Michael O'Haughey. Photo from the collection of Patricia Zipprodt, NYPL. "Mary Sunshine, played by a man in drag in the original 1975 production, and her terribly optimistic 'A Little Bit of Good in Everyone' was (in that production) an imitation of Julian Eltinge, a famous turn-of-the-century drag queen and vaudeville star. Julian Eltinge "...she parodies the many 'sob sister' reporters of the 1920s. And even without the drag, Mary Sunshine still has her models in vaudeville