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#1

Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:32pm

I was watching Dolly on Conan today, and they played "Hello DollY!" as she entered, and I thought, "That's crazy enought to work!". She can sing, she can act, and she has enough charm Dolly Levi lovable. I would love to see both Dolly's come to Broadway. This woman is so talented. (and please don't mock Dolly Parton, or make boob jokes, especially if you haven't really heard her music).
#3

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:35pm

I may be totally talking out of my ass, but I thought maybe 10 years ago there was talk of Dolly Parton doing HELLO DOLLY for television; the idea was to keep the show's time period, but instead of New York resetting it in Nashville.

I thought it was a cute idea.
#9

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:47pm

LA CAGE would have been a bigger success if they'd gotten bigger names and a better director. I can't imagine a Broadway revival of DOLLY or MAME without a major star (and I don't mean Christine Baranski). I would think its more a case of waiting until the right person is available and interested.
#12

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:52pm

Brilliant!! To do that role, they should have someone unique and Dolly would fill that quota. In Spades!

Who the hell would want to see Tovah as Dolly?

She looks better suited to pushing a potato cart than coming down a staircase.
#13

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:52pm

It'll be interesting to see how well the Kennedy Center Mame is received this summer. If it gets raves, I would imagine there would be a chance that it would move to NY.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#15

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:59pm

I love Dolly as an entertainer and as a citizen, but she can't act.

She's a terrific singer and concert presence, but when it comes to talking other people's words, she's not all that good.

Dolly Gallagher Levi requires a real bona fide leading lady who can play comedy.

A lot of high school girls weren't finishing school in Dolly's hometown and she offered each girl a thousand bucks if they would stay in school and graduate. That's what I mean about being a good, no, great citizen.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher
#16

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 4:06pm

::GASPS::

Dolly can't act???? Compared to who?
"Isn't it strange that we spend most of our time learning to do what they put people in asylums for." - Jane Fonda on Acting
#17

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 4:07pm

I believe Dolly Parton actually has the perfect comic timing needed for Dolly but I'm not sure how she would do in the very few nostalgic and dramatic moments of the show that I do believe add a lot to the character. Like I've said before, the one actress I'd love to see playing Dolly Levi is Bernadette Peters.
I agree that there is no way Mame or Hello, Dolly! would be revived without a major star in the title roles, especially Mame.
#19

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 4:18pm

Both Reba and Dolly would be great in the role, but they would have to lose their twangs for the part.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#22

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 4:26pm

I'm sure somebody can and will go into a long diatribe about the detailed history of the character, Dolly Gallagher Levi through all her various incarnations but does it really matter if she is Yiddish, or Irish or Southern? I mean it's not a Harold Pinter play and I'm sure in the 1890s at least one girl from Tennessee married a Jewish merchant from NYC.
#24

re: Dolly Parton Should Star in the Revival of Hello Dolly!

Posted: 4/21/06 at 4:56pm

Tovah will be playing Dolly Levi Gallagher.

Its just a tiny alteration.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

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