The production placed "The Story of Lucy and Jessie" after "The God-Why-Don't You-Love-Me Blues," with "Losing My Mind" following "Lucy and Jessie."
This was one of several regional productions that had Weismann introducing the principals' numbers during the Loveland sequence, using lines that have never been in a licensed version of the show.
As in a couple of other regional productions of this show during the 1980s and 1990s, after the Loveland sequence, not only did was a cityscape outside the theatre visible, but there was also a suspended wrecking ball swaying back and forth, as if the wrecking had already started to demolish the theatre. The actor who played Buddy had an added line, addressed to the offstage wrecking crew: "Hey, there are people up there!"
As in the New York Philharmonic concert performances, a reprise of "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs" was added just before the curtain.
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