The run closed December 27, 1970
- Opened
- January 16, 1964
- Closed
- December 27, 1970
- Performances
- 2,844
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 2nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Hello, Dolly! 6 more that season
| 1965 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1975 | Minskoff Theatre Revival · Lucia Victor | 42 perf. |
| 1978 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Lucia Victor | 147 perf. |
| 1995 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Lee Roy Reams | 116 perf. |
| 2017 | Shubert Theatre Revival · Jerry Zaks | 699 perf. |
| 2024 | London Palladium Transfer |
Who was in it212 named
Nicole Barth
Carvel Carter
Monica Carter
Mary Jo Catlett
Joel Craig
Dick Crowley
Gene Gebauer
Amelia Haas
Joe Helms
Richard Hermany
Neil Jones
Charles Karel
Paul Kastl
Jan la Prade
Joan Buttons Leonard
Jim Maher
Marilyne Mason
Bonnie Mathis
Joe Mcwherter
Else Olufsen
Randy Phillips
Yolanda Poropat
Michael Quinn
Will Roy
Bonnie Schon
Mary Ann Snow
Paul Solen
Jamie Thomas
Pat Trott
Ronnie Young
Phyllis Diller
Martha Raye
Ginger Rogers
Clifford Allen
Guy Allen
Thomas Anderson
Cynthia Ashby
Beverly Baker
Bryant Baker
Nate Barnett
James Beard
Andrea Bell
Ed Belson
Fred Benjamin
Maggie Benson
Paul Berne
Marki Bey
Burt Bier
George Blackwell
Ted Bloecher
Linda Bonem
Wayne Boyd
Toney Brealond
Gerard Brentte
Candy Brown
Edloe R Brown
Marie Bryant
Cab Calloway
Chris Calloway
Leu Camacho
Carleton Carpenter
Eileen Casey
Alan Castner
Joetta Cherry
Donald Coleman
Peter Colly
Dianne Conway
Gene Cooper
Patricia Cope
Ron Crofoot
Jack Crowder
Joyce Dahl
Bowlin Davis
Clifton Davis
Wilbert Davis
Stephan de Ghelder
Norman Dejoie
Elisa de Marko
Richard Deacon
Ronald Dennis
Merle Derby
Hamp Dickens
Richard Dodd
Pi Douglass
Catherine Eason
Mark East
Dolores Easty
Eugene Edwards
Alix Elias
Ellen Elias
Georgia Engel
David Evans
Harvey Evans
Anthony Falco
Sergeant Faulkner
Larry Ferrell
Patte Finley
Quitman Fludd Iii
Don Fontaine
Morgan Freeman
David Gary
Ray Gilbert
Ben Gillespie
Olon Godare
Ed Goldsmid
Jack Goode
Jerry Gotham
Demarest Grey
Lavinia Hamilton
Barbara Harper
Patti Harris
June Helmers
Winston Dewitt Hemsley
Gwen Hillier
Caryl Hinchee
Lolli Hinton
Lawrence Holofcener
Lee Hooper
Nat Horne
Jim Hovis
Katherine Hull
Robert L Hultman
Scott Hunter
Ernestine Jackson
Reginald Jackson
Sylvia James
Don Jay
Pat Jemmott
Bob Johnson
Waltye Johnson
Jimmy Justice
Keith Kaldenberg
Voigt Kempson
James Kennon Wilson
Erica Lynne Kerry
Mabel King
Irma Kingsley
David Kirby
Davis Kirby
Gerry Kirby
J David Kirby
Roger Lawson
Laverne Ligon
Danny Lockin
Lee Lund
Debra Lyman
Will Mackenzie
Ed Mastin
Joe Mcgrath
Dan Merriman
Bill Mullikin
Anne Nathan
Charles Neal
Gail Nelson
Sean Nolan
Peter Oliver Norman
Russell Nype
Alexander Orfaly
Kay Oslin
Janice Painchaud
Joni Palmer
Leland Palmer
Patti Pappathatos
Jacqueline Payne
Michael Podwal
Howard Porter
Zelda Pulliam
Jane Quinn
Marion Ramsey
Jozella Reed
Bob Remick
Ellie Rogers
Patricia Sauers
Kenneth Scott
Saundra Sharp
Vanessa Shaw
Max Showalter
Bettiane Shumska
Pat Stevens
Luke Stover
Melvin Taylor
Freda Turner
Wyetta Turner
Dolores Vanison
Freda Vanterpool
Elise Warner
Alyce Webb
Sarah White
Joe Williams
Lee Wilson
Celestine Winters
Emily Yancy
John Young
Ronald Young
31 of these 212 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 181 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters10 roles recorded
Carol Channing Dolly Gallagher Levi
David Burns Horace Vandergelder
Charles Nelson Reilly Cornelius Hackl
Eileen Brennan Irene Molloy
Jerry Dodge Barnaby Tucker
Sondra Lee Minnie Fay
Alice Playten Ermengarde
Igors Gavon Ambrose Kemper
Mary Jo Catlett Ernestina
David Hartman Rudolph
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Gower Champion
- Choreographer
- Gower Champion
- Producer
- David Merrick
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 10 from 11 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
I patterned this after the sound of horse’s hooves on cobblestones, that’s what I’m looking for.
Speaker not recorded. The Sound of Broadway Music A Book of Orchestrators and Steven Suskin Oxford Uni, p. 183- Brennan, Eileen Hello, Dolly!, 204 Little Mary Sunshine, 186 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- waiting just around the corner were The Music Man, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Hello, Dolly! (with Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the first two) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 498
- Carol Channing in a revival of her signature show, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly! (1978). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 58
- Wilder later rewrote it as The Matchmaker, which was a hit; then it was turned into Hello, Dolly! At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 216
- The play had a very curious history. Wilder first wrote it as The Merchant ofYonkers, but it flopped on Broadway in 1938, despite direction by the famed Max Reinhardt, and Jane Cowl and Percy Waram in the leading roles. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 255
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Hello, Dolly! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.