Funny Face (musical) contributed to the script, to walk out. The rewrites and changes continued as the musical moved from Philadelphia to Washington D.C. (October 31); to Atlantic City (November 7); to Wilmington (November 14); before reaching Broadway and the Alvin Theatre on November 22, now renamed "Funny Face". It became a major Broadway hit, and after 244 performances, the whole company transferred it to London, where Fred and Adele Astaire had a successful run of "Lady, Be Good!" just before starting the rehearsals of "Smarty" in Philadelphia. Jimmy Reeve is the legal guardian of three pretty sisters, Dora, June and Frankie, whose
Adele Astaire had enormous recuperative powers, and, according to her stepson Kingman Douglass Jr., Astaire "soon would be up and in Marine-type English telling what she thought of the world." In 1972, Adele and Fred Astaire were both inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Astaire died on January 25, 1981, in Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, Scottsdale, Arizona, after suffering a stroke. She was 84. Some of her ashes were scattered in Ireland, by Lismore Castle and the graves of her children and first husband, while the rest were buried by Ann Astaire's grave in Chatsworth, California. Built in 1905, the Gottlieb