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...song can do the trick, too. I think back just three years to I Can Get It for You Wholesale, in which Barbra Streisand had one solo, "Miss Marmelstein," the only redeeming feature of a tawdry show. And look where it landed her! If there is any justice, Gilbert Price will be the talk of Broadway the day after the show opens there on May 16, and from that time forward the name of Price in musical circles will no longer automatically mean Leontyne...
...just may be that Lainie Kazan,* 24, was. When Brooklyn-born Lainie signed on as understudy to Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, she was unsure it would last, and promptly developed an ulcer. But she set to work sandwiching in acting lessons, music lessons and a few TV appearances whenever possible. Twice each week she did the show in the understudy rehearsal, but for ten long months Lainie's opening-night shivers had to wait. Healthy and unhoarse, Streisand never missed a performance...
...Kazan. At the close of each of her two performances, the audience roared its approval. And so a star was born? Not on your tinpanalley. To begin with, though Kazan's looks and style are remarkably similar, she is a lot of work away from being a second Streisand...
...started. That day Manhattan's Basin Street East booked her for a 2½-week run in April. And Colpix Records signed her to do four songs. By last week two or three other offers were in the talk stage. After Kazan's two fill-in stints, Streisand had wired: WE WERE TOLD TREES GROW IN BROOKLYN BUT WE KNOW BETTER. STARS DO. Maybe yes and maybe no. GROW is the operative word. Trees are not simply born either...
...hour variety spectacular featured Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Johnny Carson, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews and Carol Channing. Harry Belafonte, wearing one of his custom-made undress shirts, knocked out a Michael Row the Boat Ashore, slipping in a few lines about Mississippi and Alabama. Barbra Streisand belted out Happy Days Are Here Again and People for the folks listening without loudspeakers in Baltimore. Dame Margot Fonteyn and fiery young Rudolf Nureyev stopped the show with a magnificent pas de deux. Singer Bobby Darin dedicated a little number he had just turned out on the train coming...