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Additions That Really Added Up by Peter Filichia

By Peter Filichia -- Fifty years ago this week, Wildcat opened with one of the most beloved stars of the era: Lucille Ball. Composer Cy Coleman and lyricist Carolyn Leigh certainly gave her a honey of a number to tell just what her character Wildcat Jackson was made of: "Hey, Look Me Over!" The irony is that the song came pretty late in the process. Ball's biographer Kathleen Brady recounted the well-told tale in…

SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:04AM on December 14, 2010

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