David Hyde Pierce is to join Bette Midler in the new broadway production of Hello Dolly!, or at least that is what the new artwork, just released, would lead us to believe. The Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce will be playing Horace Vandergelder, the role made famous by Walter Matthau in the original film also starring Barbra Streisand.
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Performances will begin at the Schubert Theatre, New York, March 15, 2017, with an official opening night of April 20, 2017.
Four-time Tony Award winning director Jerry Zaks, will helm Hello, Dolly! which features a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by legendary composer Jerry Herman.
Bette Midler’s incredibly successful career has spanned five decades. She is a four time Grammy Award winning recording artist, having sold thirty five millions albums. Her awards include three Golden Globe Awards, a Tony Award, three Emmy Awards and two Academy Award nominations.
Her broadway debut was in 1967, when she appeared in the original production of Fiddler on the Roof. She has starred in dozens of films, some considered modern classics. Her concert appearances have filled arenas and theatres all over the world. 2013 saw Midler return to broadway in a one-woman play I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, in which she played the legendary Hollywood agent. Not only did she receive rave reviews but she broke box-office records at The Booth Theatre.
This new production of Hello, Dolly!, the first new production of this classic musical to appear on Broadway since it opened more than fifty years ago, will feature choreography by Tony Award-winner Warren Carlyle.
Hello Dolly! is based on Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, and it was an instant hit when it premiered in 1964. Other stars to have appeared in the role of Dolly Levi include: Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis diller, Betty Grable, Ginger Rogers, Ethel Merman, and Mary Martin.