Wow, wow, wow fellas. Look at the old girl now, fellas...
Hello Dolly is a movie classic. Not just because it stars such greats as Babs and Walter Matthau and the lesser-twinkler-but-still-wonderfuller Michael Crawford - but because it takes you through the time of the great musicals in America and who doesn't love NYC with horse-drawn carriages everywhere? It actually reminds me a lot of how my grandpa described New York City when he lived there as a young man in the 1920's. He used to muck out the police barns for a living. They were still using horses then.
Dolly Levi is a matchmaking guru and begins setting up the match of her life - her OWN personal love connection. Of course Chuck Woolery isn't IN this movie...it was a little before his time. But Dolly has her sights set on Horace Vandergelder (played by Matthau) both for his money and his station in the community. Dolly has a funny way of capturing his attention though - sweeping away his niece and her boyfriend that Vandergelder DOESN'T approve of, taking away his two shopkeepers and hooking one of them up with the woman Vandergelder himself has been courting. She manages to leverage it to her best potential and Vandergelder can't help falling for her.
The songs in this movie are *so* contagious and some might sound familiar if you're a Disney fan (the songs "Put on your Sunday Clothes" and "It Only Takes A Moment" were featured widely in Wall-E). The first time I showed the movie to my family, we made an evening out of it. We made a dinner much like the one served in the restaurant scene and then we shaped the rest of the evening around the movie. It's perfect for the entire family - and you'll definitely be humming the soundtrack the next day...week...month...maybe even longer.
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