Dolly musical getting a Vegas makeover?

I cringed when I heard a Broadway influencer who was at the Dolly musical press preview describe what he called a new opening scene for the show — one of the Dolly singing her iconic “Two Doors Down” as several hunky cowboy dancers came through some doors onstage to perform a dance. That is a big change from the penumbral opening setting in the Smoky Mountains that was in place for the Nashville tryout. The stage lighting at least was somewhat brighter by the end of the Nashville run. (I saw the show at the beginning and end of the Nashville run). But I suspect now that Dolly has passed on, whoever is calling the shots as the show that is moving to Broadway wants a decidedly different vibe that won’t put off the tourist crowd coming for a good time at the theater first and foremost. There has been surprisingly little talk in the wake of that press preview. But if the bits and pieces of information that have emerged are indicative of what the final product will look like, i fear the focus will be more on entertaining the crowd than on conveying Dolly’s true story.