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| re: Has anyone taken odds yet on if Bernadette Peters' Dolly is going to cry at some point during "Hello, Dolly!"? | |
| Posted by: SRMHAYES 11:42 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone taken odds yet on if Bernadette Peters' Dolly is going to cry at some point during "Hello, Dolly!"? - garyd 12:33 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
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| The song is much needed. Horace has always been underwritten and lacked a needed amount of pathos. I'm glad they have restored the song though I think its' placement in plot and proceedings might be a bit bizarre. | |
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| re: Has anyone taken odds yet on if Bernadette Peters' Dolly is going to cry at some point during "Hello, Dolly!"? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:18 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone taken odds yet on if Bernadette Peters' Dolly is going to cry at some point during "Hello, Dolly!"? - SRMHAYES 11:42 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
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| "I'm glad they have restored the song though I think its' placement in plot and proceedings might be a bit bizarre." I think at first the placement seemed a bit odd to me, as well as the fact that DHP sings the song directly to the audience. But now I think the placement at the start of Act II is fine. As for the other thing, Horace addresses the audience directly in his lines before "It Takes a Woman," and in the song itself. Plus Dolly addresses the audience directly at the very end of the show ("Money, money, money..."). So I don't have a problem with that, either. |
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| re: Has anyone taken odds yet on if Bernadette Peters' Dolly is going to cry at some point during "Hello, Dolly!"? | |
| Posted by: garyd 12:21 am EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone taken odds yet on if Bernadette Peters' Dolly is going to cry at some point during "Hello, Dolly!"? - SRMHAYES 11:42 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
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| True. If the book were different, Horace should sing it to Cornelius and Barnaby as sort of a "lesson" but that really would not fit the rest of the book as it now exists. "Explaining" to the audience works fine as long as it is delivered with the tempered panache that DHP conjures. | |
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