Cast Replacements That Might Have Warranted Another Trip to the Recording Studio
• Martha Raye, Hello, Dolly!
• Ann Miller, Mame
• Linda Lavin, Gypsy
• Donna Murphy, Hello, Dolly!
You're up.
Feb 4, 2026 03:51The OBC of "Who's Afraid " went into the recording studio, as was the custom of the time. I would have loved to hear what Mercedes McCambridge did with Martha.
Debbie Reynolds, Woman of the Year (getting laughs that no one else did)
Reba in Annie Get Your Gun
Karen Morrow in the Kenley Mack & Mabel
Susan Watson in Carnival
Joan Fagan in 110 in the Shade
And our LA “almost,” announced but recast when Mack & Mabel stole her:
Bernadette Peters in Sugar
Not Broadway, but I’d pay a pretty penny for a recording of Arlene Francis’s 1978 Westport go at Side by Side by Sondheim…
