I was so lucky to see her on tour in Minneapolis. It was such a memorable performance of Dolly. She would have made for an incredible cast recording. It’s not just her singing (or which is fantastic) she does some incredible character work. I honestly wish they would have added back in Love Look in My Window and World Take Me Back. She could have owned them on tour.

She’s the best singer who ever performs this role … her voice is legendary.

@@siegfriedenea Not better than Pearl Bailey or Stresiand for sure.

@@richardmayora1289 streisand had the advantage of being 25 aka too young to be dolly

@@siegfriedenea That and her mannerisms are incredible!!!!

I got to see her as Norma Desmond!

You need to go to the theatre more often...

Uh, it brought a lump to my throat, too, when I had to throw up.

Absolutely 💖

Are you people her grandchildren? Can you hear?!!

FOUR TIMES?!! ARE YOU DEAF?

Exactly!!

Agreed, incredible!!!!!

Did you say you WON it? Or lost?

…what?

@@bnorem09 I was wondering if that 'win' was maybe a loss- or punishment for something you did! She is dreadful.

Yeah I don't think she was live here.

It's the musical version of the Thornton Wilder play "The Matchmaker". There is a 1958 movie of "The Matchmaker" staring Shirley Booth, Shirley Maclaine & Anthony Perkins.

​@@josephcollins6033 What? Youuuu mamamamean thththat's a gugugughost? ZOINKIE, Scooby! I'm out of here!

@@Nacho-Mamma You idiot. I meant that she is so awful it couldn't be "live", as in she has to be dead to be that bad.

I wouldn't call that fresh air.

Whoops sorry! Ah, the perils of posting vids during the wee hours of the morning! Edited now haha. :-)

Good catch!

We kept it from you....😂

....and yet the bottle didn't break! ;)

She might be too young but I love her dolly

@@viniciusbarretopereira9081 She was not too young. Most of the actresses playing Dolly are far too old.

You’re not, I prefer hers as well

Not a minority at all. Barbra's Dolly was ebullient, sassy and utterly fabulous. I also saw Miss Betty Lynn during her run as Dolly. I adore Betty Lynn and she can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. Barbra was just 26 and Betty Lynn is 71 here. Both are beyond compare. Dolly obviously can be played by more than one certain age or certain look. Ya know?

Oh I'm so with you on this. I know she herself did not have a good experience filming the movie because she felt she was to young for the role, and yes she technically was, but her maturity, intelligence, comic timing, and that glorious voice made it work. She also didn't have a great experience filming along side Walter Mathau whom I truly despise. This was also the film that introduced me to Barbra, so it holds a very special place for me

I imagine the original plan was to have several leading Broadway ladies do the role, much as like what happened in the '60s. But, when Bernadette Peters took over for Bette Midler, the box office for the show suffered. So, the decision was made to close the show on Broadway, and take all those expensive sets and costumes and put them on the road. They decided to ask Betty Buckley, one of the very few "Broadway names" left, to star in it. The short way to answer is that the producers decided that the only reason the show as a hit on Broadway was because of Bette Midler.

@@infotainmentpodcast1427 Yes, that make sense. Bernadette Peters was not so good and she has been doing some rejuvance on her face that was not so successful, as she appeared quite "changed"...Bette was a triumph!

She really lost it after about 2016/2017. She doesn't have a mix anymore, it's either whispy head voice or out of tune belt. She's 70 though remember. Very few still have a voice by then.

She sounds great!

Just wondering: Did you see both in the Theater? I did and I have to say in their own way both were wonderful. I'm old enough that I got to see the original production shortly after it opened and then I saw her years later in a revival. Always wonderful and always in my mind but when Betty road out on that trolley she she made it her own that evening. I also saw Pearl Baily and Martha Raye and not to push it but there is a wonderful film with Shirley Booth of The Matchmaker. All I'm saying is there are quite a number of great ladies who have play Dolly and done her honor. So did you see both on stage?

@@bostonviewer5430 Thank you for your wise and informed perspective. I can see here that La Buckley brings her many, many hour on the stage, and her professionalism, and her amazing acting talent to this role. (I know she reads the internet about her, so Betty if you're reading this, STOP!) But, obviously, her voice is diminished from what it was in 1984.

CHanning was just AWFUL as Dolly and everything she did! Simply GHASTLY!!

@@bostonviewer5430 Thornton Wilder wrote the role for Ruth Gordon, who passed on it in the original play, titled The Merchant of Yonkers, which was a flop, then triumphed in it in the slightly rewritten The Matchmaker (directed properly as a farce by Tyrone Guthrie). One critic described Gordon's Dolly as "a malevolent pixie." This role has been played successfully any number of ways, such is its tremendous scope for both broad comedy and genuine human feeling. Incidentally, I believe that in Matchmaker Wilder describes Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi as being of "an uncertain age." But surely, with Irene Molloy clearly being a youngish widow, Dolly must be of an older generation... older and younger perspectives brought into proximity (and sometimes conflict) is a recurrent theme in so much of Wilder's writing, even in The Matchmaker, which is an adaptation of an older German play; the most notable change was the addition of the character of... Mrs. Levi!

@@treesny Hi Nick. I don't think I ever knew the Matchmaker was a re-write but I did know Ruth Gordon was the original Dolly. I'm sorry there's no video of her in it (too long ago) but there is a wonderful movie with Shirley Booth who really got the role along with a sterling cast of Paul Ford, Shirley MacLaine ,Anthony Perkins and Robert Morse. I've wondered why it was filmed in Black and White in 1958 when everything was in wide screens bursting with color but maybe it does looks better that way. I've seen quite a few of the Dolly starting with the original production and loved them all but Ms. Buckley is the one, for me, who created a character rather than just being charismatic. Thanks for saying Hi with that interesting bit of information.