Students play ‘Matchmaker’ at Mount Si

Published 3:06 pm Tuesday, April 28, 2015

This week, Mount Si High School presents “The Matchmaker” by Thornton Wilder.

Set in 19th-century New York, this brilliant farce stars the irrepressible busybody, Dolly Gallagher Levi. Dolly’s meddling puts together several unlikely couples, helping them to find unexpected happiness.

Mount Si student Hannah Rovito plays Dolly Levi, with Micah Smith as Horace Vandergelder and Eva Cappelmann as Irene Molloy.

Also in the cast are Caleb Salmon as Cornelius Hackl, Bray Russell as Barnaby Tucker, Autumn Moll as Minnie Fay, Alex Killian as Malachi Stack, Natalie Werner as Ermengarde, Jake Gardner as Ambrose Kemper, Kennedy Stinson as Miss Flora Van Huysen, Jalen Varas, Max Stewart, Jacob Bradburn, Josiah Shreve, Faith Callies and Madeline Weinstein.

Tickets are available at the door and in the Mount Si High School office. General admission is $8, district students and staff pay $5.

“The Matchmaker” will begin at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 30 and run on Friday, May 1 and at 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday, May 2.