Hello Dolly Based Matchmaker Thornton by Stewart Michael Jerry Herman (2 results)

Paperback. 127p., original Broadway cast, script and lyrics, b&w photo section, very good first printing mass market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Signet T3651. Includes book and lyrics plus photos of the first Dolly Levi actors pre-Streisand. Bailey, Channing, Ginger Rogers, Mary Martin, Martha Rae, Betty Grable, & Dorothy Lamour.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarto. Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Directed and choreographed by Gower Champion. 73 mimeographed leaves printed rectos only in screwbound green Studio Duplicating Service wrappers titled in gilt. Small, neat handwritten control number ("35") on title page, plasticized wrappers are slightly rubbed, particularly along the spine, else near fine. A musical comedy in two acts, based on Wilder's 1954 play *The Matchmaker*, which he had in turn adapted from his 1938 farce *The Merchant of Yonkers*. It opened on Broadway with Carol Channing in the title role in 1964 after a Detroit preview, and won 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score. It was the basis for the Oscar Award-winning film of the same name, and for multiple revivals. Rare. *OCLC* appears to locate no copies of this script.