Hello, Dolly!

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"Hello, Dolly! ... has qualities of freshness and imagination that are rare in the run of our machine-made musicals. It transmutes the broadly stylized mood of a mettlesome farce into the gusto and colors of the musical stage. ... songs are brisk and pointed and always tuneful. One is glad to welcome Hello, Dolly! for its warmth, color and high spirits." - The New York Times

"The most outgoing woman on the musical stage today - big and warm, all eyes and smiles, in love with everybody in the theatre and possessing a unique voice ranging somewhat upward from a basso profundo." - The New York Daily News (of Carol Channing in the title role)

"[Hello, Dolly!] will be an enormous popular success." - The New York Post

"Hello, Dolly! is a musical comedy dream, with Carol Channing the girl of it...[She] opens wide her big-as-millstone eyes, spreads her white-gloved arms in ecstatic abandon, trots out on a circular runway that surrounds the orchestra and proceeds to dance rings around the conductor. With hair like orange seafoam, a contralto like a horse's neighing, and a confidential swagger [she is] a musical comedy performer with all the blowzy glamour of the girls on the sheet music of 1916." - New York Herald Tribune

"Seldom has a corps of dancers brought so much style and excitement to a production which could easily have been pedestrian...it is difficult to describe the emotion [the song "Hello, Dolly!"] produces. Last night the audience nearly tore up the seats as [Dolly] led the parade of waiters in a series of encores over the semi-circular runway which extends around the orchestra pit out into the audience." - New York Journal American