EXCLUSIVE: Bartlett Sher, nine-time Tony Award directing nominee and winner for 2008’s South Pacific, will direct the just lately introduced Dolly Parton musical Hi there, I’m Dolly, set for Broadway in 2026.
“How fortunate I’m to have the good Bartlett Sher direct my Hi there, I’m Dolly musical,” Parton stated in an announcement. “Once you determine to place your entire life up on stage, you hope and pray to seek out the precise director with the precise creativity and sensitivity to current all of the blood, sweat, tears, gentle, love, and laughter that I’ve skilled over seven many years of dwelling. My coronary heart tells me that Bartlett is the person and the director for the job.”
Stated Sher, “Dolly is likely one of the nice songwriters within the American canon, and being entrusted with the chance to assist her translate that superb expertise into the American musical theater shouldn’t be solely an honor, however completely a thrill. As a younger man rising up in San Francisco, I used to be an enormous fan of the Grateful Useless. Their favourite vocal artist was Dolly Parton, and so is mine.”
Produced by Parton, Adam Speers for ATG Productions, and Danny Nozell for CTK Enterprises, the brand new musical takes its title Parton’s debut 1967 studio album. The manufacturing will function a rating by Parton together with her hits in addition to new songs she has written particularly for the musical. She’ll write the guide with Maria S. Schlatter.
Parton just lately introduced the mission from the stage of the CMA Fest in Nashville.
Following work in regional theater and residencies all around the world, Sher made his Broadway debut in 2005 with the world premiere of The Gentle within the Piazza by Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas, which garnered him his first Tony nomination.
Quickly after, he turned the Resident Director of Lincoln Heart Theater, a place he has held ever since. Whereas at LCT, Sher has acquired Tony Award nominations for his productions of My Truthful Woman, Oslo, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I, Golden Boy, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, and The Gentle within the Piazza. His different LCT productions embody the current Corruption, Lerner & Lowe’s Camelot, Intimate Attire, Blood and Items, and Girls on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Sher’s different Broadway credit embody Footage from Dwelling, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Bridges of Madison County. In 2018, he directed Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, which turned the best-selling American play in Broadway historical past. In all, he’s been nominated for 9 Tony Awards, profitable for Finest Course of a Musical for the 2008 Broadway revival of South Pacific.
His most up-to-date work is the revival of Kiss Me, Kate, now working in London on the Barbican Theater. Upcoming work consists of the stage adaptation of the movie-musical La La Land and the world premiere of a brand new Ayad Akhtar play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Heart this fall. He’ll direct the world premiere of The Superb Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for the Metropolitan Opera within the 2025-2026 season. His movie of Oslo premiered on HBO in 2021 and was nominated for 2 Emmy Awards.
ATG Productions is the manufacturing and basic administration arm of ATG Leisure. Present and upcoming productions embody Cabaret on the Package Kat Membership, the West Finish and upcoming Broadway revival Sundown Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger; and the current productions of Plaza Suite starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, A Doll’s Home starring Jessica Chastain, and, on the West Finish, A Streetcar Named Need starring Paul Mescal.
ATG Productions just lately teamed with Parton on the West Finish and touring staging of her 2009 Broadway musical Dolly Parton’s 9 to five.
CTK Enterprises is a world expertise administration firm headquartered in Nashville.
