Kathrin Baetschmann, Leonard Boe, Kate Booth, Edward Brown, Douglas Clark, Daniel Clarke, Susanne del Vecchio, Maria Dimou, Karin Divia, Ruth Ferizi, Debbie Groby, Elayne Hallet, Christine Housel, Edwina Jarrell, Sue Lake, Tenille Lamotte, John Marden, Robin Martini, Karen Mazzoli, Sarah Parker, Ginny Rogers, Tania Suter, David Stieber, Stanley Taylor, Rosemary Wakeling, Hugh Webster, Maureen Wittig-Judge
The story: turn-of-the-century Yonkers (a small town up the Hudson River) and New York City. "Mrs Levi is a wheeler-dealer of a matchmaker" says original Dolly, Carol Channing, "who admits up front that she's tired, and out to marry for money". Horace Vandergelder, Yonkers' most successful merchant and half-a-millionaire, is the object of her affection but she doesn't let him know it until he's come to New York and humiliated himself chasing a younger woman. Vandergelder's two clerks, Cornelius and Barnaby, also come to New York, meet and fall in love with milliner Irene and her assistant Minnie, and lead the women to believe they have money. Meanwhile, Ermengarde, Mr. Vandergelder’s weeping niece, and Ambrose, a struggling artist, need Dolly’s help with their romance and set off to New York. All meet in the Harmonia Gardens, where Dolly is greeted by waiters and footmen in one of the most famous songs of American musical comedy history, “Hello Dolly!”. When Irene and Minnie discover the men don't have money, they don't care; Dolly solves Horace's (and everyone's) problems; and they all end up happily in love.
