Preview: Hello, Dolly! at 5th Avenue Theatre
Pat Cashman and Jennifer Lewis star in Hello, Dolly! in its return to the 5th Avenue Theatre’s stage for the first time in 27 years. Lewis plays Dolly and local TV favorite Pat Cashman plays the wealthy, grumpy bachelor Horace Vandergelder.
Lewis is a star of film (Sister Act I and II, What’s Love Got to Do With It, Jackie’s Back!) and TV (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, In Living Color, Friends), and joins a long list of illustrious performers who have played the indomitable matchmaker Dolly Levi, including Carol Channing, Ethel Merman, Pearl Bailey, Mary Martin, Martha Raye, Ginger Rogers, Phyllis Diller and Barbra Streisand.
Pat Cashman is an emmy-award winning local comedian (Almost Live, Bill Nye the Science Guy), radio personality (on KING, KOMO, and KRKO among others) and humorist. Cashman brings his own unique brand of humor to a role that has previously been played by stage and film greats David Burns, Cab Calloway, Billy Daniels, Loring Smith and Walter Matthau.
When Dolly Gallagher Levi is hired to arrange a marriage for the miserly half-millionaire Horace Vandergelder, she finds him the perfect mate – herself! But first she must win the heart of her unsuspecting “husband to be” before he gets hitched to somebody else. The original Broadway production won ten 1964 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical (a record that was only surpassed four decades later, when The Producers won 12). Brimming with joyful familiar tunes, from “Before the Parade Pases By,” “Put On Your Sunday Clothes,” “It Takes a Woman” and “It Only Takes a Moment” to the irresistible title song, “HELLO, DOLLY!”
Tickets to HELLO DOLLY are priced from $22 – $81. Visit www.5thavenue.org for more info. There is no service charge when purchasing tickets in person at The 5th Avenue Theatre Box Office.
Here is a wonderful performance of the song Hello, Dolly! from 1964 by Judy Garland with her then 18-year-old daughter Liza Minnelli that launched Liza’s future career as an entertainer. Not exactly relevant to this production but as many times as I have watched the clip it still gives me goosebumps:
