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Shows · Hello, Dolly! · St. James Theatre, 1964

Hello, Dolly!, 1964

Opened January 16, 1964

Closed December 27, 1970

2,844 performances

St. James Theatre

Original

Broadway

10 Tony Awards

Hello, Dolly!
Harrison Keely

Of the productions that opened in the 1960s, this had the 3rd longest run.

Other stagings of Hello, Dolly! 6 more

1965
ProductionLondon
1975
Minskoff TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Lucia Victor
42 performances
1978
Lunt Fontanne TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Lucia Victor
147 performances
1995
Lunt Fontanne TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Lee Roy Reams
116 performances
2017
Shubert TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Jerry Zaks
699 performances
2024

Who was in it212 named

Nicole Barth
Carvel Carter
Monica Carter
Joel Craig
Dick Crowley
Gene Gebauer
Amelia Haas
Joe Helms
Richard Hermany
Neil Jones
Charles Karel
Paul Kastl
Jan la Prade
Joan Buttons Leonard
Jim Maher
Marilyne Mason
Bonnie Mathis
Joe Mcwherter
Else Olufsen
Randy Phillips
Yolanda Poropat
Michael Quinn
Will Roy
Bonnie Schon
Mary Ann Snow
Paul Solen
Jamie Thomas
Pat Trott
Ronnie Young
Phyllis Diller
Bibi Osterwald
Martha Raye
Ginger Rogers
Clifford Allen
Guy Allen
Thomas Anderson
Cynthia Ashby
Beverly Baker
Bryant Baker
Nate Barnett
James Beard
Andrea Bell
Ed Belson
Fred Benjamin
Maggie Benson
Paul Berne
Marki Bey
Burt Bier
George Blackwell
Ted Bloecher
Linda Bonem
Wayne Boyd
Toney Brealond
Gerard Brentte
Candy Brown
Edloe R Brown
Marie Bryant
Cab Calloway
Chris Calloway
Leu Camacho
Carleton Carpenter
Eileen Casey
Alan Castner
Joetta Cherry
Donald Coleman
Peter Colly
Dianne Conway
Gene Cooper
Patricia Cope
Ron Crofoot
Jack Crowder
Joyce Dahl
Bowlin Davis
Clifton Davis
Wilbert Davis
Stephan de Ghelder
Norman Dejoie
Elisa de Marko
Richard Deacon
Ronald Dennis
Merle Derby
Hamp Dickens
Richard Dodd
Pi Douglass
Catherine Eason
Mark East
Dolores Easty
Eugene Edwards
Alix Elias
Ellen Elias
Georgia Engel
David Evans
Harvey Evans
Anthony Falco
Sergeant Faulkner
Larry Ferrell
Patte Finley
Quitman Fludd Iii
Don Fontaine
Morgan Freeman
David Gary
Ray Gilbert
Ben Gillespie
Olon Godare
Ed Goldsmid
Jack Goode
Jerry Gotham
Demarest Grey
Lavinia Hamilton
Barbara Harper
Patti Harris
June Helmers
Winston Dewitt Hemsley
Gwen Hillier
Caryl Hinchee
Lolli Hinton
Lawrence Holofcener
Lee Hooper
Nat Horne
Jim Hovis
Katherine Hull
Robert L Hultman
Scott Hunter
Ernestine Jackson
Reginald Jackson
Sylvia James
Don Jay
Pat Jemmott
Bob Johnson
Waltye Johnson
Jimmy Justice
Keith Kaldenberg
Voigt Kempson
James Kennon Wilson
Erica Lynne Kerry
Mabel King
Irma Kingsley
David Kirby
Davis Kirby
Gerry Kirby
J David Kirby
Roger Lawson
Laverne Ligon
Danny Lockin
Lee Lund
Debra Lyman
Will Mackenzie
Ed Mastin
Joe Mcgrath
Dan Merriman
Bill Mullikin
Anne Nathan
Charles Neal
Gail Nelson
Sean Nolan
Peter Oliver Norman
Russell Nype
Alexander Orfaly
Kay Oslin
Janice Painchaud
Joni Palmer
Leland Palmer
Patti Pappathatos
Jacqueline Payne
Michael Podwal
Howard Porter
Zelda Pulliam
Jane Quinn
Marion Ramsey
Jozella Reed
Bob Remick
Ellie Rogers
Patricia Sauers
Kenneth Scott
Saundra Sharp
Vanessa Shaw
Max Showalter
Bettiane Shumska
Pat Stevens
Luke Stover
Melvin Taylor
Freda Turner
Wyetta Turner
Dolores Vanison
Freda Vanterpool
Elise Warner
Alyce Webb
Sarah White
Joe Williams
Lee Wilson
Celestine Winters
Emily Yancy
John Young
Ronald Young

Creative team

Director
Gower Champion
Choreographer
Gower Champion
Producer
David Merrick

Tony Awards 10 from 11 nominations

Best Musical
Won

Recordings 7 released while this run was on

1964
Hello, Dolly! (1964 original Broadway cast)
Hello, Dolly! (1964 original Broadway cast) RCA Victor LOC-1087, released 1964
United States
1964
Hello, Dolly! The Original Broadway Cast Recording RCA Victor LOCD 1087, released 1964
United States
1964
Hello, Dolly! (1964 original Broadway cast) RCA Victor LSOD 1087, released 1964
United States
1965
Hello, Dolly! (1965 original London cast) RCA Victor SF 7768, released 1965
United States
1967
Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! RCA Victor LSO-1147, released 1967
United States
1969
Hello, Dolly! Stateside SSL 10292, released 1969
United Kingdom
1969
Hello, Dolly! 20th Century-Fox Records DTCS 5103, released 1969
United States

15 more exist for other runs of this show: see Hello, Dolly! for all of them.

Around this production

'Hello, Dolly!' WAS, ALBEIT BRIEFLY, the longest-running musical of all time.4th Smash Year!, in the parlance—the New York production of Hello, Dolly! still had legs,…This show looks like a dinner theatre’s home-grown answer to Hello, Dolly! [1964], and it’…Comeback Player of the Year: Carol Channing Hello, Dolly!'Hello, Dolly!' TEN Down the Stairs, ’Round the Orchestra, Affirming Life Hello, Dolly! 19…Although billed as a Merrick production, the show was actually co-produced with Champion-F…Carol Channing in her iconic title role in the 1964 Broadway production of Hello, Dolly!

I patterned this after the sound of horse’s hooves on cobblestones, that’s what I’m looking for.

The Sound of Broadway Music A Book of Orchestrators and Steven Suskin Oxford Uni, p. 183

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