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What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#25What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 4/15/20 at 2:01pmDid Carol own one of them ?
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#26What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 4/15/20 at 4:07pmDid Carol own the sets? I doubt it. I do know she had the Harmonia gown and fascinator from her final revival.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#27What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 4/15/20 at 10:55pm
Dollypop said: "Did Carol own the sets? I doubt it. I do know she had the Harmonia gown and fascinator from her final revival."
I thought I had read that she and her then husband owned the last set she toured with. Topol also had a Fiddler set.
#28What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 4/15/20 at 11:16pm
Dollypop said: "Dunno"
Dollypop you must be Australian or have ancestors with some 'strine' in them as 'DUNNO' is exactly our lazy way of speaking. 'Donno, ask im, e tinks e noes everytink'.
carnzee
Broadway Star Joined: 9/2/11
#29What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 4/16/20 at 8:04am
Dollypop said: "Did Carol own the sets? I doubt it. I do know she had the Harmonia gown and fascinator from her final revival."
I like the fascinator Carol wore in the original better than the one used in Bette's revival. I just like how the feathers look. I also like how the original dress had that lighter color in the front, it made all the ladies who wore it look slimmer.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#30What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 4/16/20 at 7:39pmThe lighter colored panel in the original dress was brocade and rather heavy. It was made of a different fabric (and lots of sequins) in subsequent revivals. Bette's dress was a lighter fabric all around.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#31What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 4/17/20 at 2:35pm
Set is in storage with trucking company.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#32What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 6/4/20 at 3:06pmWould love to know which one. I'd love to have my picture taken on the staircase and use it for a Christmas card.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#33What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 6/4/20 at 7:19pm
Unless they went rogue I would have to assume it's Clark Transfer. Their main office is in Harrisburg, PA, though I don't know if that's also where they store their trailers.
#34What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 6/4/20 at 9:04pm
Just want to add that sets and costumes are often repurposed: I worked on a very lavish "revisal" of MACK AND MABEL in the mid-1970s that was costumed almost entirely from clothes worn in the Broadway revival of NO, NO, NANETTE five years earlier. The clothes even arrived in the NANETTE trunks and were then fitted on to our cast in Florida.
Same historical period, so why not?
#35What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 6/4/20 at 9:16pm
Not nearly as glamorous, but when I did a regional production (as a kid) of Brigadoon in the early 80's, we used the costumes from the recent Broadway revival.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#36What happens to the Hello Dolly touring set and props?
Posted: 6/4/20 at 9:25pmThere's still the possibility of a non-Equity DOLLY! being sent out so I'm sure the costumes are in storage.
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