who originated the role of dolly levi on broadway
Carol Channing
title: Carole Cook text: productions of "42nd Street" and "Romantic Comedy" and was the second actress (after Carol Channing) to star as Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" She played Mrs. Peacham in the 1956 off-Broadway production of "The Three Penny Opera", starring Lotte Lenya. Cook is a longtime supporter of various AIDS organizations and regularly appears as a featured performer in the annual Los Angeles S.T.A.G.E. benefit. With her actor husband, Tom Troupe, Cook received the 2002 Theatre Ovation Award for Lifetime Career Achievement, the first husband and wife to be so honored. Cook received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Baylor University, the S.T.A.G.E. title: Dolly (TV series) text: brought in veteran variety show writers Buddy Sheffield, John Aylesworth, Jack Burns and producer Nick Vanoff. Around this same time, Parton also hired then-relatively-unknown Brett Butler as one of the writers. Bruce Vilanch and Fannie Flagg were also on the writing staff. Guest stars included Tammy Wynette, Merle Haggard, Tyne Daly, Bruce Willis, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Tom Petty, Tom Selleck, the Neville Brothers, Dudley Moore, and Oprah Winfrey. Tyne Daly's appearance on the show, in which she sang a duet with Parton, directly led to Daly being cast in the lead role in the 1989 Broadway production of "Gypsy". title: Hello, Dolly! (musical) text: My Window" — were restored for Merman's run. Thelma Carpenter played Dolly at all matinees during the Pearl Bailey production and subbed more than a hundred times, at one point playing all performances for seven straight weeks. Bibi Osterwald was the standby for Dolly in the original Broadway production, subbing for all the stars, including Bailey, despite the fact that Osterwald was a blue-eyed blonde. Bailey received a Special Tony Award in 1968. The show received rave reviews, with "praise for Carol Channing and particularly Gower Champion." The original production became the longest-running musical (and third longest-running show) in Broadway title: Ernestine Jackson text: Ernestine Jackson Ernestine Jackson (born September 18, 1942) is an African-American actress and singer. Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, Jackson made her Broadway debut in 1967 as Irene Molloy in the all-black cast of "Hello, Dolly!" starring Pearl Bailey. In 1973, Jackson originated the role of Ruth Younger in "Raisin", her performance winning her the Theatre World Award and a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include "Applause", "The Bacchae", and the 1976 all-black revival of "Guys and Dolls", for which she was nominated for the Tony Award title: Eileen Brennan text: Worker" at the 1961 Central City, Colorado, Festival, directed by Arthur Penn, who had just won a Tony for his direction of the play on Broadway. She went on to create the role of Irene Molloy in the original Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly!" (1964). Brennan's work in theatre attracted attention from television producers in California. Carl Reiner, who was seeking an actress to play the role of Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show", flew her from New York to Los Angeles to audition for the part; however, the role was given to Mary Tyler Moore. Her feature