Dolly Parton’s Broadway Musical Tickets Go on Sale Tomorrow—Here’s How To Get Yours

Grab your rhinestones and set an alarm, y’all—the moment every Dolly Parton devotee has been dreaming about is finally here. Tickets for DOLLY: A True Original Musical, the country queen’s long-awaited Broadway biomusical, go on sale starting tomorrow, and if you want a seat at the historic St. James Theatre, you’re going to want to move fast.

Here’s everything a lifelong Dolly fan needs to know to lock in seats, plus the delightful story of the TV host who wants in on the show so badly she auditioned live on national television.

Mark your calendar: presale starts Wednesday, July 8

The very first chance to buy tickets kicks off on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. ET through the Fan and Capital One Presale. If you’re a Capital One cardholder or a member of the official Dolly fan community, this is your golden ticket window—and honestly, this is where the best seats are going to go. Bookmark the official Dolly Musical Box Office and Dolly Parton’s official website now, because 10 a.m. ET is going to move quickly.

If you miss the presale, don’t panic. The General Public On-Sale opens Friday, July 10, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. ET. But between us, if you have any way to access that Capital One Presale, take it. This is Dolly. On Broadway. Telling her own life story. Fans are going to descend on this the way they descended on Dollywood the day it opened.

The initial ticket block covers performances through Sunday, November 21, 2027, giving you nearly a full year of dates to choose from once previews begin.

The dates you’ll want to circle

Preview performances begin Monday, December 7, 2026, at Broadway’s storied St. James Theatre. The official opening night celebration is set for January 19, 2027—which, fittingly, is Dolly’s 81st birthday. Could there be a more perfect way for the girl from the Smoky Mountains to blow out her candles?

For fans who’ve been following Dolly since her Porter Wagoner Show days, seeing her step onto a Broadway stage as the subject of her own musical on her birthday feels almost too poetic to be real. But that’s Dolly for you.

Jenna Bush Hager threw her wig in the ring

If you needed proof that Dolly-mania has reached full boil, look no further than Jenna Bush Hager’s now-legendary audition. The Today With Hoda & Jenna cohost, 44, went for it live on the December 9 episode, encouraged by her longtime friend Hoda Kotb.

“I just feel like it would be a dream, Dolly, if my friend Jenna Bush Hager might have a shot at something. So, Jenna’s gonna try,” Kotb, 61, said on air.

Bush Hager pulled on a platinum blonde curly wig (which Hoda cheerfully compared to George Washington’s hair) and, rather than sing, delivered a delightfully dramatic reading of “Jolene.”

“Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene / I’m beggin’ of you, please don’t take my man,” she recited, before continuing through the opening verse: “Your beauty is beyond compare / With flaming locks of auburn hair / With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green.”

After taking her bow to applause from the studio crew, Bush Hager made her ambitions charmingly clear. She said she’d love “a little, small part,” maybe as a member of the ensemble. Kotb had her own casting suggestion for her cohost: “Just [put her] in the back, drinking coffee.”

The audition was submitted under Dolly’s official casting call hashtag, #SearchForDolly, part of an open call Dolly herself launched to find fresh talent for the show. “Whether you’re chasing your dreams from a small town, or you’ve spent years performing on stages across the country, I want to give you the chance to help me bring my story to Broadway, and maybe even play me,” Dolly said in her announcement video.

Will Jenna land the part? Probably not. But the fact that the granddaughter of a president is out here doing dramatic readings of “Jolene” tells you everything about the cultural moment this musical is stepping into.

What Dolly promises the show will be

For fans who’ve read every biography, watched every documentary and cried through every rendition of “I Will Always Love You,” Dolly is promising something deeper than the highlight reel. The musical traces her journey from her “barefoot beginnings” in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee to global superstardom, and Dolly says the show goes beyond the surface glamour to explore what she has lived, loved and lost along the way.

She co-wrote the book with two-time Emmy Award winner Maria S. Schlatter, her collaborator on the 2020 Netflix film Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square. This is not a jukebox musical, Dolly has emphasized. New songs written specifically for the stage sit alongside the hits that made her a legend.

And oh, the hits. The setlist includes the four songs that fans consider sacred text:

• “9 to 5”
• “Jolene”
• “I Will Always Love You”
• “Coat of Many Colors”

If you know the stories behind those songs, you know why they hit so hard. “Coat of Many Colors,” as Dolly has shared in her 2020 book Songteller, was inspired by the coat her mother sewed her and the bullying she endured because of it. “That little song is like a world of things,” Dolly wrote. “It teaches about bullying, about love, about acceptance, about good parents.” And “I Will Always Love You”? That was her heartfelt goodbye to Porter Wagoner after seven years on his TV show. Seeing these moments dramatized on a Broadway stage is going to wreck fans in the best possible way.

The dream team behind the curtain

The production is directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, with choreography by Emmy Award winner Mandy Moore. The show originally premiered under the title Dolly: An Original Musical in a record-breaking, sold-out run at Belmont University’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville. Since then, the creative team has been reworking the script and pacing to make it Broadway-ready.

The full Broadway cast has not been announced yet, but the Nashville developmental run famously used three different actresses—Katie Rose Clarke, Carrie St. Louis and Quinn Titcomb—to portray Dolly at different stages of her life. Whether that structure carries over is one of the biggest unanswered questions for fans.

Your game plan for tomorrow morning

Set your alarm for 9:45 a.m. ET on Wednesday, July 8. Have your Capital One card ready if you have one. Have the box office site loaded. And take a breath—because if you’ve been a Dolly fan through the wigs, the rhinestones, Dollywood, the duets and every gorgeous, generous chapter of her career, this is the bucket-list night you’ve been waiting for.

Break a leg, y’all. She’d want it that way.