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 Th
1964 Broadway poster
A scene from a college production of the musical at Lee University
David Burns and Carol Channing in the original Broadway cast, 1964
Milo Boulton and Carol Channing in one of several national tours, 1966
Dolly Gallagher Levi is a fictional character and the protagonist of the 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers and its multiple adaptations, the most notable being the 1964 musical Hello, Dolly! Levi's ma
Hello, Dolly! (musical)
…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…
Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi in the 1969 musical film Hello, Dolly!
Percy Waram and Jane Cowl as Horace and Dolly, respectively, in the Broadway production of The Merchant of Yonkers (1938)
Pearl Bailey as Dolly in the first Broadway revival, 1968.