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.
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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.
jan 10, 2025, 2:43 am • 3 0 • view
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.
jan 10, 2025, 2:44 am • 7 0 • view
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.
jan 10, 2025, 5:33 am • 1 0 • view
Tom Bosley?!
jan 10, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh yeah,would I Love to hear her DROMP!
jan 10, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view