"Penny in My Pocket" David Hyde Pierce - Hello, Dolly! Tonys 2017 performance

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  • Опубликовано: 4 сен 2018
  • Tony nominee David Hyde Pierce performed "Penny in My Pocket" for the performance Hello, Dolly! at the 2017 Tony Awards.
    Bette Midler was also a Tony nominee but did not perform during The Tony Awards.
    Jerry Zaks’ revival of the musical classic features a score by Jerry Herman. The playwright is Michael Stewart. Warren Carlyle choreographs the show, paying tribute to the work of the original production's director-choreographer Gower Champion. It earned 10 Tony nominations.
    Midler, who plays matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi, did not perform at the awards show, and instead presented an award. Producers of the musical initially aimed to have Midler perform remotely from the show's Shubert Theatre, but the awards show's producers opted against that preference.
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  • @isabellalen652
    @isabellalen652 5 лет назад +19

    It makes me annoyed that they performed this song because the show was phenomenal and this song doesn’t show that off.

    • @MartinHomeVideo
      @MartinHomeVideo 2 года назад +1

      Everyone knows what show is about but nobody know this song. That’s why.

  • @joeburinskas8672
    @joeburinskas8672 2 года назад +15

    They had to do this song at the last minute because Bette Midler wouldn't commit to performing so they were waiting and waiting and at the last minute she said no so they did a song without sets and only one person

    • @bigred8432
      @bigred8432 Год назад +2

      Nope. Absolutely not true. The producer would only agree to do the title number on the full set, filmed live at the show's theatre. The Tony Awards wouldn't budge and neither would the producer, so they went with this. The producer was insistent that anything with a full set had to be done at the the home theatre.

    • @joeburinskas8672
      @joeburinskas8672 Год назад

      @@bigred8432 nope. You're absolutely wrong. Try again

    • @bigred8432
      @bigred8432 Год назад

      @@joeburinskas8672 Although what you are saying makes a fun story, that doesn't make it the truth no matter how much a person might want it. The show was selling like crazy, they didn't need to win a Tony, they didn't need to perform at the Tony's for exposure, they didn't even have photographs outside the theatre! Bette Midler in the show made it an event, the likes of which we don't see so often on Broadway anymore. Scott Rudin the producer basically entered into a dick swinging contest with the Tony Awards. He had total control over the production, even making hard rules about what the cast could and couldn't post on social media, photos were absolutely banned as he wanted to keep up the mystique of the show and maintain the feel that it was truly something unique and special, it was working. When they finally released production photographs, they were only a handful and he had carefully selected them. He was not about to let go off his control and hand it over to the Tony Awards. He insisted that if they did the title song it would be performed at the theatre's home, with his lighting technicians, his stage crew, his orchestra etc rather than handing it over to the Tony's and having them tweak things. He also insisted it was the full set or nothing. Under normal circumstances the Tony Awards will win out because shows need the exposure. This show didn't. So in the end he said, it's either what I want or the only other number I'll allow that has no set is Penny in My Pocket. Neither the Tony's or Scott Rudin would budge so this is what happened.

  • @ChelCM03
    @ChelCM03 2 года назад +10

    I will never, NEVER, get over how this beat both Miss Siagon AND Falsettos. It's outrageous

    • @bigred8432
      @bigred8432 Год назад +3

      Because it was an infinitely better production? Did you actually see it?

    • @brianlynch996
      @brianlynch996 8 месяцев назад

      Falsettos was a good production of an odd little incomplete show. Miss Saigon just isn’t very good in the first place. This was a stellar production of a beloved American classic, and also had about 10 times as many producers as the others to campaign.

  • @jackieadelle190
    @jackieadelle190 3 года назад +4

    this is my first time seeing this Tony performance, they should’ve done Sunday Clothes instead of this song

  • @randirose3274
    @randirose3274 Год назад

    I'm going to see this show in Richmond Indiana on April 27 my friend Shelley Wambo is Ermengarde Steve Lakes is Horace Vandergelder my friend Trudi Is Dolly

  • @amandalheureux3443
    @amandalheureux3443 3 года назад +2

    Of all the songs in this wonderful revival they picked this one?????

    • @zentunsaringkran5517
      @zentunsaringkran5517 3 года назад +2

      I guess this scene is the easiest to transport to the Tony’s coz it’s one curtain, one outfit and a single wig as compared to all the other heavy af set pieces... just a theory

    • @MartinHomeVideo
      @MartinHomeVideo 2 года назад +1

      Also as Tony Tune explained this song wasn’t in the original production, so it was nice to have this record of it as the rest of them we seen and heard countless times.

    • @bigred8432
      @bigred8432 Год назад

      @@MartinHomeVideo The producer would only agree to do the title number on the full set, filmed live at the show's theatre. The Tony Awards wouldn't budge and neither would the producer, so they went with this. The producer was insistent that anything with a full set had to be done at the the home theatre. They didn't in any way need the Tony Awards to sell the show as Bette Midler was making it a box office smash, this was a way for the Producer to just play chicken with the Tonys. In the end we got this but it didn't alter the sales and the show was still huge box office success. There is no artistic reason behind this choice it was about dick swinging

  • @lanasnow6136
    @lanasnow6136 2 года назад +3

    wait... this is what beat Miss Saigon?

    • @bigred8432
      @bigred8432 Год назад +1

      Well, it was a better show overall

  • @GwenJuckts
    @GwenJuckts 3 года назад +1

    2017 Tonys were the most "meh" Tonys in Tony history

  • @mattsiegel4132
    @mattsiegel4132 5 лет назад +2

    Why didn't they do the one at the restaurant?

  • @dentrowchannel
    @dentrowchannel 5 лет назад +1

    First