![]() She comes with the experience of having played two divas of a different sorts: Grizabella the Glamour Cat in “Cats,” bringing the house down each night with “Memory,” and as the faded actress Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard,” perhaps Andrew Lloyd Webber’s finest work. Now it is Betty Buckley’s turn to don the dazzling red gown and matching red feather hat of widow Dolly Gallagher Levi, and she is more than up to the task, melding the charisma and star power that she imbues Dolly with alongside a voice that remains, at 72, one of the more powerful instruments in musical theater.Īnalisa Leaming in the national tour of “Hello, Dolly!” Photo: Julieta Cervantes That production has been packed up and sent on the road and on a national tour now performing at the Citizens Bank Opera House through Aug. ![]() “Hello, Dolly!” served as a theatrical annuity of sorts for the late Carol Channing, was a hit movie with Barbara Streisand and Walter Matthaiu and in its most recent Tony Award-winning revival served as a starring vehicle for Bette Midler, who also won a Tony Award for her performance, one of four the show won. It is surely a production of another time and era, using as its source material Thornton Wilder’s play “The Matchmaker” and finding its way as a musical to Broadway in 1964, with 10 Tony Awards, a record that stood for 37 years. Betty Buckley and the National Touring Company of “Hello, Dolly!” Photo Credit: Julieta CervantesīOSTON – It is a musical with the sunniest of dispositions, touring triumphantly around the country the country at a time when very dark musicals are all the rage.
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