#hello Dolly!

[operaqueen]

Sketch of Carol Channing in Hello Dolly! By Freddy Wittop - costume designer for the original 1964 Broadway production.

[providence-park]

Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi

HELLO, DOLLY!

1969 | Dir. Gene Kelly

[costumeloverz71]

Irene Malloy (Marianne McAndrew) Red dress.. Hello Dolly! (1969).. Costume by Irene Sharaff.

[housesofmouses]

HELLO, DOLLY! (1969) dir. Gene Kelly

[mcfairyland]

that door slam bell tone is what musical theatre is all about💜

Rest in Peace Gavin Creel💙

[susiephone]

I wanna feel my heart coming alive again Before the parade passes by...

BARBRA STREISAND as DOLLY LEVI in HELLO, DOLLY! (1969)

[trash-art-central-blog]

I finally finished it

It doesn't look much like Dolly, but it's close enough for me

[darrys-laundry]

one of my favorite elder prices :( absolutely gutted to hear this, he was in my top 5 most streamed artists last year :(

[whiskeywithrayna]

[operaqueen]

Pearl Bailey - Hello Dolly!

[cornaby]

dead

[ulrichgebert]

Hello, Dolly! haben wir jetzt auch wirklich viel zu lange nicht mehr angeschaut. Dafür kommt es allerdings relativ oft vor (siehe hier).

[unwelcome-ephestion]

People don't know much about orchestration as a rule; it's one of the undersung aspects of the musical. But no musical had quite such a saga of orchestration as Annie Get Your Gun.

Irving Berlin wrote the score; Rodgers and Hammerstein produced, and Phil Lang was asked to orchestrate Berlin's music. He was reasonably early in his career and would go on to orchestrate hits like Hello, Dolly! and My Fair Lady - but here, he tried to create an orchestral sound where the melody was not given to the singers. Normally there is a line for the singers to hold to, often the clarinet in that era. Legend has it that the sitzprobe was a disaster; the cast was not used to music without the leading line and Rodgers and Hammerstein insisted that the orchestrations be rewritten from scratch before the impending opening.

Phil Lang still has the first credit, but he was fired from production. The other orchestrators credited are Robert Russell Bennett, arguably the most famous orchestrator of the time, and Ted Royal. However, extant scores show that as many as 25 orchestrators were called in to finish the job, "ghosting" as a favour as was not uncommon in that era. As a result, Annie Get Your Gun is possibly the musical where the finished product has been touched by the largest number of orchestrators - does this affect the style? Arguably not - ghosting was common in that era and most orchestrators were quite good at blending to the dominant sound. A side of musical theatre that few know about!

[oldbaton]

Carol Channing meets with President Jimmy Carter and his family after a performance of Hello, Dolly! at Washington D.C.'s National Theatre on October 19th, 1978

[dollylevi]

Hi :) Finally decided to make a blog dedicated to my favorite movie :D

he/her/whatever

[bluebellhairpin]

"I'm ready to move out in front, I've had enough of just passing by life. With the rest of them - with the best of them - I can hold my head up high. For I've got a goal again - I've got a drive again. I wanna feel my heart coming alive again!"