(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.