Sequel Idea

I was using the leaf catcher on our lawn mower today to pick up leaves and i begin musing about a sequel to Hello, Dolly. Here's what I came up with. It will have songs of course, but i am not a songwriter just and fan. this is just for fun.

Hello AGAIN, Dolly!
Characters
Dolly Levi Vandergelder,
Horace Vandergelder,
Cornelius Hackl,
Irene Molloy,
Barnaby Tucker
Minnie Fay
Ermengarde Vandergelder Kemper
Ambrose Kemper
Gussie Granger
Lucinda Barett, Gussie’s mousy niece and Dolly’s secret project
Dr. Frederick Walter, a single and available doctor who is new to town and just may be what the Dolly ordered.
Stanley, Mr. Vandergelder's barber.

It is a year since the events in the first film. Dolly and Horace are married, as are Ermengarde and Ambrose, and Cornelius and Irene wish to be, but can’t afford it. Dolly agrees to help Cornelius by getting Horace to make him co-proprietor of the store, which will require a raise, which means in time he’ll be able to marry Irene. Barnaby and Minnie are in a relationship, but Minnie has anxiety because she wants Barnaby to propose. Dolly is still up to her old tricks. When Ermengarde tells Ambrose she’s expecting, he desperately wants to sell some of his paintings, so they will have money for baby thing. So, Dolly arranges for an art show on the Hay and Feed lawn! But when criminals attend the art show and try to loot the store, an angered Horace tells Dolly she can’t meddle or interfere with people’s lives anymore, and heartbroken, she considers leaving him, but then decides against it since he is half-a-millionaire, which makes her half-a-millionairess. But Dolly is faced with a challenge when her friend Gussie shows up in Yonkers and wants Dolly to fix up her shy, unappealing niece, Lucinda, with a nice respectable young man. Dolly agrees, reluctantly, and resolves that it all must be done behind Horace’s back and convinces Cornelius, Irene, Barnaby, Minnie, Ambrose and Ermengarde to cover for her. Then she sets upon molding Lucinda into the attractive girl that she really is. Horace begins to suspect something is up when Dolly isn't home one night to cook him dinner. Meanwhile, Barnaby tells Minnie Fay he doesn’t want to propose, which causes her to tell him off. Minnie then runs into, literally, Frederick Walter, the town’s handsome new doctor, and finds her newly single self going on a date with him the next night. Unbeknownst to her, he is the man Dolly has tapped to set up with Lucinda. Barnaby realizes he may have messed things up with Minnie, so he runs to Dolly for help. She agrees to help him get her back by canceling the reservations Frederick made for two and scheduling reservations for four. Dolly teaches Barnaby to be debonair, so that when Barnaby takes Lucinda as his date, he will be so charming and debonair, that Minnie will be jealous and take him back. It works and Minnie and Barnaby agree to elope. Lucinda and Frederick have no choice then but to eat their meal together, since Barnaby and Minnie get back together. Dolly is satisfied with the outcome. Meanwhile, Cornelius cracks under the pressure when Horace begins grilling him about Dolly’s whereabouts and tells him that she has been matchmaking again. Horace tells Cornelius that he will not get his promotion because co-proprietors would not keep secrets from proprietors. Down-trodden, Cornelius tells Irene that maybe they too should elope. Horace is angry with Dolly, who calms him down by saying she has found a man for Gussie, so she will not be tempted to matchmake again. Who is this man? Stanley, Mr. Vandergelder’s barber! Gussie is enthralled with Stanley (he’s a barber!) and Stanley is enthralled with Gussie (she’s an actress!) Barnaby and Minnie and Cornelius and Irene all go to elope together, serving as each other’s witnesses. Dolly makes up for not being around to cook Horace, by making him a lavish dinner, but resfuses to serve it to him unless he give Cornelius his promotion back! Horace obliges and enjoys a wonderful meal with his wonderful wife.


Juno MacGuff: I named my guitar "Roosevelt"-not Ted, Franklin. You know, the cute one, with polio.