After performing in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway, Jess LeProtto currently stars as Barnaby Tucker in the first national tour of the Tony Award-winning revival. In advance of the tour’s four-week engagement at Broadway in Chicago‘s Oriental Theatre, I spoke with Jess about taking this heart-warming, hilarious Broadway hit on the road. Read MORE

Direct from the hit Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! Kate Baldwin was nominated for the 2017 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic’s Circle awards for her performance as Irene Molloy. Click HERE for more.

When the national tour of Jerry Zaks’ hit Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” arrives in Chicago next week, Betty Buckley will play

the starring role of Dolly Gallagher Levi, the matchmaker with the most-est. Chicago is the tour’s third engagement; Buckley talked about her assignment from Cleveland, where she has been working out the kinks. The following is an edited version of our interview.

 

Joe Cronauer recently visited Playhouse Square and spoke with two of the stars from ‘Hello, Dolly!,’ Analisa Leaming & Nic Rouleau.

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For a while there, Gavin Creel was not singing the songs his audience wanted to hear. The Broadway star, who won a Tony Award for his most recent gig opposite Bette Midler in “Hello, Dolly!,” steadfastly refused to sing Broadway songs in his cabaret act. He chose to sing his original tunes instead. Read MORE