Shows · Hello, Dolly! (2017 Revival)
Hello, Dolly! (2017 Revival)
Opened 2017
699 performances
Revival, Contemporary
The irrepressible matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi orchestrates the romantic lives of the cranky Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder and everyone around him while secretly scheming to marry Vandergelder herself. Through a madcap day of mistaken identities, secret rendezvous, and a famous parade down 14th Street, Dolly proves that life is meant to be lived to the fullest.
- Music
- Jerry Herman
- Lyrics
- Jerry Herman
- Book
- Michael Stewart
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals HELLO, DOLLY! listed in the licensor's own catalogue |
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. The musical follows the story of Dolly Gallagher Levi, a strong-willed matchmaker, as she travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a match for the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. Hello, Dolly! debuted at the Fisher Theater in Detroit on November 18, 1963, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion and produced by David Merrick. It starred stage performer Carol Channing as Dolly Gallagher Levi, a role theatrical audiences of the world wo…
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