Penny in My Pocket (Hello Dolly!) - David Hyde Pierce

This song was cut from the original run of Hello Dolly! and reinstated in the 2017 revival with Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce, performed at 71st Tony Awards.

[armesisp]

Niles is awesome. I could listen to him all day.

[anrina]

Totally off topic comment but David Hyde Pierce was a gentleman at stage door, he was so kind. I saw the show with Donna Murphy (who was simply marvelous and also incredibly kind at stage door) and also Bernadette Peters. I never really knew the show before its revival and found it overwhelmingly joyful... so much that the titular song made me tear up.

[jedikat]

Beautifully performed and very entertaining!

[MsBroadway]

That ladies and gentlemen is some of acting at its finest. The little subtleties make it.

[yuriykleyner]

The greatest thing is there is not a penny of Niles in this performance...if you didn't know it was the same actor, you would be totally convinced David Hyde Pierce was or played strict turn of the century big businessmen all his life.

[obironsnowjobi]

Midler did demand it be staged at the Shubert -- this is common and many Tony's feature a number either recorded or live this way. BUT, this song is GREAT!!! Perfect example of Herman's art. I first heard this on a few cabaret albums, then Micheal Feinstein with Herman. I prefer a little slower tempo. Would have suited Matthau in the movie and beefed up Horace's roll. Really should have never been cut. And everybody watching the Tony's knows this musical. I am amazed by Jerry Herman everytime I try to pick out one by ear. He always has a trick up his sleeve even though the songs sound so simple. Simple is

[jamesgeorgi]

Great song. Also speaking of pennies and money in general, to paraphrase Dr. Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb,

“If I had a nickel for every time Horace mentions having a penny in his pocket, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but weird that he said that twice”

[manuelorozco]

Not a bad new song. But still a killjoy Bette Medler couldn’t be on stage and do the title number with the ensemble!

[austinwei]

He looks just like Kelsey Grammer here

[woutthielemans]

Great performance and a good enough song but I understand why it got cut. It makes Horace far too nice a person in describing his rags-to-riches trajectory (giving his money to a blind man for instance) and there's no reason for him to be so mean and greedy as he's always been treated very well by fate and his fellow men.

[jochenstossberg]

He's not funny enough. But then I saw the original Horace who didn't have this song, but who was hilarious, just standing there, next to the one and only Carol Channing. They were hysterical doing nothing, those two. This is s witty song, and Walter Matthau would have owned this if they'd kept it in the film.

[sawyer]

Really?? This is the song they chose for the Awards??? Smh