The musical was later adapted for television, starring Bacall, with Larry Hagman replacing Len Cariou in the role of Bill Sampson. When Baxter departed the show in 1972, actress Arlene Dahl replaced her for one month before the show closed. Anne Baxter, who had portrayed Eve in the original film, replaced Bacall as Margo Channing. However, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, Hayworth was suffering from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease and could not retain lyrics or dialogue. Hayworth was very interested and flew to New York to audition for the role. When Bacall's contract was up in 1971, the producers initially decided to cast film legend Rita Hayworth as Margo. Lang, the original cast included Lauren Bacall, Len Cariou, Penny Fuller, Bonnie Franklin, Lee Roy Reams, Robert Mandan, Brandon Maggart, Ann Williams, and Nicholas Dante. Directed and choreographed by Ron Field with the orchestrations of Philip J. The Broadway production opened on Maat the Palace Theatre, and closed on July 27, 1972, after 896 performances and 4 previews. However, Strouse and Adams did write a song based on one of the film's most famous lines, "Fasten Your Seat Belts".
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At a later point, Twentieth Century Fox reversed its original decision and granted the musical's creators full rights to All About Eve's script however, by that time, the show was so far along in its development that major changes could not be made to the book. (A memorable moment: Margo asks Duane, "Are you going to be her hairdresser too?" Duane's response: "Only when she's laid out!") The show also eliminates the film's final sequence, in which an aspiring actress shows up in Eve's apartment, ready to do to her what Eve did to Margo. Strouse commented that this change also made the show more relevant to the 1970s. Margo's loyal assistant Birdie Coonan, the only character in the film who is suspicious of Eve from the start, was replaced by Duane Fox, Margo's gay hair stylist.
Addison de Witt, the snide and articulate drama critic played in the film by George Sanders, was replaced by Howard Benedict, producer of the play in which Margo Channing is appearing. Comden and Green also created new characters to replace the characters created specifically for the movie. They updated the story so that it was set in the present day (1970) instead of the 1950 setting of All About Eve. īacall, Strouse, Adams, and Kasha came to the conclusion that Michaels' book was insufficient, so Kasha hired Betty Comden and Adolph Green to write a new book. And she constantly felt that the man she was in love with was going to go off with someone else, someone younger of course, and I, too, had had those feelings". She was being forced to face the fact that her career would have to move into another phase as younger women came along to play younger parts. Bacall greatly identified with the role, explaining, "The Margo Channing of Applause and myself were ideally suited.
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In July 1969, movie star Lauren Bacall was cast as aging theater star Margo Channing, the role played by Bette Davis in All About Eve. In April 1969, it was announced that Strouse, Adams, and book writer Sidney Michaels were beginning to work on the show, with Lawrence Kasha producing.
The resulting musical could not contain any dialogue or characters that had been created for the movie but could use the original material that the movie also used. They were, however, able to purchase the stage rights to the short story on which All About Eve had been based, Mary Orr's "The Wisdom of Eve". However, Twentieth Century Fox, which owned the rights to the movie, refused to grant them the rights to the script or the title. Composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams, (who had previously collaborated on the score to Bye Bye Birdie, among others) wanted to write a musical version of the 1950 movie, All About Eve.
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