Flashback Friday: Bette Midler Radiate in Fiddler at the 1968 Tony Awards

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It was a long break however justified regardless of the hold up — Bette Midler is back on Broadway in Hello, Dolly! what's more, not long ago, she earned her first Tony selection for her execution as Dolly Levi. We saw her a couple of years prior in the performance play I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, yet we haven't seen her in a full-scale melodic since making her Broadway make a big appearance in the 1968 creation of Fiddler on The Roof. 

Here she sings nearby Mimi Turque and Tanya Everet in the great melody "Matchmaker" at the 1968 Tony Awards. The fun proceeds after her execution with snappy takes a gander at Jill Haworth of Cabaret singing the show's main tune and Man of La Mancha star David Atkinson singing "The Impossible Dream." 

Ideally, we get the opportunity to see Bette strut her stuff again at the current year's Tony Awards — and this time on Broadway, she is the relational arranger.

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