![]() Although I don't mean to imply that I was in on this from the very beginning because Bob Martin and his friends did it in Canada for about six years. It came too late in the show, so they needed a zippier, quicker number, and that's how we got "Love Is Always Lovely." And that kind of thing is most interesting to me because I've never had the privilege of being in on a show from the very beginning. But we found out, all of us together, it had been a big, big hit during the readings, when the whole show was physicalized, it was actually too delicate a number to stand a physicalization. They put it on the CD, which is nice, because it's a lovely, lovely number. We had a number in Los Angeles that was completely cut. The actual character didn't, but the material did. How much has your role changed since the first reading? Engel: It actually evolved quite a bit. So, I did the first reading for NAMT, and I was in on it from the very beginning as it went through two readings before we played it in Los Angeles last year and then brought it in this spring. Tottendale come about for you? Georgia Engel: Well, a couple of years ago my agent called and said a friend of his wondered if I would do a reading - and that was Roy Miller. My lengthy interview with the lovely Engel, who was even kinder and funnier than I had expected her to be, follows. Tottendale, and displays her knack for comedy as well as her vocal, ukulele, and spitting skills. Engel, who made her Broadway debut as Minnie Fay during the original run of Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!-opposite the Dollys of Phyllis Diller and Ethel Merman-is currently back on Broadway in the award-winning The Drowsy Chaperone. ![]() ![]() So, it was a great thrill to chat with Georgia Engel, who played the lovably naive Georgette Franklin Baxter on the CBS series from 1973 to 1977. If I were asked to name my favorite sitcoms, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Seinfeld would probably battle it out for the top position-though I've probably watched each episode of MTM more than any other TV show.
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