[Capdist-auditions] Final Notice for "Hello Dolly" auditions

[dzbaxter at nycap.rr.com]

Mark your calendars for January 30 and 31, 2007 at 7pm for Hello, 
Dolly! auditions to be held at Schenectady Light Opera Company (826 
State St, Schenectady).


Batten down the hatches...Dolly's back where she belongs...on the SLOC 
stage! Please prepare 16 bars of a song from the show or bring your 
own sheet music. An accompanist will be provided. No a cappella 
auditions will be allowed. Bring your 
calendars to check out needed future rehearsal dates. All auditioners 
will read from the script and participate in a dance audition. If you 
have any questions, please call the director Suzanne Rayome at (518) 
209-1127 or email her at guyanddoll at hotmail.com 

AVAILABLE ROLES: 
Principal Roles: 
Dolly Gallagher Levi - a middle age widowed matchmaker (Alto/Mezzo) 
Horace Vandergelder - a middle age feed-store owner and client of Mrs. 
Levi’s(Baritone) 
Cornelius Hackl – Vandergelder’s chief clerk, in his 30’s 
(Baritone/Tenor) 
Barnaby Tucker - an assistant to Cornelius, in his late teens 
(Baritone/Tenor) 
Irene Molloy - owner of a hat shop, in her 30s (Mezzo) 
Minnie Fay - an assistant who works in Irene’s hat shop, in her late 
teens (Mezzo) 

Supporting Roles: (some speaking, singing, or dancing): 
Ermengarde - 17 year old niece of Vandergelder 
Ambrose Kemper - young artist seeking to marry Ermengarde 
Ernestina - friend of Dolly’s 

Ensemble: chorus of speaking and non-speaking roles and dancers (8-10 
men/8 - 10 women) 

“ Hello Dolly! “  is one of the most popular Broadway musicals ever 
written.  It opened in 1964, won 10 Tony Awards, and ran for a record 
2,844 performances. 

Synopsis: Widowed matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi travels to Yonkers, 
New York to visit Horace Vandergelder, a prominent, wealthy bachelor 
who has decided he needs a wife to tend to himself and his home.  
Dolly convinces Horace - and his two stock clerks, Cornelius Hackl and 
Barnaby Tucker, his niece Ermengarde, and her beau Ambrose Kemper - to 
go to New York City.  While there, Dolly, who has decided to nab 
Vandergelder for herself, arranges a match between the two clerks and 
the woman Vandergelder had been courting, Irene Molloy, and her shop 
assistant, Minnie Fay.  A web of complicated romantic entanglements 
ensues, culminating in a free-for-all at the Harmonia Gardens 
restaurant and a trip to night court.  As the final curtain falls, 
each character is matched with his ideal partner. 
 
The main production staff (Director – Suzanne Rayome; Co-Producers – 
Amy Clark and Jenny Depew; Music Director – Andrea Merrill; 
Choreographer – Heather D’Arcy) is looking forward to auditioners 
making their decision a hard one - for all roles.  We’ll see you at 
the Gardens!