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aversion for the working class.
The other half of the plot concerns the giddy adventures of two of Vandergelder’s underpaid clerks who decide to sneak off to Manhattan for the first fling of their lives—and meet a lovely milliner (another widow) and her pretty, somewhat hysterical assistant.
Strutting Dolly
Dolly was energetically and convincingly portrayed by Dee Dee Grant, who injected vitality into this tum-of-thecentury widow without conventional means of earning an income. Ms. Grant strutted around the stage, her flailing fingers continaully dipping into her black purse and extracting business cards promoting various and unusual services: matchmaker, ear piercer, replugger of pierced ears, reducer of varicose veins —anything to eke out an existence.
Ms. Grant convincingly projected Dolly’s inner strengths and when she made up her mind to get Mr. Vandergelder, we knew she would, for Dolly is a winner and so is Ms. Grant.
Two small drawbacks noted: (1) During the courtroom scene when Dolly adlibbed to the audience, she went out of character. This part is written into the play but it distracted from the haughty, assured attitude Dolly displayed toward the judge. (2) During the performance, Ms. Grant was forced to struggle through songs written beyond her register. She should be complimented for the courage she displayed coping
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