Posted on April 27, 2019 by admin
Life has a tendency to pull us toward resignation as we get older. For many people, major breakdowns are things that can bog one down for decades, if not the […]
Posted on April 27, 2019 by admin
Life has a tendency to pull us toward resignation as we get older. For many people, major breakdowns are things that can bog one down for decades, if not the […]
Posted on April 27, 2019 by admin
Friends, I think it’s safe to say that the long-awaited spring has arrived. And our reward for making it through the long bleak winter is the tour of the recent […]
Posted on April 27, 2019 by admin
“Hello, Dolly!” has always felt a little more like “goodbye.” It’s not only set in the twilight of a 19th-century America on the cusp of major change, but bears the […]
Posted on April 27, 2019 by admin
The Tony-winning Broadway revival opened Tuesday at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis with beautiful performances, endless high-gloss costumes and lots of pizazz. Directed briskly by Jerry Zaks with fetching choreography […]
Posted on April 27, 2019 by admin
Quote of the Day: Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It’s not worth a thing unless you spread it around, encouraging young things to grow. Dolly Levi in the musical Hello, Dolly! Originally […]
Posted on April 27, 2019 by admin
The national touring company of Hello, Dolly!, playing through April 28 at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. Photo by Julieta Cervantes. The poster for the national tour of Hello, Dolly! features just four words: […]
Posted on February 25, 2019 by admin
Everybody’s always happy to see Dolly. The titular matchmaker and Jill-of-all-trades in “Hello, Dolly!” always makes a big entrance, and people practically swoon all around her. We’ve all heard the […]
Posted on February 25, 2019 by admin
Hello, Betty! Classy Broadway staple and TV star Betty Buckley fills the shoes of Dolly Gallagher Levi with joy in the national tour of “Hello, Dolly!” onstage the Golden Gate […]
Posted on February 25, 2019 by admin
As the house lights went down and the familiar strains of “Before the Parade Passes By” wafted through San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre, a buzz of excitement and a ripple of […]
Posted on February 16, 2019 by admin
Betty Buckley was in New Orleans, contemplating how to devour a soul, when her agent called with an offer from Broadway. “There I was, living an actor’s dream playing a completely […]
Posted on February 11, 2019 by admin
The national tour of director Jerry Zaks’ exuberantly received revival of “Hello, Dolly!” has finally reached the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. And though it brings us neither Bette Midler, who won a Tony Award for the […]
Posted on February 3, 2019 by admin
Betty Buckley is making matches right and left while earning ovation after ovation as only a Broadway legend can in the 10-Tony-award-winning 1964 classic Hello, Dolly!, now paying L.A. a […]
Posted on February 3, 2019 by admin
Put on your Sunday clothes and get down to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre because there’s a new matchmaker in town, and her antics are bound to warm even the coldest […]
Posted on February 3, 2019 by admin
Every so often theatre patrons deserve to be indulged with an all-out pageantry of musical splendor that leaves nothing behind, bedazzling its audience members with comedic charm and heart, colorfully […]
Posted on February 3, 2019 by admin
Betty Buckley, playing Dolly Gallagher Levi in the National Tour of “Hello Dolly”, proves she is one of our shining divas of stage, screen and TV. Betty grabs the role […]
Posted on February 3, 2019 by admin
Some shows I can see again and again, especially those composed by the forever upbeat Jerry Herman. Hello Dolly bowed on Broadway when I was a teenager in the 60s and it […]
Posted on January 26, 2019 by admin
The celebrated ‘Voice of Broadway’ looks back on her career as she arrives in Southern California, leading the touring company of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Broadway legend Betty Buckley was surprised and […]
Posted on January 24, 2019 by admin
Time catches everyone by surprise. For Betty Buckley, the rude awakening happened when director Michael Wilson called to say he was planning a revival of the musical “Grey Gardens.” She […]
Posted on January 20, 2019 by admin
In San Diego Wednesday night, before the opening night at the San Diego Civic Theatre, the cast and crew of “Hello Dolly” paid tribute to the Broadway icon.