This Dolly isnt a clone, hes an admirer

NJ.com – By Peter Filichia – Star-Ledger Staff

In a manner of speaking, Carol Channing is doing “Hello, Dolly!” one more time.

Only Richard Skipper will be standing in — and singing and performing — for her. Skipper is by trade a Carol Channing impersonator.

“Not a female impersonator,” he emphasizes. “Not a drag queen,” he insists. “I’m an actor who’s not just playing Carol Channing, but Carol Channing as that meddlesome matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi in Jerry Herman’s famous musical.”