9 to 5: The Musical on Tour (Act One)

9 to 5 | National Tour | Memphis | November 6, 2010 Dee Hoty, Diana DeGarmo, Mamie Parris, Joseph Mahowald, Kristine Zbornik, Gregg Goodbrod. Beautiful capture of the tour cast. The cast remains fantastic and top notch. Mamie is truly a force to be reckoned with. These ladies remain one of the best replacement cast, that have ever been seen. There is a two minute section missing right after the song “Here For You“, while the master had to change seats. The clock that features a video recording of Dolly also malfunctions during the curtain call. The first national tour of the United States began at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville on September 21, 2010. Jeff Calhoun took over as director and choreographer, in the production that featured Dee Hoty, Mamie Parris, Diana DeGarmo and Joseph Mahowald in the lead roles. In preparing the musical for the tour, Calhoun stated that in “believing that a short show is a happy show, we [have] jettisoned a second act song for the character of Mr. Hart, repositioned Roz’s song in Act One and tried to make invisible cuts to the book.“ The 10-month tour concluded on July 31, 2011 at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas.