The role was written by lyricist-librettists Betty Comden and Adolph Green for their friend Judy Holliday. Little Me at the nonprofit Roundabout Theatre Company and following Donna Murphy and Blair Brown into The King and I and James Joyce's The Dead, respectively. Are Ringing is the first commercial musical she has headlined from its inception since the Frank Loesser classic. She also gave birth to her son during that period. That's not to say that Prince didn't have her sights set on a theatrical project when producers came a-courting in 1992.
Bells Are Ringing .
I love Judy Holliday, though I could love her and still feel the piece was not right for me. But a lot of me is Ella. I'm always trying to help people. I tend to be codependent. I felt quite the opposite.