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* [[Race Lift]]: After the original Broadway production had run for a few years, the entire cast was replaced by an all-black company headed by Pearl Bailey as Dolly and Cab Calloway as Vandergelder. By all accounts, this was a great success, reviving slowed ticket sales. Bailey won a Special Tony Award for her performance. |
* [[Race Lift]]: After the original Broadway production had run for a few years, the entire cast was replaced by an all-black company headed by Pearl Bailey as Dolly and Cab Calloway as Vandergelder. By all accounts, this was a great success, reviving slowed ticket sales. Bailey won a Special Tony Award for her performance. |
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* [[Small Start Big Finish]]: "Before the Parade Passes By" and the title song. |
* [[Small Start Big Finish]]: "Before the Parade Passes By" and the title song. |
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* [[Talking to the Dead]]: Dolly addresses her dead husband, Ephram, and asks him to give her a sign of his consent for her to marry Horace. |
* [[Talking to the Dead]]: Dolly addresses her dead husband, Ephram, and asks him to [[Give Me a Sign|give her a sign]] of his consent for her to marry Horace. When she gets one, she takes a moment to murmur, "Thank you, Ephraim." |
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* [[Title Drop]]: The title song, of course. |
* [[Title Drop]]: The title song, of course. |
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** In fact, the show was named after the song, not the other way around. The original title was ''Dolly, a Damned Exasperating Woman'', but when producer David Merrick heard [[Louis Armstrong]]'s recording of the "Hello, Dolly!", he liked it so much that he changed the name. The original title gets its own [[Title Drop]] in a line by Horace Vandergelder. |
** In fact, the show was named after the song, not the other way around. The original title was ''Dolly, a Damned Exasperating Woman'', but when producer David Merrick heard [[Louis Armstrong]]'s recording of the "Hello, Dolly!", he liked it so much that he changed the name. The original title gets its own [[Title Drop]] in a line by Horace Vandergelder. |
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