Analisa Leaming sings nicely as hatmaker Irene Molloy, who falls for Cornelius. And Jess LeProtto wows with his gravity-defying leaps and balletic twirls as store clerk Barnaby. Nic Rouleau impressed with his vocal performance as Cornelius Hackl, the overworked chief clerk at Vandergelder’s market.

His performance as the miserly widower is honest and endearing, despite his character’s gruff exterior. Stadlen is a cast standout as Horace Vandergelder. The musical, and a 1969 movie version starring Barbra Streisand, are best known for their elaborate song-and-dance numbers, which are exuberantly and athletically staged on tour by director Jerry Zaksand choreographer Warren Carlyle. Hired to find a second wife for shopkeeper Horace Vandergelder, Dolly instead decides to marry Horace herself. The play ends as the Stage Manager remarks that the earth, and everyone on it, works so hard to make something of themselves that they need to rest every night.Co-writers Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart based the musical on a Thornton Wilder play about an enterprising 1890s-era widowed matchmaker in Yonkers, N.Y. Emily stares at him indifferently, as if the experience she just had separated her from her life before. George comes up to her tombstone and drops to his knees, sobbing. She becomes distraught and asks to be returned to the graveyard. Emily realizes that she wasted her time while alive, just as almost all humans do. There, she sees her mother toiling away needlessly instead of spending time with her family and paying attention to what matters. She begs the Stage Manager to take her back to a special day, despite warnings from the other dead, and he takes her to her twelfth birthday. She realizes immediately where she is but begins thinking about her life and wants to revisit those memories. Emily wanders into the graveyard, confused and with an air of innocence.

It is revealed that Emily Webb died giving birth to her second child, and her funeral begins. They sit at their graves atop the hill of Grover’s Corners, waiting for whatever may be coming next and slowly growing indifferent toward earthly matters and their previous lives. Several characters have died of various causes common for the period, such as Mrs Gibbs, the Webbs’ son Wally, the church choir leader, and several others.

Act III jumps ahead nine years to the year 1913.

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