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Breaking Baz: Well Hello, Imelda! ‘The Crown’s Imelda Staunton Finds Humor And Poignancy In Rollicking ‘Hello, Dolly!’ At The London Palladium
Imelda Staunton stars in a brand-spanking-new revival of Hello, Dolly! at the London Palladium.
We’re at a rehearsal run-through of a brand-spanking-new revival of the classic Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart musical adapted from Thornton Wilder ’s The Matchmaker, starring an outstanding Staunton as Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, a widow who over the course of just one day emerges from grief to rediscover life again. Michael Harrison, the show’s producer, is sitting in a fifth-row orchestra seat watching his star light up the proscenium as she dives into numbers along with Andy Nyman as Horace Vandergelder, Jenna Russell as Irene Molloy, Tyrone Huntley as Barnaby Tucker, Harry Hepple as Cornelius Hackl, and Emily Lane as Minnie Fay plus other members of the company. From the moment Staunton made her London theater debut as Mimi, one of Miss Adelaide’s Hot Box chorines, in Richard Eyre’s dazzling 1982 National Theatre revival of Guys & Dolls, it was clear she wouldn’t spend too much longer further down the bill.
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