they were so cute indeed.:)..but not sure about that....
shareThe onscreen time that they weren't given for their acting, they were given much more because of their dancing talents. That is evident during "Dancing".
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I agree...they were so darn adorable!
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They had larger roles in The Matchmaker, which was the original play and movie that Hello, Dolly was based upon.
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Often in a musical, you have a male and female lead and a juvenile male and female lead. Dolly and Horace (should if they cast a more age appropriate Dolly) fit the lead parts and Cornelius and Irene fit the juvenile.
There was just no room for Barnaby and Minnie and Ambrose and
Ermengarde. The thing is already over two hours. To flesh out all four couples, you'd need to make the thing at least four hours. I've never seen so many couples. I think Barnaby should have been a third wheel and once Irene enters the picture, Barnaby should fade away. You need Barnaby at the beginning so Cornelius isn't performing soliloquys. Once Irene enters the picture, Barnaby isn't really needed.
You know a lot about musicals. I heard about "juveniles" in some Busby Berkeley movies but never really knew what they meant.
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Well, they aren't the main characters. They are there for the scenes with Cornelius and Irene, so they have stuff to do.
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Juveniles, ingenues, comic relief. In traditional musical theater, the second (sometimes younger) couple in a show, usually to supply humor, but not always (Cable & Liat in SOUTH PACIFIC are tragic characters)
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