| "DOLLY: AN ORIGINAL MUSICAL" ANNOUNCES WORLD PREMIER E THIS SUMMER IN NASHVILLE BEFORE COMING TO BROADWAY IN 2026 | |
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| THE NEW DOLLY PARTON MUSICAL "DOLLY: AN ORIGINAL MUSICAL" ANNOUNCES WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION THIS SUMMER IN PARTON'S BELOVED HOME OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE BEFORE COMING TO BROADWAY IN 2026 FEATURING MUSIC BY PARTON BOOK BY PARTON AND MARIA S. SCHLATTER DIRECTED BY TONY AWARD® WINNER BARTLETT SHER FOUR-WEEK LIMITED ENGAGEMENT PREVIEW PERFORMANCES TO BEGIN FRIDAY, JULY 18 FOR A FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 OPENING NIGHT AT THE FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ON THE CAMPUS OF BELMONT UNIVERSITY TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT WWW.DOLLYMUSICAL.COM ADDITIONALLY, PARTON ANNOUNCES THE "DOLLY U" PROGRAM, A GROUNDBREAKING IMMERSIVE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP WITH BELMONT UNIVERSITY New York, NY (January 28, 2025) – Today, global superstar Dolly Parton took to the stage of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, TN to announce that Dolly: An Original Musical will have its world premiere this summer at the Fisher Center, Music City's worldclass home for the performing arts, before the production comes to Broadway in 2026. Dolly: An Original Musical, will play a four-week limited engagement with preview performances beginning Friday, July 18 for a Friday, August 8 opening night with a final performance set for Sunday, August 17. Tickets for Dolly: An Original Musical, with prices starting at just $40, are on sale now at www.dollymusical.com or by calling the Fisher Center Box Office at 615 460 2255. Parton said, "I am Tennessee born and raised, and Nashville has been my musical home for over 60 years. So, this is the right and perfect place to present the world premiere of my life story as a musical. Right here in Nashville, at the beautiful Belmont University's Fisher Center." This will mark the first time the Fisher Center will host the world premiere of a new musical featuring a cast and creative team of professional artists. Dolly: An Original Musical will feature a score by Parton that will include some of her biggest hits as well as new songs she has written especially for the musical, a book by Parton and Maria S. Schlatter, and will be directed by Tony Award® winner Bartlett Sher. The musical is produced by Parton, Danny Nozell, ATG Productions, and Gavin Kalin Productions. Jim Carnahan and Carrie Gardner serve as casting directors, and 101 Productions, Ltd. are general manager for the musical. Casting, additional creative team members, and other details for the world premiere of Dolly: An Original Musical at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts will be announced in the coming weeks. For news and updates on Dolly: An Original Musical, please sign up at www.dollymusical.com Additionally, Parton, Dolly: An Original Musical, CTK Enterprises, and Belmont University announced the launch of the Dolly U, an immersive educational experience that will begin with a focus on the creation of the musical's world premiere. The initial Dolly U allows students opportunities to participate in aspects of the production, working alongside the musical's professional cast, creative, and producing teams, as it is developed and premieres at the Fisher Center this summer. In addition, new project-based courses are being offered during the spring semester in subjects such as marketing, brand partnerships, and merchandising, providing students hands-on opportunities with the musical while receiving course credit. The projects in this first year will serve as a pilot for additional courses and connections between Belmont, Dolly Parton, and CTK Enterprises in the future, as Dolly U expands in reach and impact. For more information, visit www.belmont.edu/dollyu. As part of this initial program, Dolly U students have been working as production assistants and casting ambassadors helping facilitate the recently concluded "The Search for Dolly" national casting search which will give those chosen a chance to travel to New York to formally audition for a role in the new musical. The results of "The Search for Dolly" will be announced shortly. BIOGRAPHIES Dolly Parton is the most honored and revered multi-hyphenate of all time and was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her recent album Rockstar made history by scoring the biggest album debut sales week of her seven-decade career and earning her six #1s on the Billboard charts - Top Rock Albums, Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Country Albums, Top Album Sales, Top Current Album Sales, and Independent Albums. The landmark album also claimed the #3 spot on the Billboard 200 chart, her highest position ever. Achieving 27 RIAA-certified gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards, she has had 26 songs reach #1 on the Billboard country charts, a record for a female artist. Parton is the first artist to have topped Billboard's Adult Contemporary, Christian AC Songs, Hot Country Songs, Bluegrass, Christian Airplay, Rock Digital Songs, Country Airplay, and Dance/Mix Show Airplay radio charts. Parton became the first country artist honored as Grammy MusiCares Person of the Year given out by NARAS. She has 49 career Top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and 120 career-charted singles over the past 50+ years. In October 17, 2023, she released her second New York Times Best Seller coffee table book in a trilogy called Behind The Seams: My Life in Rhinestones. The first of the series was the bestselling coffee table book Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. In September 2024, Parton with her sister Rachel George Parton co-authored the cookbook Good Lookin' Cookin' which premiered at #1 on New York Times Best Seller list and remained #1 for 3 weeks. In 2014, the RIAA recognized her impact on recorded music with a plaque commemorating more than 100 million units sold worldwide. She has amassed 11 Grammy Awards and 52 nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, 10 Country Music Association Awards, including Entertainer of the Year; five Academy of Country Music Awards, also including a nod for Entertainer of the Year; four People's Choice Awards; and three American Music Awards. In 1999, Parton was inducted as a member of the coveted Country Music Hall of Fame. Parton has the largest fan base of all measured music artists in the YouGov database at #1 with 198 million. She has the #1 Q Score of all performers, solo and group. She is one of only 25 celebrities in the E-poll database to have an E-score of 100 and has maintained that perfect rating for eight years. She recently won Best Brand Award, Celebrity, Influencer and Fashion at the 2023 Licensing International Excellence Awards. To date, Parton has donated over 255 million books to children around the world with her Imagination Library. Her children's book, Coat of Many Colors, was dedicated to the Library of Congress to honor the Imagination Library's 100 millionth book donation. In March 2022, Parton released the book Run Rose Run which she co-authored with James Patterson which sat at # 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List for five weeks, a record for this decade. She also released an accompanying album of the same name with original songs inspired by the book which reached #1 on three charts simultaneously – Country, Americana/Folk, and Bluegrass Albums. From her "Coat of Many Colors" while working "9 to 5," no dream is too big and no mountain too high for the country girl who turned the world into her stage. Maria S. Schlatter (Book Co-Writer) is a two-time Emmy-winning, multi-nominated television producer and writer as well as a network executive for variety specials at ABC, eventually expanding to variety series. Schlatter partnered with Dolly Parton to create, executive produce, and write a musical film for Netflix, Christmas on the Square, which went on to win two Emmys. Before that, she produced and wrote for many comedy, music, and variety specials and series, for the top performers in entertainment including Frank Sinatra and Muhammed Ali as well as an Emmy-winning Sammy Davis, Jr. special. She also was brought in by ABC to produce a series for Roseanne. She produced the American Comedy Awards for eleven years, Oscar's Greatest Moments video for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a tribute to Blake Edwards for the DGA, the Television Hall of Fame for the Television Academy, AFI Salutes Harrison Ford, and AFI Salutes Dustin Hoffman. After writing comedy material for geniuses such as John Cleese, Drew Carey, and Eddie Murphy, her political satire sketch comedy was used on the New York stage in Blow Me: A New Revue and in Zipper a stand-up and sketch comedy revue. She produced Norman's Ark a musical with a cast of over 200 for the Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles. Schlatter wrote the book for Pandora's Box – A New Musical Play which premiered at the New York New Musical Festival, collaborating with composer and lyricist, the late Glen Roven. Her one-man, eight-character show Judgment Day starring Donald Corren earned rave reviews. Also an award-winning videographer, she has produced and written many video and musical biographical tributes for Julie Andrews as well as tributes for Blake Edwards, Goldie Hawn, Frank Oz, and Dudley Moore. She produced the Gstaad Film Festival for two years with the late Tony Adams. Bartlett Sher (Director). The New York Times has praised Sher as "one of the most original and exciting directors, not only in the American theater but also in the international world of opera." Nominated for the Tony Award nine times, he took home the prize in 2008 for his powerful revival of South Pacific. Sher's early career included residencies all over the world, under the guidance of such extraordinary artists as Garland Wright, Robert Woodruff, and Peter Hall. In 2000, he arrived at the Intiman Theater in Seattle, where he served as the Artistic Director until 2009. During his time working in a regional theater, he directed over twenty plays by Shakespeare, and immersed himself in the classics. His Cymbeline was the first American production of a Shakespeare play presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Sher's first Broadway production was the 2005 world premiere of The Light in the Piazza, by Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas, which garnered him his first Tony nomination. Soon after, he became the Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater, a position he has held ever since. While at LCT, Bart has received Tony Award nominations for his productions of My Fair Lady, Oslo, Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I, Golden Boy, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, and The Light in the Piazza. His other LCT productions include Corruption, Lerner & Lowe's Camelot, Intimate Apparel, Blood and Gifts, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. On Broadway, Bart has directed such shows as Pictures from Home, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Bridges of Madison County. In 2018, he directed Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway, which became the best-selling American play in Broadway history. In the world of opera, Bart has directed both new work and classics at some of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, including La Scala, the English National Opera, the Salzburg Festival, Chicago, Seattle, the Berlin Staatsoper, Baden Baden, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He will direct the world premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for the Met in their 2025-2026 season. His film of Oslo premiered on HBO in 2021 and was nominated for two Emmy Awards and won a Critics Choice Award. His most recent works are the hit world premiere Ayad Akhtar play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center and the acclaimed revival of Kiss Me, Kate, which recently ended an acclaimed run in London at the Barbican Theater. Upcoming work includes the stage adaptation of the movie-musical La La Land. Danny Nozell is a titan of the entertainment industry; his bold, jovial personality accompanies his well-known reputation for high profit margins, long-term client retention, and progressive diversification of revenue for clients and his own companies. His most notable achievements have been with cultural icon and global superstar Dolly Parton as her manager of 20 years. Nozell and his team at CTK Enterprises have a diverse roster of talent, spanning a spectrum of genres: Megadeth and KC and the Sunshine Band, to name a few. Nozell masters every facet of the industry – including music, TV, film, branding, publishing, touring, and record deals – through awe-inspiring innovation and spotting new trends ahead of the curve. Nozell is credited for rebuilding Parton's global touring career, revitalizing her recording career, and overseeing her vast business empire. He expanded her branding globally, including hundreds of product lines, and produced her portfolio of television, film, and stage productions. His own businesses have redefined the modern-day entertainment industry. Nozell's companies – including CTK Enterprises, NOZ Entertainment, and Nash Aviation – employ a 50-plus team of experts who deliver revolutionary ROI for clients and partners. ATG Productions is the award-winning producing and general management arm of ATG Entertainment. Dolly Parton first collaborated with ATG and Adam Speers in 2019 when she entrusted them to develop a new version of her musical 9 to 5 which became a hit in London's West End and subsequently had successful UK and international tours. Current and upcoming productions: the Tony Award-winning production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club now starring Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho and the record-breaking, seven-time Olivier Award-winning, West End production now starring Adam Gillen and Katherine Langford; the seven-time Olivier Award-winning Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger (Savoy, West End and St. James Theatre, Broadway), A Streetcar Named Desire starring Paul Mescal (Phoenix Theatre, West End; Noël Coward Theater, West End; and BAM, New York); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Ambassadors Theatre, West End); and Dear Evan Hansen (UK tour). Recent productions: Player Kings starring Ian McKellen (Noel Coward Theatre, West End); Plaza Suite starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick (Savoy, West End and Hudson Theatre, Broadway); Harry Clarke starring Billy Crudup (Ambassadors Theatre, West End); and A Doll's House starring Jessica Chastain (Hudson Theatre, Broadway). ABOUT THE FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Anchored by a 1,700-seat theater, the Fisher Center showcases elegant event space that includes a soaring grand foyer, two multipurpose ballrooms, green room and flexible rehearsal space. Since its grand opening in December 2021, the Fisher Center has hosted a myriad of musical superstars including Brad Paisley, Little Big Town, Pattie LaBelle, Carrie Underwood, The War & Treaty, and Chris Stapleton, among others. The venue has also been the backdrop for numerous national broadcasts including CMA Country Christmas, CMT Giants, and Christmas at Belmont as well as significant benefit events for organizations such as the Nashville Opera, Nashville Ballet, Porter's Call, and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. For more information, visit www.thefishercenter.com. ABOUT BELMONT UNIVERSITY Located near the heart of thriving Nashville, Tennessee, Belmont University consists of nearly 9,000 students who come from every state and 33 countries. The university is nationally recognized for its innovative approach as well as its commitment to undergraduate teaching (U.S. News & World Report). As a student-focused community, Belmont's mission is to develop diverse leaders of purpose, character and wisdom who possess a transformational mindset and are eager and equipped to make the world a better place. With more than 115 areas of undergraduate study, 41 master's programs, and eight doctoral degrees, Belmont University aims to produce leaders who will radically champion the pursuit of life abundant for all people. For more information, visit www.belmont.edu. # # # # www.dollymusical.com www.instagram.com/dollymusical www.tiktok.com/@dollymusical www.facebook.com/dollymusical www.x.com/dolly_musical |
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