David James, my best friend in college, was costume designer's assistant on the original production of 70 Girls 70. He still swears that if David Burns had not died during the out of town tryout, the show would still be running. He said that there wasn't time to reshape the material for Hans Conreid. When I met the delightful Mildred Natwick, I told her I loved her singing the "Elephant Song," which was dropped in London. When I moved to NYC in 1979, I was walking down a street one day when I passed a Santini Brothers moving van. Aha! I thought, where does an elephant go?
I never saw the original production, but I love the CD.