Bette Midler's Final HELLO, DOLLY! Performance Will Benefit the Actors Fund — Page 6

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.

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?

I was secretly hoping that Barry Manilow would make a surprise appearance at one of Bette's shows. But alas, apparently not.

Apparently there is going to be a Dolly tour in 2019. Any rumors on who will play Dolly?

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.

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!

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.

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.

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I was talking about Midler's version, thanks for the explanation