Murfreesboro native Analisa Leaming is returning to Middle Tennessee as a star.

Leaming (pictured here) will portray Irene Molloy in the national tour of Hello, Dolly! starring Betty Buckley when it comes to TPAC on April 30-May 5.

Leaming, who a graduate of Riverdale and the Tennessee's Governor School for the Arts at MTSU, has also starred on Broadway in shows like School of Rock and The King and I.

The revival of Hello, Dolly!, brings back the Tony Award-winning musical that first premiered on Broadway in 1964 with Carol Channing in the lead role.

The iconic musical, which follows matchmaker Dolly Levi in her attempt to find a match for Horace Vandergelder, was brought back to Broadway in 2017. It closed on Broadway last August.

During the run, Leaming understudied the role of Irene Molloy, and got to work with Bernadette Peters and Bette Midler when they starred in the show.

Her resume includes the Broadway productions of School of Rock; The King and I at the Lincoln Center, Hello, Dolly!, and On the Twentieth Century. In New York, she has performed in Pipe Dream, Where’s Charley? (Encores!); and The Mikado (Carnegie Hall).

She has also lent her voice to the national/international tours of Annie and The Sound of Music, as well as perfomring in many regional performances.

Leaming will spend a week in Nashville with the touring company.

Tickets are still available for the engagement at Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Jackson Hall.

Tickets can be bought at at TPAC.org, by phone at 615-782-4040 and at the TPAC Box Office, 505 Deaderick St., in downtown Nashville. For groups of 10 or more, call 615-782-4060.

Hello, Dolly! began performances on Broadway on March 15, 2017, and officially opened on April 20, 2017. Having broken the record for best first day of ticket sales in Broadway history, the box office record at the Shubert Theatre twelve times, and shattering The Shubert Organization’s all-time record ten times, the production ended its historic Broadway run on Aug. 25, 2018.

The touring company is led by four-time Tony Award-winning director Jerry Zaks and choreographed by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, along with the entire creative team of the Broadway production.

For more information, visit HelloDollyOnBroadway.com.

If You Go

Hello, Dolly!

Apr. 30-May 5, 2019

TPAC’s Jackson Hall, 505 Deaderick St.

Tickets: TPAC.org or 615-782-4040

Photo: Lewis J. Stadlen, Betty Buckley and the company of Hello, Dolly!