Made the terrible mistake of watching the Blu Ray movie of "Hello Dolly"! This has to be one of the worst musicals ever made. Gene Kelly as director should have stayed with his dancing. It was actually embarrassing. Streisand should have played Horace...she would have been more believable. And I'm a Streisand fan! Michael Crawford (showing none of the singing ability he later used in "Phantom") was so bad all we could do was laugh as we picked our chin(s) up off the floor. Matthau played it as if he wanted to be somewhere else. And I do blame Kelly for not knowing what he was doing. No matter how talented the performer, if they are directed to mug and indicate, they can be truly bad! The sets and settings were, however, beautiful.