Hello, Mary!
Here are two videos that are pretty fun, and a great touch of musical theater history. They’re sort of companion videos.
The first is a segment from, I think, an old Dateline NBC that in their "This Week in History" segment showed a six-minute excerpt of documentary narrated by Mary Martin about when she took the musical Hello, Dolly! on tour -- here, to Japan in 1968. And we see about 4-5 minutes from the production. (Fun, too, is the very end when the TV show goes back to host Stone Phillips and brings in a historian to put the year in perspective. We get to see a bit of a young Michael Beschloss.)
And the second video seems like it’s likely part of the same Hello, Dolly! featurette above (though not necessarily show on Dateline), this time when the tour went to Vietnam. It’s largely her singing the title song as an encore, but with special lyrics.
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