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Thursday, January 10, 2019
BetteBack August 19, 1975: Bette Midler Says Lawrence Welk Dissed Her
Wichita Falls Times
August 19, 1975
Bette Midler said in Playgirl magazine that Lawrence Welk was once supposed to dance with her on the Mike Douglas show, but he wouldn’t – he thought I was a dirty little girl” . . . Pearl Bailey’s daughter, Dee, 16, is traveling with Pearl’s “Hello, Dolly!” company, so Bill Daniel’s daughter Dominique, 16, came along to keep her company.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Betty Buckley-Led HELLO, DOLLY! Tour Will Makes Stops in LA, Chicago & More; Full Itinerary Announced
Broadway World
Betty Buckley-Led HELLO, DOLLY! Tour Will Makes Stops in LA, Chicago & More; Full Itinerary Announced
by BWW News Desk Jul. 16, 2018
Betty Buckley-Led HELLO, DOLLY! Tour Will Makes Stops in LA, Chicago & More; Full Itinerary Announced
by BWW News Desk Jul. 16, 2018
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Betty Buckley will star in the first national tour of Hello, Dolly!, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival, beginning September 30, 2018 in the Connor Palace at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square. The full tour itinerary is as follows:
Cleveland, OH USA
Sept 30 – Oct 21
Connor Palace
Chicago, IL USA
Oct 23 – Nov 17
Oriental Theatre
Miami, FL USA
Nov 20 – Nov 25
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
Orlando, FL USA
Nov 27 – Dec 2
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Tampa, FL USA
Dec 4 – Dec 9
David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts
West Palm Beach, FL USA
Dec 11 – Dec 16
Raymond F. Kravis Center For The Performing Arts
Tempe, AZ USA
Jan 8, 2019 – Jan 13, 2019
ASU Gammage
San Diego, CA USA
Jan 15, 2019 – Jan 20, 2019
San Diego Civic Theatre
Costa Mesa, CA USA
Jan 22, 2019 – Jan 27, 2019
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Los Angeles, CA USA
Jan 29, 2019 – Feb 17, 2019
Pantages Theatre – Los Angeles
San Francisco, CA USA
Feb 19, 2019 – Mar 17, 2019
Golden Gate Theatre
Las Vegas, NV USA
Mar 19, 2019 – Mar 24, 2019
The Smith Center
Denver, CO USA
Mar 27, 2019 – Apr 7, 2019
Buell Theatre
Des Moines, IA USA
Apr 9, 2019 – Apr 14, 2019
Des Moines Civic Center
Minneapolis, MN USA
Apr 16, 2019 – Apr 28, 2019
Orpheum Theatre – Minneapolis
Nashville, TN USA
Apr 30, 2019 – May 5, 2019
Andrew Jackson Hall At Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Columbus, OH USA
May 7, 2019 – May 12, 2019
Ohio Theatre
Louisville, KY USA
May 14, 2019 – May 19, 2019
Kentucky Center For The Performing Arts
Durham, NC USA
May 21, 2019 – May 26, 2019
Durham Performing Arts Center
Greenville, SC USA
May 28, 2019 – Jun 2, 2019
Peace Center For The Performing Arts
Washington, DC USA
Jun 4, 2019 – Jul 7, 2019
Opera House (DC)
Charlotte, NC USA
Jul 9, 2019 – Jul 14, 2019
Belk Theater
Dallas, TX USA
Jul 17, 2019 – Jul 28, 2019
Music Hall At Fair Park
Boston, MA USA
Aug 6, 2019 – Aug 18, 2019
Opera House (MA)
Ms. Buckley, dubbed “The Voice of Broadway,” joins the astonishing list of show business luminaries who have inhabited the role, including Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller, Betty Grable, Martha Raye, Ginger Rogers, Ethel Merman, in her last appearance on Broadway, Mary Martin, who led the West End company, and most recently in this celebrated new production, Bette Midler, Donna Murphy, and Bernadette Peters.
Led by four-time Tony Award-winning director Jerry Zaks and choreographed by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, the entire creative team of the Broadway production will reprise their roles for the national tour of Hello, Dolly!, including four-time Tony Award winner Santo Loquasto (Scenic & Costume Design), six-time Tony Award winner Natasha Katz (Lighting Design), Tony Award winner Scott Lehrer (Sound Design), Andy Einhorn (Music Direction), Tony Award winner Larry Hochman (Orchestrations), Tony Award winner Don Pippin (Vocal Arrangements), David Chase (Dance Arrangements), and Telsey + Company (Casting).
This Hello, Dolly!, the first new production of the classic musical (based on Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker) to appear on Broadway since it opened more than fifty years ago, pays tribute to the work of its original director/choreographer Gower Champion, which has been hailed both then and now as one of the greatest stagings in musical theater history.
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Tagged BERNADETTE PETERS, Bette Midler, Betty Buckley, Betty Grable, Carol Channing, Choreography, Dolly! (musical), Donna Murphy, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers, Gower Champion, Hello, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, Martha Raye, Mary Martin, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller, The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Bette Midler & David Hyde Pierce return to Hello, Dolly! on Broadway
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Bette Midler & David Hyde Pierce return to Hello, Dolly! on Broadway
The Tony Award-winning Broadway revival plays its final performance at the Shubert Theatre on August 25, 2018.
July 17, 2018
Bette Midler & David Hyde Pierce return to Hello, Dolly! on Broadway
The Tony Award-winning Broadway revival plays its final performance at the Shubert Theatre on August 25, 2018.
July 17, 2018
Back Where They Belong! Tony Award winners and original cast members Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce return to their respective roles of Dolly Levi Gallagher and Horave Vandergelder in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! at the Shubert Theatre tonight. The pair are scheduled to remain with the production for the final six weeks of its acclaimed Broadway run through to August 25, 2018.
Two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters and four-time Tony Award nominee Victor Garber both played their final performances in the revival on July 15.
Ms. Midler previously released the following statement: “I am delighted to return to the scene of one of the greatest experiences of my life, and I know the brilliant Bernadette Peters enjoyed her turn as much as I did. Dolly Levi is one of the most joyful characters in Broadway history, and Bernadette and I were lucky to to be able to step into her glorious shoes.”
The principal cast of Hello, Dolly! currently includes Tony Award winner Bette Midler (as Dolly Levi Gallagher), Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce (as Horace Vandergelder), Tony Award winner Gavin Creel (as Cornelius Hackl), Olivier Award nominee Charlie Stemp (as Barnaby Tucker), Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin (as Irene Molloy), Molly Griggs (as Minnie Fay), Will Burton (as Ambrose Kemper), Melanie Moore (as Ermengarde), and Alli Mauzey (as Ernestina).
The Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! began previews on March 15, 2017, and officially opened on April 20.
The classic musical features a book by Michael Stewart, with music & lyrics by Jerry Herman.
Directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, this production features choreography by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, based on the original work by Gower Champion.
Synopsis: “At the turn of the 20th century, all of New York City is excited because widowed but brassy Dolly Gallagher Levi is in town. Dolly makes a living primarily through matchmaking and 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.”
The creative team aslo features scenic & costume design by Santo Loquasto, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Scott Lehrer, music direction by Andy Einhorn, orchestrations by Larry Hochman, vocal arrangements by Don Pippin, and dance arrangements by Glen Kelly.
At the 71st Annual Tony Awards, the production took home the trophy for “Best Revival of a Musical,” as well as “Best Costume Design of a Musical,” “Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical” (for Gavin Creel) and “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical” (for Bette Midler).
Hello, Dolly! first premiered on Broadway at the St James Theatre in 1964, picking up a grand total of 10 Tony Awards, including “Best Musical.” It has since been revived three times – 1975 at the Minskoff Theatre, and 1978 and 1995 both at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. A film adaptation was released in 1969, directed by Gene Kelly and starring Barbra Streisand.
A National Tour, starring Tony Award-winning legend Betty Buckley, launches at the Connor Palace at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 2, 2018.
Hello, Dolly! Tickets are available now for performances through to August 25, 2018.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
BetteBack July 1, 1975: ‘Clams’ Breaks Broadway’s Box Office Record
Stroudsburg Pocono Record
July 1, 1975
July 1, 1975
All we can conscientiously say about Bette Midler is you can have her, but her ten-week Broadway vulgarity grossed 51,700.00 to become the Main Stem’s all time box office champ.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018
BetteBack June 13, 1975: The Divine Miss “M” scores personal success on Broadway
Mister D: It’s so funny to read these old articles to be reminded of how edgy and out there Miss M was. It seemed like everybody was afraid of her, I remember Linda Ronstadt saying Bette opened the door for women singers to be looser on stage and Ms Ronstadt also claimed that Bette showed you don’t have to stand still at the microphone to sing, Bette was all over the place.
Lowell Sun
June 13, 1975
NEW YORK – Who is the trashiest girl in town wearing the tackiest clothes? The answer may be found nightly on the stage of the new Minskoff Theater where Betle Midler is in command of a spectacular revue entitled! “Clams on the Half Shell”. Whatever else may or may not be said about the show, it is a personal success for the young singer whose followers have christened her “The Dcvine Miss “M”.
Miss Midler has been packing them in at the Minskoff with even more solidarily than she did a year ago at the Palace. For this time Belle has come prepared to take on Broadway, in her terms to be sure, but then would you have expected less?
THE EVENING GETS off to a flying start as the orchestra plays the overture .. . to “Oklahoma.” The curtain rises and we have a scene from “Showboat” complete with “darkies” lifting those barges and toting that bale. They sing of the troubles that no one knows they have. And then some of the men pull a huge clam shell onto the center of the stage. It opens And there in a sarong that would have done Dorothy Lamour proud, is Miss Midler crooning “The Moon of Manakoora“. To call it “camp” would be to do it a ‘disservice. It’s downright “tacky.”
The rest of the first act Miss Midler swapping wise-cracks with the audience and giving out with some of that strong language that has made her a personality. There are not many four-letter words Miss Midler misses but her fans love her for it and they screamed and yelled-for more. Miss Midler is accompanied most of the time by a trio of girls called, “The Harlettes.” You hardly expected the “Chordeltes” with Miss Midler. Together they wail up a storm; and if Miss Midler does not sing my kind of music most of the time, I’ll give her her due. She sings music that the young sell-out crowd seems to appreciate.
Her first act final has her clutched in the paw of a giant “King Kong” to whom she croons affectionately, “Nicky Arnstein, Nicky Arnslein.” It’s wild and hilarious.
The second act brings the big band onto the stage and with it the veteran vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, the big band sound is back and the crowd loves it. They go wild when Miss Midler sings “In the Mood” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” It was the part I liked best myself.
BETTE MIDLER is a talented comedienne whose use of dirty jokes is not really necessary. She doesn’t need them.’ Her singing is unfortunately undisciplined and without a style all her own.
She has heen greatly influenced by black blues and gospel singers. At times-she seems to be trying to immitate Billy Holiday, Dianna Ross and Aretha Franklin. I wish she would just be Bette Midler. Even her best work is a copy of the Andrews Sisters.
If Miss Midler decides to stop at being” just trashy and tacky; she’ll still make a fortune. But I think she has great talent still not correctly displayed.
“Clams on the Half Shell” is a big and very entertaining show for Midler fans. But leave your maiden aunt at home unless she’s ready to laugh it up at some of the dirtiest language a pop singer has used on a Broadway stage ever.
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Monday, January 15, 2018
HELLO, DOLLY! with Bette Midler Taped for Lincoln Center Archives – Maybe Everyone Will Get To See It Afterall
Broadway World
HELLO, DOLLY! with Bette Midler Taped for Lincoln Center Archives
by BWW News Desk Jan. 15, 2018
HELLO, DOLLY! with Bette Midler Taped for Lincoln Center Archives
by BWW News Desk Jan. 15, 2018
BroadwayWorld has confirmed that filming trucks spotted outside the Shubert Theatre over the weekend were on hand to capture a performance of Hello, Dolly! for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive. This weekend marked the final performances for many of the show’s original cast members, including Taylor Trensch, Beanie Feldstein, David HydePierce, and Tony winner Bette Midler.
Directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks and choreographed by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, Hello, Dolly! began performances on Broadway on March 15, 2017, and officially opened on Thursday, April 20, 2017.
This Hello, Dolly!, the first new production of the classic musical (based on Thornton Wilder‘s The Matchmaker) to appear on Broadway since it opened more than fifty years ago, pays tribute to the work of its original director/ choreographer Gower Champion, which has been hailed both then and now as one of the greatest stagings in musical theater history.
Since 1970, the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) has preserved live theatrical productions and documented the creative contributions of distinguished artists and legendary figures of the theatre. With the consent and cooperation of the theatrical unions and each production’s artistic collaborators, TOFT produces video recordings of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions as well as dialogues between notable theatre personalities.
For additional information, visit: https://www.nypl.org
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
BetteBack March 25, 1975: Bette Midler Hits The Recording Studio
Arkansas City Traveler
March 25, 1975
March 25, 1975
Bette Midler has been recording in New York’s Secret Sound Studios before her Broadway show goes into production this spring. Producing is Mark “Moogy†Klingman with Todd Rundgren lending a hand. Bette has penned a tune of her own called “ Mr.Rockefeller,†and we are told to expect guest appearances (on the album that is) by Laura Nyro and Fred Astaire…
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Sunday, November 19, 2017
BetteBack March 21, 1975: Is Bette Midler Filming A TV Series?
Charleston Gazette
March 21, 1975
March 21, 1975
Q. — I was told that Bette Midler is going to appear on TV as a regular on a show without singing. Is this possible? — P.B., Bridgeport, Conn.
A. It’s possible, but it’s not about to happen. Bette Midler has not been signed to star in a straight non-musical TV series. However.she is a capable actress and would probably do well playing an offbeat character in a TV series. Bette’s current plans do not involve TV … she is readying Broadway revue in which she will star.
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Saturday, September 9, 2017
BetteBack March 3, 1975: Is Bette Midler going to appear on TV as a regular on a show without singing?
News Journal Mansfield
March 3, 1975
March 3, 1975
Q. – I was told that Bette Midler is going to appear on TV as a regular on a show without singing. Is this possible? P.B., Bridgeport, Conn.
A. – It’s possible, but it’s not about to happen. Bette Midler has not signed to star in a straight non – musical TV series. However, she is a capable actress and would probably do well playing an offbeat character in a TV series. Bette’s current plans do not involve TV … she is readying a Broadway revue in which she will star.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
DVR Alert: HELLO, DOLLY!’s Bette Midler to Be Featured on CBS SUNDAY MORNING
Broadway World
DVR Alert: HELLO, DOLLY!’s Bette Midler to Be Featured on CBS SUNDAY MORNING
by BWW News Desk May. 18, 2017
DVR Alert: HELLO, DOLLY!’s Bette Midler to Be Featured on CBS SUNDAY MORNING
by BWW News Desk May. 18, 2017
BWW has learned that CBS SUNDAY MORNING anchor Jane Pauley will sit down with legendary actress Bette Midler, now starring in the hit Broadway revival of HELLO DOLLY. The broadcast airs Sunday, May 21 (9:00-10:30 AM, ET AM) on the CBS Television Network. BWW will bring you video of the appearance as soon as it becomes available!
Michael Stewart‘s (book) and Jerry Herman‘s (music and lyrics) masterpiece, Hello, Dolly!, returns to Broadway starring none other than Bette Midler. Directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, Hello, Dolly! began performances at Broadway’s legendary Shubert Theatre on March 15, 2017.
This production, the first new production of Hello, Dolly! to appear on Broadway since it opened more than fifty years ago, will pay tribute to the original work of legendary director/choreographer Gower Champion, which has been hailed both then and now as one of the greatest stagings in musical theater history.
Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes
