Paige Davis is a trained singer/dancer/actor, but a lot of Utahns want to talk to her about furniture.
Paige Davis — Broadway actor, host of the reality show "Trading Spaces" and former pitchwoman for RC Willey — stars as Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" at Pioneer Theatre Company, May 13-28.She hosted almost 250 episodes of “Trading Spaces.” She starred on Broadway. But when she’s in Utah, Paige Davis is most often approached by people who want to talk about furniture.
“Hello, Dolly!” — which won 10 Tonys, including Best Musical, in 1964, and four more for the 2017 revival — adapts Thornton Wilder’s play “The Matchmaker,” the story of Dolly Levi, a recently widowed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York, at the turn of the last century to find a wife for the miserly Horace Vandergelder. She sets her eye on him for herself, and plays matchmaker for several other people she encounters during her efforts to land Horace.
That’s what her husband was thinking when he suggested she’d be right for the role. Page asked his manager to reach out to Pioneer Theater on Davis’ behalf “to see if they thought that it would be a good fit and if they were interested.” “It’s a very large role. It’s a huge responsibility,” said Davis, 52. “It’s a big musical with big numbers. And we need to root for Dolly. We want Dolly to join the human race again.”
But she’s well aware that, at least outside the areas that saw her in RC Willey commercials, she’s best known as the host of one of the original home improvement/remodeling shows. She was the ever-perky host who kept a sense of optimism about neighbors who each remade a room in the other neighbors’ house. With the help of designers. In just 48 hours.
And the skills she learned as a host “absolutely” helped her as an actor — teaching her how to deal with the unexpected and the spontaneous. “It just gave me a lot more confidence,” Davis said. “I was lucky enough to be a part of something that was very successful. … It told my brain, ‘Oh — you’re actually good enough. You’re cool. You didn’t ruin a whole project because of your existence on planet Earth.
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