SEA on its opening night on Broadway
Posted: 10/22/15 at 7:12pm
I wonder what that one act Cafe Cino version was like. A subtitle "GOLDDIGGERS AFLOAT" was added at that time.
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