Bette Midler HELLO DOLLY orchestrations

This revival has new orchestrations. The new orchestrations are fine but I'm wondering why a decision would be made to have new ones created and who wanted the change? I would imagine that it is not cheap to have someone create new ones. The orchestra for this revival is relatively the same size as the original I believe so it is not a question of having to reduce the original orchestrations. Were they aiming for a different sound for contemporary audience's ears? A "fresher" sound?

Updated On: 10/3/17 at 01:31 PM

Some of the orchestrations sound much better and fresher. Take Dancing and Sunday Clothes, for instance. They sound much different on the new cast recording (with better singing, too) than they did in the original.