Everything about The Merchant Of Yonkers totally explained
The Merchant of Yonkers is a play by
Thornton Wilder.
John Oxenford's 1835 one-act
farce A Day Well Spent had been extended into a full-length play entitled
Einen Jux will er sich machen by
Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy in 1842. Wilder adapted Nestroy's version into an
Americanized comedy entitled
The Merchant of Yonkers, which revolves around Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy
Yonkers, New York businessman in the market for a wife.
The
Broadway production, directed by
Max Reinhardt, opened on
December 28 1938 at the
Guild Theatre, where it ran for 39 performances. The cast included
Jane Cowl and
Tom Ewell.
In
1955, Wilder considerably rewrote the play, greatly expanding a previously minor character into the lead role of Dolly Gallagher Levi, and rechristened the piece
The Matchmaker, under which title it was far more successful. It later served as the basis for
Jerry Herman's 1964 musical hit
Hello, Dolly!.
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