Minkus played Rose Mitnick, a girl arranged to be married to Hal Linden as Yissel, who longs to be an old-fashioned husband (which is, incidentally, the title of *his* showstopper) "When Will I Learn?" is the moment when she takes control of her own life and decides not to marry him.
Minkus was also the standby for Mimi Hines in the original production of Funny Girl. She has yet to appear in another Broadway musical, but her emotive belting is very much in line with her 60s contemporaries: Liza/Barbra/Eydie/Lainie, etc.
The great surprise about The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N—whose opening night was interrupted at intermission with the harrowing news that MLK Jr. had been assassinated—is that its score has its charms and is better than the show's mixed reception would suggest.
It was a charm show and it needed raves to survive. It ran all of 29 performances. And as I said, no cast recording was made, but a live tape survives of the OBC. Lonny Price directed an off-Broadway revival in 1989. A modest score that got away.
The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N was one of four musicals featured in my dissertation. I later turned the research into a cabaret featuring quite a few of the songs from the musical. I hope to keep the project going in the next year. I love this show.
Tom Bosley?!
Oh yeah,would I Love to hear her DROMP!
That was Linden's first lead, right?
He had replaced in a couple of principal roles (notably taking over for Sydney Chaplin in Bells Are Ringing for the last eight months of the run and was a prominent standby. But this was probably his most prominent opening credit to date (he had an "and" credit)
It always amused me that he was one of the members of the Bells Are Ringing cast that made it into the film