Hello, Dolly!

Synopsis of Scenes and musical numbers

Act I

Scene 1: Along Fourth Avenue, New York City, near Grand Central Station

• Opening: "Call on Dolly"
• "I Put My Hand In" (Dolly & company)

Scene 2 (2a): Vandergelder’s Hay and Feed Store, Yonkers

• "It Takes a Woman" (Vandergelder and the instant glee club)
• "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" (Cornelius, Barnaby, Dolly, Ambrose, Ermengarde)

Scene 3 (2b): The Yonkers Depot

• "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" (people of Yonkers)

Scene 4 (3a): Mrs Molloy’s Hat Shop, Water Street, New York City

• "Ribbons Down My Back" (Irene)
• "Motherhood" (Dolly, Vandergelder, Irene, Minnie)
• "Dancing" (Dolly, Cornelius, Barnaby, Minnie, Irene)
• "Dancing" (continues in the street with dancers)

Scene 5 (3b): Fourteenth Street

• "Before the Parade Passes By" (Dolly, Vandergelder, & company)

Act II

Scene 1

• In Front of the Hoffman House Hotel, on Fifth Avenue
  • "Elegance" (Irene, Cornelius, Minnie Fay, and Barnaby)
• Outside the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant, on the Battery

Scene 2 (2a): Inside the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant

• "The Waiters Gallop" (Rudolph and waiters)
• "Hello, Dolly!" (Dolly, Rudolph, waiters, and cooks)
• Polka Contest

Scene 3 (2b): A Courtroom on Centre Street

• "It Only Takes a Moment" (Cornelius, Irene, prisoners, and policemen)
• "So Long, Dearie" (Dolly and Vandergelder)

Scene 4 (2c): The Hay and Feed Store, Yonkers

• "Hello, Dolly!" (Dolly and Vandergelder)
• Finale (company)