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	Curley McDimple Bernadette and Bayn Johnson
George M! George M! Playbill

Nov 22, 1967

Curley McDimple

Curley McDimple opened at the Bert Wheeler Theatre. It closed Jan 24, 1970 after 931 performances. Bernadette played the role of Alice.

This was the first of two musicals in which Bernadette appeared that spoofed some aspect of Hollywood. Curley McDimple was a spoof of Shirley Temple movies. Bayn Johnson played Curley (the Shirley Temple character).

Link to a synopsis of the show:

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Apr 10, 1968

George M!

George M! opened at the Palace Theatre. It closed April 26, 1969 after 433 performances. Bernadette played the role of Josie Cohan. This was the show where she first met lifelong friend Joel Grey who starred in the title role of George M Cohan.

Steven Suskin provides a brief but interesting commentary on the show in his More Opening Nights on Broadway (p. 323-324), in light of this very patriotic show opening during the height of the Vietnam War (several chorus members balked at waving the American flag during the "Yankee Doodle Dandy" number) and just two weeks before Hair opened.

Photo link: Joel & Bernadette

Sep 23, 1968

A Mother's Kisses

Bernadette apparently performed briefly in the unsuccessful pre-Broadway try out of this musical when it opened at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, but her part was written out of the show almost immediately. It starred Beatrice Arthur and folded on the road at the Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore on Oct 19.