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  1. Eric Vedowski

    Musicals: From Stage & Film to Blu-ray

    I read an interview with Jerry Orbach where he said he was offered She Loves Me opposite Julie Andrews but his agent convinced him he shouldn't make his starring movie debut (he'd done some films in small parts) in a musical lest it typecast him. Orbach was steamed later since he had been...
  2. Eric Vedowski

    Musicals: From Stage & Film to Blu-ray

    Bingo-turns out it's from a "Army Navy Screen Magazine" short-after the "On the Town" bit Walker sings "Chattanooga Choo Choo" with others.. I hadn't thought of it being from a short. Thanks.
  3. Eric Vedowski

    Musicals: From Stage & Film to Blu-ray

    Speaking of rare footage-where did they get that clip of Nancy Walker & Cris Alexander doing "Come Up to My Place" from "On the Town?" I searched after I first saw it but never did find out. Anybody know?
  4. Eric Vedowski

    Musicals: From Stage & Film to Blu-ray

    Original songs by Dale & Brown only. Show was a unsold pilot, which explains why it was scheduled in the rerun/burn off time of the season. Variety: "Played at full shout by its principals, it resembled a high school play during the first dress rehearsal with a rambling script...(music)...
  5. Eric Vedowski

    Musicals: From Stage & Film to Blu-ray

    It was two hours (link below has it for one hour but all other papers have it in a two hour slot) in prime time, followed on ABC by a Tom Jones special "Movin' Up River," from London with Phil Harris, Mary Travers and some kid named Tina Charles. Or you could've switched to CBS to watch a rerun...
  6. Eric Vedowski

    Musicals: From Stage & Film to Blu-ray

    It's in the tv listings of the NYTimes for April 26, 1971. From the Chicago Tribune "the main problem in Dogpatch for this production is pollution and cameo guests Eddie Albert, Ken Berry, Carol Burnett, Monty Hall and Donald O'Connor contribute comments on the subject." It aired on ABC (not NBC...
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