Jim Carter, who famously played Carson the master butler on Downton Abbey, clearly was taken by the leading artist giving a terrifically moving performance as Dolly Gallagher Levi upon the London Palladium stage. “That’s my wife,” he declared during the interval.
Indeed it was. Imelda Staunton was creating a gold-standard portrait of the meddlesome fixer at the heart of the landmark musical Hello, Dolly! created by Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart from Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker.
“It’s a brilliant production,” Carter told me.
A tearful Jim Carter at the Palladium. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline.
“The problem is,” he continued, ”I can’t see anyone else on stage. I can only look at her. I’m sitting there going, ‘Wow!’”
Totally understandable, because the other 2,200 members of the audience were falling in love with her as well.
Imelda Staunton (center) and the ‘Hello, Dolly!’ company at the...
Indeed it was. Imelda Staunton was creating a gold-standard portrait of the meddlesome fixer at the heart of the landmark musical Hello, Dolly! created by Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart from Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker.
“It’s a brilliant production,” Carter told me.
A tearful Jim Carter at the Palladium. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline.
“The problem is,” he continued, ”I can’t see anyone else on stage. I can only look at her. I’m sitting there going, ‘Wow!’”
Totally understandable, because the other 2,200 members of the audience were falling in love with her as well.
Imelda Staunton (center) and the ‘Hello, Dolly!’ company at the...
- 7/19/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Imelda Staunton, swathed in glamorous red taffeta, descends a staircase on the London Palladium stage to lead a line of eager waiters in a chorus of “one of our favorite songs from way back when” from Hello, Dolly!
”Let’s reset,” a production assistant’s voice suddenly booms over the pubic address system.
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.
The show started previews last Saturday where it was rapturously received, but the creative team knows there’s still work to do before official opening night July 18.
Imelda Staunton received a rapturous standing ovation at the first preview of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ At the London Palladium (...
”Let’s reset,” a production assistant’s voice suddenly booms over the pubic address system.
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.
The show started previews last Saturday where it was rapturously received, but the creative team knows there’s still work to do before official opening night July 18.
Imelda Staunton received a rapturous standing ovation at the first preview of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ At the London Palladium (...
- 7/10/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
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