TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilder,Thornton
TI  - The matchmaker: a farce in four acts
SN  - 0573612226
AV  - PS3545.I345 M3 2017
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - [New York]
PB  - S. French
KW  - American drama
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Dating services
KW  - Drama
N1  - 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; P.B
N2  - "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
ER  -