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First Listen: 'Hello, Dolly!' New Broadway Cast Recording

Bette Midler shines on the soundtrack to this Tony-nominated Broadway revival.
The New Broadway Cast Recording of <em>Hello, Dolly!</em> comes out May 12.

The only surprising thing about Bette Midler coming to Broadway in a revival of is that she hadn't come to Broadway in a revival of There have been many incarnations of Dolly Levi (including Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey, Ginger Rogers, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, and,

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