Hello, Dolly! - April 18 - April 21, 2024

Taft High School
Taft High School
 Taft Performing Arts
 
PRESENTS
 
HELLO, DOLLY!

 

Music and Lyrics by

Jerry Herman

  

 Book by

Michael Stewart

 

Based on the Play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder

 

 

 

This musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s hit play The Matchmaker bursts
with humor, romance, energetic danceand some of the greatest songs in musical theatre history. The romantic and comic exploits of Dolly Gallagher Levi,
turn-of-the-century matchmaker and “woman who arranges things,”
are certain to thrill and entertain audiences again and again.

 

     

 

 

Running time for Hello, Dolly! is approximately 2 hours with a 15 minute intermission.

No flash photography or recording permitted,
and please turn off all electronic devices.

  
 

 

 

  
  Hello, Dolly! premiered on Broadway on January 16, 1964
at the St. James Theatre. Opening with Carol Channing
in the title role, the show ultimately played for 2,844 performances,
making it – at the time – the longest-running Broadway musical
in history. The West End production ran for 794 performances
at London’s Drury Lane Theatre. The musical has been revived
several times on Broadway, most recently in 2017,
starring Bette Midler as Dolly Levi.		  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Gower Champion

 

Produced for the Broadway Stage by David Merrick and Champion-Five, Inc.

 

Hello, Dolly! is presented by arrangement by Concord Theatricals.
 

 

 

 

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