THE MATCHMAKER By Thornton Wilder (The original script upon which the musical “Hello Dolly” was adapted)
STILL NEED TO CAST 4 MORE ROLES!!!
Tuesday, August 24th, 7PM – at the performance facility – 800 Reading Street, Folsom, CA
Show Rehearses: Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays .
Show Performs: October 14,15,16,17,21,22,23,24, 29 30, November 5,6,7
Plot Summary: A certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife, so he employs a matchmaker — a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into hilarious complications. After everyone gets straightened out romantically and has his heart’s desire, the merchant finds himself affianced to the astute matchmaker herself. He who was so shrewd in business is but putty in the hands of Dolly Levi. He is fooled by apprentices in a series of hilarious hide and seek scenes, and finally has all his bluster explode in his face.
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What to Bring: Headshot (no smaller than 5×7), resume, (sent electronically before audition recommended) – and completed audition form (e-mail us to request form).
Roles Avaiable:
Cabman – tall or large man in 40′s or over. Forboding, no-nonsense man who is afraid of nothing and noone.
Cornelius Hackl – chief clerk at Horace Vandergelder’s store – man in his 20′s to 40′s. Tired of always just working and having no fun, he decides to take on an “adventure”
Malachi Stack – Man in his 30’s or older – he used to be a thief, then took to drink, and has found that a person can only handle one vice well, so he drinks but doesn’t steal. Later, his drinking clouds his judgment, and he and the Cab driver abduct Cornelius and Barnaby instead of Ermengarde and Ambrose.
Barnaby Tucker – late teens to early 20′s; the junior clerk at Vandergelder’s store. He is naive about the world, which makes him inclined to follow after whatever Cornelius does, even when Cornelius leads him off on an adventure that gets them both into trouble.