I Was On Stage With Mary Martin

[EdEval]

Did you have the fortune to play on stage with the great Mary Martin?  Where you a child or young chorus singer or dancer in one of her shows?  Could you tell us a story about it?  Thanks.

[JSquared2]

You should really change your subject line to something like "Were you on stage with Mary Martin?"

[BalconyClub]

I Was On Earth With Mary Martin.

[arsol]

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 or dancer in one of her shows?  Could you tell us a story about it?  T

[quizking101]

I’m gonna bet most of the people who shared a stage with her, even in her heyday, are at least one foot in the grave if not already long dead

[rosheider]

She was doing stage work as late as 1987, so I'm sure there is someone still lurking around who worked with Miss Martin.  Her tales of working with Ezio Pinza in South Pacific and the sexual harassment she had to endure from him are really quite astounding.  Back then, though, they were troupers, for better or worse.  

[FranklinDickson2018]

rosheider said: "She was doing stage work as late as 1987, so I'm sure there is someone still lurking around who worked with Miss Martin. Her tales of working with Ezio Pinza in South Pacificand the sexual harassment she had to endure from him are really quite astounding. Back then, though, they were troupers, for better or worse."

Mary Martin mentions NOTHING of this in her rather candid autobiography.  Other than that she adored him. Can you please name your source for this?  I have read much about South Pacific (from Martin's point of view)  for a research project and again sexual harassment NEVER MENTIONED. I have NEVER heard anything remotely resembling sexual harassment from Pinza to Mary Martin.  Later on Florence Henderson talked about him at an Encores "talk-back" and she tells funny stories about his exploits with a dancer or two, but nothing even remotely sounding like harassment. (These were young women he was dating.)    Pinza and Martin did have a feud about a radiator in the hallway, but again nothing sexual about that.  Is there really a reputable source for this?   The newer bio on Mary Martin is obsessed with Martin's sexuality and again no references to sexual harassment other than a light-hearted interview she gave in 1950 that Pinza got carried away with his kissing and other comments from different folks about his reputation as a womanizer.   Martin quipped: I would tell Doris (his wife) to ask him to stop kissing me.  Is this really an implication of sexual harassment?  Martin says "we got along absolutely marvelously" which to me says it all.  If there was serious harassment I doubt she would have given the interview, and I doubt she would have been interested in working with him again as she was considering appearing with him in "Fanny."  They also appeared together on TV in 1954. 

[OlBlueEyes]

Yes, the Italian half of my family held him in high esteem and a quick perusal of the 'Net didn't turn up anything.