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July 17, 18, 23, 24, and 25th 1998 |
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Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman |
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Director |
Ed Kuffert |
Music Director |
Annamarie Baskin |
Choreographer |
Karen Hall |
Producer / Assistant Director |
Barb Anderson |
Musical Synopsis of Scenes |
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Act I |
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| Scene 1: Street in New York in the 1890’s Grand Central Station | |
| "Call on Dolly" | Ensemble |
| "I Put My Hand In" | Dolly |
Scene 2: Vandergelder’s Hay & Feed Store & Railroad Station, Yonkers, New York |
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| Yonkers March | Orchestra |
| "It Takes A Woman" | Horace, Cornelius, Barnaby, & Yeomen of Yonkers |
| "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" | Dolly, Cornelius, Barnaby, Ambrose, Ermengarde, & Ensemble. |
Scene 3: Irene Molloy’s Hat Shop and Street, New York |
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| "Ribbons Down My Back" | Irene |
| Motherhood March | Dolly, Irene, and Minnie |
| "Dancing" | Dolly, Irene, Cornelius, and Barnaby |
| "Before the Parade Passes By" | Dolly and Ensemble |
| Act II | |
Scene 1: Outside the Hoffman House Hotel |
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| Entr’acte | Orchestra |
| "Elegance" | Irene, Minnie, Cornelius, & Barnaby. |
| March to Harmonia Gardens | Ernestina & Orchestra |
Scene 2: Harmonia Gardens Restaurant |
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| Waiters’ Gallup | Orchestra |
| "Hello, Dolly!" | Dolly, Waiters, & Ensemble |
| Polka | Orchestra |
| Scene 3: A Courtroom | |
| "It Only Takes A Moment" | Cornelius, Irene, & Ensemble. |
| "So Long Dearie" | Dolly |
| Scene 4: Vandergelder’s Hay & Feed Store | |
| Finale Ultimo | Dolly, Horace, Cornelius, Irene, & Ensemble. |
| The defining characteristic of the classic American Musical is a
preoccupation with affairs of the heart: "Hello, Dolly!" is no exception. But
Dolly!’s virtue is to remind us of those oft forgotten facets of love; how like
Cornelius, we fall in love when genuinely not expecting it, or like Dolly and Irene, when
we are most convinced it will not occur. Even Horace, though dreaming of "soft
Dresden fingers" does not dream of love, only a clean house … and is shocked to
find both.
What shatters the unconscious barriers these people have erected against their hearts is fun, the delirious, unmatchable fun of love, the fun that Dolly recalls so fondly, and Irene rediscovers through Cornelius’ eyes. Love is the thing that makes us capable of wonder, and as Irene remembers, and we so frequently forget, "the world is full of wonderful things." ....Edward Kuffert |
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
