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I actually don't know how to do this (I am computer illiterate in the extreme) but on my addition to the entry for the 1933 Frank Capra film "Lady For a Day" I make note that Jerry Herman, David Shire & Richard Maltby Jr. and John Kander & Fred Ebb have all worked on incomplete musical stage adaptations of this property. In 1989 Jerry Herman told me that he had worked on it - he did not give a reason for his failure to reach completion. The same year historian Ken Mandelbaum told me that Kander & Ebb had started an incompleted adaptation of the property and that at the time Shire & Maltby held the option on the property and were working on it. Since it never happened I can only surmise that it never came to completion by Shire & Maltby. I've been asked to document my statement but actually I'm so lacking in computer skills that I've not known how to offer an explanation. For reference, I am a musical theatre historian. A collection bears my name at the Scherer Library of Musical Theatre at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, they have videotaped my extensive collection of musical theatre memorabilia and in the late 1980's / into the early 1990's I wrote the only much-interviewed and researched oral history of the original 1963-1971 Merrick-Champion Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly!". At that time the book was not published but the manuscript is in the Scherer Library and has been consulted by many sources, the latest of whom is Richard Skipper as he prepares his prospective book about "Hello, Dolly!".

Stephen Crowley Washington DC neffsunk@yahoo.co.uk

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