Get a front-row view of the Transport Group's Hello, Dolly! concert June 23 at Carnegie Hall with new photos of the star-studded event.
Artistic Director Jack Cummings III directed the production鈥攖he Off-Broadway company's 11th presentation in its Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series鈥攚ith 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, co-hosted with Spectrum News NY1鈥檚 Frank DiLella.
The cast of Broadway favorites included Kate Baldwin (Hello, Dolly!), Nikki Ren茅e 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), 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), Jennifer Simard (Death Becomes Her), Rogert Preston Smith (Hello, Dolly!), Cheryl Stern (Funny Girl), Ephraim Sykes (Ain鈥檛 Too Proud), Barbara Walsh (Falsettos), NaTasha Yvette Williams (Some Like It Hot), Samantha Williams (Pirates! The Penzance Musical), Alysha Umphress (On the Town), and Anna Zavelson (The Notebook) as well as 2025 Just in Time Tony nominee Gracie Lawrence, who performed a song written for Barbra Streisand for the 1969 Dolly! film.
See photos in the gallery below.
Joey Chancey, the 30-piece Hello, Dolly! orchestra, and the 75-voice Hello, Dolly! Choir
Gracie Lawrence
Thom Sesma
Kecia Lewis
Zachary Noah Piser and Santino Fontana
NaTasha Yvette Williams
Nikki Ren茅e Daniels
Hannah Elless, Ann Harada, and Anna Zavelson
Jak Malone, Grey Henson, and Barbara Walsh
Grey Henson and Erika Henningsen
Erika Henningsen, Grey Henson, Barbara Walsh, Samantha Williams, and Jak Malone
Kate Baldwin
Katie Finneran
Marilyn Maye
Marilyn Maye
Christopher Sieber
Sondra Lee
A.J. Shively, Ashley D. Kelley, Jessica Fontana, and Ephraim Sykes
Jennifer Simard, Mike Baerga, Tyler Johnson-Campion, Jake Corcoran, TJ Kubler, Greg Liles, Nick Nazzaro, Andrew Nelin, Tanner Pflueger, Tyler Sparacio, Michael Anthony Sylvester, Matthew Varvar, and Matt Wiercinski
Alysha Umphress
Helen J. Shen and Andrew Barth Feldman
Frank Dilella and Lee Roy Reams
J. Harrison Ghee
Jane Dorian
Lee Roy Reams and Christopher Sieber
J. Harrison Ghee, Alysha Umphress, Marilyn Maye, Kate Baldwin, Katie Finner, Gracie Lawrence, Kecia Lewis, NaTasha Yvette Williams, and Ann Harada
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This concert series featured 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鈥檚 book scenes, backstage stories and anecdotes from the creation of the original production are woven between songs.
The evening also featured a selection of Gower Champion鈥檚 original choreography restaged by choreographer and 1995 Broadway revival Hello, Dolly! cast member Randy Slovacek, as well as a 30-piece orchestra.
Hello, Dolly!, featuring a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Herman, is based on Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker. The original Broadway production, directed and choreographed by
Champion, premiered January 16, 1964, at the
St. James Theatre, starring Carol Channing. The winner of ten Tony Awards, including
Best Musical, Dolly! has been revived on Broadway
four times, most recently with Bette Midler.
Among the numerous actors who have taken on the leading role are Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller, and Ethel Merman, during its initial record-breaking run, as well as Mary Martin, Carole Cook, Dorothy Lamour, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Michele Lee, Edie Adams, Yvonne De Carlo, Bernadette Peters, Donna Murphy, Betty Buckley, and more.
Previous presentations in Transport Group鈥檚 Anne L. Bernstein concert series include last year鈥檚 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 was the creative producer and Merri Sugarman the casting director. Larry Blank and Adam Jones provided new orchestrations.
