‘Wall-E’ says ‘Hello, Dolly’
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Jerry Herman is singing “Hello, Wall-E.”
Two songs from the Rialto composer’s “Hello, Dolly!” — “Put on Your Sunday Clothes” and “It Only Takes a Moment” — play major roles in the hit Pixar film’s story about a little robot left on a devastated Earth 700 years in the future with only a pair of show tunes to keep him going.
The success of the film is also spurring talk of a major Broadway revival of the 1964 musical.
Herman says there’s been interest in a new “Dolly!” for the past several years, with the Nederlander Org producing, but now the release of “Wall-E” has unexpectedly amplified the buzz. “The movie will only make it more vital, more of an event, and I think a lot of kids would come and see where those songs came from,” says the composer.
Herman, 77, says he was unaware of the importance of the songs to the film until he saw “Wall-E” on opening weekend. But in the movie’s first moments, when he heard Michael Crawford singing “Put on Your Sunday Clothes,” he was stunned and moved.
In the film, the robot plays an old videocassette of “Hello, Dolly!” and is transfixed by that upbeat song, as well as the romantic ballad “It Only Takes a Moment,” sung by Crawford and Marianne McAndrew.