(Im still recovering from this.)

Her agent initially rejects the part wholesale based on the directors outrageous request that Gwen audition.

I wish I could say that Gwen Verdon went Strasberg all over that stage, then.

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I wish that she fueled her performance inChildren!

I really do wish I could say that.

But perhaps its a spoiler for next weeks episode, then, to say thatChildren!

Children!opened and closed in one night.

(Narrator: He didnt.)

Bob begs Gwen to help, but shes busy with rehearsals forChildren!

What are we working on?

No, maybe not, muses the other.

We flash to the 1953 Broadway opening ofCan-Can, in which Gwen found her breakout role.