Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! - 2024 West End History , Info & More
London Palladium
8 Argyll St, Soho London
Imelda Staunton will be back where she belongs in *Hello, Dolly!* next summer, as one of the most iconic musicals of all time comes to The London Palladium. With an unforgettable score by the legendary Jerry Herman, Hello, Dolly! will begin performances at The London Palladium on Saturday 6 July 2024 for a strictly limited 10-week season.
Multi Olivier and BAFTA Award-winning __Imelda Staunton__ plays meddlesome socialite turned matchmaker Dolly Levi, as she travels to Yonkers, New York to find a match for the miserly, unmarried ‘half-a-millionaire’ Horace Vandergelder. But everything changes when she decides that the next match she needs to make is for herself.
With music and lyrics by__ Jerry Herman__ (*La Cage aux Folles, Mack and Mabel, Mame*) and book by __Michael Stewart__ (*42nd Street, Mack and Mabel, Barnum*), *Hello, Dolly!* is one of the most iconic musicals of all time. Jerry Herman’s timeless score includes ‘Put On Your Sunday Clothes’, ‘Ribbons Down My Back’, ‘Before the Parade Passes By’, ‘Elegance’, ‘It Only Takes a Moment’ and of course, ‘Hello, Dolly!’.
This brand new production reunites Imelda with director __Dominic Cooke__, following their spectacular, critically acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at the National Theatre.
Hello, Dolly! - 2024 - West End Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Hello, Dolly!
Imelda Staunton plays the matchmaker with stunning results
10 / 10
Staunton masters singing with feeling, never overacting or sentimentalising Dolly. Andy Nyman as Horace is wryly Scroogey, while Jenna Russell, as the story’s other humanely portrayed widow, hat-shop owner Irene Molloy, sings one of the most moving numbers of the night, Ribbons Down My Back. It is filled with the yearning of a woman who has not quite given up on romance, poetic without being schmaltzy.
Hello, Dolly! review: Palladium whoop for Imelda Staunton in role of a lifetime
8 / 10
It’s best when it bolts along and veers away from sentimentality, and Staunton gets this: she always has a glint in her eye that shows she’s in on the joke. Oh, and she can sing! She belts the titular track in act two in a way that makes you feel perplexed as to why she hasn’t done much more of this before. She’s always seemed a kind woman in press interviews and her warm nature is the perfect match for the soft empath Dolly. Barely off stage for over two hours, Staunton is after as much fun as the audience, and always smiling in our direction in a way that is saying “this is ridiculous, isn’t it?” without actually saying it. (Her husband, the actor Jim Carter, was in tears in the stalls watching on opening night.)
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by Aliya Al-Hassan - July 19, 2024
What did the critics think of Dominic Cooke's long-delayed production?
by Aliya Al-Hassan - July 19, 2024
Well, we got there in the end and thankfully, it was worth the wait. Initially due to open back in 2020, Dominic Cooke’s adaptation of Hello, Dolly! has finally arrived in the West End.
by Nicole Rosky - July 11, 2024
Hello, Dolly! is now in performances at The London Palladium for a strictly limited 10-week season led by multi-Olivier and BAFTA Award-winning Imelda Staunton as meddlesome socialite turned matchmaker Dolly Levi. Check out a first photos of the cast in action here!
by Lauren Hilton - July 10, 2024
Watch Imelda Staunton and the cast of the West End's Hello, Dolly! take their bows during previews!
by Blair Ingenthron - July 6, 2024
Hello, Dolly! starring Imelda Staunton, begins performances Saturday, July 6th at the London Palladium for a strictly limited 10-week season.
by Kat Mokrynski - July 9, 2024
Hello, Dolly!, the iconic musical from the 1960s, has returned to the West End. Recently, we had the chance to speak with Dominic Cooke about directing the revival. We discussed what his career as a director has been like, what it has been like to take on this iconic musical and even how the pandemic has had an effect on the work as a whole.
by Stephi Wild - May 22, 2024
All new rehearsal photos have been released for this summer’s new production of Hello, Dolly!, as one of the most iconic musicals of all time comes to The London Palladium.
by Blair Ingenthron - April 21, 2024
Multi-Olivier and BAFTA Award-winning Imelda Staunton will play meddlesome socialite turned matchmaker Dolly Levi in the London Palladium production of Hello, Dolly. She sat down with Official London Theatre to discuss her return to the stage in the video here.
by Stephi Wild - March 20, 2024
The complete cast has been revealed for this summer's new production of Hello, Dolly!, as one of the most iconic musicals of all time comes to The London Palladium.
Hello, Dolly! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
I Put My Hand In
It Takes a Woman
Put on Your Sunday Clothes
Ribbons Down My Back
Motherhood
Dancing
Before the Parade Passes By [i]
Elegance
The Waiters' Gallop
Hello, Dolly!
Come and Be My Butterfly
It Only Takes a Moment
So Long Dearie
World Take Me Back
Love Look in My Window
Penny in My Pocket
You're a Damned Exasperating Woman
No, a Million Times No
The Goodbye Song
Just Leave Everything to Me
Love Is Only Love
The Polka Contest
I Still Love the Love
Before the Parade Passes By [ii]
Hello, Dolly! History
Other Productions of Hello, Dolly!
| 1964 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 1965 | US Tour |
1st National Tour US Tour |
| 1965 | West End |
London Production West End |
| 1966 | US Tour |
2nd National Tour US Tour |
| 1967 | US Tour |
3rd National Tour US Tour |
| 1975 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 1978 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 1995 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2006 | Milburn, NJ (Regional) |
Paper Mill Production Milburn, NJ (Regional) |
| 2017 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
| 2018 | US Tour |
Revival National Tour US Tour |
| 2020 | West End |
West End Revival West End |
| 2024 | West End |
West End |
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