Carol Channing HELLO DOLLY! Broadway Musical 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" Postcard 1964

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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