Hello Dolly

Hello Dolly,

I taped Jerry Herman’s Hello Dolly from the T.V. last month and sat one evening to watch Walter Matthau and Barbara Streisand give their memorable performances in that show.

Then this Tuesday, Wyona and I went to see the local production of Hello Dolly – this time with Lurene as part of the seven piece band that accompanied the work. The band began the evening with a set of Dixieland tunes – and then the official performance began.

Wyona and I switched back and forth between watching the performers, listening to the band back up the performers, and then waving back at Lurene as she and the rest of the orchestra came on the stage for the bows at the end of the performance.

Thanks, Lurene for the fun. Since the performance I have gone out to the internet to find some memorable quotes from the play. You proably know them all, having been at so many rehearsals:

Horace: Advice is cheap, Ms. Molloy. It's the things that come gift wrapped that count!

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Horace: It takes a woman all powdered and pink to joyously clean out the drain in the sink!

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Dolly Levi: Here, let me cut your wings!
Horace: I don't want my wings cut!
Dolly Levi: No man does, Horace, no man does.

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Dolly Levi: Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow.

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Barnaby Tucker: Holy cabooses!

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Cornelius Hackl: We're gonna close the store.
Barnaby Tucker: Close the store?
Cornelius Hackl: We have to, 'cause some rotten cans of chicken mash are going to explode.
Barnaby Tucker: Holy cabooses, how do you know?
Cornelius Hackl: Because I'm gonna light some candles under them.

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Dolly Levi: [singing] It takes a woman to quietly plan to take him and change him to her kind of man and to gently lead him where fortune can find him and not let him know that the power behind him was that dainty woman, that fragile woman, that sweetheart, that mistress, that wife.

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Joe, Vandergelder's barber: You'll have to sit still, Mr Vandergelder. If I cut your throat it'll be practically unintentional.

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Horace: I'm going to march in the 14th street parade with the only kind of people I can trust: 700 men.

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Horace: Eighty percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in danger of contamination.

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Given that I might be in the eighty percent of the people in the world who are fools, that might not be the best quote to end with ... but hey, some of us have to be there to make the others fear something ... if only contamination. And watching the local production was really fun, even if the memorable quotes are kind of goofy.

Arta