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Running only 7 previews and 9 performances, this comedy about two couples who swapped partners 25 years ago reunite at an airport hanger in New Jersey in 1927 starred Jule Harris, Geraldine Page and then husband Rip Torn. Penned by James Prideaux, who was best known for The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, a hit for Julie Harris.
Theatrical Anecdotes - I've got bupkus on Julie Harris, she's in that group with Gwen Verdon, that no one has even one unpleasant story about. Now Geraldine Page... should you have visited the Chelsea apartment of her and her husband the buzzer read Torn Page. And on this list of missed great roles, Martha in Albee's Who's Afraid on Virginia Woolf would top anybody's list. Page initially thought the play " intensely ugly" and when she later reconsidered she demanded that while Alan Schneider was onboard to direct, should she move forward, she would require that Lee Strasberg be present at every rehearsal, something that no one found tenable. Uta Hagen created the landmark role.
Mixed Couples was produced by the late prolific producer, Frederick Brisson, who was married to the late
Rosalind Russell. Best theatrical anecdote on Brisson was his ability or habit to secure film rights of Broadway for his wife in the dark of night. Example was while Ethel Merman was singing out Louise in Gypsy at the Broadway Theater, she was "informed" that her landmark performance would not make it to the big screen and instead was locked out by what she named "The Lizard of Roz" aka Brisson.