The Matchmaker
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  • Written by: Thornton Wilder
  • Performed by: Hudson Catholic High School Drama
  • Performed during: March 2006
  • Performed at: Marlborough Middle School 2006
  • Factoid: The Matchmaker is the basis for the musical, Hello, Dolly!

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    Production Notes

    The Matchmaker is a delightful comedy by Thornton Wilder, about adventure and pudding and falling in love and falling in love again.

    Unfortunately, for the longest time, HCH drama has looked at The Matchmaker as sort of the "red-haired step-child" of its program. This is mainly because the cast and crew of HCH Drama entered into the 2005-2006 school year with the thought that we were going to do really great, important and brilliant theatre, with Nutcracker in the Winter and Hamlet in the Spring. However, word came from on high that we were not allowed to do Hamlet and so Matchmaker was proposed in its place.

    But, despite the lack of weighty subject matter, in retrospect, Matchmaker holds its own against all the shows HCH has put on. Whitney Taylor shines as Dolly Levi, mixing just the right amount of worldliness with romance, and just a bit of (practical) spunk. And Joe Manzella and Brian O'Leary steal every scene they're in with perhaps some of the best chemistry on stage as the bumbling Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker.

    The Matchmaker is a delightful romp. And for those in the know, it is truly full of pudding!


    Cast

  • Dolly Levi...Whitney Taylor
  • Horace Vandergelder...Ryan Gonor

  • Cornelius Hackl...Joe Manzella
  • Barnaby Tucker...Brian O'Leary

  • Irene Molloy...Alina Saez
  • Minnie Fay...Christine DeLong

  • Ermengarde...Gayle Farrington
  • Ambrose Kemper...Chris Meoli

  • Malachai Stack...Matt Wiedeman
  • Cook...Jackie Izbickiz

  • Georgio...Spencer Williams
  • Gertrude...Diana Tamburri

  • Rudolph...Connor Gannon
  • August...Mike Grunbaum

  • Cabbie...Maureen O'Leary
  • Celeste...Allie Sebeika
  • Featured Dancer...Vanessa Gilchrest


    Crew

    Stage Managers: Stephanie Bennett,
    Cassidy Santamaria, Jennie Williams
    Directed/Choreographed by: Emily C. A. Snyder
    Produced by: Christine Snyder

    Assistant Producers Bonnie Farrington, Margie Saez
    Crew: Joe Langevin, Chris Hoar, Sonny Beaulieu, Blake Marques, Matt Osgood

    Sound: Tom Prunera, Jim Babish
    Lights: David Farreh of LazerSound
    Spotlights: Brian Benson, Brad Michels


    WHALE!
    Outtakes from the three performances of the
    Improv to segue from Act I to Act II

    Cornelius' Soliloquy
    Act II

    Let Yourself Go
    Beginning of post-intermission Act III "Harmonia Gardens"

    Chase Scene
    Segue from Act III to Act IV

    Three Stooges
    When Vandergelder meets Cornelius and Ambrose Kemper (Act IV)


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