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More than 40 members of the Mount Greylock student body will present "Hello, Dolly!," from on stage to backstage to the live musical accompaniment by the pit orchestra.
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Young clerks (eighth-grader Sam Tucker Smith, left, and freshman Krishan Rai) play the roles for laughs.
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New York hat maker Irene Malloy (junior Marleigh Briggs) and her apprentice, Minnie (sophomore Olivia Winters) feature prominently in the musical.
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Sophomore Ruth Weaver, right, plays Dolly in the Mount Greylock production.

Mount Greylock Presents 'Hello, Dolly!'

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A large ensemble of all grades supports the lead cast of 'Hello Dolly!'

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School District will present its annual musical theater production on Friday and Saturday, March 22 and 23, at 7 p.m. in the newly remodeled auditorium at Mount Greylock Regional School on Cold Spring Road.

More than 40 members of the Mount Greylock student body will present "Hello, Dolly!," with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Michael Stewart. Based on the play "The Matchmaker" by 20th century American playwright Thornton Wilder, "Hello, Dolly!" is the story of a delightful - and adventurous - day spent in turn-of-the-century New York City. 

The bold and enchanting widow Dolly Gallagher Levi (played by sophomore Ruth Weaver) is a socialite-turned-matchmaker. Her latest clients seeking assistance are the cantankerous "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder (freshman Jonah Hane) and a young artist named Ambrose (sophomore Finn Ellingwood), who is in love with Horace's niece, Ermengarde (junior Ashtyn Faas). Dolly's scheming soon involves Horace's provincial young clerks (eighth-grader Sam Tucker Smith and freshman Krishan Rai) as well as New York hat maker Irene Malloy (junior Marleigh Briggs) and her apprentice, Minnie (sophomore Olivia Winters), as she tries to cover up her own secret romantic designs. A large ensemble made up of students from grades seven through 12 portray the people of Yonkers and Manhattan, as well as the “fastest waiters in New York” from the very exclusive and expensive (and fictitious) Harmonia Gardens restaurant. 

The musical is accompanied by a live pit orchestra made up of student and community musicians, directed by faculty member Lyndon Moors.

"Hello, Dolly!" is directed by faculty member Jeffrey Welch, who is directing his 20th spring musical with the school. Vocal direction is by Jean Kirsch and choreography is by Ann Marie Rodriguez.

Tickets are $6 for students and seniors and $8 for adults and are available at the door on the nights of the performances.


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Williams Seeking Town Approval for New Indoor Practice Facility

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last week gave Williams College the first approval it needs to build a 55,000-square foot indoor athletic facility on the north side of its campus.
 
Over the strenuous objection of a Southworth Street resident, the board found that the college's plan for a "multipurpose recreation center" or MRC off Stetson Road has adequate on-site parking to accommodate its use as an indoor practice facility to replace Towne Field House, which has been out of commission since last spring and was demolished this winter.
 
The college plans a pre-engineered metal that includes a 200-meter track ringing several tennis courts, storage for teams, restrooms, showers and a training room. The athletic surface also would be used as winter practice space for the school's softball and baseball teams, who, like tennis and indoor track, used to use the field house off Latham Street.
 
Since the planned structure is in the watershed of Eph's Pond, the college will be before the Conservation Commission with the project.
 
It also will be before the Zoning Board of Appeals, on Thursday, for a Development Plan Review and relief from the town bylaw limiting buildings to 35 feet in height. The new structure is designed to have a maximum height of 53 1/2 feet and an average roof height of 47 feet.
 
The additional height is needed for two reasons: to meet the NCAA requirement for clearance above center court on a competitive tennis surface (35 feet) and to include, on one side, a climbing wall, an element also lost when Towne Field House was razed.
 
The Planning Board had a few issues to resolve at its March 12 meeting. The most heavily discussed involved the parking determination for a use not listed in the town's zoning bylaws and a decision on whether access from town roads to the building site in the middle of Williams' campus was "functionally equivalent" to the access that would be required under the town's subdivision rules and regulations.
 
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