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Hello
Dolly - The Story
Hello,
Dolly! tells the story of Dolly Gallagher Levi, a New York socialite/matchmaker
who has been hired to arrange a marriage for wealthy feed store
owner Horace Vandergelder.
The recently widowed Dolly, however, has other plans. She believes
Horace and his half million dollar fortune would make a perfect
mate......for her! Upon arriving in Yonkers to arrange the marriage,
she begins to plant seeds of doubt in Horace’s mind about hat
shop owner Irene Molloy, the pretty young widow she has picked out
for him.
While Horace is meeting with Dolly, two of his store employees are
taking advantage of his absence. Cornelius and Barnaby have decided
to sneak off for their first peek at the big city. However, upon
leaving the safety of Vandergelder’s Hay and Feed Store, the
pair run into none other than Vandergelder on the street. Hoping
to escape his notice, the pair slip into Irene Malloy’s hat
shop, the same place their boss will soon enter.
Mayhem soon ensues as Irene, her assistant Minnie Fay, and Dolly
attempt to hide the boys from Horace who decides his soon-to-be-bride
is hiding a roomful of strange men. Before leaving the hat shop,
he announces his intention to marry the wealthy Ernestina.
Spying a spark of attraction between Cornelius and Irene, Dolly
encourages the two wayward Vandergelder employees to take Irene
and Minnie Fay to dinner at the fashionable Harmonia Gardens. Unbeknownst
to Dolly and the four diners, Horace plans to look for the mysterious
Ernestina at the same posh restaurant.
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if the plot were not complex enough, enter Ermengarde, Horace's heiress
niece who loves Ambrose, a poor artist. Desperate to marry her true
love, rather than a match selected by her uncle, Ermengarde enlists
Dolly’s help in changing her uncle’s mind.
The show enjoys a hilarious and musically-filled scene at the Harmonia
Gardens where the wait staff happily greets Dolly, a regular who hasn’t
been around much since her entry into widowhood.
Horace,
unable to contain himself upon finding his employees out with his
former bride-to-be, ends up in jail.
The next day, Dolly visits Horace and convinces him that not only
should Ermengarde marry Ambrose, but that he should also marry her
Director
& Choreographer: Eric Pover
Musical Director: Jenny Collis-Smith
The
Cast
Jane
Johnson - Dolly Gallagher Levi
Paul Aucott - Horace Vandergelder
Linda Race - Irene Molloy
Heather Taylor - Minnie Fay
Lee Edwards - Cornelius Hackl
Robert West - Barnaby Tucker
Matthew Hobbs - Ambrose Kemper
Georgia Garner - Ermengarde
Susan Dodd - Mrs Rose
Barbara Tomlinson - Ernestina Money
Robert Earl - Rudolph Reisenweber
Frank Millward - Judge
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