The crew skidrow reloaded. Jones did not have a nervous breakdown, and it had nothing to do with reviews. Hal Prince became aware that Jones was unhappy in the show while they were trying it out in Boston. (Jones was having marital problems and missed his wife and family in California. He also was not up to playing a Broadway show 8 times a week.) Prince offered to replace him once the show opened and Jones promised to do his best on opening night. Later, Prince petitioned the Tony awards to allow Larry Kert to be nominated (since so few Tony voters would have had the chance to see Jones in the role) and the Tony committee agreed. Columbia brought Larry Kert into the studio and had him overdub his voice onto the completed cast album.

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It wasn't a total success because it had been originally recorded with everyone in one large room (see the COMPANY: ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM documentary.) So, Kert sounds disconnected from the rest of the cast and you can hear Dean Jones' voice leaking through in the background. The record was never issued in the USA but was released in the U.K. When the show opened there. In 1994 it came out on CD as part of the Sony West End series (also not released in the USA but available in Canada) but that whole series has been discontinued. Frontrowcentre's version is the one I've heard repeatedly over the years. Jones was on the verge of going through a divorce (which happened a year later, I believe), missed his kids, and found performing the show like rubbing salt in his emotional wounds, given what it had to say about marriage and relationships.

He asked Prince to be released from his contract several weeks before opening, and Prince agreed, but asked him to stay until opening -- he needed time to get his replacement (Kert) ready and he felt it would be disruptive to the rest of the cast to have to face the critics with a brand new lead. Jones did the opening and then left the show roughly a week or so afterwards. Jones actually played the part for a month after it opened. That was the agreement. I think the rumor of the nervous breakdown happened because while Jones was working out the details for leaving, he said (rather desperately) that he MIGHT have a 'nervous breakdown' if he didn't have the opportunity to go back to be with his family. The creative team was willing to do anything to have him stay through the opening, so he agreed to do it for a month before he bowed out.

But they used this potential 'nervous breakdown' excuse themselves to justify it, so they perpetuated their own myth. Metalslug x 7z. But Jones never actually had one. I was a 14-year-old obsessed with the original production and saw it 6 times. Dean Jones was excellent in the part, as listening to the OCR will tell you. But Larry Kert was electrifying!

He seemed to be singing about the intense loneliness and longing of a man who could connect only briefly before running away. His Being Alive, which can be heard as an extra on the new CD and on the 'Scrabble' album was the most painfully personal version I have ever heard--and of course his soaring high notes made the climax of that song a true show stopper. But you can hear the exquisitely painful quality of his vocal performance in the solos of that London recording.

(As frontrowcrentre said, the group numbers sound weirdly disconnected.) I can still hear him singing phrases like 'Wait for me. / I'm ready now. / I'll find you if I can' in Someone Is Waiting or some of the poignant pleas in Barcelona. I also saw him, shortly before he died, in a now-extinct cabaret space on East 49th Street. He sang Being Alive, probably for the last time, and everybody there wept.