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“It’s my decision,” Rudin tells me. He says both numbers are staged on and around a passerelle, or bridge, which at the Shubert is 3 feet deep and at Radio City, 25 feet deep.“I told the Tony producers that unless they wanted to watch 12 dancers falling into the pit live on CBS, doing either number at Radio City was simply a nonstarter,” he says. Rudin offered to sweeten the deal by having a Tony viewing party at the Shubert, where 1,400 people could see Midler perform either number and then ...

No one on here knows exactly why the production had to choose penny in your pocket as the song they performed. Maybe the moving scenery in other numbers had something to do with it, maybe they couldn't do the opening number because the host wanted to do his own thing? No one knows the ins and outs, and if you do please come forward and share, put pinning it all on one person is a bit drastic.

Sauja said: "I'm surprised no one thinks Zaks could get Director for Dolly. It just feels like enough of a juggernaut that I wouldn't be surprised if it came through with a bit of a sweep (costumes, scenic, lighting, direction all feel possible to me with actress, featured actor and revival being locks). I'm not basing this on which awards I think it deserves. I just have that strange kind of hunch that while everyone's debating Comet vs. Hansen vs. Come from Away, Dolly could surge and take ...

Could not agree more with this assessment! Jerry Zaks' direction of this revival is absolute perfection.

Jerry Zaks's dry spell isnt as dry as some have made it sound. One cannot forget that he spent 5 years directing tv shows like Everybody Loves Raymond and Frasier. Shows like Capeman, Addams family and even Sister Act, had been flawed by original people working on the productions until Jerry Zaks was asked to save the flailing shows. In my opinion it seems as though he did as good a job as possible with what he had to work with and the time he had to do it in.