Patricia Birch

And you do have...

Patricia Birch directing this one.

And she seems passionate about the source material.

She seems passionate about trying to continue this and do this in a fun way.

He said, "They will not take no.

They would like to at least have a meeting with you." I said, "Okay." So I go in with Alan Carr and Patty Birch, who was the choreographer, and Randal Kleiser, who was the director.

And they said, "Why don't you wanna do this?" I said, "Because, uh, I saw the play, and it's not my style." I said, uh, you know, "He was all in black, uh, comes off of a rope in, in black, uh, leather jacket, and low, long sideburns, and does, uh, little wiggles and this, and sings this Beauty School Dropout." I said, "Not my style." They said, "We'll change it." I said, "What do you mean you'll change it?" They said, "We'll do it all in white.

Uh, we'll get a piano over here.

Yeah

... from the first movie, Pat Birch.

Mm-hmm.

And so I think, actually, maybe it has, like, the best shot dances I can think of, of-

Luck, luck and more luck.

So I ended up Pat Birch, who was the original choreographer.

Of course, it wasn't a dance show as demonstrated by my needing to.

Anyway, never mind.

Wow.

I took a big swallow and decided to do Voltaire in German.

And opening night of Candide in Vienna, Hal Prince, his wife Judy, Pat Birch, Hugh Wheeler, the writer, Steve Sondheim, they were all there.

Because the film of A Little Night Music was about to start filming in Vienna.