Hello Dolly
Audition Material

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Audition Songs

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Put On Your Sunday Clothes

LYRICS:

​Out there, there's a world outside of Yonkers
Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby
There's a slick town, Barnaby
Out there, full of shine and full of sparkle
Close your eyes and see it glisten, Barnaby
Listen, Barnaby

Put on your Sunday clothes there's lots of world out there
Get out the brilliantine and dime cigars
We're gonna find adventure in the evening air
Girls in white, in a perfumed night
Where the lights are bright as the stars

Put on your Sunday clothes we're gonna ride through town
In one of those new horse drawn open cars
We'll see the shows at Delmonico
And we'll close the town in a whirl
And we won't come home until we've kissed a girl

​Elegance

LYRICS:

​Yes, New York, it's really us
Barnaby and Cornelius
All the guests of Mr. Hackl are
Feelin' great and look spectacular

What a knack there is to that
Acting like a born aristocrat
We got elegance, if you ain't got elegance
You can never ever carry it off

All who are
Well-bred agree, Minnie Fay has pedigree
Exercise your wildest whims tonight
We are out with diamond Jims tonight

Could they be, misleading us?
Silver spoons were used for feeding us
We got elegance, if you ain't got elegance
You can never ever carry it off

Hello Dolly

Lyrics:
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Dolly, hello, Harry, well, hello Louie
It's so nice to be back home where I belong
You're looking swell, Manny, I can tell, Danny

You're still glowin', you're still crowin', you're still goin' strong
For the band's playin' one of my old favorite songs
From way back when
So bridge that gap, fellas, find me an empty lap, fellas
Dolly'll, never go away again

Hello Dolly, well, hello Dolly
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're looking swell, Dolly, we can tell, Dolly

You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong, we feel the room swayin'
For the band's playin' one of your old fav'rite songs
From 'way back when

So, here's my hat fellas
I'm stayin' where I'm at, fellas
Promise you'll never go away again

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Audition Sides

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​Please pick a character and read their monologue or scene for audtions. 
***Memorization would be prefered but not required.

Side One: Dolly

​Ephraim Levi, I’m going to get married again. I’m going to marry Horace Vandergelder for his money and send it out circulating among the people like rainwater the way you taught me....and I want a sign from you, sometime today, that you approve. H it won’t be a marriage in the sense we had one but I shall certainly make him happy....And I’m tired, Ephraim! Tired of living from hand to mouth so I want that sign... Sometime today! 

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Side Two: Cornelius

I tell you right now: a fine woman is the greatest work of God on Earth! You can talk all you like about Niagara Falls and the Pyramids; they aren’t in it at all. Of course, I’ve seen women before. But today I talked to one equal to equal, and they’re so different from men! And they’re awfully mysterious, too. I bet you could know a woman a hundred years without ever being really sure whether she liked you or not. Today I’ve lost so many things. My job, my future, everything that people think is important, but I don’t care. Even if I have to dig ditches for the rest of my life, I’ll be a ditch digger who once had a wonderful day. ​

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​Side Three:  Horace & Dolly

Horace: Look here, Mrs. Levi, you introduced me to Mrs. Molloy and rumors or not I intend on calling on her this afternoon ...as arranged!

Dolly: Very well, Mr. Vandergelder, then there’s nothing more for me to do but go back to New York and tell the other girl, the heiress, not to wait...

Horace: What did you say?

Dolly: Nothing, a word, heiress.

Horace: Particulars, Mrs. Levi, I demand particulars...her name! Dolly: Her name? Er, um, blah....Money? Ernestina Money!

Horace: What a lovely name.

Dolly: Picture if you will hair as shiny as a newly minted dime....eyes as big round as silver dollars...skin as soft and mossy as an old greenback...

Horace: I can feel her now.

Dolly: Age nineteen; weight, a hundred and two; waist, forty seven...

Horace: Waist forty-seven?

Dolly: That’s with the money belt. 

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​Side Four:  Minnie & Irene

Minnie: ...And as I was saying, Mrs. Molloy, I could bite out my tongue for the things I’ve said and the things I’m going to say but as long as I’ve gone this far I might as well go all the way! Mrs. Molloy....why...why...

Irene: Say it, Minnie. Why have I decided to marry Horace Vandergelder?

Minnie: Oh Mrs. Molloy, I didn’t ask you that! I would rather die on the rack than ask you such a personal question! But as long as you did bring it up...

Irene: I am marrying Horace Vandergelder for one reason and one reason alone, Minnie! To get away from the millinery business. I hate hats! Minnie: Mrs. Molloy!

Irene: And I can no longer stand being suspected of being a wicked woman with nothing to show for it.

Minnie: Oh, Mrs. Molloy.

Irene: Don’t protest, Minnie! All millineresses are suspected of being wicked women. That’s why I can’t go into restaurants or balls or theatres....that’s all the roof they’d need! Take my word for it, Minnie Either I marry Horace Vandergelder or I break out of this place like a fire engie!

Minnie: Mrs. Molloy! 

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​Side Five:  Cornelius & Barnaby

Cornelius: Barnaby: Cornelius: Barnaby: Cornelius:

Barnaby: Cornelius:

Cornelius:  Barnaby, you and I are going to New York! 

Barnaby:  You mean close the store?

Cornelius:  Uh huh.

Barnaby:  Cornelius, we can’t.

Cornelius:  We’ll have to. Some rotten tomato cans are going to explode.

Barnaby:  Holy cabooses! How do you know?

Cornelius:  I’m going to light this candle under them, that’s how I know. They’ll make such a smell customers won’t be able to come into the place for twenty four hours. That’ll get us an evening off! We’re going to New York, Barnaby, and we’re going to live! We’re going to have a good meal, we’re going to be in danger, we’re going to spend our money, we’re going to be arrested...

Barnaby:  Holy Cabooses!

Cornelius:  And one more thing! We’re not coming back to Yonkers until we’ve each kissed a girl!

Barnaby:  Cornelius, you can’t do that! You don’t know any girls! 

Cornelius:  I’m thirty-three years old! I’ve got to begin sometime! 

Barnaby:  I’m only seventeen, Cornelius. It isn’t so urgent for me. 

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