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Last production

Hello, Dolly, 24th to 29th October 2011
"and what do you do for a living, Mrs. Levi?" asks Ambrose Kemper in the first scene of that most delightful of musical comedies, Hello, Dolly! "Some people paint, some sew... I meddle," replies Dolly and we are off on a whirlwind race round New York and Yonkers at the turn of the century as we follow the adventures of that most mischievous matchmaker, Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi. Hello, Dolly! is the story of Mrs. Levi's efforts to marry Horace Vandergelder, the well-known half-millionaire, so that she can send his money circulating like rainwater, as her late husband Ephraim Levi taught her. Along the way she also succeeds in matching the young and beautiful Widow Molloy with Vandergelder's head clerk, Cornelius Hackl; Cornelius's assistant Barnaby Tucker with Mrs. Molloy's loopy 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 14th Street Association Parade, and then to the most evident and expensive restaurant in town, the Harmonia Gardens, where 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!" What happens in the end? Dolly gets her man, of course. And he is delighted she caught him. Dolly leaves the stage at the end of Act II with a wink to the audience as she takes a peep into Vandergelder's bulging cash register and promises that his fortune will soon be put to good use. She quotes her late husband Ephraim, " Money, pardon the expression, is like manure: it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow."

Where

Amey Theatre, Abingdon School, Abingdon OX14 1DE. Click here for a map.

Box office

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Previous productions

The Pirates of Penzance, 25th to 30th October 2010
Anything Goes, 12th to 17th April 2010
Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 27th to 31st October 2009
Oklahoma!, 30th March to 4th April 2009
My Fair Lady, 27th October to 1st November 2008
The Wizard of Oz, 31st March to 5th April 2008
The Scarlet Pimpernel, 22nd to 27th October 2007
G&S meets G&S, 29th to 31st March 2007
Kiss Me Kate, 23rd to 28th October 2006
Half a Sixpence, 3rd to 8th April 2006
The Mikado, 24th to 29th October 2005
Billy, 4th to 9th April 2005
Fiddler on the Roof, October 2004