Bette's cake - no Happy Birthday?

[TNick926]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:35pm

Am I the only one who thought it strange that the wonderful surprise birthday cake at end of performance of Hello, Dolly! for Bette Midler's 72nd birthday was simply a "cake billboard" for the show and made no mention of her birthday?  Oh, well.  I hope the cake was scrumptious, at least! :) 

[Bette's Turban]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:38pm

It was beautiful and I am sure much appreciated.  Girl.;  talk about trying to twist things up. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:46pm

Did this really warrant its own thread???

[PatrickDennis92]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:55pm

Why not? It’s not like these boards are only for “important” matters. And yeah, actually, now that you mention it lol, it is odd that her cake didn’t say Happy Birthday. Not that it matters but I’d call that a minus one for whoever is keeping score.

[WayTooBroadway]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:56pm

In case you need to know... there was another red cake that they served to the cast before the show. It said "Happy Birthday, Bette!" in the same font as the show logo. Sorry they didn't show that to you.

(Edited to remove last name and add exclamation point!)

Updated On: 12/4/17 at 12:56 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:59pm

I'm sure Bette happily ate a tiny piece of it regardless.

[PatrickDennis92]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:02pm

Well adding Midler to that second cake is cold as well since we’re talking about it. It just seems very sterile. If someone presented me with a cake with first and last name, I would think it was a little weird. But that’s just me.

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:06pm

PatrickDennis92 said: "Well adding Midler to that second cake is cold as well since we’re talking about it. It just seems very sterile. If someone presented me with a cake with first and last name, I would think it was a little weird. But that’s just me."

If the cake is meant to look like the show logo, that logo does tend to use her last name.

If you're above the title in a show, and they make a cake recreating that logo, informality leads to asymmetry.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:07pm

This is the kind of conversation that makes Jesse Tyler Ferguson feel a need to taunt us.

[WayTooBroadway]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:09pm

I guess they consulted PatrickDennis92. I stand corrected, it didn't say Midler.

I hope everyone's happy now!

Updated On: 12/4/17 at 01:09 PM

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:10pm

BroadwayConcierge said: "This is the kind of conversation that makes Jesse Tyler Ferguson feel a need to taunt us."

I so hope he does, daaaahling!!!!

[PatrickDennis92]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:16pm

Well it’s a message board, not the council of nicea. A little taunting is to be expected. And this is indeed a trivial matter, but who cares? I hadn’t noticed the thing with the cake, then I saw it here and thought, “oh yeah,” and realized that it could have been a little warmer. Just using the show logo makes it less about Bette’s birthday and more about a photo op for the show. Which is fine. It doesn’t matter. But now I will retain that kernel going forward noting that a better way to show a genuine quality in this situation would be to make it less about the show, more about the birthday girl. That’s all.

[PatrickDennis92]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:17pm

Oh good! Lol I was right! Having Midler on the cake would be a PR disaster.

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:17pm

BroadwayConcierge said: "This is the kind of conversation that makes Jesse Tyler Ferguson feel a need to taunt us."

There are few that don't.

[DAME]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:25pm

There is a entire “cake” storyline in this seasons Jersey Housewives. What BWW chatboards have become.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:28pm

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread about cake.

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:29pm

https://instagram.com/p/BcSjYcyjQRV/

 

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:36pm

Is there a picture of the other cake? I did think having a birthday cake with the cast album cover printed on it was kind of odd as well. I don’t see why there couldn’t be a thread about it.

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:40pm

I guess you could say this thread...takes the cake.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:45pm

Did the cake sexually harass anyone? Did the cake refuse to stagedoor? When is the cast recording for the cake coming out, and why is it not what I wanted the cast recording to be? Will Betsy Wolfe be replacing the cake? Was it a white cake and, if so, why is #broadwaysowhite? Let's all dream cast the cake- Aaron Tveit! Where should I sit to see the cake? What other cakes should I see?

Updated On: 12/4/17 at 02:45 PM

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 3:29pm

Betsy will replace the cake, and then she herself will be replaced three weeks later by Mandy Patinkin

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 3:34pm

Kad said: "Did the cake sexually harass anyone? Did the cake refuse to stagedoor? When is the cast recording for the cake coming out, and why is it not what I wanted the cast recording to be? Will Betsy Wolfe be replacing the cake? Was it a white cake and, if so, why is#broadwaysowhite? Let's all dream cast the cake- Aaron Tveit! Where should I sit to see the cake? What other cakes should I see?"

Pretty sure it was red velvet!

[PatrickDennis92]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 3:37pm

Do bakeries typically charge by the letter? Nothing says we love you Bette like Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Gower Champion.

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 3:48pm

Good lord, Jorge, call it a "Native American Velvet" cake, or an "American Indian Velvet" cake. Better yet, refer to it by its own tribal affiliation! Commentators like you only show the sad state of indigenous representation on Broadway.

[TNick926]

Posted: 12/4/17 at 3:49pm

Fordham2015 said: "I guess you could say this thread...takes the cake."

This is my favorite response to my thread so far!  No one ever said posting on BWW was a cakewalk, right? :)