Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...startled by the number of old people. At the intersection of River St. and Massachusetts Ave. there is a triangular island with a row of benches along its base; old men sit there in the evening with their hands clasped between their knees. Once, a benchsitter said hello to me and I didn't bother to answer. Now I figure that I should have. After all, he didn't mumble like the younger men in Harvard Square, and it must get pretty boring, watching the traffic. I don't think people are particularly impudent in Central Square. They...
...know it sounds pretentious, but how do you worry about these kinds of things? The fact is that if we do what we think a Broadway audience wants, and we know what that is--that's Hello, Dolly, Irene--there's certainly a statute of limitations on those. There's got to be. And that kind of old-fashioned musical is not doing as well as it used to. I think if Mame opened today instead of six years ago it wouldn't succeed. I hope I'm right, because I don't like that kind of theater. Who said...
...certain number of people walk out on every show we do. That will always happen, and that's the life we live. But more of them will stay, to have had a pretty good time. Not as good a time as they would have at Hello, Dolly, but a pretty good time. And as you keep infusing that into the taste of people you are doing what we used to talk about, which is educating your public. Now that's an enormous subject, but it was a hell of a lot more difficult to do three years ago than...
...Hello, Dolly. Pearl Bailey recreates her Broadway role as the incorrigible matchmaker. At the Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, through November 1. Performances Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., Saturday matinee...
...Hello, Dolly. Pearl Bailey creates her role as the incorrigible matchmaker. At the Shubert Theater, 265 Tremont Street, through November 1. Performances Monday through Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday matinees...