The show's evolution highlighted a side of Fosse that some of his colleagues called persistence and others derided as stubbornness. The
final song in the first act featured a musical chairs number starring a dancer in a gorilla costume. Director George Abbott feared the number would bewilder the audience, but Fosse was so adamant that it stay in that he performed the gorilla role himself in the New Haven preview. While Abbott won out, the mambo number that Fosse put in its place, "Who's Got Pain?," became another of his showstopping choreographic successes.
Gwen Verdon ...... Lola
Ray Walston ...... Applegate
Stephen Douglass ...... Joe Hardy
Robert Shafer ...... Joe Boyd
Rae Allen ...... Gloria Thorpe
Richard Bishop ...... Welch
Shannon Bolin ...... Meg Boyd
Russ Brown ...... Van Buren
Nathaniel Frey ...... Smokey
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Elizabeth Howell ...... Doris
Jimmie Komack ...... Rocky
Albert Linville ...... Vernon
Eddie Phillips ...... Sohovik
Jean Stapleton ...... Sister
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