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Eleanor was a project which Dorothy Fields worked on with Cy Coleman in 1970; the subject was the young Eleanor Roosevelt. The pair wrote a complete score, and the book was supplied by Jerome Coopersmith. However the show was never produced. Coleman spoke years later of the frustration involved. �For example I had a great show with Dorothy Fields, and we couldn�t get it produced. Everybody disliked the book, and the show contained one of our best scores. But the book writer didn�t want anybody coming in and changing anything. � �The score didn�t completely die, however. I raided it. We used It�s Not Where You Start and put it into a Seesaw. I put a song called Scream into Seesaw. In Barnum, the music to Out There is the Teddy Roosevelt song . There�s a lot more. I hated doing it but I just figured it was good, and I wanted to do something with it. � Of the songs written for Eleanor which were not incorporated into later shows, only After Forty, It�s Patch, Patch, Patch has been recorded, by Kaye Ballard. UPDATE: Julie Wilson's recent disc, includes two songs with Eleanor connections. I Can't Let You Go is said to have been written for Sweet Charity, but the Deborah Grace Winer songlist indicates that it was used in Eleanor. More significantly, Julie Wilson unearthed the splendid Do Be A Darling which features a product of the upper crust requesting an increasingly outrageous series of favours from a put-upon friend. For example: Do be a darling, |