Marshall’s original concept flim-flam-flummoxed him once they got it on its feet.
Give ‘em the old razzle-dazzle.
He says, ‘We’ll just give him the old razzle dazzle.’
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And he starts to describe that to her.
“I thought what we could do is,” the director continues.
So, we scrapped that."
But it was too ambitious for what they had to work with.
“Ultimately, we just didn’t have the time to tech it,” he explains.
“Because we were on such a tight schedule because musicals at that point were not in favor.
Our budget was tight.
Our shooting schedule was tight.
We didn’t have the time to actually prep it in a way that could have worked.
Thank God we went back and shot that in a more conventional way, that’s still very exciting.
What happens is Richard opens the doors, and now we’re in this circus environment.”
(They later released the scene in DVD extras when the film went to home video.)
