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Hello, Dolly!

The blockbuster Broadway hit bursts with humor, romance, high-energy dancing, and some of the greatest songs in musical theater history.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1900-1910
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions
  • Orchestra Size: Large

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Four Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical (2017)
    Winner! Three Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Revival of a Musical (2017), Winner! 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical (1964)
    Winner! The New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Musical (1964)
    Winner! 2 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Actor and Actress (1968)
    Winner! The Theatre World Award (Jack Crowder) (1968)
    Winner! The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance (Ethel Merman) (1970)
This musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's hit play The Matchmaker bursts with humor, romance, energetic dance and some of the greatest songs in musical theatre history. The romantic and comic exploits of Dolly Gallagher-Levi, turn-of-the-century matchmaker and "woman who arranges things," are certain to thrill and entertain audiences again and again.
REVIEWS:

"A musical comedy dream...Wow, wow, wow indeed."

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"In a word, perfection."

Adam Feldman, Time Out New York

"Glorious...exudes both the burnished glow of a musical from another era and the gleam of a newly-minted coin."

Adam Green, Vogue

"Dazzling...Type out all the superlatives you can because nights like this in the theatre make you feel overjoyed...Hello, blockbuster!"

Joe Dziemianowicz, The Daily News

"Classic Broadway at its best."

Maya Stanton, Entertainment Weekly

"So surpassingly beautiful, propelled by such glorious razzle-dazzle, and crafted with such joy and intelligence that it deserves to be studied, emulated and above all celebrated."

Christopher Kelly, The Star-Ledger

"An extravagant pleasure of swoops and whirls and high kicks. The show is a riotous delight."

Alexis Soloski, The Guardian

Premiere Production:
  • Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway on January 16, 1964 at the St. James Theatre. Opening with Carol Channing in the title role, the show ultimately played for 2,844 performances, making it - at the time - the longest-running Broadway musical in history. The West End production ran for 794 performances at London's Drury Lane Theatre.

    Hello, Dolly! has been revived several times on Broadway, most recently in 2017, starring Bette Midler as Dolly Levi.

    • Characters

    • Casting: 4M, 5F
    • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Roles for Teens, Expandable casting
    • Chorus Size: Large

  • Principals
    MRS. DOLLY GALLAGHER — an indefatigable meddling matchmaker; a widow in her middle years
    MRS. IRENE MOLLOY — a millineress with a hat shop near 14th Street in New York City
    MINNIE FAY — a young girl who works in Irene’s Shop
    ERNESTINA — a heavy-set girl in need of Mrs. Levi’s services
    ERMENGARDE — the 17-year-old niece of Horace Vandergelder
    HORACE VANDERGELDER — proprietor of a hay and feed store in Yonkers, NY and a client of Mrs. Levi’s
    CORNELIUS HACKL — Vandergelder’s chief clerk, 33 years old
    BARANABY TUCKER — an assistant to Cornelius, 17 years old
    AMBROSE KEMPER — a young artist seeking to marry Ermengard

    Supporting (from the Chorus)
    MRS. ROSE — sells vegetables from a street cart, a friend of Mrs. Levi’s from years before
    COACHMAN — non-speaking
    HORSE — two chorus/dancers
    RUDOLPH REISENWEBER — the Prussian major-domo of the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant
    STANLEY — a young waiter
    FRITZ, HARRY, LOUI, DANNY, MANNY and HANK — Harmonia Gardens waiters; non-speaking chorus/dancers
    FIRST COOK — Harmonia Gardens employee with a German accent
    SECOND COOK — Harmonia Gardens employee
    JUDGE — white-whiskered, red-nosed, New York night court
    POLICEMEN — several New York City officers; only one speaking
    COURT CLERK (RECORDER) — male chorus member
    PAPERHANGER — non-speaking

    Ensemble
    TOWNSPEOPLE OF NEW YORK
    YONKERS BAND
    LODGE MEMBERS
    FEED STORE CUSTOMERS
    HARMONICA GARDENS CUSTOMERS
    POLKA CONTEST CONTESTANTS
    14th STREET PARADE ENSEMBLE

    • Available Material

    Name Price
    Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    1 x Piano Conductor's Score
    1 x Libretto-Vocal Books

    		$24.00
    Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

    30 x Libretto-Vocal Books
    1 x Piano Conductor's Score

    		$550.00 +$135.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    2 Violin I (optional)
    1 Violin II (optional)
    1 Viola (optional)
    1 Cello (optional)
    1 Bass & optional Tuba

    1 Reed I: Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet & Alto Saxophone
    1 Reed II: Clarinet & Alto Saxophone
    1 Reed III: Clarinet & Tenor Saxophone
    1 Reed IV: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet & Baritone Saxophone

    1 Trumpets I & II
    1 Trumpet III
    1 Trombone I
    1 Trombone II

    2 Percussion I & II:
    Timpani (2 Drums)
    Bass Drum
    Snare Drum
    Cymbals:
    Suspended & Hand

    Vibraphone
    Xylophone
    Glockenspiel
    Bell Plate
    Wood Block
    Cow Bell
    Slide Whistle
    Ratchet

    1 Guitar & Banjo
    1 Piano & Celeste

    Piano-Conductor's Score sent with rehearsal materials.

    		$350.00 +$135.00/pm

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