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...opened the show on Jan. 16, 1964. Hello, Dolly! went on to become Broadway's longest-running musical, with 2,844 performances (My Fair Lady is second with 2,717). Channing was followed in Dolly's role by Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller and, finally, by Ethel Merman, who belted out the final hellos last week and then took the final curtain calls. "I feel sad and happy," said Ethel, "it's a bittersweet ending...
...press conference, I learn that although we have 204 passengers aboard, only 99 are smokers who are participating in the program, and of these, only about 65 to 75 have completely stopped smoking. The nonparticipants include freeloading employees of the sponsors, the professional staff and Comedienne Phyllis Diller and her entourage (she's along for public relations reasons...
...performance, Hello, Dolly! passed My Fair Lady's record as the longest-running musical on Broadway. Way back on Jan. 6, 1964, Carol Channing opened the show. After nine months, Ginger Rogers took over; then came Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey (and an all-black cast), Phyllis Diller, and now Ethel Merman, who has extended her contract to Dec. 26, 1970. Considering Dolly's longevity, the question arises, who's next? Producer David Merrick has it figured out. "Liberace. And we can call it Hello, Bruce!" He was not entirely kidding. He has already offered...
...done the act a thousand times-on the road for eight years, doing concerts like this one up and down the East Coast, then doing nightclubs for twelve years-breaking all the Show Biz records out there, running longer than Phyllis Diller, the runner-up. Held over for seven and a half months in Puerto Rico. He's got more than a hundred stunts, pre-tested for audience appeal. So there's no uncertainty about him when he sizes up the crowd. After a little opening spiel-"Hypnosis is a science and it is a fact" -he steps back, waves...
...heavily pressagented event had been arranged by aides of the singer, NBC, and Johnny Carson's staff, which gleefully provided the vaguely Louis XVI set and wardrobe. To build ratings, the ceremony was delayed through an insufferable hour with Diller and Singer Florence Henderson. The rites were relatively decorous-and held down to ten minutes so that there were no commercial interruptions. The cameras stayed discreetly behind the couple as they vowed "to be sweet, gentle, kind, patient, not puffed up, charitable, slow to anger and swift to forgive...