Hello, Dolly!
Shows · Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1954.
- Opened
- 1964
- Performances
- 2,844
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1964.
Productions7 on Broadway
| 1964 | St. James Theatre Original. January 16, 1964 · Gower Champion | 2,844 performances · 10 Tony wins |
| 1965 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 1975 | Minskoff Theatre Revival. November 6, 1975 · Lucia Victor | 42 performances |
| 1978 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival. March 5, 1978 · Lucia Victor | 147 performances |
| 1995 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival. October 19, 1995 · Lee Roy Reams | 116 performances |
| 2017 | Shubert Theatre Revival. April 20, 2017 · Jerry Zaks | 699 performances |
| 2024 | London Palladium Transfer. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 22 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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40 passages naming Hello, Dolly!, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Brennan, Eileen Hello, Dolly!, 204 Little Mary Sunshine, 186 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353
waiting just around the corner were The Music Man, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Hello, Dolly! (with Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the first two) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p498
Carol Channing in a revival of her signature show, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly! (1978). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p58
Wilder later rewrote it as The Matchmaker, which was a hit; then it was turned into Hello, Dolly! book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p216
The play had a very curious history. Wilder first wrote it as The Merchant ofYonkers, but it flopped on Broadway in 1938, despite direction by the famed Max Reinhardt, and Jane Cowl and Percy Waram in the leading roles. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p255
It became one of the most successful musicals in Broadway history, achieving 2,844 performances. After it passed the record number of performances held by My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly! book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p262
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