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When Russell turned down Mame on Broadway, she allegedly said "I don't eat yesterday's stew."

In his autobiography, Jerry Herman talks about how painful it was coaching Lucy in music rehearsals and says that every track had to be cobbled together from multiple takes, sometimes one note at a time. This was long before autotune existed.

Ann Jillian (Dainty June) talks about the filming of Gypsy: http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/dvds/2012/12/19/let-gypsy-entertain-you

There were several anaglyph 3D adult films made in the late '70s - early 80s. I remember one I saw at a midnight show at the old Waverly theater in Greenwich Village starring John Holmes. Mr. Holmes was most impressive in 3D. I was constantly afraid of having an eye poked out.

This is getting way off-topic, but -- In her autobiography My Heart Belongs, Mary Martin tells a very funny story about the original London production of South Pacific, which was a recreation of the Broadway original by the same creative team in 1952. To make a long story short, Logan wanted to...

I usually buy from J&R but I found a copy for $25 at a DVD/Blu Ray discount outlet on West 14th on Nov. 14.

Re: Eliza's name in MFL: She refers to herself as "Liza" more than once in both film and play -- "I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day!" "Liza, sound the call!" -- and one of the play's working titles was either "Lady Liza" or "My Lady Liza" (sources differ).

The flaming queen in the hat, sunglasses and apron is Jason Alexander in "Love! Valor! Compassion!" And "flaming queen" isn't a perjorative in this case. That's how the character is written. Nathan Lane played the part in the stage production and he used to bring the house down in that scene...

I'm going to backpeddle a little on the Lisa Kirk tracks for Mame. Now that I'm home from work and have checked a few places, mainly some very heated discussions in the google archive of alt.rec.theater.musicals, it was reported at the time of Mame's release, by columnist Radie Harris among...

Lisa Kirk recorded a full set of Mame's vocals at the insistence of Jack Warner, who wanted to use them instead of Ball's, but Lucy had enough clout, and as mentioned, her own money in the film, to veto any dubbing and forced them to use her own tracks. It would be wonderful to have those as...