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Saturday, January 16, 2021

"Hello, Dolly!" opens on Broadway 1964



The original Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! opened on January 16, 1964, starring Carol Channing as Dolly Levi.  It also starred Charles Nelson Reilly and Eileen Brennan.  It won ten Tony Awards that year, winning in ten categories.

It debuted in Detroit in November 1963 before moving to Broadway the following January.

When Channing left the show, Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey and Ethel Merman all appeared in the title role.


Sunday, April 12, 2020

The X-files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" aired 1996


For the first few seasons of The X-Files, one episode contained dark humor and a little lighter mood than the rest of the episodes.  In Season 3, that episode was the twentieth, Jose Chung's From Outer Space.  It is one of my favorite episodes of the show.  Charles Nelson Reilly stars as a science fiction writer writing a non-fiction book about an alien abduction.  The accounts from the witnesses seem to differ greatly, so anything could have happened.

Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek appear as Men in Black.