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Starlight Express wins big at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2025
The most awarded show of the evening at the 25th annual WhatsOnStage Award was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express, taking home seven out of its nine nominations and winning Best Musical Revival.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2024
A selection of Musical Theatre Review critics were asked to choose their ‘show of the year’ from all the productions they had seen in 2024. As you can see below, some struggled to pick just one!
Hello, Dolly! – Lido 2, Paris
Hello, Dolly! continues at Lido2, Paris until 5 January 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is truly a testament to the enduring power of Golden Age musical theatre, brilliantly brought to life by a cast and crew pouring their heart and soul into every aspect of the production.
Casting update for Hello, Dolly! in Paris
There’s more than one Hello, Dolly! for musicals lovers to gorge themselves on this autumn and hot on the heels of Imelda Staunton’s Dolly Levi meeting her match at the London Palladium when its limited run ends on 14 September, it’s curtain-up in Paris for Caroline O’Connor’s Dolly at the Lido2 on the Champs-Elysees on 7 November.
Hello, Dolly! – London Palladium
Hello, Dolly! continues at the London Palladium until 14 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This may just be the best-performed revival of it there has ever been.
Hello, Dolly! in a tale of two cities
Hello, Dolly! is just like London buses – you wait ages for one to come along, and then two suddenly pitch up at the same time. With Jerry Herman’s classic musical comedy, it’s been a long wait – Dolly Levi was last sighted in the West End 15 years ago – but finally the matchmaking widow is back where she belongs in a tale of two cities.
Hello Dolly! – full cast confirmed
The full cast has been confirmed for the long-awaited Imelda Staunton-led revival of the classic musical Hello, Dolly! at the London Palladium this summer.
Imelda Staunton-led Hello, Dolly! to debut at the London Palladium in July 2024
Producer Michael Harrison has confirmed Imelda Staunton’s Dolly Levi will finally sashay into the West End when the long-delayed revival of the classic musical Hello, Dolly! opens at the London Palladium next summer.
Imelda Staunton’s Dolly Levy to make delayed West End debut in 2024
West End theatregoers will be able to see Imelda Staunton in classic musical Hello, Dolly! but the quadruple Olivier Award winner has confirmed her Dolly Levy will not sashay into a West End theatre until 2024. In an interview with Hollywood entertainment website Deadline, the actress insisted the Covid-delayed production will make its highly anticipated […]
Classic screen musicals feature in Charing Cross Theatre’s cinema season
Popular London venue Charing Cross Theatre will be transformed into a cinema for a three-week season celebrating classic movie entertainment. Running from 5-24 October 2021, Stage & Screen A Theatrical Film Season will showcase some of the silver screen’s best-loved musicals along with a selection of movie classics. The programme will include screenings of The […]
Five Questions With: Ben Stock
For the latest instalment in Musical Theatre Review’s Five Questions With… series, the spotlight falls on director, musical director, actor, cabaret performer and Ugly Sister BEN STOCK. Ben has appeared in musicals and plays in the West End, on tour and in many regional theatres. Favourite roles include Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, […]
New West End production of Hello, Dolly! is postponed
Michael Harrison and David Ian have announced that their new production of Hello, Dolly! has been postponed. Hello, Dolly! was due to begin performances at London’s Adelphi Theatre in London on 11 August 2020 for a 30-week season. It is believed that the production will be delayed until 2022 as the show’s star, Imelda Staunton, […]
Tyrone Huntley, Clare Halse and Harry Hepple joins Hello Dolly! cast
West End rising star Tyrone Huntley will join quadruple Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton in the eagerly-anticipated new production of the classic musical Hello, Dolly! at the Adelphi Theatre this summer. The Dreamgirls and Book of Mormon actor who was nominated for an Olivier for his performance as Judas in the hit Regent’s Park Open […]
Andy Nyman and Jenna Russell join Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly!
Andy Nyman and Jenna Russell will join Imelda Staunton in the eagerly-anticipated new production of the classic musical Hello, Dolly! at the Adelphi Theatre this summer. Fresh from his critic and crowd-pleasing performance as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, multi award-winner Nyman will play Horace Vandergelder with Olivier Award winner Russell (The Bridges of […]
Remembering Jerry Herman 1931-2019
Jerry Herman, the American composer and lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, Mame, La Cage Aux Folles, Dear World and The Grand Tour, has died at the age of 88. Michael Darvell looks back at the work of a great Broadway talent. The American composer and lyricist Jerry Herman, who has died aged 88, was essentially a […]
Tributes paid to Broadway legend Jerry Herman
Harvey Fierstein and Angela Lansbury were among the star names paying tribute to the musical theatre legend Jerry Herman following news that the multi-award-winning composer and lyricist had died on 26 December 2019 at the age of 88. Writing on Twitter, Fierstein who wrote the book for Herman’s La Cage Aux Folles said: “Jerry Herman […]
Imelda Staunton is back where she belongs – Hello, Dolly! at the Adelphi Theatre in 2020
Michael Harrison and David Ian have announced that Imelda Staunton is back where she belongs in Hello, Dolly! as one of the most iconic musicals of all time comes to the Adelphi Theatre in 2020. This brand new production reunites Staunton with director Dominic Cooke, following the critically-acclaimed production of Follies at the National Theatre. Jenna Russell […]
Remembering Carol Channing – A great lady of the musical theatre
The American actress and singer CAROL CHANNING, who has died at the age of 97, became a Broadway legend, if only because she created the title role in the musical Hello, Dolly! A great lady of the musical theatre is recalled here by Michael Darvell… Carol Channing was born in Seattle, Washington on 21 January […]
Broadway mourns the passing of Carol Channing, an indisputable legend
The lights of Broadway will dim for one minute this evening (Wednesday January 16) to mark the passing of Carol Channing, an outsized persona and outsized talent for whom the nomenclature “Broadway legend” could have been invented. She died Tuesday (15 January) at the age of 97 at her home in Rancho Mirage, California. Her […]
Dolly says Hello, Bette!… again
So, who will replace Bernadette Peters when she leaves the smash revival of Hello, Dolly!, as scheduled, on 15 July 2018? Why, none other than Bette Midler. Yes, the very same Bette Midler that Bernadette Peters replaced when she became Dolly Gallagher Levi this past January. And Midler will be with the show from 17 […]
Hello, Dolly! – Shubert Theatre, New York
Hello, Dolly! continues at the Shubert Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s another lovefest. Bernadette Peters has stepped gingerly into the shoes of matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi, recently vacated by Bette Midler in Broadway’s smash revival of Hello, Dolly! And Peters bring to the role all the authority, magnetism […]
Charlie Stemp to make Broadway debut in Hello, Dolly!
Charlie Stemp, the much-acclaimed star of Half a Sixpence (which transferred from Chichester Festival Theatre to the West End) is due to make his Broadway debut in the role of Barnaby Tucker in Hello, Dolly! from January 2018. Stemp will join Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber, who be taking over the roles of Dolly Levi […]
Hello new Dolly – Bernadette Peters takes over from Bette Midler on Broadway
If you’ve been making yourself a nervous wreck trying to figure out who, if anybody, would replace Bette Midler as she departs from the title role in the smash Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! come 14 January, the suspense is over. It’s none other than Bernadette Peters. After a short span when the show will […]
Great Comet, Bandstand, Groundhog Day and On Your Feet set Broadway closings
The ranks of the past season’s new Broadway musicals are thinning considerably, with closing dates recently announced by four of them: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Bandstand, Groundhog Day and On Your Feet. Bandstand, which began previews on 31 March and had its official opening on 26 April, will wrap up on 17 […]
CD Review – Hello, Dolly! – 2017 Broadway Cast
HELLO, DOLLY! – 2017 Broadway Cast (Masterworks Broadway – 88985405922) At times like this I wish more than anything that I lived in New York. I would love to actually see this production onstage. Perhaps by now you may have gathered that I am in love with this recording of the 2017 Broadway cast of […]
Tony Awards 2017 – Dear Evan Hansen tops the field with six – Dolly takes four
Dear Evan Hansen, an emotion-clutching musical about teenage outsiders, grabbed the spotlight at the 2017 Tony Awards. It won a half-dozen trophies, including Best Musical, while its 23-year-old star Ben Platt took home honours for Leading Actor in a Musical. On the distaff side, Bette Midler, as was generally predicted, won Best Actress in a […]
Drama Desk Awards – top honours for Dolly, Midler and Come from Away
To no one’s great surprise, Hello, Dolly! and its star Bette Midler walked away with top honours at the Drama Desk Awards. The revival of the Jerry Herman blockbuster classic did share the spotlight, though, with several new musicals, including Come from Away, which was named Outstanding Musical. The awards from the Drama Desk, an […]
Tony nominations – Comet soars, with Dolly right behind
The Tony Award nominators have spoken, and the musical with the Broadway season’s longest title tops the list with a dozen nods: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. Sashaying almost on the Comet’s tail is Hello, Dolly! with 10 nominations. Other musicals in a notably crowded field gaining Tony affection are Dear Evan […]
Hello, Dolly! – Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York
Hello, Dolly! continues at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Look at the old girl now, fellas,” the lady in sparkly red at the corner of the stage sings out to the audience. And you’d have to be a total idiot to not do just […]
Broadway Musical Theatre Preview – a starry first half to 2017
Don’t forget sunglasses if you’re headed for New York. Broadway musical marquees will be freshly and blindingly ablaze with a constellation of star names during the first half of the New Year. New productions headed for the Main Stem boast such legendary luminaries as Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Patti LuPone and – yes, even a […]
Jerry’s Girls transfers to Jermyn Street Theatre for three-week run
Following a sell-out run at St James Studio last month, musical revue Jerry’s Girls will transfer to Jermyn Street Theatre for a limited three-week run from Tuesday 12 to Sunday 31 May 2015, with a press night on Friday 15 May. Featuring songs from classic musicals including Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage Aux Folles, […]
Jerry’s Girls – St James Studio
Jerry’s Girls continues at St James Studio, London until 15 March. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It is only when you hear 28 of his show songs paraded one after the other in a sparkling revue staged so winningly by a hectically-involved cast of five under Kate Golledge’s imaginative direction that you realise the full extent of Broadway legend Jerry […]
In conversation with Janie Dee
Barrie Jerram catches up with Olivier Award-winning actress and singer Janie Dee. This weekend versatile actress Janie Dee is the latest guest of Edward Seckerson in his Singular Sensations series at London’s Charing Cross Theatre. These shows have an ‘in conversation with…’ format as the writer and presenter encourages his guests to talk about their […]
