The two of them then revealed that they watched "from the windows of the spaceship - we saw the Earth destroyed.[Note: Her name was a combination of the names of two early Hollywood figures: comedy star Mabel Normand, and silent-film director William Desmond Taylor (Normand's lover), who was murdered in 1922.Several songs from the Broadway production were dropped, while several new songs were written.With the exception of only one song, the tunes were sung by only two of the characters, Sally and the MC, on the Kit Kat Club's stage, sometimes with an entourage of sleazy female musicians or dancers.Danny Kaye starred as ex-acrobat and minstrel entertainer Hubert Hawkins, one of the members of the "Merry Men" of The Black Fox (Edward Ashley), a Robin Hood-esque or Zorro-like hero/outlaw who was leading a group of rebel loyalists o protect the throne from usurpation.