Group Cutaways No. 09 [July 3, 1985]

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The 3 July, 85, bars and tones will be cutaways and creation of a tape number 8.

I didn't hear about anything except that I had said shit out loud when my audience could have heard me say it.

You said that once I had an election.

And she cried.

She cried.

Try to do it real personal.

No, no, it's not fair.

Just keep on going.

What was her name? Larry Tann, yeah.

No, no, no, no.

What? I'll tell you later when I feel less like a dork.

Oh, it's not the booger in Dolores' nose? No.

So she'd say, well, if I, you know, it's going to be an omen.

If I hit the air best turn, you'll hit your tours.

And so she'd come out and hit the air best turn.

And Kennedy would go, oh, I'm going to hit my turn, so it's going to be okay.

Come out and go every which way.

Do you remember that whole tour? He had such a hard time.

He was like a ricocheting bullet.

He was just bouncing off walls everywhere.

Do you remember that? I can't believe you sang in the loft of the Lyric Opera while Joe Sullivan was singing.

Wow, wait until they heard that.

I never heard about that before.

I never heard about that myself.

Oh, yes.

That one we kept, we were certain she'd be fired.

Well, I think Carol Fox would have scalped her and then fired her.

She found out.

That would have really been the end.

That would have really been the end.

That dirty.

Oh, I had one.

Wait a minute, I had one too.

One of Larry's good ones? I was just singing.

I remember Larry and I singing in Summer Staff, Oklahoma.

Under the mic.

We were just having a ball.

We thought we were way upstage in the back and we were standing back there.

I was singing, Oklahoma.

And at the top of our lungs, the last, okay.

We screeched it.

The conductor cut off the singers.

We weren't watching the conductor.

We were holding the note.

Oh, did we catch it? They knew it was us.

They knew exactly which mic we were standing under.

He must have done that a lot because I remember Anna Marie Alberghetti.

He sang her part.

Do you remember you would do those things where you sang a certain part.

Firefly.

And then you were supposed to cut off and then it was her solo.

Well, it was her and him.

We were singing together.

I remember that.

We always got in trouble with singing.

I remember Dorothy Allen when I sat on that breakaway chair.

Oh, yes, I do.

We were doing Molly Brown.

Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Dorothy Allen and I decided to make up a piece of business.

I grabbed everything, threw it in my arms.

I sat on this chair.

It was the breakaway chair and it just went splat.

It was a big trick.

She was supposed to take that chair and bang it over somebody's head or something.

Well, there we were.

The stage manager chased me around the theater.

I thought they were going to murder me.

It was the greatest piece of business.

If I only hadn't hit that chair, I would have been all right.

Oh, you remember when we did Tom Sawyer in Kansas City and Larry ended up being the one that they stuck your head in the barrel? Oh, God, with the Roper chest.

Somebody did something.

With Lindbergh jeans.

They used to do wonderful things like put Ben Gay in people's dance belts and all kinds of wonderful stuff.

And stock.

If they didn't like them.

You did that to your boyfriend, Bruce.

Remember Bruce Stoll? Good.

It couldn't have happened without you.

Oh, what a shocking admission.

Yes, it's true.

There's no record.

I recorded all the interviews, interviews, honestly.

All right.

All right.

Okay.

Okay.

Sorry about this, folks.

What do you mean? Okay.

All right.

This won't be in.

Well, it's just the reaction.

Oh, we're not telling the stories.

Okay.

We want to have anybody on this.

It's just people re -hanging, so say whatever you want.

Do you remember when you did Snow with Dolores with your white toupee? Was it Snow or Sleeping Beauty? It was Snow.

It was in Nutcracker.

It was Snow.

It was either Snow or Grandpa.

I don't know.

I just didn't know.

No, it was Snow.

Don't try her.

Just re -hanging her face to the right.

Do you remember? You must remember this, Mike.

And everybody.

You took her in the lift like that and her tutu brushed your hair piece up that way.

And when he brought her down, it didn't come down.

So it was like a baseball cap with the bulls sticking out.

Yes, but he kept trying to put my body to brush it down.

He took my body to try and get his tooth back down.

Oh, I remember that.

I also remember when you were dancing with Dolores and she put those things in her hand.

That was...

But our best...

I thought she was going to break her neck trying to pull it out.

Our best time...

I thought she was going to rip up your face from the Pure West.

Our best time was when we did Madame Popoff and Joey Don.

And he said, oh, we don't have to rehearse.

We know it.

And he stepped on my dress and ripped it.

And we started peeing in our pants because we were laughing so hard.

Remember that time? I do.

And your brother was giving us dirty looks because we were laughing like that.

And we were lucky because Paige was at the back of the house and she couldn't tell what was going on.

She thought you danced well that night.

No, she came back and she said, I think you two ought to rehearse more.

Something was strange.

Didn't look right.

Well, we were hysterical.

Okay, now you're talking about Paige.

Okay.

Well, do you remember the time she clunked her head on the pipe and knocked herself out? Yes.

There she walks, Miss Ballerina, and she walks into her bar and she grabs this thing and starts shaking it.

The whole piece fell on her head.

And there she was, staring around.

It was very good, dear, very good.

I don't have the children.

Oh, what a good time.

Do you remember, Patty, when we were doing a duo dance? We were still at Miss Rini's and we were doing a double dance.

And my brother -in -law had taken us to this little church where we were doing this dance.

And it was a place where the audience was surrounding us and we were on the same level.

And there's this big Italian lady with her legs spread apart right down the center where we were dancing.

And we started dancing together.

And all I could think was, oh, God, I wish that lady would put her legs together.

And before you knew it, I lost where I was in the dance.

Took off like a wild banshee, just doing any kind of funny dancing.

She, instead of carrying on, starts to try and follow me.

Now there's two people running around doing absolutely nothing together.

And my brother -in -law didn't come back and see us dance for 20 years.

And he came back 20 years later and she was doing snow and I was doing sugar plum.

And he said, boy, you two sure have improved.

Remember that? Do you remember the time we double dated in Kansas City with those guys? We had diet talk during the double dating with this bunch of guys that had come and they were real wild.

Was this your horny story? She says, they get in this convertible, they're going up in the mountains.

She turns to the guy next to her and she goes, I feel so horny today.

She didn't know what to worry about.

She didn't know what horny meant.

And then these guys tried to attack us.

We didn't know what to do.

We were all going, don't worry.

That was the year, wasn't that the year we broke up? Oh, remember her when she was doing Susanna and she went so hard.

She went behind the curtain with her pants on.

And you saw it just spreading from beneath the curtain.

Well, it was because Kenny had put on a Smith Brothers beard to do the parts.

You both had, because it was for the duel.

It was for the, where they had, you know, they had pots in their heads and garbage can lids.

Well, we danced with garbage cans.

We had to do gargouillades with garbage cans.

You know, with heavy garbage cans.

Slander.

Slander.

And do you remember how heavy the Carmen costume was? Do you remember that funny story? And I did it and his page came back and said, Darn, well, how did you like doing it? And I said, oh, I loved doing it, but those costumes weigh 40 pounds.

She said, Carmen's a heavy story.

You said the costumes are so heavy.

And she said, darling, Carmen's a heavy story.

Splash, you know.

It was a car.

Yes.

This will be a presence in the room with the 60 cycle hum.

See what you can do to notch it out.

I'll give you a tone.

And here it is.

And a present.

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