The MatchmakerHorace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-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. |
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Ambrose Kemper AUGUST bead curtain bench chair chief clerk cloth coat comes Cook Cornelius Hackl counter Crosses Left Crosses Right crosses to Left dear dergelder desk dollars Dolly EILEEN HERLIE enters ERMENGARDE exits fool gelder GERTRUDE girl GYPSY hands hats Horace Vandergelder Irene Molloy kitchen ladies Left of table Left service door Left sofa Left table LEVI looks ma'am MALACHI and CABMAN MALACHI STACK marry MATCHMAKER Max Reinhardt merchant of Yonkers MINNIE minute MISS VAN HUYSEN Molloy's Monkey stick NELIUS niece PETER SALLIS picks postpaid pouffe PRUNELLA SCALES purse puts restaurant Right Centre Right of table Right service door Right table ROSAMUND GREENWOOD round RUDOLPH runs Ruth Gordon SAM LEVENE screen sits down stage sweets box Tanya Moiseiwitsch tell there's things THOUSAND CLOWNS trap turns two-color posters Vander VANDERGELDER crosses Vandergelder's waiter wardrobe What's WING workroom Yonkers York