It’s official! Hello, Dolly! is coming to Carnegie Hall with a big star-studded concert extravaganza in June and I’ve been asked to restage Gower Champion’s original choreography! My Carnegie Hall debut! 
Via press release:
Transport Group will present a starry concert production of the Tony-winning Jerry Herman musical Hello, Dolly! June 23 at 8 PM at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.
Artistic Director Jack Cummings III will direct the production—the Off-Broadway company’s 11th presentation in its Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series—with musical direction by Joey Chancey.
Tony nominee Lee Roy Reams, who starred in the musical’s 1978 Broadway revival and also directed the 1995 revival, will host.
The cast of Broadway favorites set to be part of the one-night-only event include Kate Baldwin (Hello, Dolly!), Nikki Renée Daniels (Once Upon a Mattress), Hannah Elless (Bright Star), Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen), Katie Finneran (Promises, Promises), Jessica Fontana (Cinderella), Santino Fontana (Tootsie), J. Harrison Ghee (Some Like it Hot), Ann Harada (Avenue Q), Erika Henningsen (Mean Girls), Grey Henson (Mean Girls), Ashley D. Kelley (Shucked), Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone), Kecia Lewis (Hell’s Kitchen), Marilyn Maye, Jak Malone (Operation Mincemeat), Zachary Noah Piser (Redwood), Thom Sesma (Dead Outlaw), Helen J Shen (Maybe Happy Ending), A.J. Shively (Paradise Square), Christopher Sieber (Death Becomes Her), Robert Preston Smith (Hello, Dolly!), Ephraim Sykes (Ain’t Too Proud), Barbara Walsh (Falsettos), NaTasha Yvette Williams (Some Like It Hot), Samantha Williams (Pirates! The Penzance Musical), Alysha Umphress (On the Town), Jessica Vosk (Hell’s Kitchen), and Anna Zavelson (The Notebook).
This concert series features a different lineup of performers for each song, rather than a role portrayed by one actor for the entire evening.
In lieu of the musical’s book scenes, backstage stories and anecdotes from the creation of the original production are woven between songs.
The upcoming evening will also feature a selection of Gower Champion’s original choreography restaged by choreographer and 1995 Broadway revival Hello, Dolly! cast member Randy Slovacek, as well as a 30-piece orchestra.
Previous presentations in Transport Group’s Anne L. Bernstein concert series include last year’s sold-out Follies (also at Carnegie Hall) as well as Nine, Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Broadway Celebration; Sweet Charity; Promises, Promises; Man of La Mancha; Baby; Once Upon a Mattress; The Music Man; Peter Pan; and A Man of No Importance.
Hannah Oren is the creative producer and Merri Sugarman the casting director.
Tickets start at $49 and may be purchased by phoning Carnegie Hall (212) 247-7800, visiting CarnegieHall.org, or at the Carnegie Hall box office on 57 Street and Seventh Avenue.
I’m especially excited to head back into the Hello, Dolly! sandbox with my dear friend, Lee Roy Reams, who will be hosting the evening. 
Carnegie Hall in New York City (via Depositphotos)
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