Which musical is based on the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder?
On the Razzle (play) On the Razzle (play) On the Razzle is a play by Tom Stoppard. It is an adaptation of the Viennese play "Einen Jux will er sich machen" by Johann Nestroy, which had been adapted twice by Thornton Wilder. The first 1938 version, entitled "The Merchant of Yonkers", was faithful to the original material, but the second 1955 version, renamed "The Matchmaker", expanded the previously secondary role of Dolly Gallagher Levi, who later became the heroine of the Jerry Herman musical hit, "Hello, Dolly!". Stoppard's adaptation eliminates the Dolly character. The play's title is a euphemism often used by the British
The Matchmaker The Matchmaker The Matchmaker is a 1954 play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play "The Merchant of Yonkers". 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, which ran for 39 performances. Fifteen years later, director Tyrone Guthrie