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Mount Greylock Presents 'Hello, Dolly!'

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.

Lanesborough Officials Review Schools' Budgets

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:49AM / Thursday, April 09, 2026

Mount Greylock Superintendent Joseph Bergeron, left, addresses the Lanesborough Select Board and Finance Committee as School Committee member Curtis Elfenbein looks at the projection of a slide in the district's budget presentation.

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Town officials Monday appeared generally receptive to the fiscal year 2027 spending plans for the two public school districts that serve the town.

 

Superintendents from the Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School District (McCann Technical School) and Mount Greylock Regional School District presented their respective FY27 budgets to a joint meeting of the town's Finance Committee and Select Board.

 

Both districts are sending significantly higher assessments for approval at Lanesborough's annual town meeting in June.

 

McCann Tech, which constituted a $317,109 expenditure for the town in the current fiscal year, is seeking $463,978 for the fiscal year that begins on July 1 even though the school's operating budget is up just 3.2 percent year to year.

 

The 46 percent increase in Lanesborough's share of McCann Tech's budget is is due to two factors: a rise in enrollment of town residents at the vocational school from 20 in 2025 to 29 in this school year and a capital assessment for the first round of payments — for interest only — for a roof and window replacement project on the North Adams campus.

 

The Mount Greylock assessment, a much larger component of Lanesborough's property tax bill, is up 10.99 percent from FY26 to FY27, from $6.8 million to $7.6 million.

 

Mount Greylock Superintendent Joseph Bergeron gave a budget presentation similar to one he has delivered twice to the district's School Committee and again last month to the Williamstown Finance Committee, explaining that while the FY27 budget maintains level services to students with a net reduction of three positions, a series of factors are driving much larger assessments to Mount Greylock's two member towns.