Eliot Hall (Jamaica Plain, MA)
The Footlight Club presents Hello, Dolly!, the Tony Award-winning musical adaption of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker. Crafty, meddling Dolly Gallagher Levi is charged with finding a suitable wife for the upright Horace Vandergelder. But she soon takes matters into her own hands and decides to keep him for herself, scheming and singing her way into Horace's hard heart.
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Very good performance level for a community theatre.
Heartwarming and cute, great voices!
I thought it was great fun for community theatre, and the color was terrific; Miss Dolly was stunning
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Built in 1831, Eliot Hall is an architecturally notable Greek Revival building in the heart of Boston's Jamaica Plain Neighborhood. Originally Eliot Hall was a town meeting place and then parish hall for the nearby Unitarian Church. For over 130 years it has been the home of The Footlight Club, America's oldest community theater. In 1889 Club members collectively purchased the building whi
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By Michael Stewart
Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Based on The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Richard Repetta
This musical adaption of Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker has won multiple Tony awards and is widely regarded as one of Broadway's most enduring hits. Crafty, meddling Dolly Gallagher Levi is charged with finding a suitable wife for the upright, respectable Horace Vandergelder. But she quickly decides to take matters into her own hands and keep him for herself, and Dolly sets out to scheme and sing her way into Horace’s hard heart all over New York.
Nestled in a residential area near Jamaica Pond, The Footlight Club, America's oldest community theatre, has performed every year since 1877. For over 120 years Footlight Club members have sustained the organization's mission: To present the best in non-professional theater to a broad-based audience, and to preserve and maintain Eliot Hall as a community resource.