After Lyle hugs Rhonda, thinking she's Laverne, and the stage direction says that "he's died and gone to Heaven," we lost Mike's line, "It's love at first sight, Laverne," and Lyle's question, "When can we pick out drapes?"
Mike's line, "Let go, Lyle, or I'll have to get the harpoon," was wisely dropped. Instead of him joking they can't spell because they're freshmen, he was originally given the line, "Mississippi. Capital M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. Mississippi."
Lyle was supposed to also ask Laverne, "When can we pick out drapes?" Then there was this:
SHIRLEY
Laverne, this is Lyle.
LYLE
But you can call me Stallion.
LAVERNE
Lyle is fine. (THROWS SHIRLEY A LOOK)
SHIRLEY
Oh, we're very, very late. Let's make the scene.
MIKE
Let's make the what?
SHIRLEY
Magazine. Let's buy a magazine. Let's buy a magazine on the way to wherever we're going.
The rest is intact. This scene closes out Act One and sets things up for the second half. I have to say that I think all of these omissions were for the best, with the possible exception of the "drapes."
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