Shows · Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly!
Opened 1964
2,844 performances
Musical, Golden Age
Tony Award for Best Musical, 1964
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.
"'Hello, Dolly!' WAS, ALBEIT BRIEFLY, the longest-running musical of all time.": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Jerry Herman
- Lyrics
- Jerry Herman
- Book
- Michael Stewart
Productions7 productions: 5 on Broadway, 2 in the West End
Songs7 songs
Hello, Dolly!, Before the Parade Passes By, Put On Your Sunday Clothes, It Only Takes a Moment, It Takes a Woman, Ribbons Down My Back, Dancing
Recordings 22 recordings
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
I patterned this after the sound of horse’s hooves on cobblestones, that’s what I’m looking for.
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