"OPENING" (Call On Dolly)
"I PUT MY HAND IN"
"YONKERS MARCH"

Music and Lyrics ©1963 and 1964 by Jerry Herman
Dance music by Peter Howard

Sequenced by David Shipley
Sequenced file ©2005
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From the minute the house lights go down (with no Overture), a trumpet blast and with a fast-opening curtain to the cast in a "greeting-card-type" frozen pose suddenly coming to life, "Hello, Dolly!" hits the ground running and never stops.

This MIDI file is pages 1-20 sequenced from the Piano-Conductor Vocal Score. It includes "Opening" (Call On Dolly), "I Put My Hand In" and "Yonker's March". The "Overture" is in the score but was not used in the original production--so I didn't include it here. (Besides--Jeremy Legat's version is posted at HamieNet and it can't be improved.) Originally I had sequenced the files individually--but last November (2004) I got a wild hair (hare?) and combined these files into one complete string of music as they appear in a staged production. There are pauses and breaks where bits of dialogue happen--but I DID NOT allow any "script time". The breaks in the music are not timed to the amount of spoken dialogue--so don't listen to it and think, "Dang! Why did he start that music up? I was just gettin' started on my monologue!". :-)

I used my software's "Randomizer" on "Yonkers March" to give it a bit of "realism".... it has a scale from 1-100.... this part of the file was scaled at 1--least number of sour notes. The not-so-good band with Horace Vandergelder and his bass drum bringing up the rear marching around the runway followed by his niece, Ermengarde, with her loud and incessant wailing is one terrific scene bridge to the feed store. (Unfortunately I was unable to duplicate the "incessant wailing" in this file.)

Now you know why the audience doesn't really applaud until the end of " It Takes A Woman"-- approximately 20 minutes into the first act!