Broadway Review: Bette Midler Is A Perfect Match For 'Hello Dolly!'
Like mortarboards on graduation day and lizards in Little Orphan Annie, happy critics tend to fling words in the air, leap into paroxysms of ecstasy and throw caution to the wind when something makes us happy. I probably speak for the general critical consortium when I say – duh! – that Bette Midler on Broadway makes us happy. So I won’t bore you with the Anglo-Austrian roots of the Hello, Dolly!…