By Paula Pyzik Scott

On April 10-11-12-13, the Freed Center for the Performing Arts at Ohio Northern University will present the musical comedy Hello, Dolly!, which was made famous with a 1964 Broadway production and four subsequent revivals. It is also a 1969 Academy Award winning film starring Barbara Streisand and Walter Matthau. 

The Ohio Northern production is double-cast:

YONKERS CAST: April 10 at 7:30 p.m. and April 12, 13 at 2 p.m. with Armani Ponder-Keith, Jessica Sanders, Sara Moore, Pyper Sharkins

NEW YORK CAST: April 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m. with Frankie Alba, Andi Brooke Keller, Belle Fockler, Vivian Lakin

There will also be a free talkback session following the Sunday matinee providing inside information directly from the show's director, designers, cast and crew.

An ePlaybill is available HERE including cast and crew biographies and notes from the director and dramaturg. The production is directed by Scott Susong, SDC and underwritten by The Middlefield Banking Company.

The story of Hello, Dolly! is based on Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker. Set in 1890, it follows matchmaker Dolly Levi to Yonkers, New York, to find a wife for the miserly Horace Vandergelder. 

CAST 

*Yonkers Cast Thursday/Saturday Matinee/Sunday Matinee
^New York City Cast Friday/Saturday Evening
 

Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, ARMANI PONDER-KEITH* 

Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, FRANKIE ALBA^ 

Horace Vandergelder, REN GLEASON 

Cornelius Hackl, GRANT BELL 

Irene Molloy, JESSICA SANDERS* 

Irene Molloy, ANDI BROOKE KELLER^ 

Barnaby Tucker, JASON PORTER, JR. 

Minnie Fay, SARA MOORE* 

Minnie Fay, BELLE FOCKLER^ 

Ambrose Kemper,GAVIN HULL

Ermengarde, PYPER SHARKINS* 

Ermengarde, VIVIAN LAKIN^ 

Ernestina/Ensemble, ELLA FOOSE 

Rudolph/Ensemble, ZAVIER ALTERIO 

Ensemble, LENORE MARGUERITE MCBEAN 

Manny/Ensemble, MATTHEW COOK 

Ensemble, EMMA KYLER 

Danny/Ensemble, ANDREW HOLDSWORTH 

Ensemble, SYDNEY MISTRETTA 

Stanley/Ensemble, ROSS FOGLE 

Ensemble, CASSANDRA KUREK 

Louie/Ensemble , MICAH HAMSTRA 

County Clerk/Ensemble, SAM RYAN 

Harry/Ensemble, JACKSON BIRD 

Judge/Hank/Ensemble, BRADY GRIFFIN 

Mrs. Rose/Martha/Ensemble , JULIE MCCONNELL