Follies

Staff

... Conductor

Harold Hastings

Cast

... Major-Domo	Dick Latessa
... Sally Durant Plummer	Dorothy Collins
... Young Sally	Marti Rolph
... Christine Crane	Ethel Barrymore Colt
... Willy Wheeler	Fred Kelly
... Stella Deems	Mary McCarty
... Max Deems	John J. Martin
... Heidi Schiller	Justine Johnston
... Chauffeur	John Grigas
... Meredith Lane	Sheila Smith
... Chet Richards	Peter Walker (i)
... Roscoe	Michael Bartlett
... Deedee West	Helon Blount
... Sandra Donovan	Sonja Levkova
... Hattie Walker	Ethel Shutta
... Young Hattie	Mary Jane Houdina
... Emily Whitman	Marcie Stringer
... Theodore Whitman	Charles Welch (ii)
... Vincent	Victor Griffin
... Vanessa	Jayne Turner
... Young Vincent	Michael Misita
... Young Vanessa	Graciela Daniele
... Solange LaFitte	Fifi D'Orsay
... Carlotta Campion	Yvonne De Carlo
... Phyllis Rogers Stone	Alexis Smith (i)
... Benjamin Stone	John McMartin
... Young Phyllis	Virginia Sandifur
... Young Ben	Kurt Peterson
... Buddy Plummer	Gene Nelson
... Young Buddy	Harvey Evans
... Dimitri Weismann	Arnold Moss
... Kevin	Ralph Nelson (i)
... Young Stella	Julie Pars
... Young Heidi	Victoria Mallory
... Party Musicians	Taft Jordan Aaron Bell (i) Charles Spies Robert Curtis
... Showgirls	Suzanne Briggs Trudy Carson Kathie Dalton Ursula Maschmeyer Linda Perkins Margot Travers
... Ensemble	Graciela Daniele Mary Jane Houdina Rita O'Connor Julie Pars Suzanne Rogers Roy Barry Steven Boockvor Michael Misita Joseph Nelson Ralph Nelson (i) Kenneth Urmston Donald Weissmuller

Tracks

Sometimes this recording circulates with a reprise of the second half of "Who's That Woman?" edited in after the song finishes. This addition seems to have been intended to simulate the way the show was performed at the first Broadway preview (March 24, 1971), when it was performed with an intermission that came after "Who's That Woman?" The second act then started with a reprise of the second half of the number. The show was never again performed that way.

The half-reprise has clearly been edited in from another performance than the one heard on the rest of the recording. We can tell that the rest of this recording was not made at that first preview for several reasons, starting with the fact that it's clearly Arnold Moss as Weismann on this recording, but Moss didn't join the cast till a couple of days later.

We think that the half-reprise probably wasn't recorded at the first preview. It seems to just be an edited-down version of a complete performance of the song. Although three live recordings of the Broadway run (including this sound-system recording) are in cicirculation, the edited version of "Who's That Woman?" doesn't come from any recording that we've found. The half-reprise seems to be from an audience recording so it's clearly not edited from the performance of the song on the sound-system recording proper. And it doesn't match up with either the performance from Dec. 18, 1971, nor with the performance from April 5, 1972.

One oddity of the half-reprise performance is that the taps are much less loud than any of the other live recordings we have of the show.

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Fixing a date for this performance has proved elusive. It has circulated with various dates affixed to it, none of which seems to be right based on the evidence within the performance. Our best guess at this moment is that two New York preview performances were edited together, though if that's the case, it remains puzzling why "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs" is incomplete and why a different version of "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues" wasn't used.