One of the new year’s must-sees.
— Star Tribune
Absolutely joyous.
— Cherry and Spoon
A genuine hit that strikes all the right notes.
— Talkin' Broadway

Feb 1 - Mar 26, 2023
CLOSED MAR 26
Ritz Theater

Book by Michael Stewart
Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Based on the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder

Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Gower Champion Produced for the Broadway stage by David Merrick and Champion Five, Inc.

Directed & Choreographed by Kelli Foster Warder
Music Direction by Sanford Moore

Featuring China Brickey, Anna Hashizume, Jordan M. Leggett, Brian Kim McCormick, Riley McNutt, Chris Owusu, T. Mychael Rambo, Janely Rodriguez, Reed Sigmund, Elly Stahlke, Regina Marie Williams, and Sally Wingert

Business woman and matchmaker extraordinaire Dolly Levi is determined to make everyone’s lives richer and happier – including her own! Regina Marie Williams stars as Dolly in Kelli Foster Warder’s bold new production of this beloved musical comedy, featuring some of American musical theater’s most memorable songs including “Before the Parade Passes By,” “Put on Your Sunday Clothes,” “Ribbons Down My Back,” and “Hello, Dolly!”

The runtime of HELLO, DOLLY! is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.

 
 

PS = Post Show Discussions
ASL/AD Performance is February 16th at 7:30 pm. Reduced price tickets are available for $17.50 for ASL/AD patrons and one guest. Please call 612-339-3003 to purchase.
OC = Open Captioned Performance

 

PRODUCTION PHOTOS

Photos by Dan Norman

VIDEOS

Video by Lucas Wells

REHEARSAL PHOTOS

Photos by Chris Cartwright

 

THE CAST

+ CAST BIOGRAPHIES

ALAN BACH (Understudy) THEATER LATTÉ DA: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. THEATER: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Footloose, Music Man, Mamma Mia, Newsies, Grease; Guthrie: A Christmas Carol. TRAINING: B.A. Vocal Performance, North Central University. UPCOMING: CDT: Jersey Boys.

CHINA BRICKEY (Irene Molloy) THEATER LATTÉ DA: NEXT Festival: Scotland PA. THEATER: Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol; Cincinnati Playhouse: Murder on the Orient Express; Jungle Theater: Redwood; Theater Mu: Today is my Birthday; Park Square Theater: Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet; The Ordway: Smokey Joe's Cafe, Mamma Mia; Children's Theatre Company: Matilda, The Wiz, A Snowy Day; Seattle Children's Theater: A Snowy Day; Penumbra Theater: Girl Shakes Loose. TRAINING: B.F.A. Acting, Music Minor, Millikin University. UPCOMING: Guthrie Theatre: Murder on the Orient Express. ChinaBrickey.com

DEIDRE COCHRAN (Understudy for Dolly Levi) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Jelly’s Last Jam. THEATER: Artistry: Shrek The Musical, The Music Man, Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins; Theatre Elision: Islander, Ruthless; Ordway: Ordway Cabaret: Rise Up; Old Log Theatre: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. TRAINING: B.A in Performance, Brenau University.

ANNA HASHIZUME (Minnie Fay/Ensemble) THEATER LATTÉ DA: La Bohème, Puttin’ On The Ritz. THEATER: Full Circle Theater: Fire in the New World; Artistry: Mary Poppins; Open Eye Theatre: LOG JAM!; Theatre Elision: Of Art and Artists; Lyric Arts: Sense and Sensibility; Collective Unconscious Performance: Into the Darkness; Mixed Precipitation: The Clemency of Tito’s Tennis Club, Dr. Falstaff and the Working Wives of Lake County, Philemon and Baucis: Planet in Peril. OPERA: The Muses Project: Die Fledermaus; Fargo-Moorhead Opera: Don Giovanni, Speed Dating, Tonight!; An Opera Theater: The Sky Where You Are, In The Midst of Things; Minnesota Opera: La Traviata, Thaïs; Lyric Opera of the North: Rigoletto. 2017 Schubert Club Competition Winner. TRAINING: M.M., University of Minnesota; B.S.O.F, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. www.annahashizume.com @annahashizume

JORDAN M. LEGGETT (Ensemble) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Jelly’s Last Jam. THEATER: Jungle Theater: Ride the Cyclone; Artistry: Footloose; Children’s Theatre Company: Matilda; Uprising Theatre Company: Line of Sight; DalekoArts: Godspell. TRAINING: A.S. in Musical Theatre, Florida School of the Arts; B.M. in Vocal Performance, Southeastern Louisiana University. UPCOMING: History Theatre: The Defeat of Jesse James.

BRIAN KIM MCCORMICK (Barnaby) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Twelve Angry Men. THEATER: Oklahoma City Rep: The Great Leap; Ammunition Theatre: Revenge Porn; TheatreSquared: Tiger Style!; Quantum Theatre: Chimerica; South Coast Rep: YAGMCB; San Diego Rep: Aubergine; Olney Theatre: Labour of Love; NYTW: Dinner with Georgette; Pan Asian Rep: The Emperor's Nightingale; Full Circle Theater: Caught; Theater Mu: The Korean Drama Addict's Guide..., Fast Company, Flower Drum Song; Mixed Blood: Interstate; Ordway Center: Joseph...Dreamcoat; Children's Theatre Company: Mulan Jr.; CDT: Les Misérables, Joseph...Dreamcoat, 42nd Street, The Producers. FILM: Daruma; The Beach House. VOICEOVER: Audiobook: Winston Chu Versus The Whimsies, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed (HBO); Squid Game, The King's Affection, Pokémon: Sun and Moon (Netflix); Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS (DisneyXD); LastMan, Kingdom (Crunchyroll); Regal Academy (Nickelodeon); EDF: Iron Rain, Modern Combat: Versus. IG: asian_with_a_camera

RILEY MCNUTT (Ambrose) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Twelve Angry Men, All Is Calm (Minneapolis, Off-Broadway, National Tour), A Little Night Music, Six Degrees of Separation, Ragtime. THEATER: Artistry: A New Brain, Phantom, Les Miserables, La Cage Aux Folle, Caberet, Fiddler on the Roof, Noises Off; Flying Foot Forum: Heaven; Minnesota Orchestra: Carousel; Trademark Theater: The Boy and Robinhood; Ghoulish Delights: Prescription Murder; Old Log Theater: How I Became a Pirate; Skylark Opera: Wonderful Town, Candide, The Vagabond King; The Ordway Center: Beauty and the Beast; Minnesota Opera: Chorus for three years.

RODOLFO NIETO (Understudy) THEATER LATTÉ DA: All Is Calm, La Bohème, Candide, A Little Night Music, Assassins, Man of La Mancha. THEATER: Mixed Precipitation: The Magic Flute, The Odyssey; Park Square Theatre: Riddle Puzzle Plot; Artistry: A New Brain; History Theatre: Buddy, Dirty Business; Lyric Arts: Guys and Dolls; Daleko Arts: She Loves Me; Des Moines Metro Opera: María de Buenos Aires; Mixed Blood Theatre: Safe at Home. UPCOMING: Asolo Rep: Man of La Mancha.

CHRIS OWUSU (Ensemble) THEATER LATTÉ DA: debut. THEATER: Lyric Arts: Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Children’s Theatre Company: 2020 Curtain Call Ball; Dark Muse Performing Arts: The Uprising vol.1; Educational Theater: Ragtime, Tuck Everlasting, Sister Act; Spotlight Education: 2020 Triple Threat Winner; Carnival Cruise Lines Vista: Flick, America Rocks, Studio VIP, Amor Cubano, Welcome Aboard. UPCOMING: Carnival Cruise Lines Playlist Productions.

T. MYCHAEL RAMBO (Horace Vandergelder) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Twelve Angry Men, Five Points. THEATER: Carnegie Hall: Dvorak’s Discovery; Tours: Porgy and Bess (Europe), The Wiz, Dreamgirls, Miss Evers’s Boys, Dr. King’s Dream, Thurgood Marshal’s Coming; Arena Stage: Black No More; City Theatre: Birth of the Boom; Penumbra Theatre: Black Nativity, Jitney, Gem of the Ocean; Guthrie Theatre: Sunday in the Park, Caroline of Change, Crowns; Illusion Theatre: Miss Evers’s Boys, Always and Forever; Mixed Blood Theatre: Birth of the Boom; Ordway Theatre: Beauty and the Beast, Joseph, Romeo and Juliet; Minnesota Opera: Showboat, Bok Choy Variation; Park Square Theater: Color Purple; Ten Thousand Things: Thunder Knocking;. FILM/TV: D.O.A, Crossing the Bridge, Mighty Ducks, The Cure, The Wooly Boys, Justice, Laurel Avenue. AWARDS: 2005 & 2009 Regional Emmy, 2010 Sally Award, 1999 & 2021 McKnight Theater Fellowship.

JANELY RODRIGUEZ (Ermengarde/Ensemble) THEATER LATTÉ DA: debut. THEATER: Children’s Theatre Company: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Diary of a Wimpy Kid the Musical, Annie, Cinderella; Ten Thousand Things: Iphegenia at Aulis; Artistry: Shrek the Musical, Songs for a New World; Birmingham Children’s Theatre: Thumbelita, Schoolhouse Rock Live! TRAINING: B.F.A. in Musical Theatre, Brenau University. UPCOMING: Asolo Repertory Theatre: Man of La Mancha.

REED SIGMUND (Cornelius) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Once, Chicago. THEATER: Jungle Theater: Stinkers; Zephyr Theatre: Mamma Mia, School of Rock, True West; Children’s Theatre Company: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Year with Frog and Toad, Annie, The Wizard of Oz, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. TRAINING: B.A. in Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. UPCOMING: Children’s Theatre Company: An American Tail.

ELLY STAHLKE (Ensemble) Bio coming soon!

DAYLE THEISEN (Understudy) THEATER LATTÉ DA: debut. THEATER: Ordway: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; CCPA: A Chorus Line, Anything Goes, Little Women; Leavenworth Summer Theater: Pirates of Penzance, Hello Dolly!, The Sound of Music. FILM: The Promise of the Butterfly. TRAINING: BFA Musical Theatre - Dance Emphasis, Chicago College of Performing Arts.

REGINA MARIE WILLIAMS (Dolly Levi) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Bernarda Alba, Chicago. THEATER: Guthrie Theater: The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Dining With the Ancestors, Guys and Dolls, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Bluest Eye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Othello, The Burial at Thebes, A Streetcar Named Desire, Caroline, or Change, The Falls, The People’s Temple, She Loves Me, Oedipus, Crowns; Ten Thousand Things: Iphigenia at Aulis, Romeo and Juliet, Doubt, Man of La Mancha, Once on This Island; Mixed Blood Theatre: ANIMATE, Barbecue, Ruined, Pure Confidence; Penumbra Theatre/Theater Mu: Brothers Paranormal; People’s Light: Nina Simone: Four Women; Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company: Nina Simone: Four Women; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Sister Act; Pillsbury House Theatre: Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!, Scapegoat, Death Tax; Ordway: Damn Yankees; Round House Theatre: Redshirts; Milwaukee Rep: Lady Day…; Penumbra Theatre: Dinah Was; Park Square Theatre: Nina Simone: Four Women, The Color Purple. AWARDS: Ivey Award, Helen Hayes Award nomination, McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship. UPCOMING: Guthrie Theater: Hamlet, Into The Woods.

SALLY WINGERT (Featured Roles) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Sweeney Todd, Master Class, Six Degrees of Separation, Underneath the Lintel, A Little Night Music. THEATER: Guthrie Theater, Alley Theater, Asolo Rep, Arena Stage, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Yale Rep, ART, McCarter, Arizona Theater Company, Mixed Blood, Jungle, Theater, Pro Rata, most recently Iphegenia At Aulis (Ten Thousand Things) and Two Jews Walk Into A War (director, Six Points Theater). UPCOMING: Guthrie Theater: Murder On The Orient Express.

THE CREATIVE TEAM

Director & Choreographer: Kelli Foster Warder**
Music Director: Sanford Moore†
Scenic Designer: Eli Sherlock
Costume Designer: Rich Hamson
Wig, Makeup, & Hair Designer: Emma Gustafson
Sound Designer: Kevin Springer
Lighting Designer: Jeff Brown
Props Supervisor & Designer: Abbee Warmboe
Prod. Stage Manager: Shelby Reddig*
Assistant Stage Manager: Chloe Volna-Rich*
Assistant Stage Manager: Austin Schoenfelder
Dramaturg: Elissa Adams
Music Supervisor: Jason Hansen
Technical Director: Bethany Reinfeld
Associate Technical Director: Eric Charlton
Light Board Operator: Corinne Steffens
Audio Supervisor & Sound Board Operator: Nicholas Tranby
Scenic Charge: Sara Herman
Scenic Artists: Anne Henly, Lydia Francis, Lizzie Tredinnick
COVID Compliance Officer: Megan Fae Dougherty
Dresser: Ash Kaun
Stitchers: Erin Connor, Ash Kaun, Bronson Talcott
Light & Sound Board Operator Swing: Andrew Norfolk
Assistant Costume Supervisor/Dresser Swing: Bronson Talcott
Stage Management Swing: Megan Fae Dougherty
Carpenters: Whitley Cobb, Will Rafferty, Colin Williams
Electricians: Dante Benjegerdes, Mike Lee, Sasha Blinnikova, Andrew Norfolk, Shannon Elliott, Richard Graham, Kevin Champion, Tristan Wilkes

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers
**Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union
^Member of the United Scenic Artists, a national union that represents designers and scenic painters for the American theater
†Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians

 

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HELLO, DOLLY! is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC.
www.concordtheatricals.com