Hello Dolly! At the Dominion

I have got butterflies just reading this, I cannot believe what I’m reading!

Pray for the bank account- TodayTix Rush?

Summer can’t come quick enough!!!

If it does, the my two best shows of 2018 will be playing back to back and the Dominion need to work out a loyalty card...

At the Dominion, they'll need a longer train! I don't have my stage specs in front of me but I think the Dominion stage is 40 feet wide and the Shubert is 24-26 feet.

Honestly, if I paid $239 to see Bette from the 5th row and it was worth every penny of my unemployment check! You will never see anything like it in your life again. I also saw the show a year later with Donna Murphy and it just wasn't the same. Bette brings a quality that goes right through your spine up to that happy place in your brain.

The Dominion is a very large space. Maybe they will open the upper circle again (that has not been turned into offices of course) so if you can afford top price there may still be an opportunity to experience shear joy.

That’s gonna be some Passerelle!

I love Hello Dolly, yes it is old fashioned but it is a hoot. I loved performing in it in my amdram days and Samantha Spiro was wonderful in the Open Air Theatre production.

Shame the recent broadway recording sounds dull and lifeless, try checking out the two recording with Carol Channing on. From mates who did see it it was wonderful and the CD is a poor transcript of a wonderful evening of theatre.

I am not personally very excited either. I think I appreciate Bette Middler more as comedienne than as a singer. But I am very happy, though, for those who were yearning to see the show, but couldn’t go to New York. I remember the board discussion about the possibility of a transfer and the anguished considerations from some that the transfer was unlikely because of financial realities. So it seems that there is reason to rejoice after all. I saw a very good production, in Regent’s Park, that I found very imaginative and charming. The clip I saw from the Broadway production didn’t look quite as interesting, so I am not that curious to see it, especially as my budget for theatre extravagances this year has been fully diverted to Ivo van Hove’s All About Eve. But I hope everyone else enjoys it.

Hello, Dolly! is absolutely a classic - but not for the same reasons as any of the truly 'good' musicals. If you worship whoever is playing that role, there are no words to describe what it feels like when after the waiter shouts "SHE'S HEREEEE", the orchestra starts blaring and she walks down that iconic red stair case. It's probably the closest thing to a natural MDMA high in a musical you'll ever have, and I absolute cherish every minute of seeing Bernadette Peters in the role. I saw Bette too and I'm not a massive fan, so I didn't quite feel the same about her (and will pass unless they get someone like Donna Murphy to be the alternate). If you are not really a fan, you can probably skip it - but you should be praying someone you adore gets a chance to play the role as a replacement or alternative because you need to experience this high.

I've seen many 'classic' shows - My Fair Lady (directed by Julie Andrews herself), Hamilton, all of Sondheim's canon etc.. etc.. and none of it even comes close. 

I'm not excited, but there's no reason in particular. I just think this show is not my thing. I might still see it (if they discount) and love it and eat my words, of course. Who knows...

I’ve always been a big Bette fan (ever since watching Beaches as a young boy) but I am never prepared to pay extortionate amounts of money to see a theatre show. A show shouldn’t cost as much as a weekend away in my mind.

If I can get decent tickets i’ll go but I’m not a massive fan of the show itself. I find it hard to see it being such a huge thing in the WE as it was on Broadway and think the Dominion is such a bad fit for this show.
It would be perfect for a more prestigious theatre, the Palladium for example.

Have to admit I an going more for Bette than Hello Dolly. Was never a huge fan of the film, it was ok.
Regret not seeing Bette when she toured last and as I've never seen her live before this will probably my one and only chance.
Plus it's all very camp isn't it.

Not going to lie, I’m pretty disappointed about this, but for a different reason to some of the above posters.

For a little over a year, when at parties etc primarily attended by gay men (who usually lead much more interesting lives than me) I’ve been able to casually drop into conversation about ‘that time I saw Bette Midler in Hello Dolly on Broadway’ and enjoyed seeing them turn green with envy. If it comes over here I’ll lose that!