Original sentence: In his autobiography, Richard Rodgers intimated that if anything had doomed Pipe Dream, it was the casting of Traubel.The original production ran for eight months and 245 performances, thus having the shortest run of any Rodgers and Hammerstein show, and the nearest thing to a "flop" they ever wrote together
Edited sentence: In his autobiography, Richard Rodgers intimated that if anything had doomed Pipe Dream, it was Traubel.The original production ran for eight months and 245 performances, giving it the distinction of having the shortest run of any Rodgers and Hammerstein show, and the nearest thing to a "flop" they ever wrote together