Hello, Dolly

Starring: The Blackpool & Fylde Light Opera Company

Showing Tuesday 10 June to Saturday 14 June 2008
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Performance Times: Tuesday to Saturday Evenings at 7.30pm, Saturday Matinee at 2.30pm.

Running Time: tbc

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Starring The Blackpool & Fylde Light Opera Company
Book Michael Stewart
Music & Lyrics Jerry Herman
Based on The Matchmaker

The original Broadway production of Hello, Dolly!, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion and produced by David Merrick, opened to rave reviews on January 16, 1964, becoming a Broadway blockbuster running for an incredable 2,844 performances.

Widowed but brassy matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi makes a living through what she calls ‘meddling’ – matchmaking and numerous sidelines including dance instruction and mandolin lessons. She travels to Yonkers, New York to visit her client, grump Horace Vandergelder, a prominent citizen and wealthy bachelor in need of a wife to tend to himself and his home. It is soon clear, however, that Dolly intends to marry Horace herself and to ‘send him money circulating among the people like rainwater’, the way her late husband taught her.

At Vandergelder's Hay and Feed Store in Yonkers, Dolly convinces Vandergelder, his two stock clerks, Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, his weepy niece Ermengarde, and her artistic beau Ambrose Kemper, to ‘put on [their] Sunday clothes’ and take the train to New York City. Cornelius, Barnaby, Dolly and Horace all arrive at the hat shop of widow Irene Molloy. Dolly cleverly steers Horace away from Irene, with whom she is supposed to be setting him up, and instead arranges a match between the two clerks and the bored milliner and her perky shop assistant, Minnie Fay. Dolly catches up with the annoyed Vandergelder as he is playing in a band during the great Fourteenth Street Association Parade, and she convinces him to give her matchmaking one more chance. She tells him of a lonely heiress that would be perfect for him, and asks him to meet her at the swanky Harmonia Gardens that evening. Alone, she decides to put her dearly departed husband Ephram behind her, and move on with life ‘Before the Parade Passes By’.

Hello, Dolly! is an ebullient and irresistible story, glittering with such happy songs as; I Put My Hand In, It Takes A Woman, Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Ribbons Down My Back, Before The Parade Passes By and Hello, Dolly!

The show has become one of the most enduring musical theatre hits, enjoying three Broadway revivals and international success.

Blackpool and Fylde Light Opera Company promises to continue its tradition of producing spectacular musicals, following its award-winning sucess of Anything Goes and Me & My Girl; and last year’s smash-hit Copacabana.

Audio Described Performance
(Unfortunatly this date had to be cancelled after our brochure was printed)

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Presented By: Blackpool and Fylde Light Opera Company

Booking information

Tuesday Evening:
All seats £13.00

Wednesday to Saturday Evenings:
Dress Circle £17.00
Stalls £15.00
Upper Circle £14.00
Gallery £11.00

Saturday Matinee:
Dress Circle £13.00
Stalls £13.00
Upper Circle £13.00
Gallery £11.00

Discounts
Children £8.00 all performances

BOX OFFICE
Open 10am to 8pm (subject to change due to performances). All major credit and debit cards are accepted over the telephone and in person. When booking by credit card, a booking fee of £1.50 per transaction is applicable. Debit cards attract no booking fee.

CONCESSIONS
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POSTAL ADDRESS
Grand Theatre, 33 Church Street, Blackpool, FY1 1HT. Cheques should be made payable to Blackpool Grand Theatre and remember to add 60p to your total, if you would like your tickets posted back to you.

PARKING
'SHOW AND PARK' Directly opposite the theatre’s entrance is the secure West Street Car Park. Special 'SHOW AND PARK' discounted West Street Car Park tickets are ONLY £2.50 allowing you to park from 5.30pm to 12.30am. Book your parking ticket when you book your show tickets from the Box Office. We are obliged to Blackpool Council for providing this parking facility.

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