A Correction & An Update

I said in this post that Maureen Arthur had originated the role of Hedy LaRue on Broadway in How To Succeed In Etc. and that is not so. I found this out because I have this friend, Jim Brochu, who knows so much about Broadway, he could probably tell you the name of the guy who painted the line down the center of that street. He wrote to set the record straight.

Virginia Martin — you can probably figure out which one she is in the above photo — was the first Hedy LaRue. Maureen Arthur was a replacement and she played Hedy in the movie version. The other actors I mentioned having seen in the National Touring Company of the show were also replacements on Broadway. The management on this blog (i.e., m.e.) regrets the error.

Meanwhile, there are now articles online that delve into what really went wrong in the Red Lobster chain and it ain't, as we suspected, that too many people paid too little for too many shrimp. You can read what actually happened here, here, here and probably a dozen other places.