HELLO DOLLY! - Samohi Theatre

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Prepare to step back in time as Santa Monica High School presents the golden-age musical, beloved by young and old alike, HELLO DOLLY! 

Some parts are DOUBLE CAST - please review the line-up below before you purchase your reserved seat ticket.

HELLO DOLLY! is proudly presented with live music from our incredibly talented Samohi Orchestra. Please click this LINK to access the Orchestra student performance schedule.

Questions? If you need a wheelchair space and/or companion seat, please contact us directly so we can arrange that ahead of your desired performance date(s):  boxoffice@samohitheatre.org

After purchasing tickets, you can click the MANAGE TICKETS button and handle any refunds or switch dates with ease up to one hour prior to performance start. 

All shows performed in Barnum Hall on the Samohi campus:

• 7:00PM Friday February 27th - NY Cast
• 7:00PM Saturday February 28th - Yonkers Cast
• 3:00PM Sunday March 1st  - NY Cast

• 7:00PM Friday March 6th - Yonkers Cast
• 7:00PM Saturday March 7th - NY Cast
• 3:00PM Sunday March 8th - Yonkers Cast

NY CAST: Dolly:  Maansi Rao / Horace: Sam Cattarossi / Cornelius: Lux Auslander  / Barnaby:  Micah Lotan / Irene: Stella Harris / Minnie: Morgane Auffret / Ambrose: Ethan Schwartz / Ermengarde: Sophia Sorady / Ernestina: Alica Jane Lambert /  Rudy: Brianna de Veyra

YONKERS CAST: Dolly: Callista Hurwitz / Horace: Sterling Inatsugu / Cornelius: Ansel Brodkin / Barnaby: Conner Perry / Irene: Sarah Hajmomenian / Minnie: Zoey Jaffa / Ambrose: Curtis DiMundo / Ermengarde: Sahar Aguilar / Ernestina: Lily Hynding / Rudy: Keira Jenkins

The blockbuster Broadway hit Hello, Dolly! bursts with humor, romance, high-energy dancing and 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,” have thrilled and entertained audiences for over 60 years: the show earned a whopping ten Tony Awards when it opened in 1964 and spawned many successful revivals, proving to be one of the most enduring musicals of all time.

The Story  In 1900 New York, the middle-aged widow Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi has made a name for herself as a matchmaker, purveyor of advice, and professional meddler. A grumpy widower and “well-known half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder, hires Dolly to find him a new wife to help run his feed store in Yonkers. Meanwhile, he has forbidden his niece, Ermengarde, from marrying the artist she loves, Ambrose Kemper. Despite Vandergelder's outdated (even for 1900) views on marriage, Dolly nonetheless finds him intriguing and resolves to marry him herself.

Dolly arranges for Vandergelder to travel to New York City to meet a young widow, Irene Molloy, who owns a lovely hat shop downtown. While Vandergelder is away, his employees Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, egged on by Dolly, decide to take an unauthorized sightseeing trip to the city themselves. Dolly leads an expedition of the two men, plus Ermengarde and Ambrose, on a New York City adventure. What could go wrong?

When Cornelius and Barnaby are forced to take refuge in Irene's hat shop to avoid running into their employer on the street, Cornelius and Irene are immediately smitten. A moment later Vandergelder arrives to woo Irene. Chaos ensues. Swooping in just in time to “fix" the mess she created, Dolly distracts Vandergelder and unleashes a riotous chain reaction of conniving subterfuge, mistaken identity, and true romance, culminating in an iconic dance contest-cum-police chase through the elegant Harmonia Gardens restaurant that lands the whole party in jail.

Come to Hello, Dolly! to find out how each character fares in their quest for love!

Acclaim
“A musical comedy dream... Wow, wow, wow indeed.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“In a word, perfection.” – Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Glorious... exudes both the burnished glow of a musical from another era and the gleam of a newly-minted coin.” – Adam Green, Vogue
“Dazzling... Type out all the superlatives you can because nights like this in the theatre make you feel overjoyed... Hello, blockbuster!” – Joe Dziemianowicz, The Daily News
“Classic Broadway at its best.” – Maya Stanton, Entertainment Weekly
“So surpassingly beautiful, propelled by such glorious razzle-dazzle, and crafted with such joy and intelligence that it deserves to be studied, emulated and above all celebrated.” – Christopher Kelly, The Star-Ledger
“An extravagant pleasure of swoops and whirls and high kicks. The show is a riotous delight.” – Alexis Soloski, The Guardian

Santa Monica High School

Santa Monica High School’s production is a collaborative effort of many performing arts disciplines and features 66 talented dancers, singers, and actors; an award-winning student pit orchestra of over 60 musicians; and 33 student theatre technicians. They are expertly led by Director Jeffery Huls, Pit Orchestra Conductor Terry Sakow, and Acting Coach Katheryne Barraza, all of whom are seasoned Samohi teachers. The production gratefully acknowledges the professional assistance of Jack Bush, sound engineer; Sydney Diamond, choreographer; Jennifer Gonzalez, projection designer; Shannon Kennedy, costume designer; and Azra King-Abadi, lighting designer; all of whom mentored student technicians.

The production team is an all-volunteer parent association known as Samohi Theatre (Santa Monica Arts Parents Association-Theatre). The Samohi Theatre Steering Committee is Joanna Baker (Incoming Concessions); Sarah Jane Barney (Producer/President); Jenée Castellanos (Concessions/Showgrams); MaryAnna Donaldson (Concessions/Showgrams); Amanda Harris (Treasurer); Joan Krenik (Production Manager); Jennifer Mack (Financial Secretary); Jennifer Ornelas (Secretary); and Courtney Spikes-Perry (Box Office).

The production is funded entirely by generous donations to Samohi Theatre, including the generous support of the Santa Monica Education Foundation, in addition to ticket sales. To make a tax-deductible donation, please visit our website. Thank you!