In a candid, wide-ranging interview with Today's Hoda Kotb, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winner Bette Midler, soon to be seen in the new film The Fabulous Four, also spoke about her Tony-winning turn in the 2017 revival of Hello, Dolly!
Midler told the Today host, "I must say, the last one, Hello Dolly!, a dream come true. I think that was the peak of my life. I really do think that was the greatest thing I ever did. Those people who had followed me all these years screaming for Dolly. It was overwhelming."
Watch the interview in the video above.
For her performance as matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi, opposite the Horace Vandergelder of David Hyde Pierce, Midler received the 2017 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical and the 2017 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. Midler and Pierce, subsequently succeeded by Tony winners Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber, later returned to the Jerry Zaks-directed production for a six-week limited engagement.
Midler's other Broadway credits include I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, Fiddler on the Roof, Bette: Divine Madness!, Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue, and Bette Midler. She also received a 1974 Special Tony Award for "adding lustre to the Broadway season."
