| Hello Dolly is the story of Mrs. Dolly Levi's efforts to marry Horace Vandergelder, the well known half-millionaire, and send his money circulating among the people like rainwater the way her late husband, Ephriam Levi taught her. Along the way she also succeeds in matching up the young and beautigul Widow Molloy with Vandergelder's head clerk, Cornelius Hackl; Cornelius' assistant Barnaby Tucker with Mrs. Molloy's assistant Minnie Fay and the struggling artist, Ambrose Kemper with Mr. Vandergelder's weeping niece Ermengarde. Dolly tracks Vandergelder to his feed store in Yonkers, then by train back Mrs. Molloy's hat shop in New York, into the street for the "Fourteenth Street Association" parade and finally to the resturant Harmonia Gardens. In the resturant, Dolly is greeted by the waiters, cooks, doormen and wine steward via one of the most famous songs in history, the title song "Hello Dolly" | |
| Act one Scene one New York City Street "Call on DollY" |
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| Act One Scene Two Vandergelder's Feed Store "It takes a woman" | |
| Act one Scene Three Mrs. Molloy's Hat Shop "Ribbons Down My Back" |
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| Act One Scene Three The 14th Street Parade Before the Parade passes by |