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Exclusive: Alysha Umphress Sings 'Love is Only Love' from HELLO, DOLLY!
Jun 19, 2025
BroadwayWorld is very excited to bring you an exclusive preview of one of Barbra Streisand's songs from the film, 'Love is Only Love', performed by Umphress with Chancey at the piano. Watch the full performance in this video!
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Hi, I'm Alicia Umfress
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Hi, I'm Joey Chansey. And I'm going to be singing in the one-night-only transport group
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a benefit concert performance at Carnegie Hall of Hello, Dolly! I'm the musical director and conductor of the concert
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with a glorious 30-piece orchestra and a 75-voice ensemble. Plus 28 principal singers and 25 dancers
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Which leads us to a total of 100 and... carry the one... 65. Wow
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I squealed with delight because I haven't performed a Carnegie Hall. This will be my Carnegie Hall debut
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So to do it with this project is perfect. This is my 11th concert with Transport Group
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We've done a whole host of titles of Nine and The Music Man and Peter Pan, Man of La Mancha
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And this year it's Hello Dolly. And we're still riding high from how amazing and special the concert of Follies was last year
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Hello Dolly excites me because I am revisiting her after playing the title role at 15 years old at Stars 2000 Teen Theater Company in Walnut Creek, California
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and I was really just doing a smash and grab plagiarizing carbon copy of Barbra Streisand because I was so obsessed with her and I had watched the movie incessantly as a child
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So when I finally got the opportunity to play the role, I just basically was giving Barbara at 15
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So I hope to bring my own flair now that a few years have gone by
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There are a couple of things that excite me about the show. One is the orchestra and the orchestrations
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They are done by the incredible Phil Lang. And for this concert, we're inserting two songs that Barbara did in the movie
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We're also adding the two songs that he wrote for Ethel Merman
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And then we're adding another song in that Horace sang originally. And with all these new additions, they're being orchestrated by Larry Blank and Adam Jones
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And part of their brilliance is they're so in tune and aware of the style of the golden age of Broadway
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And I think everything is going to come together so seamlessly. And it really is going to be like the most comprehensive version of Hello, Dolly! one could ask for
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So we're going to give you a little sneak peek. And the song that I was assigned gloriously to
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sing is the song they added for Barbara Streisand for the film called Love is Only Love. When she's
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getting ready to go out to the Harmonia Gardens and she has her silver gilded antique brush
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and I'm looking out the window, a nightgown. It's everything I want
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Maybe I'll wear a nightgown. We'll see. Horace Horace van der Gelder Mrs Horace van der Gelder just leave everything to be No it won be like the first time
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How can it be like the first time? But why does it have to be
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Don't look for shooting stars, for love is only love. You touch, and still you touch the ground
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Don't listen for those bells
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For love is only love And if it's love you found
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Your heart won't hear a sound And when you hold his hand
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You only hold his hand The violins are all a bluff
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But if you're really wise
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The silence of his eyes Will tell you Love is only love and it wonderful enough
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And when you hold her hand, you only hold her hand
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The violins are all the cloth
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And if you're really wise The silence of her eyes will tell you
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Love is only love And it's wonderful enough
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Without the shooting stars
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Without the sound of bells Without the violins
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Love is wonderful Enough
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