I was courted for a year and given the impression that they wanted me and no one but me. But almost immediately it became very difficult for me to present ideas. Once the show opened I felt decidedly unappreciated by the producers. So it ended with them wanting me to leave and me wanting to leave: There was a definite lack of communication; I still don’t know exactly what happened.

- Madeline Kahn on her departure from On the Twentieth Century