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March 2005 saw the production of Hello Dolly! with which we celebrated 50 golden years of entertaining HELLO, DOLLY! is the story of Mrs. Dolly Levi's efforts to marry Horace Vandergelder, the well-known half-a-millionaire.

Along the way she also succeeds in matching up the young and beautiful Widow Molloy with Vandergelder's head clerk, Cornelius Hackl; Cornelius' assistant, Barnaby Tucker, with Mrs. Molloy's assistant, Minnie Fay; and the struggling artist, Ambrose Kemper, with Mr. Vandergelder's weeping niece, Ermengarde.

Mrs. Levi tracks Vandergelder to his hay and feed store in Yonkers, then by train back to Mrs. Molloy's hat shop in New York, out into the streets of the city where they are all caught up in the great Fourteenth Street Association Parade, and finally to the most elegant and expensive restaurant in town, the Harmonia Gardens. There, Dolly is greeted by the waiters, cooks, doormen and wine stewards in one of the most famous songs in the history of American musical comedy, Hello, Dolly!
Does Dolly get her man??

See photos from the rehearsal of Hello Dolly!

View the programme from Hello Dolly (482kb - .pdf file)

2005 was our 50th year, see the special pullout celebrating
50 golden years (234kb - .pdf file)

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Interesting facts about Hello, Dolly! - Stage & Film
Hello, Dolly! had an unusually lengthy history. Its first version in 1835, was a London play A Day Well Spent by John Oxenford. Seven years later Einen Jux will er sich machen (He Intends To Have a Fling), a Viennese variation by Johann Nestroy, was produced. In 1938 Thornton Wilder turned the Nestroy play into The Merchant of Yonkers and 17 years after that he rewrote it as The Matchmaker. Both Wilder plays had Broadway runs. Another forerunner of Hello, Dolly! was the 1891 musical, A Trip to Chinatown.
Hello, Dolly! Opened on Broadway in 1964 and immediately took the Theatre world by storm, winning 10 Tony awards - a record which still stands - and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for "Best Musical". It ran continuously for just under seven years - 2,844 performances.
During 1995's pre-Broadway tour of Hello, Dolly!, Carol Channing received Broadway's highest honor: a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, only the second time in Broadway's history that this award has been given to anyone.