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Thursday, May 29, 2008
HELLO DOLLY! Comes to La Cumbre Junior High School
La Cumbre Junior High will perform HELLO DOLLY! on June 4, 6, and 7 at 7:00 p.m., with a benefit performance (to support music scholarships for students and Anti-Defamation League youth program) on June 8 at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children.
Thirty seventh- and eighth-grade students make up the show’s cast, with the leads as follows:
- Dolly/Savannah Jordan, Riley Folsom
- Horace/Torrey Simpson
- Cornelius/Aaron Dutton
- Barnaby/Kevin Vega
- Mrs. Molloy/America Estrada
HELLO DOLLY! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farceThe Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955. HELLO DOLLY! is an entertaining musical about a matchmaker named Dolly Levi who takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City. In New York, she fixes Vandergelder's clerks up with the woman Vandergelder had been courting, and her shop assistant (Dolly has designs of her own on Mr. Vandergelder).
The show will be performed with a live community orchestra under the direction of Daniel Hochman, conductor. Musical director is Gary Smith. Choreographer is Marissa Baumgartner. Production manager is Mike Nunn.
For more information on the production, contact La Cumbre’s Gary Smith at (805) 331-9372.