Carol Channing HELLO DOLLY!  Broadway Musical 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″  Postcard 1964  Excellent condition.
Ushers gave out postcards and pens and then
collected them at the intermission in order for the Producers to stamp
and mail.  The was a marketing strategy for decades prior.  While the
postage subsidy and collection was retired, the cards did continue to
pop up.
Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hello, Dolly!
is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry
Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder’s 1938 farce
The
Merchant of Yonkers
, which Wilder revised and retitled
The Matchmaker
in 1955. The musical follows the story of Dolly Gallagher Levi, a strong-willed
matchmaker, as she travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a match for the
miserly “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” Horace
Vandergelder.
Hello, Dolly!
debuted at the Fisher Theater in Detroit on November
18, 1963, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion and produced by David
Merrick, and moved to Broadway in 1964, winning 10 Tony Awards, including Best
Musical. These awards set a record which the play held for 37 years. The show
album
Hello, Dolly! An Original Cast Recording
was inducted into the
Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. The album reached number one on the Billboard
album chart on June 6, 1964, and was replaced the next week by Louis Armstrong’s
album
Hello, Dolly!
Louis Armstrong also was featured in the film
version of the show, performing a small part of the song “Hello,
Dolly!”.
The show has become one of the most enduring musical theater hits, with four
Broadway revivals and international success. It was also made into the 1969
film
Hello Dolly!
by 20th Century Fox, which won three Academy Awards,
including Best Score of a Musical Picture and was nominated in four other
categories, including Best Picture at the 42nd Academy Awards.
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.
Carol Channing starred as Dolly, with a supporting cast that included David
Burns as Horace, Charles Nelson Reilly as Cornelius, Eileen Brennan as Irene,
Jerry Dodge as Barnaby, Sondra Lee as Minnie Fay, Alice Playten as Ermengarde,
and Igors Gavon as Ambrose. Although facing competition from
Funny Girl
with Barbra Streisand,
Hello, Dolly!
swept the Tony Awards in 1964,
winning awards in ten categories
(out of eleven nominations) that tied the
musical with the previous record keeper
South Pacific
,
record that remained
unbroken for 37 years until
The Producers
won twelve Tonys in 2001