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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
Music: Jerry HermanLyrics: Jerry HermanBook: Michael Stewart

Productions7 on Broadway

1964 St. James Theatre Original. January 16, 1964 · Gower Champion 2,844 performances · 10 Tony wins
1965 Transfer Theatre not recorded. September 24, 2016
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.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature40 passages

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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