Hello, Dolly!

Summary of the musical Hello, Dolly! :

Dolly Levi is a matchmaker who is tasked with finding a bride for the irritable but wealthy Horace Vandergelder. Horace's two assistants would like to leave Yonkers for New York where they hope to kiss a woman! As for the young artist Ambrose, he wants to marry the whiner Ermengarde but Horace, her uncle, is against it. Here are all beautiful people on their way to New York and all will find love, thanks to the talents of Dolly.
But as for Horace, Dolly is having a hard time finding a suitable woman… It turns out that she herself is very interested!

Find the trailer of the 1969 film with Barbra Streisand:

General information

Style : Classical, Comedy, Romance
Theme : Love, Misunderstanding, United States
year of creation : 1964

Music

Composer :Jerry Herman
Lyricist :Jerry Herman
Librettist :Michael Stewart
famous songs "I Put My Hand In" "It Takes A Woman" "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" "Ribbons Down My Back" "Motherhood" "Dancing" "Before The Parade Passes By" "Penny in My Pocket" "Elegance"" The Waiters' Gallop" "Hello, Dolly!" "It Only Takes a Moment" "So Long Dearie"
Famous performers : Barbra Streisand, Carol Channing, Mary Martin, Bette Midler, Betty Buckley, David Hyde Pierce, Gavin Creel, Nic Rouleau, Taylor Trensch, Kate Baldwin, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford

kinships

Inspired by another work : Inspired by the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder (revised 1955 version of his farce The Merchant of Yonkers).
Exists in film : The musical was made into a film by Gene Kelly in 1969.

Awards

Appointments and Awards : The original Broadway production won 10 Tony Awards and the 1969 film won 3 Oscars.
Number of years on display : 6
Number of performances : 2844
anecdotes : The show was first called Dolly, A Damned Exasperating Woman then Call on Dolly. When the producer heard the cover of "Hello, Dolly!" by Louis Armstrong, he renamed the show thus!