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AUDIENCE INSIGHTS the Maxshowaltercenterfor Education Inmusicaltheatre HELLO, DOLLY! GOODSPEED MUSICALS AUDIENCE INSIGHTS The MaxShowalterCenterfor Education inMusicalTheatre HELLO, DOLLY! Goodspeed Opera House June 28 - Sept 8, 2013 _________ MUSIC AND LYRICS BY JERRY HERMAN BOOK BY MICHAEL STEWART BASED ON “THE MATCHMAKER” BY THORNTON WILDER Audience Insights LIGHTING DESIGN BY JASON LYONS TABLE OF CONTENTS COSTUME DESIGN BY Show Synopsis........................................................................................................3 WADE LABOISSONNIERE Character Summary............................……….………….………………..………...4 SCENIC DESIGN BY Meet the Writers...............................................………...………………………..…..5 ADRIAN W. JONES Program Notes..........................…….........................……………………………….7 CHOREOGRAPHED BY Behind the Scenes: Costume Design.................................................................9 KELLI BARCLAY Behind the Scenes: Set Design..........................................................................10 DIRECTED BY Director’s Vision...................................................................................................11 DANIEL GOLDSTEIN The Birth of Dolly...................................................................................................12 PRODUCED FOR GOODSPEED Dolly’s Journey.....................................................................................................14 MUSICALS BY MICHAEL P. PRICE Famous Dollys......................................................................................................16 Resources..................................................………...…………....……………..…17 Audience Insights for Hello, Dolly! was prepared by: Joshua S. Ritter, M.F.A, Education & Library Director Christine Hopkins, M.A, Education & Library Assistant Katherine Griswold, Creative Content Manager Goodspeed’s Audience Insights can be found on our website: Audience Insights updated 06.19.13 www.goodspeed.org/pages/guides TITLESHOW SYNOPSIS ACT ONE ACT TWO In 1890s New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levi is waiting at As Cornelius, Irene, Barnaby, and Minnie walk to Harmonia Grand Central Station to travel to Yonkers, NY. She is a Gardens for dinner, Irene suggests that they take a car in well-known widowed matchmaker who is matching her order to get there on time. The men are low on funds and client, Ambrose Kemper, with Horace Vandergelder’s convince the ladies that walking is the most elegant way to niece, Ermengarde. While Ambrose purchases the train journey anywhere in New York. tickets, Dolly confides in her late husband of her plans to pursue Horace Vandergelder for a marriage of her own. At Harmonia Gardens, the wait staff prepares to impress their guests of the evening, including their beloved Dolly Back in Yonkers at his feed store, Horace Vandergelder tells Levi. Cornelius, Irene, Barnaby, and Minnie arrive at the Ermengarde that he forbids her to marry Ambrose Kemper. restaurant and the two men privately stress over what to As she weeps, he tells her to go pack for their trip to New order for themselves and the ladies because they cannot York for the Fourteenth Street Association Parade. afford the restaurant. Shortly after, Vandergelder arrives unhappy with Dolly’s recommendation to have dinner Vandergelder informs his two clerks, Cornelius and Barnaby, with Ernestina. As a result, he once again questions Dolly’s that he will be going to New York for a trip. He explains his matchmaking skills. plan to return with a mistress, Miss Irene Molloy, another of Dolly’s clients. He promotes Cornelius to Chief Clerk just as Dolly arrives at the restaurant and the wait staff is ecstatic Dolly arrives at the store with Ambrose. that their favorite customer has returned. Just as she had planned, Vandergelder approaches her expressing that Dolly begins meddling and attempts to persuade he is having a terrible time. Dolly craftily confuses him into Vandergelder into courting an “heiress” named Ernestina thinking that he actually wants to marry her but she says Money. He concedes but states that he will also call upon she will refuse his proposal. Then, to make matters even Irene Molloy as planned. Dolly also convinces Ambrose and more confusing for Vandergelder, his wallet is accidentally Ermengarde that the only way to prove to Vandergelder switched with Barnaby’s and he doesn’t have enough that Ambrose can provide for her as a husband is by money to pay for dinner. winning a polka dance contest at a New York restaurant named Harmonia Gardens. The polka contest starts and Vandergelder sees Ambrose, Ermengarde, Cornelius, and Barnaby for the first time. He Meanwhile, Cornelius and Barnaby conjure up a plan so tries to sort it out, which causes pandemonium, and the that they can have a night of fun in New York without police arrive to restore order. In court, Cornelius confesses Vandergelder noticing. Cornelius states that they won’t his love for Irene and, touched by the song, the judge come back home to Yonkers until they have each kissed releases everyone except Vandergelder. a girl. Vandergelder has been released and, back at the feed In New York, Irene Molloy waits for Horace Vandergelder store, Cornelius announces that he plans to open his own to call on her. Irene admits to her assistant, Minnie that business. Dolly speaks privately to her late husband, waiting she does not love Vandergelder and is marrying him for for a sign of his approval for her to marry Vandergelder. one reason: to get away from the millinery business. She She receives her sign when Vandergelder says something expresses that she experienced true love with her late similar to what her husband said before he passed. She husband and now she’s looking for adventure. accepts a marriage proposal from Vandergelder. As Irene and Minnie discuss Irene’s plan for a second A NOTE FROM MR. WILDER marriage, Irene notices two men standing outside of her After seeing Hello, Dolly! for the first time, Thornton shop—Cornelius and Barnaby. In the craziness of the city, Wilder wrote a letter to Carol Channing which stated, the two ended up at her store. They venture in and begin “It’s a dream come innocently flirting with Irene and Minnie. As they share true! This is just what conversation, the boys see Vandergelder approaching I had in mind when the store to call upon Irene. first thought of Dolly Levi. I wanted to try to Cornelius and Barnaby hide in the wardrobe and confusion recapture the warmth erupts! Dolly arrives at the shop, calms things down, and and excitement Vandergelder leaves to attend the parade. Dolly advises of the theatre of that the two boys fix the situation by taking Irene and my youth. In this Minnie out dancing at Harmonia Gardens. production your music, dancing, libretto, Dolly later meets a frustrated Vandergelder at the parade. and performances He agrees to have dinner with Ernestina Money but fires are exactly what Dolly as his matchmaker. I imagined they should be. What a Carol Channing and Thornton Wilder revelation!” 3 TITLECHARACTER SUMMARY WHAT’S IN A NAME? MRS. DOLLY GALLAGHER LEVI: A charming widowed matchmaker who decides to begin her life again and pursue a second marriage. She is multitalented, Many of the names in Hello, Dolly! may have deeper meddlesome and has the best intentions for herself and her clients. meanings that relate to the character’s personality or how ERNESTINA MONEY: An eccentric girl who is in need of Dolly’s matchmaking they relate to the plot. Here skills. Dolly tries to pass Ernestina off as an heiress but she actually struggles are a few examples. financially. Dolly Gallagher Levi: AMBROSE KEMPER: A young and energetic artist who is good-natured and Levi is Hebrew for “joining,” wants Vandergelder’s permission to marry his niece, and Gallagher is derived from Ermengarde. the Gaelic Ó Gallchobhair, which means Foreign HORACE VANDERGELDER: A wealthy widower who is Help or Foreign Helper. authoritative, gruff, and rough around the edges. These names perfectly describe Dolly’s profession as He owns a Feed store in Yonkers, NY and is very matchmaker – she has the set in his ways. Vandergelder believes that all unique ability to help join two people are fools. lives together in marriage. ERMENGARDE: Horace Vandergelder’s 17 year old Horace Vandergelder: dramatic and often whining niece. Ermengarde The Dutch form of currency wants to marry Ambrose Kemper, a poor artist, is the guilder, or gold coin, but also values her position and reputation deriving from the German in society. word for gold (Geld). Vandergelder, is an anglicized CORNELIUS HACKL: The 33 year old form of Van der guilder, literally meaning “of the Chief Clerk of Vandergelder’s store who guilder,” or, more abstractly, is charming, naïve, adventurous and “comes from money.” Horace develops feelings for Irene Molloy. He is easily the richest character plans a night-out-on-the-town in New York in the play – in fact much of City and hopes to come back to Yonkers the story revolves around his having kissed a girl. money (and stinginess). BARNABY TUCKER: The 17 year old assistant Ambrose Kemper: to Cornelius Hackl at Vandergelder’s store. Kemper, from the German He is innocent; more naive than Cornelius, kämpf, means struggle. One and tries to come across as more mature who kemps strives for victory. and experienced than he actually is. Ambrose’s surname fittingly relates to his struggle to gain Vandergelder’s blessing to MINNIE FAY: A young girl in her late-teens marry Ermengarde. who is the assistant at Irene Molloy’s hat shop. She is surprised
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