Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Matchmaker
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found: His Our town, 1979.
found: Wikipedia, June 6, 2014:The Matchmaker (The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder. The play has a long and colorful history. 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. In 1938, Wilder adapted Nestroy's version into an Americanized comedy entitled The Merchant of Yonkers, which attracted the attention of German director Max Reinhardt, who mounted a Broadway production. It was a dismal failure, running for a mere 39 performances. Fifteen years later, director Tyrone Guthrie expressed interest in a new production of the play, which Wilder extensively rewrote and rechristened The Matchmaker; 1954) The Merchant of Yonkers (In 1954, at the request of Edinburgh Festival director Tyrone Guthrie, Wilder made what he later termed "minor revisions" to his original script and rechristened the piece The Matchmaker, under which title it was presented in Edinburgh, followed by a West End theatre production in London which opened at Theatre Royal Haymarket on November 4, 1954. An American production of the revised play opened on Broadway on December 5, 1955)
found: Official website of the Thornton Wilder family, viewed June 6, 2014:About Wilder > Chronology (1955: The Matchmaker opens on Broadway with Ruth Gordon (revision of the 1938 play, The Merchant of Yonkers))
found: Herman, J. Hello, Dolly!, 2017:label (based on the novel The matchmaker by Thornton Wilder)
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1979-12-19: new
2020-01-09: revised
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