Hello Dolly Back Were She Belongs
Now Playing on Broadway
Dolly’s Back at the Shubert Theatre, starring Bette Milder and David Hyde Pierce previews from 15th March 2017, Opening Night 20th April the last production of Hello Dolly on Broadway was in 1995 with the original dolly Carol Channing. The musical was filmed Twentieth-Century Fox with Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau in 1968 to great success.
Hello, Dolly! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder’s 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955.
Hello, Dolly! was first produced on Broadway by David Merrick in 1964, winning a record 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, a record held for 37 years. The show album Hello, Dolly! An Original Cast Recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. The album reached number one on the Billboard album chart on June 6, 1964 and was replaced the next week by Louis Armstrong’s album Hello, Dolly! The show has become one of the most enduring musical theatre hits, enjoying three Broadway revivals and international success. It was also made into a 1969 film that was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won three.
As the 19th becomes the 20th century, all of New York City is excited because widowed but brassy Dolly Gallagher Levi is in town . Dolly makes a living through what she calls “meddling” – matchmaking and numerous sidelines, including dance instruction and mandolin lessons . She is currently seeking a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder, the well-known half-a-millionaire, but it becomes clear that Dolly intends to marry Horace herself. Ambrose Kemper, a young artist, wants to marry Horace’s weepy niece Ermengarde, but Horace opposes this because Ambrose’s vocation does not guarantee a steady living. Ambrose enlists Dolly’s help, and they travel to Yonkers, New York to visit Horace, who is a prominent citizen there and owns Vandergelder’s Hay and Feed.
Hello Dolly
Previews March 15, 2017
Opening Night April 20, 2017
Closed Aug, 25 2018
Shubert Theatre NYC
Cast
Bette Midler – Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi
David Hyde Pierce – Horace Vandergelder
Kate Baldwin – Irene Molloy
Will Burton – Ambrose Kemper
Gavin Creel – Cornelius Hackl
Beanie Feldstein – Broadway Debut – Minnie Fay
Melanie Moore – Ermengarde
Jennifer Simard – Ernestina
Taylor Trensch – Barnaby Tucker
Reviews
Full Cast Below
Video: Title Song Hello Dolly starring Carol Channing 1965
Creative
Produced by Scott Rudin
Book by Michael Stewart
Based on “The Matchmaker” by Thornton Wilder
Music by Jerry Herman
Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Choreographed by Warren Carlyle
General Manager: Joey Parnes Productions
Movie Trailer with – Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau in 1968
Full Cast
Bette Midler – Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi
David Hyde Pierce – Horace Vandergelder
Kate Baldwin – Irene Molloy
Will Burton – Ambrose Kemper
Gavin Creel – Cornelius Hackl
Beanie Feldstein – Broadway Debut – Minnie Fay
Melanie Moore – Ermengarde
Jennifer Simard – Ernestina
Taylor Trensch – Barnaby Tucker
Cameron Adams
Phillip Attmore
Giuseppe Bausilio
Justin Bowen
Taeler Elyse Cyrus
Elizabeth Earley
Leslie Donna Flesner
Jenifer Foote
Jessica Lee Goldyn
Blake Hammond
Stephen Hanna
Michael Hartung – Broadway Debut
Robert Hartwell
Amanda LaMotte
Analisa Leaming
Jess LeProtto
Ian Liberto
Kevin Ligon
Nathan Madden
Linda Mugleston
Hayley Podschun
Jessica Sheridan
Michaeljon Slinger
Christian Dante White
Branch Woodman
Ryan Worsing
Richard Riaz Yoder
Booking Information re – Bette Milder in title role – On some performances Donna Murphy will play title role.
On Tuesdays beginning June 13, 2017, the role of Dolly Levi will be played by Donna Murphy.
Donna Murphy will also perform the role of Dolly Levi on June 27 – July 2, July 5 – 9, Sunday evening – July 30, September 6 – 10, Sunday evening – October 15, Monday evening – October 30, November 1 – 5, Friday – November 24 @ 2pm, and Sunday evening – January 7.
** Bette Midler will perform the role of Dolly Levi on Tuesday – November 21.
