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“Hello Dolly” Lights Up the Stage at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre

Betty Buckley sings the signature song 'Hello Dolly'

Don’t send me hate mail for saying this, but Betty Buckley, as the latest Dolly Gallagher Levi, the quintessential meddling yenta and one of the most iconic characters in American Musical Theatre, is not quite up to the same level of performance as most of her predecessors, including the one and only Carol Channing, who starred in the original 1964 premiere, produced by David Merrick and choreographed and directed by the extraordinary late Gower Champion.