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ByRICKTAGGS
Rappahannock New* Special Writer
With an eye on the target for casting, Don Bomberger directed talented and welldrilled students from Rappahannock County High School in a surpassingly well done rendition of “Hello, Dolly” presented April 18 and 19.
Director Bomberger’s cast, supported by a hard-working and creative production crew, bottled the necessary human chemistry to create theater magic.
Rappahannock County can be proud of the fine tradition of theater which RCHS has established in recent years. Along with fine traditions go fine philosophies and a fine philosophy toward life is what “Hello, Dolly” is all about.
Thornton Wilder, whose play “The Matchmaker” this musical is based on, makes the same point in all his work: that we’ve all got to rejoin the human race. In "Our Town,” he said you can’t go to the grave with the dead, you have to stay with the living. And in “The Skin of Our Teeth,” his constant message was that through the ages—ice, stone and dinosaur—as long as mankind sticks together, we will survive.
“Hello, Dolly’s” give-life-achance message surfaces through the sassy personality of Dolly Gallagher ‘Levi, a widow involved in countless respectable trades whose specialty is match-making. She attempts to marry off everyone in the show, especially herself. The object of her affection is millionaire Horace Vandergelder, a sort of human Scrooge McDuck, complete with typical
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