Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund- Page 6
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#125
Posted: 1/15/18 at 4:49pm
DAME said: "I found some footage of the actors fund reception and crowd last night. If you can make it thru the host of this video.. You might want to skip around. Bless him. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HylW5yDGzl8&feature=share"
That host sounded like a 90 year old Yiddish woman. I was actually waiting to hear a reprise of Matchmaker.
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#126
Posted: 1/15/18 at 5:56pm
ace33 said: "There’s nothing wrong with him addinga show to raise money for charity...i think it’s a genius way to counter against scalpers etc (much like Hamilton tries to do). It’s the fact that he did so AFTER announcing the closing performance. Sure maybe there was no intent and maybe he was just trying to combat scalpers... but it sure feltlike a calculated moveto sell the 2pm tickets (at very high prices) first this burning a lot of genuine fans."
Technically, they never really said the matinee was her last performance. They said she would be Dolly through January 14, which was true. We just assumed the matinee was the last performance. I bought tickets to the matinee 18 months ago, thinking that was the case. But when they announced the benefit show, I bought a ticket to that, flipped the matinee one, and called it a day.
And the prices for the last show were the same prices for every other show. The prices only were higher on Stubhub and such. People may have paid more than they preferred thinking it was her last show, but for prices that were the same as if they had gone a week earlier.
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#127
Posted: 1/15/18 at 6:46pm
ArtMan said: "DAME said: "I found some footage of the actors fund reception and crowd last night. If you can make it thru the host of this video.. You might want to skip around. Bless him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HylW5yDGzl8&feature=share"
That host sounded like a 90 year old Yiddish woman. I was actually waiting to hear a reprise of Matchmaker."
And yet he is still preferable to the unctuous personna that does the interviews/videos for this site.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#128
Posted: 1/15/18 at 8:37pm
South Fl Marc said: "ArtMan said: "DAME said: "I found some footage of the actors fund reception and crowd last night. If you canmake it thru the host of this video.. You might want to skip around. Bless him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HylW5yDGzl8&feature=share"
That host sounded like a 90 year old Yiddish woman. I was actually waiting to hear a reprise of Matchmaker."
And yet he is still preferable to the unctuous personna that does the interviews/videos for this site."
You don’t like R R?
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#129
Posted: 1/16/18 at 3:23pm
My 'humourous' response to your reference re R R was removed---the post police are certainly vigilant.
Yet the 'unctuous personna' remains ?
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#130
Posted: 1/16/18 at 6:37pm
I was secretly hoping that Barry Manilow would make a surprise appearance at one of Bette's shows. But alas, apparently not.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#131
Posted: 1/16/18 at 7:16pm
SweetLips said: "My 'humourous' response to your reference re R R was removed---the post police are certainly vigilant.
Yet the 'unctuous personna' remains ?"
I guess his interview "style" is a acquired taste.
BTW apparently Kathie Lee Gifford went on and on about Bettes last night on the Today show. If anyone has a link I would love to see it. Also interested in what celebs were in the audience... because that is always fun. I know about Bruce Springsteen, Lily Tomlin, and Brian Stokes.
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#132
Posted: 1/17/18 at 11:54am
Apparently there is going to be a Dolly tour in 2019. Any rumors on who will play Dolly?
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#133
Posted: 1/17/18 at 12:11pm
DAME said: "I know about Bruce Springsteen, Lily Tomlin, and Brian Stokes."
I got to chat with Lucas Hedges at intermission.
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#134
Posted: 1/17/18 at 12:13pm
Cora Hoover Hooper said: "Apparently there is going to be a Dolly tour in 2019. Any rumors on who will play Dolly?"
There’s a thread on this. Someone said it’s christine Ebersole.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#135
Posted: 1/17/18 at 12:31pmHoward Stern went with his wife over the weekend . He didn’t say if he went to the last one. He loved it .
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#136
Posted: 1/17/18 at 1:16pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Cora Hoover Hooper said: "Apparently there is going to be a Dolly tour in 2019. Any rumors on who will play Dolly?"
There’s a thread on this. Someone said it’s christine Ebersole."
Thanks. I didnt see it!
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#137
Posted: 1/17/18 at 8:10pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Cora Hoover Hooper said: "Apparently there is going to be a Dolly tour in 2019. Any rumors on who will play Dolly?"
There’s a thread on this. Someone said it’s christine Ebersole."
Really? And where did this "someone" get their information? Ms. Ebersole is not the kind of star this show needs for the tour.
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#138
Posted: 1/18/18 at 12:46amNew here, don't know how to post without replying to a post, sorry to hijack thread. I was there for the final matinee, when Bette performed I put My Hand In, I noticed there was another verse not on the soundtrack, does anyone know why the shortened the song on the CD?
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#139
Posted: 1/18/18 at 1:27am
Cora Hoover Hooper said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Cora Hoover Hooper said: "Apparently there is going to be a Dolly tour in 2019. Any rumors on who will play Dolly?"
There’s a thread on this. Someone said it’s christine Ebersole."
Thanks. I didnt see it!"
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1106739#5008020
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#140
Posted: 2/3/18 at 12:56amI'd wait on seeing Bernadette, till she finds her footing, I was very disappointed after seeing Donna first, then Bette twice
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#141
Posted: 2/5/18 at 12:23amSorry, he said he would have liked to have gone with his wife to see Bette in Dolly
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#142
Posted: 2/5/18 at 8:06am
james antinone said: "New here, don't know how to post without replying to a post, sorry to hijack thread. I was there for the final matinee, when Bette performed I put My Hand In, I noticed there was another verse not on the soundtrack, does anyone know why the shortened the song on the CD?
First off, it's called a "cast album", not a soundtrack.
I don't know which cast album you are referring to because there are several available. They all have cuts in them to fit the score onto the disc. The 1964 version has the most cuts because it was made to fit on vinyl--which had much less room on it than CD.
if you're talking about the Midler version, there's no rhyme or reason for what was done there. Suffice to say they just did a bad job recording the score.
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Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#143
Posted: 2/5/18 at 8:59pm
james antinone said: "I'd wait on seeing Bernadette, till she finds her footing, I was very disappointed after seeing Donna first, then Bette twice"
How long will it take her to find her footing? This is a role that many ladies have performed with just a few days rehearsals in stock.
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#144
Posted: 2/5/18 at 9:02pm
Dollypop said: "james antinone said: "New here, don't know how to post without replying to a post, sorry to hijack thread. I was there for the final matinee, when Bette performed I put My Hand In, I noticed there was another verse not on the soundtrack, does anyone know why the shortened the song on the CD?
First off, it's called a "cast album", not a soundtrack.
I don't know which cast album you are referring to because there are several available. They all have cuts in them to fit the score onto the disc. The 1964 version has the most cuts because it was made to fit on vinyl--which had much less room on it than CD.
if you're talking about the Midler version, there's no rhyme or reason for what was done there. Suffice to say they just did a bad job recording the score.
"
I was talking about Midler's version, thanks for the explanation
Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund#145
Posted: 2/5/18 at 9:06pm
Bette's Turban said: "james antinone said: "I'd wait on seeing Bernadette, till she finds her footing, I was very disappointed after seeing Donna first, then Bette twice"
How long will it take her to find her footing? This is a role that many ladies have performed with just a few days rehearsals in stock."
Others here are much more qualified to answer, but from what I've heard, once the play is out of previews, once it is called officially opened, I don't know the date certain
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