[cammie1229]

Any idea of the number of Follie girls the script calls for? Do you find most shows cast more than the scripted number?

[choochoo]

In the script there are eight follies girls plus Patsy (the dumb blonde) and Tess (the woman whom Zangler is in love with/the dance director). The other girls are:
Mitzi, Elaine, Louise, Susie, Betsy, Margie, Sheila, and Vera. Mitzi is also featured in a dance duet with Bobby in "I Can't Be Bothered Now".

In our cast they didn't add any extra follie's girls but I don't know about other productions of it.

Hope this helped!

[Sean]

I am currently in rehearsal for this show right now....and we have 12 follies girls.

and Mitzi doesnt have to a duet with bobby in I can't be bothered now...it doesnt say that in the script!

[Singing Superstar]

When I was in it three years ago, we just had the 10 Follies girls listed in the script.

[Joey4u615]

our production had 15-20 follies and it worked out well,
the solo that "Mitzi has with Bobby" was given to Tess instead in our production

[Sean]

we just choreographed i can't be bothered now....and I do that tap duet thingy with the girl who plays Betsy!!!

[Irenewannabe]

Our cast list just went up. We're only doing the 10 scripted girls. I got cast as Sheila. Big surprise to me, but great nonetheless.

[GlamorousGriz]

The cast that I just dropped out of had 12. Now they have 11...

What the director did is this: she made everybody that she hadn't pre-cast a Follies girl. There are usually 10... anyone else is added by the director, but the more the merrier.

[DearestCharlotte]

[what_the_heck013]

The most I've seen in a show was 15.

[MsDivaKate]

There are 10 listed in the script, but I believe ours had 12 (yes Sean?) and we just made up 2 names for them so they could be listed in the program.