BATH, N.Y. (WENY) -- The stage is set for the cast and crew of 'Hello Dolly' at the Family Life Performing Arts Center in Bath. Over the last two and a half months, 22 volunteers have been cast, rehearsing, choreographing, and teching the musical about a matchmaker.

"'Hello Dolly' is about a woman who is a professional matchmaker," says Jim Hi, Performing Arts Department Assistant at Family Life. "She balances the love lives of about eight different people, about four different couples, including her own throughout the entirety of the show."

The whole cast is not made of just high schoolers and college students, volunteers in the show range from 15 to 70 years old. Each cast member brings the same amount of high energy that the musical is based around. 

Wednesday's rehearsal began with the cast members eating a home-cooked meal, and then getting ready for a full run-through of the performance. All 22 characters gathered backstage to put on their customers, makeup, and warm up their voices for the musical.

"They are working hard and they have been a part of family life for a long time a lot of these people that are in the show you'll see they have been doing shows for years and so they just have this commitment and this desire to work together on something that just brings encouragement and joy and laughter and just gets people in the seats and makes them forget about things for a while," Family Life's Radio Host and the character 'Dolly' in the show, Melanie Coe. 

'Hello Dolly' is like an unintentional Valentine's Day romance; except Cupid Arrow is controlled by Dolly and her ambition to make love a reality. Coe describes Dolly as someone who can get people romantically together, while still trying to achieve her goal of marrying a very rich, and mean man.

"I believe it's much more of a show that is upbeat, energetic. Funny things are happening left and right. I don't think that it's hard to follow especially when you're in the theatre watching the characters,  when you're like reading a book and there are 16 million characters and you can't follow it all, that's not, that's not the same thing in a theatrical situation. You get to see it, you get to be there. The audience is kind of a character in the show. There are many parts, especially in this show," explains Hi. 

The show is described as a matchmaker musical that'll have audience members laughing, crying, and feeling a roller coaster of emotions in a heartfelt musical. 

'Hello, Dolly' opens on Friday, February 16th and runs the 17th, 23rd and 24th. Tickets for the show can be found here.