Word: carolled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HELLO, DOLLY! is a handsome, happy and airborne visit to Little Old New York, thanks chiefly to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion. Carol Channing, as a sassy matchmaker with heart, boosts the show's eye, ear and laugh appeal...
HELLO, DOLLY! is a handsome, happy and airborne visit to Little Old New York, thanks chiefly to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion. Carol Channing, as a sassy matchmaker with heart, boosts the show's eye, ear and laugh appeal...
Hello, Dolly!, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, has eye appeal, ear appeal, love appeal and laugh appeal, but its most insinuative charm is its nostalgic appeal. When Dolly Levi (Carol Channing), widow and matchmaker, fondles a cash register after announcing that she plans to marry its owner, she carries the mind back to a time when women needed and cherished men for their money, and in a day when wives sometimes earn as much or more than their husbands, that image is strangely endearing. The curmudgeonly businessman who loathed culture, spurned pleasure and lived...
...clown in Carol Channing sometimes upstages the actress, but this show thrives on her kind of showoff. David Burns may be the only man alive who can bark through his nose. Gower Champion keeps the choreography winging. His agile, toe-perfect dance company spends so much time off the ground that it should get flight...
Altogether brisker, and written with a far more expert journalistic surface, are the stories of Joyce Carol Oates, a 25-year-old Detroit University teacher from upstate New York. Her 14 tales belong to the old, lively tradition of American regionalism and the word-of-mouth folklore of any village. There is a good sense of place and dialect. Perhaps she lacks a touch of the Dawkins magic, but together, the well-worked art of these two women serves as a reminder that if and when the short story dies, it will be a heavy loss...