The play ultimately never opened.
Pauline Fawcett died on March 4, 2005, at the age of 91.
Fawcett's only child, Redmond James Fawcett-O'Neal, was fathered by and was born on January 30, 1985.
She later returned as a guest star in six episodes during the show's third and fourth seasons 1978—1980.