PLEASURES AND PALACES Clpsed out of town - 1965 Mr. Fosse hired me again for his new Broadway bound, "Pleasures and Palaces". The book was something about Potemkin and Catherine the great and her lovers, I think, I was never quite sure. The choreography was all or almost all, Russian character dancing. During the dress rehearsal and day before our pre-Broadway opening in Detroit, I injured my knee and was told it would be weeks before I could rejoin the cast. I had very badly damaged the cartilage in my left knee and later had to have it removed, (the cartilage that is).
I never made it back to the show and the show never made it back to
Broadway. It closed in Detroit, - a monumental bomb. One redeeming factor; it may have
given me a shot at the Guinness Book Of World Records. I just might be the first person in
show-biz history to have been a member of an original Broadway show, stayed with it it's
entire run, and never did a single performance. |
