The matchmaker; a farce in four acts.

By:

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0573612226
9780573612220

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Drama.

LOC classification:

PS3545.I345 M3 2017

Summary: "Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in 19th Century Yonkers, NY, decides to take a wife and employs a matchmaker, Mrs. Dolly Levi. Dolly subsequently becomes involved with two of Vandergelder's clerks, several lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into hilarious complications. After everyone gets straightened out romantically, Vandergelder finds himself affianced to the astute Dolly Levi herself."--Publisher's description.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Executive Office - 2nd Floor General Collection	812.52 WI.M 1957 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	0003467

Cast: 9 men, 7 women.

Earlier version published as The Merchant of Yonkers in 1939.

Includes introductory note by Tappan Wilder, scene designs, and property plot.

P.B

"Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in 19th Century Yonkers, NY, decides to take a wife and employs a matchmaker, Mrs. Dolly Levi. Dolly subsequently becomes involved with two of Vandergelder's clerks, several lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into hilarious complications. After everyone gets straightened out romantically, Vandergelder finds himself affianced to the astute Dolly Levi herself."--Publisher's description.

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