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! :)
Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:38pm
It was beautiful and I am sure much appreciated. Girl.; talk about trying to twist things up.
Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:46pm
Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:55pm
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
Posted: 12/4/17 at 12:59pm
I'm sure Bette happily ate a tiny piece of it regardless.
Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:02pm
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.
Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:07pm
This is the kind of conversation that makes Jesse Tyler Ferguson feel a need to taunt us.
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
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!!!!
Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:16pm
Posted: 12/4/17 at 1:17pm
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.
Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:25pm
Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:28pm
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread about cake.
Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:29pm
Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:36pm
Posted: 12/4/17 at 2:40pm
I guess you could say this thread...takes the cake.
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
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
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!
Posted: 12/4/17 at 3:37pm
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.
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? :)
