Photo Flash: Baayork Lee's HELLO, DOLLY!; Show Closes Tonight
By: Oliver Oliveros May. 06, 2013
New York, May 6, 2013 -- Fresh from her choreographing stint at the first London revival of Marvin Hamlisch's "A Chorus Line," Baayork Lee, "A Chorus Line" veteran herself, and a co-founder of the National Asian Artists Project, a non-profit organization that promotes Asian performing artists, presents a fully-staged, fully-costumed adaptation of Jerry Herman's hit Broadway musical "Hello, Dolly!," featuring an all-Asian cast led by Rosetta LeNoire Award-winning actress Christine Toy Johnson as Dolly Gallagher Levi, a widowed matchmaker (a role originated by Carol Channing in the 1964 Broadway production).
Raul Aranas ("Giant," "Miss Saigon") as Horace Vandergelder, Karl Josef Co ("Allegiance") as Cornelius Hackl, Sam Tanabe as Barnaby, Jaygee Macapugay as Irene Molloy, Alex Chester ("How The Grinch Stole Christmas") as Minnie Fay, Rebecca Lee Lerman as Ermengarde, Austin Ku ("Chinglish") as Ambrose Kemper, David Shih as Rudolph, and Carla Ogden as Ernestina join Johnson in this production, directed by Tony nominee Lee Roy Reams, who also directed Channing when the legendary comedienne reprised her role as Dolly on Broadway in 1995.
This limited run of "Hello, Dolly!" closes tonight (7:30 p.m.), May 6 at the Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street).
For last-minute tickets ($25-150), visit ticketcentral.com.
Photos by Chris Nicodemo/AsianInNY.com
National Asian Artists Project presents HELLO, DOLLY!
(Center) Christine Toy Johnson
(R) Christine Toy Johnson and cast members of HELLO, DOLLY!
(Center) Karl Josef Co and cast members of HELLO, DOLLY!
(Center) Jaygee Macapugay, Karl Josef Co and cast members of HELLO, DOLLY!
National Asian Artists Project presents HELLO, DOLLY!
Steven Eng, Baayork Lee, Nina Zoie Lam
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