One of Broadway's most regimented traditions has an impressive musical theater pedigree: In 1950, a chorus member on "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" took a robe from a fellow chorine and sent it to a friend who was opening that night in the ensemble of "Call Me Madam," starring Ethel Merman. The recipient later added a cloth cabbage rose from Merman's costume to the pale pink robe and gave it to a chorus member in the next opening musical, "Guys and Dolls," and an informal ritual was born.
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