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To Do Today: Hello, Dolly! at the Lyric Stage Boston

To Do Today: Hello, Dolly! at the Lyric Stage Boston

Check out the spunky, joyful musical that features a BU lecturer as a lead

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To Do Today: Hello, Dolly! at the Lyric Stage Boston

Check out the spunky, joyful musical that features a BU lecturer as a lead

June 3, 2025
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  • Sana Muneer (COM'27)
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What?

Hello, Dolly! is currently showing at the Lyric Stage Boston, the city's oldest professional theater company.

When?

Wednesdays to Sundays, through June 22. Times vary.

Where?

140 Clarendon St., Boston. Easily accessible by the MBTA Green Line and Orange Line. Find directions here.

How much?

Tickets range from $10 to $86, depending on the performance date and time. Student tickets are available for $10. Tickets can be purchased here.

Why should I go?

Hello, Dolly! is one of the American theater's most beloved musicals. When it first opened on Broadway in 1964, it won 10 Tony Awards, then a record, including Best Musical. The show went on to play for nearly seven years, and has had four Broadway revivals, most recently in 2018 in a production starring Bette Midler (Carol Channing originated the role). A movie adaptation, starring Barbra Streisand, was released in 1969.

The show is based on Thorton Wilder's farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which he later adapted as a play, The Matchmaker. Set in 1890 New York City, it tells the story of a charismatic widowed matchmaker, Dolly Gallagher Levi, who is set on her next assignment: to find a wife for the grumpy half-a-millionaire Horace Vandergelder. Unbeknownst to Horace, Dolly has plans to marry him herself.

Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent, this production is filled with humor and heartwarming moments and features some of the musical theater's most famous songs, including "Put on Your Sunday Clothes," "Before the Parade Passes By," and of course, the show-stopping "Hello, Dolly!"

Joshua Wolf Coleman, a BU College of Fine Arts lecturer in acting, plays Horace Vandergelder.

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