Why is Dolly always in red?- Page 2

[DBillyP]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 3:52pm

But does wearing a red handkerchief all over make Dolly the "ee" or the "er"?!?

[children&art]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 3:57pm

oh my DBillyP, so naughty - but so funny!

i actually did a paper on the "hanky code" in college for interpersonal communication. i think i got a decent grade on it.

http://alt.xmission.com/~trevin/hanky.html

Updated On: 3/17/06 at 03:57 PM

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 4:02pm

Hah...now that I think of it I would kind of like to see Dolly as Dolly.

Akiva

[bare_nakedlady]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 4:18pm

Maybe in the next revival she'll enter wearing Roger De Bris' dress.

*crosses fingers*

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 4:29pm

Dolly is always in red because she is a sinner... a woman of ill repute.

She represents pure evil.

[Broadwaylady]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 4:33pm

I knew DP would not let us down with his vast knowledge of Hello Dolly.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 7:15pm

In the book Jerry Herman: Poet of Showtune by Stephen Citron it says:
"Streisand had her differences with almost everyone in the key Harmonia Gardens scene. A cause celebre was the design and color of the gown. She rejected a beautiful scarlet one that Irene Sharaff had designed and whose blood-red color the producer and playwright felt was psychologically essential to Dolly's return to living. In the press Streisand rreasoned that Carol Channing's Dolly had worn a similar one and had been photographed again and again in it. The star refused to leave her dressing room until promised that a new design in gold would be forthcoming. At last Sharaff presented her with a richly beaded topaz dress that pleased her."
Updated On: 4/6/06 at 07:15 PM

[Princeton78]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:08pm

Why is Dolly always in red?
Because it looks fabulous on her!

[Joelbeans]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:15pm

I know a lot of costumers, and they tell me that if you want a character to be noticed put them in red. If a character appears on stage in red the audiences attention will be drawn to them. And since they have told me that, everytime I go to a show I have noticed that.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:23pm

I sometimes wish designers wouldn't copy the originals...color is one thing, but I hate how you nearly always seen Mrs. Lovett's dolled up like Angela Landsbury, pigtail buns and all. Couldn't the director and designer say...not copy everything the original production did?