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Broadway musical

This article is about the stage musical. For the film adaptation, see Hello, Dolly!

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(film).

Hello, Dolly! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's farceThe Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in The musical follows the story of Dolly Gallagher Levi, a strong-willed matchmaker, as she travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a match for the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder.

Hello, Dolly! debuted at the Fisher Theater in Detroit on November 18, ,^[1] directed and choreographed by Gower Champion and produced by David Merrick. It starred stage performer Carol Channing as Dolly Gallagher Levi, a role theatrical audiences of the world would forever associate with her.^[2] The show moved to Broadway in , winning 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actress in a Musical