In this episode, Susan Misner plays Bob Fosse's second wife, the dancer Joan McCracken. McCracken was a successful Broadway and movie-musical dancer and actress during the 1940s and into the early '50s, appearing in the original Broadway cast of Oklahoma!, and her unconventional lifestyle and first marriage to Jack Dunphy (who after their divorce went on to a lifelong romantic partnership with Truman Capote) have lead her to be one of several women considered to be models for Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's main character, Holly Golightly. As depicted in this episode, cardiac conditions and complications from diabetes made it impossible for her to continue dancing past the mid-1950s; though she was able to take some dramatic, non-dancing roles, she died in 1961 at the age of 43. Like the woman she plays here, Misner is also an ex-dancer: during the 1990s she performed in the choruses of such Broadway shows as Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and she played Liz (one of the "six merry murderesses" who dance the "Cell Block Tango") in the 2002 movie musical Chicago.