GIVE 'EM THE OLD RAZZLE DAZZLE A Free Monthly Theatre E-zine JANUARY 1999 (Volume II) (C) 1998,Clair Sedore, Editor. Peter Poullos, Assistant Editor. No reprints without written permission from the publisher, although permission is granted to forward a copy to your friends and business associates. 1000 subscribers Now available Online. Online Issues Member of Ezine Webring (http://www/webring.com/cgi-bin/) Give 'Em The Old Razzle Dazzle Monthly Newsletter http://www.webpost.net/ra/RazzleDazzle/index.html I had a great deal of difficulty with this site while trying to place the newsletter. It would only take the first part, so the second part is on : http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/peterpoullos/index.html Perhaps the page is too long for either of these sites, as when I tried the freeyellow site, it too, would not take the whole issue, only about three quarters of it. Any suggestions???? IN THIS ISSUE A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-CLAIR SEDORE BROADWAY MUSICALS TO FILM BROADWAY PLAYS TO FILM ANDREW LLOYD WEBER JEAN ROSENTHAL EXTINCT THEATRES IN TORONTO FRANCES HYLAND ARTHUR MILLER NEWCOMERS TO THE INTERNET MIKE NICHOLS AND ELAINE MAY FOR THE NEWCOMERS TO THE INTERNET SOME REVIEWS OF OUR FIRST ISSUE Clair ... I just signed up for your newsletter and received the above posting. WOW! Thank you so very very much for such an inspiring recitation of theatrical talent. I'd forgotten so much of this till you strung them all together into a immense rosary of the face and the word. I really look forward to your coming postings! =Douglas AtelierBks Dear Clair, Thank you so much for being so helpful and responding so quickly to my question about Threepenny Opera. Your information was very helpful. I will have my paper finished by today or the next. Really, thank you a ton! 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Although Hollywood copies the Broadway musical format, most times the end product is nowhere near the original show. That happens frequently due to the "star" system that Hollywood feels it has to have. They have to have a name star or stars in the film as they feel the "originals" would be too hard a sell, i.e. Lucille Ball in Mame (no one knew Angela Lansbury, way back then), Shirley MacLaine in Sweet Charity (noone knew Gwen Verdon, other than theatre fans), Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady etc. Who is Julie Andrews? At the time of My Fair Lady she was known only to Broadway audiences and West End audiences. Firstly, I will talk about musicals from the stage to film: Anna Christie, a reversal from the stage to a Broadway musical, with Liv Ullman, a non-singer in a musical; also Anne of Green Gables, a product of Charlottetown Festival, from the films to the stage; Annie (why not Dorothy Loudon?); Annie Get Your Gun (Ethel who?); Bells Are Ringing (a chance with Judy Holliday paid off); Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Burt Reynolds, I mean really); Boy Friend (Twiggy, what was wrong with Julie Andrews); Brigadoon; Bye Bye Birdie (Chita Who?); Cabaret (finally a success because they kept Joel Gray); Cage aux Folles, a reversal film to stage; Call Me Madam (with the legendary Ethel Merman, you can't go wrong); Camelot (what dreadful casting, all non singers - Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave - why not Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and Robert Goulet); Can Can (not a great show no matter who starred); Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge?); Lili to Carnival, both wonderful (Leslie Caron to Anna Maria Alberghetti - both wonderful); Carousel (worked because both Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae could sing); A Chorus Line (what a disaster - a brilliant show into an insipid film - Michael Douglas???) Cyrano (a wonderful musical with a non-singer, Christopher Plummer, but unfortunately Broadway audiences did not like it; Damn Yankees (brilliant casting with Gwen Verdon, and noone questioned who she was); Desert Song; Evita (Patti who? I enjoyed the film in spite of everything, although it became a biography with music rather than a musical); Fanny, a delightful musical on stage and a wonderful film as well; Fiddler on the Roof (music was great but the direction was terrible, even Norman Jewison can make mistakes, the film could have been shot anywhere, it was so BROWN); Finian's Rainbow, what terrible casting, Fred Astaire and Petula Clark; Flower Drum Song; 42nd Street; Funny Girl, I'm surprised they kept Barbra; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as much as I adore Marilyn, she was NO Carol Channing Gigi; Girl Who Came to Supper (they took out the music and made it The Prince and the Showgirl, what a waste of Monroe and Sir Laurence); Godspell, what can I say; Gone With the Wind, the musical, I am only sorry North Americans didn't get a chance to see what was one of the greatest musicals I have ever seen. I saw it three times in London, prior to its opening; Good News (resurrecting this tired chestnut to the stage was not a good move); Grease, worked both on stage and as a film as it was not reliant on stars; Guys and Dolls, again what a waste of Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra, the only saving grace was Stubby Kaye; Gypsy (I adore Natalie Wood, but she was not right for the part, Sandra Church??); Hair, I will not even discuss, what a disaster; Half a Sixpence, merely a recreation of the Broadway show; Hello Dolly (I love Barbra but it should have been Carol Channing); Hobson's Choice into a wonderful musical called Walking Happy; Breakfast at Tiffanys into Holly Golightly with Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain, both non-singers, should have worked but it didn't; How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying was wonderful because they kept Robert Morse. I can't imagine anyone else in the part. I Remember Mama from the film with Liv Ullman, who does not sing, but it did have a score by Richard Rodgers; Irma La Douce , a wonderful musical, now with Shirley MacLaine , who can sing, and it became a non-musical, where was Elizabeth Seal and the great Keith Michell; Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, just a copy of the stage performances; Jesus Christ Superstar, what a disaster, shot in Israel, could have been Death Valley, and starred who??Can't remember; Johnny Belinda, another success of the Charlottetown Festival,a musical made from the great film with Jane Wyman; King and I, what a coo with casting, even if Deborah doesn't sing, there is always Marni Nixon (I do not know what Hollywood would have done without Ms. Nixon); King of Hearts, the brilliant Alan Bates replaced by Don Scardino? Who?; Kismet; Kiss Me Kate, thanks for Howard Keel; L'il Abner (just a filmed version of the tremendous stage hit); Little Night Music (Elizabeth Taylor?????); Little Shop of Horrors, what a great transition from film to stage, and I adore Ellen Greene; Mame, Lucille Ball, a little long in the tooth, but her husband owned the rights so I will not discuss; Man of La Mancha, I will also not discuss - what an awful film musical with Peter O'Toole. Merry Widow (Lana Turner?); Music Man, not the greatest singer of them all Barbara Cook, but the likeable Shirley Jones and the wonderful Robert Preston; My Fair Lady (what a piece of miscasting - Audrey Hepburn, I adore but?); New Faces of 1952 (just a copy of the show introducing Eartha Kitt); No No Nanette; Of Thee I Sing; Oh What a Lovely War; Oklahoma, good because of Gordon MacRae, who can sing, and Todd-AO didn't hurt; Oliver; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (they just picked the wrong Barbara - it should have been the multi talented Barbara Harris); 110 Degrees in the Shade (the Rainmaker translated to the stage as a musical); On the Town (the great Bernstein's musical); Paint Your Wagon (another Hollywood disaster - Clint Eastwood? Lee Marvin?); Pajama Game was okay with Doris Day and John Raitt; Pal Joey, one of the great non-musicals, I don't like it on stage or film, and Livent are redoing it (but maybe not with the current bankruptcy); Peter Pan, what a wonderful, charming score; Phantom of the Opera, from many film versions to a classic hit musical; La Plume de ma Tante; Porgy and Bess; Roar of the Greasepaint the Smell of the Crowd (who cares?); Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult classic; Rose Marie again with Howard Keele and Anne Blythe; Seesaw based on the play Two for the Seesaw; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, one of a handful of great film musicals, recreated for the stage with a long in the tooth cast; She Loves Me (based on Little Shop Around the Corner); Shenandoah, a film made into a good musical; Showboat, a good film, a great musical and a tremendous recreation by Livent; Silk Stockings, just another vehicle for the non-singer Fred Astaire; Song of Norway (a multimillion Todd-AO bore); Sound of Music (a sappy Broadway show into a more sugary film - but we have Julie Andrews, now a recognized talent); South Pacific, no Mary Martin, but Mitzi Gaynor, who did okay; Stop the World I Want to Get Off with the hateful Anthony Newley; Student Prince (Edmund Perdom); Sweeney Todd, from the straight film to a brilliant Sondheim musical; Sweet Charity, again without Gwen Verdon, but Shirley MacLaine; Threepenny Opera with the great Raul Julia and the great Ellen Greene; Tom Brown's Schooldays, taken from the film and made into a musical with Roy Dotrice; Tommy (I don't know what the film is supposed to be); Unsinkable Molly Brown, without Tammy Grimes, but Debbie Reynolds did an admirable job on it; West Side Story (Natalie Wood I adore but not in a singing vehicle, and Richard Beymer, who was he sleeping with???? - a great Bernstein musical made into an often laughable film); Wiz (who cares?); Woman of the Year based on a film with Lauren Bacall in the Rosalind Russell part; Wonderful Town with the great Rosalind Russell; Yentl with a wonderful performance by Barbra Streisand in the Tovah Feldshuh part; and Zorba, a musical, based on the great film with Alan Bates and Anthony Quinn STRAIGHT PLAYS TO FILM Straight plays have faired somewhat better than musicals, but only somewhat: Abie's Irish Rose; Adding Machine (what a horror with Zero Mostel and Phyllis Diller); Admirable Crichton with David Niven; Advise and Consent; Agnes of God; All the Way Home; Amadeus; American Buffalo, another David Mamet bore; Anastasia; Angel Street; Anna Lucasta with Eartha Kitt; Any Wednesday; Arsenic and Old Lace; Auntie Mame with the brilliant Rosalind Russell; Baby Doll; Bad Seed; Barefoot in the Park; Becket; Bell Book and Candle with a terrible performance by Kim Novak; Best Man; Billy Budd; Blithe Spirit; Born Yesterday with the great Judy Holliday; Boys in the Band with the original cast; Bus Stop with Marilyn Monroe in the Kim Stanley part, which put a very different slant on the Inge play; Butterflies Are Free; Cactus Flower; Caesar and Cleopatra; California Suite (a total disaster except for Maggie Smith); Caretaker, with the original West End cast; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (miscast with Elizabeth Taylor taking over for Barbara Bel Geddes); Chalk Garden; Charley's Aunt; Children of a Lesser God; Child's Play; Collector; Come Back Little Sheba (miscasting with Burt Lancaster); Come Back to the 5 and 10 Jimmie Dean Jimmie Dean (the Broadway cast on film); Conduct Unbecoming; Crimes of the Heart; Crucible; Dance of Death; Dark at the Top of the Stairs; Day in the Death of Joe Egg; Death in Venice; Death of a Salesman; Deathtrap; Desire Under the Elms (total miscasting with Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins); Desk Set; Desparate Hours; Devils (Ken Russell's strange film); Dial M For Murder, lost a lot of the thriller bits, more like a Grace Kelly fashion show; Diary of Anne Frank; Dinner at Eight; Doll's House; Don't Drink the Water; Dracula; Dream Girl; Driving Miss Daisy with a great performance by Jessica Tandy; Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Summer and Smoke), with the great Broadway actress, Geraldine Page; Edward II; Effect of the Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds; Elephant Man; Emperor Jones; Entertainer, with Sir Laurence recreating his West End part; Entertaining Mr. Sloane; Equus, with an overpowering Richard Burton; Extremities; Fan; Far Country; Five Finger Exercise; Fortune and Men's Eyes, again with the original cast predominantly; Forty Carats; Front Page; Futz; Garden District (Suddenly Last Summer), with a screaching Elizabeth Taylor; Gemini; Glass Menagerie; Glengarry Glen Ross; Goodbye Charlie; Great Expectations; Great White Hope; Groove Tube; Guardsman; Hamlet, with the great Laurence Olivier; Happiest Millionaire; Harvey; Hatful of Rain; Hedda Gabler; Heiress; Homecoming; Hostage; I Am a Camera, with the great Julie Harris; Importance of Being Earnest; Indians: I Never Sang For My Father; Inspector General; Jane Eyre; Julius Caesar; Killing of Sister George, with Beryl Reid in her West End performance; Lady's Not For Burning; Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Laura; Lenny, with a remarkable performance by Dustin Hoffman; Lion in Winter, with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole replacing the tremendous Rosemary Harris and the great Robert Preston; Little Foxes; Little Hut; Little Murders; Long Day's Journey into Night; Look Back in Anger; Loot; Luther; Luv; Mabeth; Maids; Majority of One; Man For All Seasons, a bore both on stage and as a film; Man in the Glass Booth; Marat Sade; Mary Mary; Matchmaker; Member of the Wedding, with the original Julie Harris and Ethel Waters and Brandon DeWilde; Middle of the Night, a miscast with Kim Novak; Midsummer Night's Dream; Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (Boom - what a horror that was, with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton); Miracle Worker; Moby Dick; Moon is Blue which the films censored on their own; My Sweet Charlie; My Three Angels; National Health; Never Too Late; Night Mother; Night Must Fall; Night of the Iguana (also miscast with Richard Burton and Ava Gardener); Night Watch (also miscast with Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey); Noises Off; No Sex Please We're British; Odd Couple; Oh Dad Poor Dad (ludicrous casting with Rosalind Russell completely out of her element - oh for Jo Van Fleet); On Golden Pond, with Katherine Hepburn taking over for Frances Sternhagen and Henry Fonda for Tom Aldredge; Only Game in Town (more horrendous casting with Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty); Orpheus Descending (Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani - ugh); Othello, Our Town; Owl and the Pussycat with Streisand taking the Diana Sands part, and changing the whole feel of the play; Period of Adjustment; Picnic, what a great filmed performance, and the opening up added power to the Inge play; Play It Again Sam; Plaza Suite; Pleasure of is Company; Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (with Zoe Caldwell being replaced brilliantly by Maggie Smith); Private Lives and Pygmalion; Rain; Raisin in the Sun with prinmarily the Broadway cast; Rashomon; Rebecca; Reluctant Debutante; Richard III with Sir Laurence; Rhinoceros; Ritz (with a great performance by Rita Moreno); Romeo and Juliet; Rose Tattoo; Royal Hunt of the Sun; Sabrina (Sabrina Fair); Saint Joan; Same Time Next Year, a great play which works with almost any cast; School for Scandal; Separate Tables; Seven Year Itch; Shot in the Dark; Shrike; Sleuth; Solid Gold Cadillac (again with a brilliant performance by Judy Holliday); Staircase; Star Spangled Girl; Steel Magnolias (a wonderful play becomes a great film); Streamers; Streetcar Named Desire (with great performances by Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando); Street Scene; Subject Was Roses; Suddenly Last Summer(Garden District); Summer and Smoke (with a wonderful performance by the late Geraldine Page); Summertree; Sunise at Campobello; Sunshine Boys; and Sweet Bird of Youth (again with the great Geraldine Page) Teahouse of the August Moon with an admirable performance by Marlon Brando; Tender Trap; That Championship Season; There's a Girl in My Soup; Three Sisters; Time of Your Life; Touch of the Poet; Toys in the Attic (with a miscast Dean Martin); Take Her She's Mine; Taming of the Shrew (with the miscast Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton); Taste of Honey, with the West End cast; Tea and Sympathy (a watered down version of the play ) ; Treasure Island; Tribute; Two for the Seesaw; Under Milkwood; Under the Yum Yum Tree; View From the Bridge; Visit; Wait Until Dark; Watch on the Rhine; Wedding in White with Carol Kane recreating her role; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (with too strong performances by Taylor/Burton); Who's Life Is It Anyway; Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter (with a miscast Jayne Mansfield); Winterset; Witness For The Prosecution and World of Suzie Wong You Can't Take It With You; DEMOLISHED THEATRES IN TORONTO Toronto Theatres that have been demolished over the years, or in a few cases refurbished: Allen Theatre at 19 Richmond Street East Colonial Theatre on Queen Street opposite City Hall - demolished in 1957 Crest Theatre - established in 1953 by Donald and Murray Davis, and their sister Barbara Chilcott, and closed in 1966 Eaton Auditorium - recital hall in the old Eatons College Street store Global Village - theatre ran by Robert and Elizabeth Swerdlow Globe -Queen Street, West of Yonge, replaced with complex when new City Hall built in 1957 Grand Opera Theatre -(1874-1928) South side of Adelaide, West of Yonge - destroyed by fire in 1879, reopened in 1880, with 1300 seats Lyceum - seated 1,149 - changed to film house in 1930 Majestic - (1903-1920) torn down Mary Pickford - (1916-1947) Northwest corner of Queen and Spadina Massey Hall - opened in 1894 - replaced by the new Roy Thompson Hall Odeon Carlton - glorious film and legitimate house demolished and space left vacant for many years Pantages - (1913- ) changed to Imperial and turned into sixplex - now completely refurbished and in 1998 changed to AT&T Centre for Performing Arts Pantages Princess - (1895-1930) King Street West of York, former Academy of Music Queens - (1874-1883) demolished Regent -27 Adelaide St. West, torn down Royal Alexandra - 260 King Street West (1906-07- ) Beautifully restored by present owner Ed Mirvish and very viable subscription series of touring plus locally produced shows Royal Lyceum - (1848-1874) South side of King Street, between York and Bay Streets, had 750 seats (previosuly the Lyceum 1846-1847) burned down in 1874 Royal Opera House - (1874-1883) 1,450 seats, torn down St. Lawrence Hall - (built in 1851 - ) beautifully restored during Centennial, now houses upscale restaurant and offices, did house bank but bank relocated in 1998 Sheas Hippodrome - (1914-1956) By Street opposite City Hall, 3,663 seats, demolished in 1957 for new City Hall, pipe organ now housed in Casa Loma Star Burlesque - (formerly the Empire Theatre, torn down) Theatre Royal - Northeast corner of King and York Streets (1836-1840) frame building, burned down Tivoli - Theatre which housed TODD-AO, now demolished Vaudeville (Casino) - 87 Queen Street West (formerly Vaudeville) demolished in 1957 - as Casino was great vaudeville site, with headliners like Johnnie Ray, Billy Daniels, Frankie Laine, Sally Rand, Patti Page, Gene Nelson, Rosemary Clooney, Crew Cuts, Four Lads - 1,100 seats, strippers or name star got 300.00 a week for 24 shows, chorus girls got 27.50 per week for same 24 shows - just before being torn down in 1957 did a stint as a legitimate house called Civic Square THEATRE ROYAL- Northeast corner of King and York Streets (1836-1840) frame building, burned down TIVOLI THEATRE - which housed TODD-AO, now demolished VAUDEVILLE THEATRE (Later CASINO THEATRE)- 87 Queen Street West - demolished in 1957 - as Casino was great vaudeville site, with headliners like Johnnie Ray, Billy Daniels, Frankie Laine, Sally Rand, Patti Page, Gene Nelson, Rosemary Clooney, Crew Cuts, Four Lads - 1,100 seats, strippers or name star got 300.00 a week for 24 shows, chorus girls got 27.50 per week for same 24 shows - just before being torn down in 1957 did a stint as a legitimate house called Civic Square Theatre WINTER GARDEN THEATRE/ELGIN THEATRE- (1914-1928) Toronto's only piggyback theatres with the Winter Garden occupying the topmost floors - Winter Garden had been closed due to fire and building codes since the 1930s, both restored in the 1980s to their original splendour and once again are legitimate theatres. The Elgin housed "Cats" for a long period of time. PLAYWRIGHTS ARTHUR MILLER ( 1915- )- One of America's leading playwrights whose Crucible, Death of a Salesman, and View From the Bridge (1955) are among the finest plays ever written.. Mr. Miller studied at the University of Michigan where he won the Avery Hopwood Award for playwriting. All My Sons (1947) won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and his Salesman (1949) won that award and the Pulitzer Prize. Other plays by Mr. Miller include The Man Who Had All The Luck (1944); An Enemy of the People (1950); The Crucible (1953); A Memory of Two Mondays; After the Fall (1964); Incident at Vichy; The Price (1968); The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock (1980). He is a very powerful playwright, but in my estimation takes a second seat to Tennessee Williams. DIRECTORS MIKE NICHOLS (1931- ) Although born in Berlin, Mr. Nichols was educated at the University of Chicago and made his New York debut with Elaine May in "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May,"(1960), and they both were overnight comedy sensations. After that Mr. Nichols became one of the hottest comedy directors in New York, staging such hits as - Barefoot in the Park (1963); Luv (1964), Apple Tree, Comedians, Gin Game, Lunch Hour, Odd Couple (1965), Plaza Suite (1968), Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971); Streamers, Social Security (1986); Little Foxes(revival 1967), Annie (1977), which he co-produced as well, and Uncle Vanya (1973). Ms. May went on to direct Hollywood films, as did Mr. Nichols. COMPOSERS/LYRICISTS ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER - the West End and now New York's darling along with Tim Rice as lyricist for Cats, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love, Chess and the new Whistle Down the Wind which has just opened in London, and will be in New York next year. DESIGNERS JEAN ROSENTHAL - America's greatest lighting designer for Destry Rides Again, Odd Couple, Taste of Honey, Showboat and all of Martha Graham's works ACTORS/ACTRESSES FRANCES HYLAND (1927 - ) Canada's greatest actress, and to me our answer to Julie Harris, who I feel is America's greatest actress. Both are similar in stature, neither the leading lady variety, but both can bring an audience to their feet. I have met Julie Harris on many occasions in New York, and now I feel very honoured to live across from Ms. Hyland, having just met her for the first time very recently. What a privilege for me. I am always in awe of great talent, and I have met most of the great actresses at one time or another, from Katherine Hepburn to Angela Lansbury to Lee Remick. All very gracious ladies, warm and giving. I have even met Lynne Fontanne on her farewell tour with her husband, Alfred Lunt, when they played the Royal Alexandra, in The Visit. Ms. Hyland has overwhelmed Canadian audiences for many years with the Stratford Festival, notably in The Cherry Orchard, Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III, and Three Sisters. At the Shaw Festival in such hits as Back to Methuselah, Candida, Heartbreak House. Both the Crest Theatre and the St. Lawrence Centre have thrilled to her performances in Au Pair Man, (Julie Harris performed the same role in New York), Changeling (Hart House), Moby Dick (Royal Alexandra, with Rod Steiger), Private Ear and the Public Eye, and probably her greatest performance at the St. Lawrence Centre in Streetcar Named Desire, which brought back fond memories of the late great Jessica Tandy. MAKING COMMISSIONS WITH INTERNET BUSINESSES It is easy to make commissions by being either an associate or a partner of an internet business. I now have four websites dealing with this. Hopefully my websites make it easy to make some extra income. There is no such thing on the net as "getting rich quick." It has taken me over 6 months of constant work and especially PROMOTION for money to start coming in, not rushing in, but trickling in. From everything that I read, it can take up to a year for money to start. 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I have seen (from a great distance), the wonderful Midge Arthur's Canadettes, Bob Hope, Marilyn Bell, Jimmy Durante, the Womenfolk, Olson and Johnson, Ed Sullivan, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Geoffrey Holder, Alan and Blanche Lund, Howard Cable and his orchestra, a helicopter landing on stage as well as various vehicles driving across the stage. The Grandstand Shows and the wonderful Casino Theatre on Queen Street, just west of Bay Street, across from where the "new" City Hall is now. I spent many, many hours at the Casino seeing their name entertainers like Johnny Rae, Patti Page, Gene Nelson, Frankie Laine, the exciting Sally Rand with her fans, a bevy of female strippers with some class in those days, not just bumps and grinds, the Crewcuts, the Four Lads. All these joyful experiences are a part of me and I am glad that I had the privilege to see them, and fondly remember them always. These were Toronto's "Radio City Music Hall." 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