Editing Hello, Dolly! (musical) (section)

===Original Broadway production===
The musical, directed and [[choreographed]] by [[Gower Champion]] and produced by David Merrick, opened on January 16, 1964, at the [[St. James Theatre]] and closed on December 27, 1970, after 2,844 performances.<ref>{{cite news |work=[[Playbill]] |title=VINTAGE PLAYBILL: Hello, Dolly!; Opening Night, 1964 |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/vintage-playbill-hello-dolly-opening-night-1964-com-213795 |first=Brynn |last=Cox |date=16 January 2014}}</ref> [[Carol Channing]] starred as Dolly, with a supporting cast that included [[David Burns (actor)|David Burns]] as Horace, [[Charles Nelson Reilly]] as Cornelius, [[Eileen Brennan]] as Irene, Jerry Dodge as Barnaby, Sondra Lee as Minnie Fay, [[Mary Jo Catlett]] as Ermengarde, and Igors Gavon as Ambrose.  Although facing competition from ''[[Funny Girl (musical)|Funny Girl]]'' with [[Barbra Streisand]], ''Hello, Dolly!'' swept the [[Tony Awards]] in 1964, winning awards in ten categories<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010126160100/http://www.tams-witmark.com/musicals/hellodolly.html#brief " 'Hello, Dolly!' Listing"] tams-witmark.com, accessed March 29, 2012</ref> (out of eleven nominations) that tied the musical with the previous record keeper ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'',{{Citation needed|date=January 2019}} record that remained unbroken for 37 years until ''[[The Producers (musical)|The Producers]]'' won twelve Tonys in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/the-producers-beats-record-for-tony-wins-with-12-trophies-com-97014|title=The Producers Beats Record for Tony wins with 12 Trophies|last=Simonson|first=Robert|date=June 3, 2001|website=Playbill|language=en|access-date=2019-01-15}}</ref>

[[File:Pearl Bailey Ed Sullivan Show 1968.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Pearl Bailey]] as Dolly, 1968.]]
After Channing left the show, Merrick employed prominent actresses to play Dolly, including [[Ginger Rogers]], who started on August 9, 1965; [[Martha Raye]], starting on February 27, 1967; [[Betty Grable]], from June 12, 1967, to November 5, 1967; [[Pearl Bailey]] (in an all-black version with [[Cab Calloway]] as Horace) starting on November 12, 1967 (with [[Thelma Carpenter]] as her alternate); [[Phyllis Diller]], as of December 26, 1969; and [[Ethel Merman]] (after having turned down the lead at the show's inception) from March 28, 1970, to December 27, 1970.<ref>[http://www.playbill.com/personlistpage/person-list?production=00000150-aea3-d936-a7fd-eef741440000&type=op# " 'Hello, Dolly' Cast Replacements"] Playbill, retrieved December 28, 2017</ref>

Two songs cut prior to the opening – typical [[Belt (music)|belt]] style songs "World, Take Me Back" and "Love, Look in My Window" – were restored for Merman's run. [[Jo Anne Worley]] was Channing's original standby but she never went on. She later played Dolly in regional and [[Summer stock theater|summer stock]] productions. [[Bibi Osterwald]] was the standby for Dolly following Worley's and Channings' departures, subbing for all the stars, including Bailey, despite the fact that Osterwald was white. [[Marie Bryant]] and [[Novella Nelson]] also covered for the role of Dolly. Bailey received a [[Special Tony Award]] in 1968.<ref>Sullivan, Dan. " 'Rosencrantz' and 'Hallelujah, Baby!' Garner Tonys: Zoe Caldwell and Balsam Capture Acting Honors", ''The New York Times'', April 22, 1968, p.58</ref>

The show received rave reviews,<ref name=Musicals101/><ref>Bovson article</ref> with "praise for Carol Channing and particularly Gower Champion."<ref>[[Stanley Green (historian)|Green, Stanley]]. ''Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre'', Da Capo Press, 1980, {{ISBN|0-306-80113-2}}, p. 183</ref> The original production became the [[List of the longest-running Broadway shows|longest-running musical]] (and third longest-running show) in September 1970<ref>{{cite web |last=Hernandez |first=Ernio |title=Long Runs on Broadway |website=Playbill |url=http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/75222-Long-Runs-on-Broadway |access-date=July 1, 2010 |date=February 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626103201/http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/75222-Long-Runs-on-Broadway |archive-date=June 26, 2010}}</ref> in Broadway history up to that time, surpassing ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' and then being surpassed in turn by ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]].'' The run was not continuous, unlike ''My Fair Lady'', with several week-long breaks, including a week where the production moved to St. Louis.<ref name=mark>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title='Dolly' Due To Top 'MFL' Mark Sept. 9; 'Fiddler' Looms As Potential Rival|date=August 26, 1970|page=1|last=Segers|first=Frank|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1970-08-26_260_2/mode/2up?view=theater|access-date=April 3, 2024|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> The Broadway production of ''Hello Dolly!'' grossed $27&nbsp;million.<ref>Bloom & Vlastnik (2004) p. 302.</ref> By August 1970, it had made a profit of $8.5 million against its $350,000 investment.<ref name=mark/>

;Tour and regional Dollys
[[Mary Martin]] starred in a US tour, starting in April 1965 and playing in 11 cities. The production also toured in [[Japan]], [[Korea]] and [[Vietnam]] for a special USO performance for U.S. troops.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397087/ Information about a documentary chronicling Martin's Asian tour in ''Hello, Dolly!''] IMDb</ref><ref>Dibble, Susan. [https://www.stripes.com/news/from-the-s-s-archives-mary-martin-dolly-cast-in-tokyo-1.88252 "From the S&S archives: Mary Martin, 'Dolly!' cast in Tokyo"] ''Stars and Stripes'', September 8, 1965</ref><ref>[https://tamswitmark.com/blog_items/photo-gallery-hello-dolly-a-dozen-dollys/ "PHOTO GALLERY: ''Hello, Dolly!'' – A Dozen Dollys"] tamswitmark.com, accessed August 26, 2019</ref>

After Channing left the Broadway show, she headed a second US tour beginning in September 1965. 18 months later, Rogers also joined the roadshow production.<ref name=mark/> It ran for two years and nine months. [[Eve Arden]] and [[Dorothy Lamour]] were replacements.<ref>Green, Stanley. "Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre" (1980), Da Capo Press, {{ISBN|0-306-80113-2}}, p. 183</ref> Grable led another touring company before joining the Broadway show.<ref name=mark/> 

Bailey and Calloway headed an all-Black tour in 1967 prior to their Broadway run, which was given a second cast album.<ref>Culwell-Block, Logan. [https://playbill.com/article/9-original-cast-albums-featuring-replacement-performers "9 Original Cast Albums Featuring Replacement Performers"], ''Playbill'', November 17, 2022</ref><ref name=mark/> 

[[Carole Cook]], (the second actress to play the title role, after Channing, appearing in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] productions), [[Dorothy Lamour]], [[Eve Arden]], [[Ann Miller]], [[Michele Lee]], [[Edie Adams]], and [[Yvonne De Carlo]] also played the role on tour. [[Betty White]] appeared with the [[Kenley Players]] as Dolly in the summer of 1979. [[Molly Picon]] appeared as Dolly in a 1971 production by the [[North Shore Music Theatre]] of [[Beverly, Massachusetts]]. [[Lainie Kazan]] starred in a production at the [[Claridge Atlantic City]]. [[Vicki Lawrence]] played the role twice, once for [[Sacramento Music Circus]] and once for Glendale Music Theatre.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Arkush|first=Michael |date=1991-09-27|title=Not Quite Prime Time : Vicki Lawrence Hopes to Have Fun With 'Hello, Dolly!' but Misses the Weekly TV Audience |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-27-ca-3059-story.html |access-date=2021-11-11|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> Both [[Tovah Feldshuh]] and [[Betsy Palmer]] played Dolly in productions by the [[Paper Mill Playhouse]]. [[Marilyn Maye]] also starred in several regional productions and recorded a full album of the score.