IT'S SO NICE TO HAVE HER BACK WHERE SHE BELONGS

FIRST IMAGE OF

BERNADETTE

PETERS

IN

"HELLO, DOLLY!"

RELEASED

TWO-TIME TONY AWARD®-WINNING ICON

BEGINS PERFORMANCES TOMORROW NIGHT

IN BROADWAY'S MOST BELOVED PRODUCTION

New York, NY - The first image of Broadway superstar Bernadette Peters as Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly!, has just been released.

Tomorrow evening, two-time Tony Award® winner Bernadette Peters, capping a 60-years-long career of triumph after triumph as "the most accomplished musical comedy star of her generation" (The Washington Post), takes on the title role in the Tony Award-winning Best Revival of a Musical.

Ms. Peters joins the astonishing list of show business luminaries who have inhabited the role, including Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller, Betty Grable, Martha Raye, Ginger Rogers, Ethel Merman, in her last appearance on Broadway, Mary Martin, who led the West End company, and 2017 Tony Award winner Bette Midler.

Joining Ms. Peters at the Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street) are four-time Tony Award nominee and six-time Emmy Award nominee Victor Garber as Horace Vendergelder, Tony Award winner Gavin Creel as Cornelius Hackl, Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin as Irene Molloy, Olivier Award nominee Charlie Stemp making his Broadway debut in the role of Barnaby Tucker, Molly Griggs in her Broadway debut as Minnie Fay, Will Burton as Ambrose Kemper, Melanie Moore as Ermengarde, Jennifer Simard as Ernestina, and Kevin Ligon as Rudolph. Photo by Julieta Cervante