Hello, Dolly!
Hello Dolly tells the story of Dolly Gallagher Levi, a matchmaker hired to arrange a marriage for the widowed half-millionaire Horace Vandergelder. Dolly, however, has other ideas. Recently widowed herself, Dolly decides that Horace and his fortune are the perfect match for her. To accomplish this, she immediately begins to plant seeds of doubt in Vandergelder's mind about Irene Molloy, the pretty young window she had chosen for him.
In the meantime, two of his employees, Cornelius and Barnaby, are plotting to take advantage of the boss' absence by sneaking off for their first-ever peek at teh big city with the hopes of experiencing everything 0 maybe even missing a girl! As they are leaving, however, they spot Vandergelder on the street and, attempting to go unnoticed, unwittingly slip into Irene Molloy's hat shop - the very place Vandergelder has arranged to meet with Mrs. Moloy! Dolly and Irene attempt to hide the boys from Vandergelder who, to Dolly's delight, quickly comes to the conclusion that his intended fiance is hiding a roomful of strange men. Vandergelder storms out, announcing his intention to meet, instead with the wealthy Ernestina Money. This suits everyone just fine, for Cornelius is smitten by Irene, and Irene has already admitted to her assistant, Minnie Fay, that she was about to accept Vandergelder's proposal only to escape from the drudgeries of her little hat shop. Dolly quickly sizes up the situation, and suggests that the boys take Irene and Minnie Fay to dinner at the fashionable Harmonia Gardens to make amends for ruining the meeting with Vandergelder. Although Cornelius and Barnaby cannot afford such an expensive dinner, they soon find themselves standing in front of the Harmonia Gardens, two beautiful women on their arms and no idea how they will pay the bill. But when Vandergelder shows up at the same restaurant searching for the mysterious Ernestina, mayhem erupts, and by the time the confusion is over, everything may have just worked itself out - even if it isn't the way one might have expected when the evening began...
